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26 January 2021… it must have been my second group ride. I met Nitin Pathak sir again that day. I had met him on the 1 st January ride but for a brief period of time. While we were departing for our respective homes, he asked me to join him for a ride. “At what time do you go for the ride?” “6:30.” “Join me tomorrow. Instead of 6:30, get up a bit earlier, and let us begin at 6.” I agreed and the next morning, we went on a ride. We were four and while returning, we stopped at this roadside dhaba for a delicious breakfast of poha and tea. While we were generally discussing long rides, I said that the presence of professionals in the group would inspire the group to do more. That instant Pathak sir responded, “We can very well do all these things by ourselves. It is not at all difficult. Let us ride a 100 KM distance. What say?” The idea was thrilling. For me, it would mean my first ever 100 km ride. I suggested Pathak sir that we should go in February considering that all of u...

Can you imagine yourself relaxing in a café sipping your favourite cappuccino a day before a national level, life-deciding exam? Almost all will answer in a big NOOOOOOOOOO. This requires an ultimate level of determination and not letting the goal out of sight. All of this isn’t hard because all of it requires two things: consistency and self-discipline. After all, the gap between the life you should be living and the life you are living is because of self-discipline. This is not just applicable to academics but to any field. If you want to excel, you have to give in every part of your flesh and blood, all of your mental and physical attention, and of course, sacrifice many things in order to get to it… I am lucky to have witnessed students who did all the above things to succeed. Their parents and I had to tell them to stop studying because they had done sufficiently enough. When a student has put in so much of himself to achieve a goal, only then he can chill in the café just a d...