Discussions

I considered various ways of moving forward to engage myself in some of the great suggestions made by the Taj regarding pursuits for the next 3 months. It took me considerable time because I do tend to vacillate before committing to something. Finally, I got in touch with Roabin. He was someone who I knew was associated with an NGO. Roabin Mazumdar is a founder member of the NGO known as Saathi as well as a director of The Inheritance India Land Conservation Company. Once we began to talk, we had a series of conversations (which were quite thought provoking). I believe that through our conversations he tried to gauge the kind of person I was and I too, in exchange, learnt quite a bit about the NGO world. We discussed my likes, my abilities, "quality of life" and lots more. Throughout our discussions, Roabin sought no long term commitment from me (until I was ready).

For my next post. I intend to display a letter I wrote to Roabin. It'll bring to light, partially, the substance of our conversations.

Bye for now. Auf Wiedersehen (until we meet again).

An Introduction

Hello. My name is Nishant Philip. I come from India.

Hallo. Mein name ist Nishant Philip. Ich komme aus Indien.

Okay. I’m sorry. It’s just that I’ve just started a German language class with Inlingua, and learning a foreign language is pretty exciting. So I just had to do that (introduce myself in German).

Now before I start a whirlwind of blogging, I’d like for the readers to know how exactly this blog came about. For the past three years I’ve been a student in the field of hospitality at the Institute of Hotel Management in Mumbai. Thereafter I was selected, by process of campus placement, in the Taj Management Training Program which was due to commence on 3rd August 2009. However, due to certain unforeseen circumstances the program got delayed and was rescheduled for December 2009.

Although my reaction to the deferment of the Training program was markedly one of discontentment, this view changed completely within time. I received some excellent suggestions from the Training Department of the Taj, which listed pursuits like working for an NGO and learning a foreign language among other things. That is what sparked my association with Saathi and Inheritance India Land Conservation Company Limited.

Comments and suggestion for all forthcoming posts are welcome (in fact they are much needed).

Ciao!