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Cold Feet and Varun Agarwal

While going through my daily quora digest, I came across an answer citing a Varun Agarwal quote. That actually triggered me into a routine, which I usually follow when I get interested in a   personality. Read their Wikipedia bio Find their personal website and check their contacts (I’ve never reached out to any of them, still I do check for ways to get in touch) Watch their interviews/speeches in Youtube Look for similarities between our lives/thoughts/speech pattern (and many other silly things) Get impressed and inspired all over again But in the case of Varun Agarwal, my routine took a different course. I did go through his profile and personal website :p. In addition, it triggered memories of my college days - when and how he became my source of inspiration, eventually resulting in this blog post. Balaji and me had this habit of taking part in as many paper presentations as possible, mostly to escape our boring college lectures. We easily got per