Arun Gode

Inspirational

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Arun Gode

Inspirational

Himanee

Himanee

4 mins
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Three old classmates from the reputed school at a small town who were segregated after twelfth board examination due to unavoidable circumstance in their life. They were settled in big city after retirement. They met with each other coincidentally. They decided to meet all those classmates again by arranging get-to-gather grand function. They took the aid of their old local friends in town. Their combined and collective efforts brought all old classmates in contact through their formed what’s group. There was a curiosity among all the classmates for arranging such unique function in their life. Three friends from the city and local friends obtained permission from school authority to have such function in the school on any Sunday. They chalked out the line of program and posted it on the group. All members were excited for function. Friends had sent their consent ,comments, suggestion and date of arriving. Some of the friends were from different parts of country. Working committee decided unanimously of giving all of them a memento to keep live the event in their life for ever before kicking the bucket. A poet friend among them had a second secret- plan to give surprise to all friends and teachers. This matter was discussed with his the closest friends. He put the proposal to publish his Poetry Collection in form of anthology on day of function. Every friend would be given the copy of published Poetry Collection from his side as gift to them. All management members appreciated his proposal and not be Spill the beans. He also talked with his friend from Chennai about his secret plan. He requested him to write foreword for this Poetry Collection . In addition to, he asked him for redemption of poetry collection on function day. He suggested to him that it would be better it’s redemption by any retired senior teacher. But he did not agree with him. He told him that the redemption of his poetry collection would be memorable occasion for both of us. It would be in the memories of both along with other friends. He made his best efforts to convince him ,but he was hesitating to do so.. It was not a piece of cake to make him agree. Then he told him that he had decided and it was his final decision. It was order of his for him. Finally he agreed to his proposal. There was very little time with him for preparing the soft copy of poem collection. When he approached to the local publisher, he asked him for the soft copy of collection and then proof reading. He told him that it would take nearly a month for completion of work. Since time was very less, he had made the soft copy. He asked his software engineer daughter to prepare cover page for it. He prepared one set of poetry collection and copy cat for hundred copies. In this way in stipulated time, He managed the all things. Title of his collection was “Himani “,multi language poetry collection dedicated to his loving granddaughter’s name whose name was Himanee.


All of us were awaiting for the function day. All friends gathered at school. All retired teachers and principal of the school also arrived in time. We gave them a warm welcome with bouquet and traditional songs at opening of the function. Principal and other teacher addressed us. They were very much pleased with gathering and beautiful arrangement. They all expressed their felicitation for this wonderful, mind blowing program. It was the time for most awaited  surprised moment which was announced by the anchor. She said to all spectators that it would be surprise to all of us. One of our classmate was a poet. He had written number of poems in Marathi, Hindi and English on various topic. She would like to announce the name of book as “HIMANEE “ and name of that poet was our versatile friend MR. ARUN. One more surprise for you again, the foreword of this collection was written by our close friend MR Padmanabhan. She called MR Padmanabhan for redemption of this beautiful poetry collection as desired by the poet. Arun briefed about the inspiration of writing poems ins and outs by addressing the gathering. Then he announced that each friend would get a copy collection as memorable gift from him to them. In this way, his first poetry collection “Himanee“ had come for readers.



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