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“INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH” –I could read the huge board when I was a few hundred metres away. I was heading to ITER to participate in ‘CHAKRAVYUH’, the annual techfest of the institute. Anshuman was accompanying. We entered the main gate which proudly declared the organization of 10^th technical festival of the institute. Both of us went in and joined one of the 10 different queues to get us registered  for the techfest.

I took out 500 rupees from my wallet and gave it to the girl, who was there at the registration counter, as she passed me a file with the list of all the events printed on it.  I said ‘thank you’ and she smiled with a ‘welcome’  on her lips, as I turned back to walk out of the queue. But my eyes demanded to have another look at her.

“ohhh my gooddd!!!!”, I wondered, admiring her perfect shape beneath her black blazer. An investment of 500 rupees had started showing signs of profit from the very beginning!!!!

To call her beautiful or hot will be an understatement. She was something beyond that can be expressed in words. But I can certainly say, she was responsible for global warming, to a great extent.

Anshuman read out some of the events from the list that he thought we should participate. I was barely listening.

“you are not listening”- he said.

“certainly, I am”- I grinned.

“I think, we should go and get ourselves numbered in the paper presentation and after finishing that we will think of participating in other events”.

I nodded and both of is headed towards the academic block where the paper presentation was scheduled to be held. We entered into the conference room. We sat in the 3^rd row after getting ourselves numbered at 13. We were discussing about our presentation and after a few minutes we turned back only to notice a crowd of more than 200 in the hall, with almost all the seats filled up.

My eyes stopped on someone in the first line. I had seen her somewhere. It was her, BARSHA, the girl who was there at the reception counter. I had read her name from her identity card at the time of registration. This time I got to see her from the back and her perfect shape mesmerized me, again. It was magic!!!!

Our turn came and we went onto the podium amd presented our topic ‘augmented reality’. After completing our presentation we waited for questions from the audience. She raised her hand and asked.

“At least for the moment, I've found Augmented Reality to be one of those things that you just have to show people, because most folks have a hard time seeing it in their minds. What's your take on evangelizing Augmented Reality to the masses ?”

"Yes, often you have to show people but I describe Augmented Reality to be the technology that allows us to remove the shackles from the web and place it where it's most helpful, around us in those places it describes.  Every square inch of the world from ground to sky is chock full of information from history, to culture, to science.  Augmented Reality allows us to get at that data where it's most valuable."

I answered to her question and she looked satisfied. May be she was impressed as well. After a few more questions from the judges and the audience we came back to our place. In the rest part of the paper presentation, I only ogled at her. She looked amazing……..