Interview with pallavi

"Look for something, find something else, and realise that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for..."

Among her three sisters and a younger brother she is the most lovable child of the Maurya family.

Living in nuclear family she never really lost the track of dis-respecting her values, morals and traditions.

She is cooperative,

She is candied,

She is charming,

She is silent,

She is simple,

And she is totally non-social girl of Lucknow University Journalism department which doesn’t quite fit the popular perception of being a Media person as people think if you are studying media you should be out-going and a social person. But 20 years old Pallavi have different thought on it...

Let's see what her take on this...

Q. How will you define yourself and what is your family background?

A. - “Well my friends call me “pallu” and I am an easy going girl. I am born and brought up in Lucknow. Apart from me I have three elder sisters and one younger brother.

My father is in RTO office and my mother is home maker. I have done my schooling from City Montessori School chowk branch and then I have done my Bachelors in journalism from University of Lucknow. I am not very much social. And I live in nuclear family from past six years.”

Q.- What are your hobbies? What you like to do in your free time?

A. – “I like to read romantic novels, dancing and swimming”

Q. – As you said you like to read? Who are your favourite authors?

A. - “Yes. I like to read Cheatan bhagat and Animesh sharma.”

Q.-What according to you, you are and why?

A) Player

B) Observer

C) Follower or

D) Leader

A. - "I am an Observer. Because you need to observe people so that you can act accordingly towards to them”

Q.-Don’t you think being a leader is more important then being an Observer?

A. - "In my opinion I think first you need to be an observer rather than a leader because if you haven’t observed them you will only give your point of view and will neglect them. The people who are following may be they are just following us for the sake of following, because from there point of view leader is meant to be followed. But if you observe people you will get to know what people think about you, what is there nature and accordingly you can react towards them”.

Q.-What accomplishment are you most proud off and why?

A.-"At school time I had never imagined that I will opt for swimming as I had aqua phobia since I was a child. But then I saw my sister as she was a swimmer. Than I gathered the courage and killed that fear by joining classes in my school and I came out as a winner. I won Inter branch swimming competition. That is one kind of an accomplishment for me”.

Q.-In every walk of life one needs the right guidance and training. Do you have a mentor?

A. – “Yes. In every phase of life we get a mentor, at home our mother and father, in school teachers and of course our best buddies. I have many many teachers in my life.”

Q. - Time of your life which you cherish the most?

A. - “I cherish my school days a most. Because of my friends and teachers who were there. I enjoyed a lot”.

Q. - When it’s strike in your mind that you want to go for journalism?

A. - “Later years we don’t use to have cable channels we watch doordarshan. In that there is this news reader comes Nirmala kumari ji.I was so influenced by her. Then I decided to go into news reading. Nirmala ji was my inspiration. But I had no idea what mass communication is and how to go about it. Then there is this neighbour of mine, she helped me a lot. She guided me through out”.

“Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on tightly”

Q. - Who is your Favourite News readers/Anchors?

A. - “Rajat sharma and Vinod dua are among my favorites”

Q. - If you could interview anyone person in the world either alive or dead. Who would it be and why?

A.-(Smiling) “I want to interview Shahrukh khan. Because I love his romantic movies and he is my favourite actor”

Q. - Have you ever done any work in anchoring field?

A. - “Yes, I have done anchoring in ETV uttar pradesh in January 2011”

Q. How was the experience?

A. - “It was all and all an awesome experience for me. The aura which I felt in there was fantastic and I learnt and enjoyed a lot”

Q.  You are Doing Journalism, Your father wants you to go in civil services and side by side you are doing Bank coaching classes.Don't you think these all are different genres?

A. - “Yes I agree these all are different. But what I want to be is anchor or News Reader to be precise”

Q.  Why you doing bank coaching if you want to go for news reading?

A. – “For going in the field of journalism you need a link and till now I have no link for this field. So right now I am working on my backup plan. I chose banking because I want a secure job. In mass communication there is no guarantee of job. If you get job even then also it’s not mandatory that at any point of time they will not fire you”.

