Srishti Bakshi batch of 2004 visited alma mater to speak to the students on 29th of March 2022!
Nostalgia is an emotional connection with the past. It is very personal and emanates from the innermost recesses of one’s heart. We could all witness the excitement, exhilaration, and elation on Srishti Bakshi’s face as she entered her Alma Mater where she spent memorable years of her student life from 2002 to 2004 and this time as an honored guest to address class 12th Students. She was accompanied by her illustrious father Lt. General Ashwani Kumar Bakshi. She and her father were warmly welcomed by Reverend Brother Jeyaseelan S, Principal of St. Joseph’s Academy, and by her idol Brother JC Carroll along with Managing Committee members led by President Praveen Chandhok, Dr. Alok Jain Vice President (Out-Station), Secretary Sameer Uniyal, Treasurer Abhinav Goel, Member Manish Jain, Pulkit Gupta, Tushar Singhal, and Kamna Bagai. Kalpana Pande, former Vice President (Out-Station) also joined them to hear Srishti talking to students of her Alma Mater. After a short welcome and courtesies, Srishti Bakshi took the center stage after thanking Brother Jeyaseelan S, Brother JC Carroll, and Praveen Chandhok she told the students gathered that she was walking down memory lane as she was addressing them. Reverend Brother Jeyaseelan welcomed her and admired that her inspiration was none other than her own father Lt. General AK Bakshi! She commenced her session by questioning students why women are unsafe? Taking the talk session ahead she asked students to answer what words that come to their mind when we say, male and female? Students came up with gender-biased answers about men being patriarchal, manipulative, controlling, overruling, womanizers, etc, and about women being tender, demure, kind-hearted, soft, beautiful, etc. on hearing the answers Srishti added the major differences Women bear Children, Men having facial hairs, a difference of voice pointed by Shreyashvi. This is where Srishti came up with the lesson of the day: Interchanging men’s and women’s characteristics and asked students if women too possess the same characteristics that men do? and all the students unanimously agreed with her. She elucidated that we point out words to others without looking inside. Stereotypes are a gift given by society and we need to move from biased to unbiased. Raising Your Voice The second exercise she conducted with students was to raise their hand in Yog mudra take a deep breath and exhale with the sound “Aaaa” “EEE’ and “OOO” the entire batch taking a deep breath created the sound but the noise she was looking for was not there. The lesson she conveyed was the whole motive of the exercise is to learn to raise our voices so to be heard.