Mr. Vishav Sambyal…………………..Hip HIP HuRrAy………….

I came to Jammu on 15 July 2009… all of 21 years old and with great dreams and repentance in my heart… I had been to the best of the schools and best of colleges… Burns Hall, KGRIMS Chails, Welhams and KLSGIT Belgaum… but my pride had overtaken my senses and I’d passed SSB twice during engineering but still falied my engineering exams to not be able to join the Academy…Being from a family with 4 generations in the Army… I thought it to be my only way of life… It was in 2011 when I saw the hoarding for Achievers at Vikram Chowk and decided to join up… It would have made sense for me to join the Colonels Academy at Gandhinagar seeing that I lived in Sainik Colony but somehow the Achievers logo made me fall for that institute….

When I joined I was already 23-24 and it was only OTA for me… not IMA… I joined Pankaj Sir not Sukreet Sir…but little did I know that Sukreet Gupta would play the role of Drona and I’d be his Eklavya… excuse the pun on mythology… but life does make you come across situations that force you believe in things you never thought you will believe in….

I never came across Sukreet Gupta in person… I was never in maths class… But I remember him telling Pankaj Sir that he needed “Horses” for Achievers not just “Donkeys”… Too say the least he proved himself to be the Horse… He wanted to join the army..you all might have noticed the Indian Army Logo on his bullet… but even if he never got his dream and still he works so hard for people like you and me to achieve it… that’s tells you something now doesn’t it ??? It sure does to me…. and I’m sure it will to you..someday if not today.

How often have you come across a coaching institute that gives away things for free…He coaches a friend of mine… and me for free without knowing us personally just cause he believed in us…and that my friends is something I will always cherish… I, after failing twice to join the academy was looking for a person who would just believe in me…. He did and that’s what made the difference….

I don’t know if yo all notice… how he calls the OTA/IMA guys “BHAI”… that means much you know…he lowers himself to your level… and still stays above , not as a teacher…. but as a an elder brother…. many of you will not get my meaning now…but someday you all shall…. I truly believe….

I started posting this thinking of many things I’d write about the institute…the atmosphere they provide… but then.. I fall short of words…

The biggest compliment I can give is I hated and I did not understand when Pankaj Sir made us write articles in english but believe me when doing GD… when it really mattered… when the words flew out of my mouth I remembered him… if only for a second I remembered MY ACHIEVERS… AND THAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE… this is not an ad…its just a tribute to people I have come to respect as a permanent influence on my 24 year old existence…. the words they said , never inspired me then… but they push me to do things… when I want to give up now..when I am no longer there in achievers… lasting influences…. If you understand.. then… good for you…

Jai Hind…

—————————————————————————————————-Vishav Sambyal