6’Th April’07, the day was going slow as it was Friday and weekend was knocking out doors. We people were about to windup our work and were planning to leave for home and were in dreams of spending weekend. I and Subbu were planning to go to Water Park to have some fun over there. Suddenly the environment got energetic and the people earlier who were almost snappy; started looking fresh. Yes, the news was something like that only. The news was, our Honorable President Mr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, were coming to our campus in Mysore on Sunday 8th April 07. Really this was great news that filled us with joy and excitement. Everybody was quite excited about his visit. Few of the people who had a plan to go out town for the week end, did not think twice to change their minds and started looking forward for President’s visit.
8’Th April’07, the day of President’s visit. In the morning news paper the entire schedule of the visit was there. Even we were already informed / instructed by management that we should be in site the campus by 2PM, because of security reasons as visit Mr. President was supposed to be in by 4PM.
As per the instructions we were there on time. Since I reached almost at 1:45pm I had to park my bike outside only, as security was not allowing people to go inside the campus as there were some slight changes in visit plan. Finally we all were in FC1 and Amphi Theater. As per expectations huge strength of Infosians was there to listen to the address of Mr. President. It was a sunny day and a little hot too. It was not so easy to sit in Amphi Theater sun shine, so people were carrying umbrella, even that was not helping much in that huge strength. But the excitement to see Mr. President was on top of everything and we were waiting for him with full enthusiasm.
On the scheduled time Mr. President came to the campus and we welcomed him with a huge applause and then we all sung our National Anthem in attention position. After the National Anthem, our Chief Mentor Mr. NRN welcomed him and called him on the stage of address. Mr. President came on to the stage and again we welcomed him with huge applause. Then Mr. President started his speech and asked us to have some oaths with him.
No doubt Mr. President is a very simple man heaving a great mind and heart. His body emits an energy that makes the environment energetic and fills up the people with enthusiasm. His words have the power to open the mind of people towards the knowledge. His passion for the country is clearly visible in his actions and words. Though Mr. President was here for about 20 minutes but even that short time was enough for him to encourage people to put in their best efforts whatever they do.
His speech is available on the link given below.http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/sllatest1.jsp?id=1016We are really thanks full to Mr. President for his invaluable time and advice. We are also thanks full to Mr. NRN, who made this possible for us and we got this great opportunity. This day is really unforgettable day in our lives.
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