Was it a Sunday?

After spending around eight hours in lectures on Saturday and running for tea in between, we saw the following post being shared by the class representative on Facebook page. There was also an email lying in our inbox with similar content.

For Tomorrow - 7th October, 2012

07:00 - 10:00 JGW - Serve those who serve us
10:45 - 11:15 Inquizitive preliminary round
11:15 - 12:00 jNAN Shastra - session

12:00 - 12:45 Inquizitive Finals
03:30 - 07:00 JGW - SPANDAN

I wished I could dislike the post. I wished I could reply to his email saying, “Common! it is Sunday – The only day we get some respite”. Moreover, the schedule of the next week is completely painted with lectures. It is not easy to find free pockets of time in next week schedule. All I wanted to do was to relax a bit. But, I had forgotten about the spirit of people organizing and participating in these events.

Little did I realize that there was something common to these three unique events and there was something novel about them. As I write this and as the Sunday gives way to Monday, we can recognize that all these events were new initiatives undertaken here. This common thread binding all of them was strengthened by the motivation of volunteers and organizers. The theme of the events varied from social service to peer learning to quizzing. Joy of Giving Week (JGW) events were to celebrate the ongoing festival of philanthropy at XLRI and in India, ‘Inquizitive’ was a quizzing event challenging our business knowledge and ‘jNAN Shastra’ was about sharing your knowledge and experiences with your peer. 

It takes lot of effort to start anything and set the ball rolling. The organizers did an outstanding job and the response of the participants was equally supportive. This Sunday was full of exuberance and vigor. The day started with a joy of giving event and ended with a joy of giving event. There was joy in serving and sharing. There was much liveliness in the air we breathed today.  Who says Sundays are for relaxing when there is so much of action around you?