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Bajrangi The Great!!

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Every new semester brings with it loads of new books to be bought, and books don’t come cheap at all these days, especially engineering books. It can get so bad that only 3 books may make you cough up more than a thousand rupees if not more! That’s the reason we all students hail Bajrangi Stores from the deepest part of our hearts.

Bajrangi Old and New Books Stores is the place where we all go whenever a new semester starts to sell old books and buy new ones in exchange, and with luck we get ourselves some ultimate deals (getting 5 books for under a thousand!!). Had it not been for this store, our pockets would have dried much early than expected.

This guy Bajrangi Sahu started this shop as just a peddler selling  a few shabby notebooks and small paperbacks. Soon people started selling him books and he started selling those second hand books to other people at half the cost and his business flourished soon after. Now there are 3 branches of the shop here in Ranchi and all are doing bumper business. It has been a great success story for him. Now that Bajrangi himself is a Government teacher, his brothers are running the shops but the Legend Of Bajrangi lives on!

Many more shops have come up too seeing the success of Bajrangi Stores, and this has become a dream come true for all those students who have the will to read but not much means. These shops with their cheap rates for books along with the option of availing books on rent, which has really facilated learning for the needy students. These people have done a great job. We would be always thankful to them!

EEE Rocks!!!!

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Sometimes even amidst a desert u find reservoirs full of water, even amidst lots of sadness and sorrow you find reasons to laugh out loud. The trip to Patratu (on 30.08.2008) was such a thing only in an otherwise quite so unflattering semester as yet.

It was an educational tour cum picnic for the EEE people from 2k5, 2k6 and 2k7 batches. We visited the PTPS i.e. the Patratu Thermal Power Station whic h has a capacity of 840MW though due to shortage of fuel and high scale power theft prevalent in Jharkhand, all the power plant produces is around 275 to 300 MW and that too after incurring heavy losses! But the whole power plant as such was a good experience to us. It gave us a practical insight on how power is actually generated. But the biggest impact was that we people finally saw throught the sheen of the huge packages that the power companies offer to us during the placements, as the whole power generation things costs the engineers heavily. Firstly, the incessant high decibel noises going on inside the power plant is sure to leave people deaf in some years, and then come the flurry of different problems that arise due to coal powder viz. skin diseases, bronchiitis etc.

The tour ended on a very very high note after the lunch in Madhuban Dhaba. It was not just food out there but pure fun too. We all danced out there like anything. There were few boundaries , but still on the whole nothing was there to prevent us from enjoying the whole of the party. The whole dancing and singing thing went on for more than a couple of hours. The food was so-so and the arrangement a bit lax but still the whole enjoyment came from this laxity only!!

The best part of this trip or for that matter any trip is the memories that they weave in the complex walls of our minds. One thing is for sure, that the bond between the EEEians is gonna be stronger from now on. Even the large gap between the boys and the girls has started to heal after this and this sure is going to be the best thing that happens to our class!

EEE Rocks!