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The Speech I Never Gave—Until Now Introducing Ashish M,,,—my batchmate from MBA college. The Casanova. If I was an ‘x’ level nark, he beat me by at least ‘10x.’ He thought he was the King of Bombay. Well, I believed I was no less than a Bengali Queen. By some strange twist of fate, we ended up in the same book presentation group for our Branding class. Our topic? Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout. The Book Presentation was a high-stakes event—you didn’t just present; you made an impression. I got to work from day one: reading articles on branding, scouring the web for insights, making notes, rehearsing tirelessly. Meanwhile, the so-called King of Bombay had just one piece of advice for me: "Take a chill pill, Jaya." I couldn’t. It wasn’t the topic that scared me—it was the fear of freezing on stage. D-Day arrived. I had already puked three times and wished a car would hit me before I reached college. Unfortunately, Delhi was driving way too safely that day...