Jul 03
We were transported back to school days. "All right students;" said the teacher . "Pull out your books and make notes". There was a rustle and a surprised murmur as the class got down to working out the intricacies of marketing and understanding the ins and outs of marketing strategy. It was a lot tougher than we thought it would be . We are indeed grateful to Dr Malini who, for three hours wrestled with our sluggish brains to help us make sense of the convoluted manner in which the minds of the promoters worked to force a product down the throats of unwitting customers. Mind you it involved a lot of hard work and grey matter to ensure that this happens - and in an effective fashion.
Today was a day of important happenings . Sandhya finally got her car from Bareilly. As was the case in bareilly she drove her car to work innocently. On the route she was stopped by a police man for having tinted windows. No amount of explanation on her part that the tinted windows were a norm in north India and that if it was the practice in Hyderabad not to have tinted windows she would get the film removed affected the policeman. Not even the production of an I-card to the effect to prove her newness to town made an impression on the thick headed police man. Ultimately she was handed a challan for having 'broken the law', Our sympathies are with her for having been unfairly penalised. Were this anywhere else in the country she would have been left with an advise to make amends and remove the tinted film at the earliest. ..
For the third day in the week Prof Bagchi and Prof Mahadik were missing from the tea break. We miss conversing with them on various topics of the day and gaining their brilliant insights.. The mess as usual was crowded with a junior management course from oil India from Gauhati , senior managers from a no of companies who had come to improve on their learning and gain valuable tips to improve their lot as also that of their companies.
More than 20 days have been completed on the course and as the first week draws to a close we are much more clued up in our primary aim of easing into the civillian way of life...formal classes and informal interactions with people from a vast cross section of population which is already involved in the job is proving beneficial..
We were transported back to school days. "All right students;" said the teacher . "Pull out your books and make notes". There was a rustle and a surprised murmur as the class got down to working out the intricacies of marketing and understanding the ins and outs of marketing strategy. It was a lot tougher than we thought it would be . We are indeed grateful to Dr Malini who, for three hours wrestled with our sluggish brains to help us make sense of the convoluted manner in which the minds of the promoters worked to force a product down the throats of unwitting customers. Mind you it involved a lot of hard work and grey matter to ensure that this happens - and in an effective fashion.
Today was a day of important happenings . Sandhya finally got her car from Bareilly. As was the case in bareilly she drove her car to work innocently. On the route she was stopped by a police man for having tinted windows. No amount of explanation on her part that the tinted windows were a norm in north India and that if it was the practice in Hyderabad not to have tinted windows she would get the film removed affected the policeman. Not even the production of an I-card to the effect to prove her newness to town made an impression on the thick headed police man. Ultimately she was handed a challan for having 'broken the law', Our sympathies are with her for having been unfairly penalised. Were this anywhere else in the country she would have been left with an advise to make amends and remove the tinted film at the earliest. ..
For the third day in the week Prof Bagchi and Prof Mahadik were missing from the tea break. We miss conversing with them on various topics of the day and gaining their brilliant insights.. The mess as usual was crowded with a junior management course from oil India from Gauhati , senior managers from a no of companies who had come to improve on their learning and gain valuable tips to improve their lot as also that of their companies.
More than 20 days have been completed on the course and as the first week draws to a close we are much more clued up in our primary aim of easing into the civillian way of life...formal classes and informal interactions with people from a vast cross section of population which is already involved in the job is proving beneficial..
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