After spending 5 years in the market, going back to school is a “different” experience. I have carefully chosen the word different as it can take any meaning. Within just a week of classes, I could figure out the single most biggest challenge which B-Schoolers face – Choosing the right things at the right time. There would be so much activity going on and each and every activity would be so good that you would not like to miss. But, unfortunately you just have 24 hours in a day – a time too scarce to really do everything!

So, as everyone says, the sooner you decide what you want to do the better it is. Then, you can spend more time on things which interest you and the more focused you will remain throughout the next 2 years. That being said, I personally don’t think it is entirely a good idea to completely shut everything. I have joined a B-School to get a 360 view of everything – different industries and functions. So, I hope to maintain a generalist approach, attend as many events as I can manage and concentrate on things I “really” want to do.

My last blog started with the sentence - "This happens to be my first post from India..." Around 5 months later, I ironically start this blog with -

This happens to be my first post from the US (of course, I mean after returning back to US). Between those 5 months there were events which are life defining for me. Yes, the events that happened are only ONCE IN LIFETIME events. So important, that I can perhaps write a billion blogs around them. To cut the long story short - I got married, I resigned from my job and I started my MBA in the US.

So many changes in a short span of a few days. Things were definitely a roller coaster ride but I somehow prevailed and I am happy about it. Now that I have broken my jinx of not posting for so long....I hope I would be more regular.

This happens to be my first post from India...yeah I started this blog when I was in the US and so this is post would be the official first post from the Indian soil....so I thought to write about some of the observations I made about India this time -

I have seen NCR (Delhi), Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune in the past 4 weeks. In all the places two things that were common were - the tremendous energy you can see around and the congestion on the roads. Whether it was getting stuck in the traffic near Hyderabad airport or dodging my way on my bike to the office - the traffic has really gone from bad to worse. This raises a very important point - we all know that India's future growth is dependent on the Infrastructure, but are there enough steps being taken to ramp-up the infrastructure. I believe No. Apart from Delhi, where you can see the Metro project being implemented successfully and many flyovers being constructed, the other cities I visited were limping as far as their infrastructural growth was concerned.

Even in Delhi, the pace of growth is much higher than the pace of infrastrucutre development - a genuine cause of concern for the future. The airports in the country need a ramp-up; roads needs to be build and traffic needs to be controlled. The road ahead is surely bumpy...