 First of all, thank you for being patient. This extra session was imposed by me because sadly it became clear to me day for yesterday. There is no way I would be able to attend these presentations which I love to every year I do and that is why, but I still wanted to get a glimpse of what was going on. I am sure that for most of you it would be partly boring because it would be repetitious. Of course, knowing that my aunt did not permit lunch break and tea break and people were going out in batches and coming back in batches, at least some would have benefited by listening to the whole group. I am very excited from what I see. Very good work, my compliments and hearty congratulations. It is not easy, 8 weeks, 6 weeks, a very short time. You spend initially a few days in just getting adjusted to new environment and then most of you are working on things which many of you had no clue when you started from your homes. Then that is what is challenging like. We all live in challenging times. You see people often ask me what is different in IIT than other institutions. Nothing. IITs did not fall from sky. The people here are same as yours. I am no different than what you are, but it is the prevailing ethos. The prevailing ethos, the Viji Gisha as we call it, the energy levels, the desire to do something, something extraordinary and when you want to achieve the impossible, you have to attempt the absurd, meaning work 24 by 7, try crazy things, but keep working, keep working, keep trying. That is where you succeed. Success may not be exactly what you wish, but you will go much further than what you started. This is the ethos which is sadly missing in most of our institutions. Otherwise, believe me, there is no difference in IIT or IIT or a college in Jharsugur or something like that. Exactly, brick and mortar does not make an institution, the people who make that institution. Why I tell you this is, it has been my long standing desire that Ek Shiksha, which Vinash started long time ago, cannot be achieved by merely creating contents by pushing them through technology. It can be achieved only if the people share that ethos. If people share that desire everywhere, my first request to you is go back and work as our ambassadors. Please understand that when you were working here, there are no IIT students. You only did what you did. You are not from IIT Bombay. Yet, what you have achieved is exactly what any IIT Bombay student could achieve, but have something more because you worked under time conditions, but have something more because you did not probably have the kind of background that an IIT student could have when he or she works here. So, what is it that was different here? The difference was you were here. You were physically in this ethos. A few simple things. Labs can work around the clock. You can work around the clock. There will be failures. There will be fighting. There will be firing by Avina Shouta. I face that every day of my life, but please understand that these fighting, these failures, these firings are all taken in their stride because behind all of that is a tremendous passion to do something together. Behind all of that is tremendous respect for everybody else. That respect is not stated in the verse, but that respect is seen when the person speak about your work behind your backs to others. There is a concern that we must do something more because lakhs and lakhs of people are waiting for people like us to do something. You are the future leaders of this country, at least in terms of technology led innovation, technology led well generation. And therefore, you have to be charged with greater responsibility. I am happy that you learnt a lot, but I will be happier if you go back, not only learn something more in the remaining time that you have in your college, but spread this amongst all the students. I can challenge you that for each one of you has come here through a tough selection process. There would be at least 10 to 20 people in your batch who would be very similarly poised. It is just that they did not get an opportunity to come here and work. So, they have not seen this environment. They have not breathed in this environment. They have not lived in this environment. Can you go back and create this environment for them? Can you go back and say that we have seen something funny and that something funny was not IIT Bombay because we were not IIT Bombay, but we were there and this is what we have done. Now, we are here. Why cannot we do the same thing? Maybe you will not find large number of students perhaps because they will be skeptical. Maybe you will not find large number of faculty members because they will be skeptical. You will not find staff. You will find funny rules which says 5 o'clock in the evening. The labs have to be locked. Some places a seal has to be put. I have seen it locks being sealed, the funniest thing. But in spite of all that, you can work. I saw, I remember, I commented to Vinash that these faces look familiar to me. Then I remembered that 4 o'clock in the morning when I was walking out of my office. I have made people in that open space in the Varanda and the Colorado. They were all working on something and I was so surprised that somebody recognized me. They were also baffled. What is this old joker doing here at 4 o'clock? The old joker is always found at funny times here. But I was so amazed to see that those kids were working on the animator and unity and they were working on deadlines. I think some is just about, they had just grabbed some earlier work and introduced this unity and they said and you have to do it. But wasn't it amazing that you actually could measure up to the challenge and that you could do it? This is one group which I interacted with. But I was hearing all that story that you are telling me and I can see, I can sense that every group has gone through that some failure somewhere, some sudden change of thing, some twist in the ambition. And yet at the end today, you are all proud to have done something. Of course, you have a list to do in future. That will always be there. No work of this kind is ever complete. We are all open ended projects that were working. That is another thing I would like you to take back. Do learn to work on open ended projects. Do learn to work with ambition to complete the entire open ended project. You will not work. You will achieve much more than what you would if you started with a Pidloo problem saying I will solve this and submit this as my report. That is not sufficient. I can go on speaking but I will just say that I am very proud of what you have done. Believe me when I say this, you have lived here for those 8 weeks as true IITs. So, I can actually call you honorary students of IIT Bombay now without any hesitation. I do not know whether I ever shared with you the story of a boy whom I met in 2002. Did I talk to him about it? The boy from Vada whom I met, which started my journey on the Eklavya project and seeing which Avinash Haute joined me many years when he took early retirement from PCS and many things started here. But that reminds me always of the responsibility that I carry and all of you carry. This is I think 1999 or 2000. I am very proud I was invited to speak at an event in a town called Vada, which is not very far from Mumbai about 60 kilometers. The occasion was the Marathi Vigyan Parishad which popularizes science in Marathi. The Thana division was holding an event and they said there are a lot of tribal boys and girls studying in that area and they are assembling 9, 10th, 11th standard students and they wanted somebody to speak to them in Marathi about