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Purani Jeans aur Guitar

The iconic college song brings in nostalgia and takes you down memory lane into your college days. Being in the last year of college, we could most certainly identify what the symbolism represents. Youth that follows its passion and cares less for the orthodox. A new generation that has found for itself a profession in unconventional territory. It's about following your dream, following the passion and not caring what the world thinks.

We Gen-next loves to make our own mistakes, but it's also why they learn so much so early in life. We are giving a new outlook on the conventional things. Bringing in a new perspective to everything whether new or old. A man who truly represents the spirit of Purani jeans and Guitar is Mr. Jairam Ramesh. The example might not match your imaginations but he captures the spirit perfectly.

As someone who renewed a timid Department of the Government, into a visible and responsible force without caring about what others might feel about it. He has renewed and brought out into the public domain the importance of an environmentally sustainable development. Working for something which till now in India was almost a rubber stamp department. Not considered worthy of making a difference, he has created a niche for himself and done a great service to the nation.

Another man who is a young entrepreneur, Mr. Narendra Murukumbi, provided an innovative new view on the centuries old sugar industry. He used his managerial education to his advantage and applied his youthful enthusiasm to an old industry. He used his knowledge of finance and innovative thinking to turn around the face of sugar industry in Maharashtra and made it into a 1000cr Shree Renuka Sugars and thereby also changed the lives of a lot of villagers associated with it.

The Purani Jeans aur Guitar is an attitude that allows us to be confident in whatever we believe is best for us. Doing the conventional could never result in anything path breaking. STAY RAW.

"You need to cross the boundries, to realise them"

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