Every year the post graduates and the undergraduates get escorted ceremoniously by the final year medical students carrying the jasmine chain to the Scudder auditorium at the Christian Medical College, Vellore for their convocation. The rest of us witnessing this occasion is moved with a sense of serene and solemn feeling!
The jasmine chain is a symbol of fullness of life! They are fragile, fresh and fragrant! Each flower is small and brittle. But when they are bound together to make it into a chain, it takes a new form of significance and visibility!
To the graduating students it is a message! During the years spent at CMC, Vellore, they have been held together by a bond that would help them to make a difference wherever they go. When they leave the portals of the institution they are still part of community of the alumni who are scattered, but still held together by the traditions and values that have formed them during their time together in the campus.
To all the undergraduates and the post graduates, this is a calling to live for!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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