information technology Mahiti Tantradnya. So, I had never given a talk in Marathi earlier, but I said I will do that. I went about 400 students, 9, 10th, 11th standard boys and girls. Very clearly they came not from the cities and the towns, but from those areas. But very sharp eyes, very good intelligent questions they asked. They listened very carefully and I was quite happy. At the end of that lecture, when we came out into an opening, it was a sort of hall somewhere and then I was get out by boys and girls for autograph. I mean that never happens to a teacher. I felt like a movie star. I sat down and started signing and there is one boy who was standing near and I said you want my sign. He says no, I want to ask you some questions. He said alright wait there and I kept on signing. Suddenly organizers came in and they said the chief guest was the local MP who was waiting for me for a cup of tea. He had to go away early and I had told them that I also have to come back to IIT Delhi. So, when I heard that I sort of wound up after signing the last two got up and started moving and this boy caught my hand. He said sir you promise that you will answer my questions and I said sorry boy, but look the local MP is waiting and I have to go. He says I have walked 10 kilometers to listen to you. I stopped in my track. I said what do you mean you walked 10 kilometers? He says yes I walked. So, why did you walk? He says what is there? I walked 6 kilometers every day to my school and I asked him curiously do not you have any tempo, bus or some such thing. He gave a typical Indian rural reply. I said, but there are facilities, but I cannot afford them. My family cannot afford them. So, I walk everything and then he probably said sir I stand first in my class. I told the organizers to get rid of the local MP by giving him tea and I told him to ask me questions. He is one question was Malamahitthi Tantra Jnanatla Tajnavaisa. I want to become an expert in information technology. What should I do? Which standard do you study? Nine standard. All right. So, I told him you have to study maths and science. You should attempt to study engineering, computer science, etcetera. I told him about the joint exam. I also told him even if you do not get admission in IIT, it does not matter. You can be a good information technologies, etcetera, etcetera. He was asking me how to prepare, what books to read, etcetera. It was very obvious to me that his school and his school teachers had no clue on the question that he was asking about, but he spent some. And in conclusion, I just asked him why do you want to become an expert in information technology? I 99 percent I was sure he will give the stock answer because that was the time when the salaries of information technology professionals were hitting the roof. And obviously, a boy whose family cannot afford a bus fare would like to make life better in material wealth. So, he is absolutely correct for that boy to think of like that. That is what I expect. So, I asked him why do you want to become an information technology? His answer floored me completely. He said, sir, you have a student called Nandan Nilekhani. He has set up a company I have read called Infosys. I want to set up a bicker company than that. That is the ambition of a nine standard boy. Now, I met that boy accidentally. Only one such boy I met. Like him, how many boys and girls would be there in his own school? Nine standard division A, division B, division C, ten standard, eleven standard. How many schools in those tribal areas? How many schools in rural areas of Maharashtra? How many schools in rural areas of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Jammu, Kashmir, Punjab, everywhere? Six lakh villages we have. I tell you it was an eye opener. These are the aspirations of the young generation. This country itself is an extraordinarily unique experiment. I do not know how many of you realize it because you have not seen other countries. You have not seen other nations. Almost all other nations are homogenous. Even China, which is bigger than us, they have a single language too. Most other countries enjoy similar cultural ethos, similar religion, similar language. Our nation is the extraordinary exception. 125 crore people, all ethnicities. There has been a column of people coming from all over the world, all major religions of the world, all languages. And we have as an added attraction a great specialization. We fight with each other on each of these issues. The language is different. He is not from Mumbai and Pune. These are the two towns. These are very clear. I mean the number of jokes about Pune, one upmanship are phenomenal. I might digress a bit, but I must tell you this interesting joke that I heard where a Puneite was walking on the Deccan Gymkhana road, tugging a rope. There was a big rope behind and he was just carrying it like this. So, when Bombayite was watching him was fascinated. He says, excuse me sir, but why are you pulling the rope? So, he looked at him and says, are you mad? Should I push it? So, this is a typical reply that you get. Sorry for the digression. Point I am making is that in spite of this tremendous diversity, we have been able to live as a nation. And by and large, we have lived, we have learned to live with each other peaceful. We have learned to respect talent wherever it is. And you see this is a mini cosmos. What I am talking about the nation, all religions, all languages, all regions are represented. And yet you have all worked together. You have fought, but professional. You argue, but professional. You shouted at each other, but each one of you has enjoyed this moment of working together. Now, this is the message that needs to be spread at all. Ikshiksha does not nearly mean one best quality education for everybody, but it means education in its complete proper perspective. It is not being learned. It is not being literate. It is being educated. And educated means working together, working for each other. When you go back and when you start working, you will do variety of things. Some of you will do future studies. Some of you will do jobs. Most of you will do jobs of course. And you will become very rich because you are very smart people. You should become rich. There is absolutely no merit in being poor. Absolutely no merit. Only stupid people remain poor and we are not stupid. We are smart. It is high time. We become rich. We generated wealth. But when you do that, try not to forget that boy in Vada. We owe it to him because it is people like him who are working in this country, permitting us to do whatever we wish to do. We should exercise that option of doing what we wish to do, but in the process try and do something because this nation is looking forward for people to do something. The aspirations you are aspirations. Your aspirations are much more than what the equivalent aspirations in my time when we were your age were. Those aspirations are very pointed. You are willing to work hard for them. But when you do that, do not lose your sensitivity to it. And if you do not lead, then there is not much hope because of the whole leading edge of the Indian spectrum. You are the most important part of that leading edge. Behind you, there are 315 million students, 315 million. And they cannot be led only by old people like us. We will continue to work. The leadership has to come from amongst you and the leadership has to be inclusive. Leadership must mean something for everyone who is an Indian. That is the only way India can come up. So, make your contributions to yourselves, to your families and to the nation. Thank you so much. God bless you.