Gratitude

कार्पण्यदोषोपहतस्वभाव:

पृच्छामि त्वां धर्मसम्मूढचेता: |

यच्छ्रेय: स्यान्निश्चितं ब्रूहि तन्मे
शिष्यस्तेऽहं शाधि मां त्वां प्रपन्नम् ||BG 2:7||

मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा |
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वर: ||BG 3:30||

नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् |

पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् ||

प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्ण्न्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि |

इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन् ||BG 5:8-9||

This is an attempt to capture and thank those who have shaped my journey. Albeit, due to indirect and latent relations, this list will remain non-exhaustive despite my best attempts, it is still an attempt worth making.

In no particular order (with names of the organizations where I met these giants): Rajiv Ratn Shah (IIIT-D), Changyou Chen (SUNY-Buffalo), Ranjeeta Rani (GMPS), Roger Zimmerman (National University of Singapore), Debanjan Mahata (Bloomberg), Jessy Junyi Li (University of Texas at Austin), Balaji Krishnamurthy (Adobe MDSR), Amanda Stent (Bloomberg), Anil Seth (FIITJEE), Dhruva Sahrawat (IIIT-D), Yifang Yin (National University of Singapore), Mika Hama (Second Language Testing Institute), Payman Vafaee (Columbia University), Pankaj Bansal (Adobe), Mohit Srivastava (Adobe), Gaurav Jain (Adobe), Shubham Yadav (NSIT), Rohit Jain (NSIT), Mohd Khwaja Salik (NSIT), Pratham Nawal (NSIT), Mayank Singh (NSIT), Somesh Singh (BITS-Pilani Goa), Aanisha Bhattacharyya (Adobe MDSR), Varun Khurana (IIIT-D), Rita Yadav (GMPS), Prabha Sinha (GMPS), Neeta Pandit (GMPS), Geetha Nair (GMPS), Swami Sarvapriyananda (Ramakrishna Mission), and finally my parents and my brother, Aman Singla.

Hopefully, I can return whatever I have gathered from these people back to the earth.