They have come again. The same feeling. The same resistance to wake up in the morning. The same old habit of extending the alarm by brief-10-minutes durations. Yeah..yeah..I’m talking about the morning blues!!
It has only been two-weeks since my academically-compulsory summer training started to give me (along with 419 other students of my college) a hands-on-experience-of-the-real-world. But hang on!! Why do I need this experience? Having already spent good five years working, I don’t see any value addition for myself. But, as they say, not everything in life happens the way you want it to happen.
So, I was forced to make a compromise with my destiny (but isn’t that something everyone does many times in life?). The day starts with a rush to reach the company amid the question in my mind - “What am I gonna do the next 10 hours??”. The same question comes with brutal consistency everyday. But thank God, I’ve Internet access. And the day ends with a relief of passing one more day. I can bet that many of my colleagues are definitely missing DLP, Amphi, BBC, DC etc the same way I’m missing.
I remember the day when I got selected to do my summers in this company. The ONLY reason I decided to participate in the selection process of this company was the promised location - Indore.
Indore. The city of cultures, festivals, and most importantly, the food. My usage of ‘THE ‘ before ‘food’ itself tells the whole story. The city is famous for its wide range of cuisines. The menu includes mouth-watering stuffs like patties, garadu, hot dog, bhutte ka kis, Rabri-jalebi and what not. You can see the malls mushrooming everywhere like any other metro or fast developing city of India but the real differentiator here is that while looking at scenic beauty or modernity of the city, you can feel the religious chants penetrating your ears. People here might be very fluent in english but the tone in which they speak hindi is very unique. I must say that Indore presents a very good example of a city which is competing with the modern world while firmly keeping its roots intact. Hats off to the spirit of Indore.
I’m waiting desperately for my summer training to end but at the same time, I can feel the pain of leaving the city I love the most. And one question still persists. Despite being the only city in India which can boast of having both - an IIM and an IIT, more than 30 engineering colleges, reputed colleges in the field of medicines and commerce etc does not have industry big-shots? This question actually pinches me. May God give some good brains to the politicians here and may they create an environment which can bring big MNC’s here and my dream of living here can be fulfilled. Amen!!
