This space has been largely empty for the most part of post college duration. The reasons are obvious, but I hope to resume blogging now.
Living in Delhi has been very entertaining. Entertaining is the right word to be used here because someone that is the flavour of the town.
The area where I reside also contributes to that. With half the world’s population living here with me, (and the rest settled in Karol Bagh and Chandni Chowk I am led to believe) I am in the midst of the action. Be it getting up to go to work, which unlike BITS demands 100% attention (in terms of my physical presence), or randomly arranging last minute plans to meet someone, Delhi has kept me immensely occupied and more than mildly satisfied.
I was lucky to have found The Attic, a cosy little corner in Connought Place which brings regular doses of really good speakers. The best thing about the place being the suspiciously small audience. Consequence being, you get to interact a heck of a lot more than at usual conferences.
The place where I work, NCAER, comes out with fantastic reports, advising government and corporations on policy making. The next 5 months is going to be challenging and a learning experience with the vast amount of human as well as literary resources that NCAER providing me with.
The BITSAA Global Meet, which is the other activity that is taking up considerable amount of my time is also shaping up nicely with the panel discussions being finalized and scouting for speakers being the next step.
For those with an appetite for development and responsible businesses, I have started updating my Nextbillion with my experiences on the field with the Stories from Sarvajal’s Turf series. 2 posts have been put up and I believe I have material for 2 more which should be up by the end of next 2 weeks.
Facebook too has been of tremendous value in such times, with me needlessly messaging everyone in Delhi who I can lay my hands on and devoting my time to them. It’s part of the whole settling in phase I believe. Give me a month more, I am sure I will go back to my anti-social, virtual self. Though, I hope that doesn’t happen.
Also, I have 2 incredible roomies who have been tolerating my idiosyncrasies for long and I am grateful to them for that.
Lets see what’s in store next.
