A meeting with the founder.

At about 11 mithilesh called up saying that Aneesh reddy will visit the TRS Lab. As said, the whole first year team reached in time to meet the man. Till now i had only heard about him. We heard "unhone bohot fight mara hai TRS ke liye" and all such stuff. But, we could never feel the presence of the man. This day came, and he was seen in person. He was a bit shorter than i had expected. He was looking at the lab as if it was just his own child! He knew every nook and corner of it!

But, there were levels of disappointment in him. He was the founder of TRS. Only he knew the motive behind the founding. Till now, we have concentrated on the improvement of the robotics fest i.e. ROBOTIX. He asked us first years what we felt about the robotix event. Palkush answered that it was a good first experience with such a large fest. That was what everyone of us echoed in our minds. But, Aneesh wasn't so happy with that. He appeared slightly disappointed. I wondered why! Then questions started coming into my mind. Why was the robotix event initiated? Why was TRS founded by him? Why was the TRS lab established? Why??

Aneesh then opened up what was going on. He explained his emotions in a rather diplomatic sense that robotix was not established as a fest. It was established to be something more than what a fest is. He said that TRS is supposed to improve the robotics fraternity among the general people. ( as far as i could decipher from what he said). He said that we have given enough attention towards the participation. Now how much do we increase the no. of participants? In 2008 there were 3000! How much do we increase the participation? We are already larger than all robofests in the country. How much do we increase? what statistics do we want to obtain? What aim are we heading for?


He asked to concentrate on KRAIG more than ROBOTIX now.
A few days ago akash had conveyed
"Hum jab bhi chaahein, 1000 teams kgp mein khada kar sakte hain. Ab humein event ke quality pe dhyan dena chahiye."
I think what aneesh and akash said are quite similarly oriented. Both need a more technological development rather than managerial development.

He referred to product launches. KRAIG can launch robotics products! These will bring KRAIG into the limelight!
I believe there are ideas in each and everyone of us. We can incorporate those ideas.


Amal