Q.  Who is your ideal and why?

A. - “My father is my ideal. Because whatever he do is very influential”.

Q. Three things which people don’t know about you?

A. - “Don’t want to answer. Next question please!”

Q.  Confessions, if any?

A. - “There is nothing I need to confess about”

Q. What are you biggest fears?

A. - “Well as I stated before, I had only one that is water phobia. But now I overcame with it”.

"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith"

Q. Which is your favourite cuisine?

A. - “I love to have Idli sambhar. South Indian is my favourite cuisine”.

Q. Do you trust people easily? Do you remember any one incident when somebody cheated you or broken your trust?

A. - “Yes I do trust people easily and you can say that is my weakness. Well yeah once I told all of my secrets to one of my friend and she made them public”

 "Explain you anger, don't express it, and you will immediately open the door to solutions and understanding."

Q. - Haven’t you done anything to take revenge from your friend who busted out your secrets in public?

A. - “Well Silence speaks louder than actions. I just stopped talking to her”.

Q. How you deal with your problems in life?

A. - “Problem! I rather call them Challenge... Life is a challenge. My problems in life are not different from any other. In fact they are same for everyone but I think the challenges are different. Challenges are like stepping stones. Either you make them as a step to climb up or you make them as a blockage. So I share everything with my sister and take out the solution of them”.

“There are no big problems; there are just a lot of little problems”

Q. - How do you De-stress yourself?

A. – “A good sound sleep help me to De-stress my self. And apart from that whenever I fell stressed out Music is my Drug”.

Q. Which is your favourite all time movie. What you absorbed or learnt from that movie?

A. - “Kabhi khushi kabhi gham and Hum aapke hain kaun. I love these movies because they teach us how to live happily in a family”

Q. - Do you ever miss being in a joint family? Or ever wished to be in joint family? Or you think being in nuclear family is best?

A. - “We use to live in a joint family, but after my grandparents death we live as a nuclear family. Yes I miss my grandfather and his stories which he use to tell us”.

Q. - Don’t you think you should be regular to college if you want to be a successful media person? As I have seen you only twice and thrice in the campus?

A. – “I don’t think for being in media coming to college is necessary”.

Q. - But don’t you think there are thousand of things which you will learn only when you have theoretical knowledge and for that you have to take classes?

A. - “Knowledge can be embedded from books also and at home also one can read books and gain knowledge”

Q. If you can change anything in world or people around you and in yourself what will you like to change?

A. - “I want to end corruption from everywhere if you talk about the world or people around me. And in me I wish I can adjust with people quickly as I take time to open up with people”.

“Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong”

Q. - Is fashion important to you what does this means to you?

A. - “Fashion as a personality is important. We should be up-to dated with fashion trends”

Q. What is your fashion statement?

A. - “Whatever I like to wear is fashion for me. Basically something in which I feel comfortable”.

Q. Song or Quote which describes you best?

A.- “हम तो  भाई  जैसे  हैं  वैसे  रहेंगे  अब  कोई  खुश  हो  या  हो  खफा हम  नहीं  बदलेंगे अपनी  अदा, समझे ना समझे कोई हम यही कहेंगे , हम तो भाई जैसे हैं , वैसे रहेंगे "

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively." 

Trend is changing and so is today’s youth. They don’t want to attend lectures and want to have fun. For them its fun, but later on they realise that its their few of the biggest mistakes that they have committed. But people like Pallavi, have set the benchmark for all those students who miss there classes and try and study at home as she feels that coming to college and not attending classes due to peer pressure is more than a bad thing rather than not coming to college and study at home. Now a days students don't want to attend their colleges and they just want to chill out with their friends. Many do this in the pressure of other friends and many just because they want to run away from studies. Now its time to wake up, Its an alarming situation... So now I urge all of you to take a pledge that we, the greatest creation of the Almighty, will not demean the precious gift given to us by God, the gift of life and the gift of teaching others what's right and what's not. We will fight against the most difficult times that come across us with full spirits and will rise up every time we fall. We will never, never give up. As Japanese proverb says, "Fall seven times, stand up eight" - and this eighth may be lucky chance which will bring you to your happiness.

"Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.the easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it in a day when u don't come across any problem you can be sure that u r travelling on a wrong path"

"If you want to stand out, don't be different, be OUTSTANDING"