Teaching is Learning

I am at IHMR, Jaipur. For the first time, I am here to teach for the program that I passed out ten years ago. This place has indeed played an important role in my life and career. It was like a launching pad for me. The time I spent here transformed me from a slightly arrogant listless person to a keen learner and a sensible youth. Various faculties taught may things and different friends helped the process of grooming. For a person coming from a small town of Gujarat, this was nothing less than going abroad, especially when one has not even travelled out of state or has not had any long train journey too till 25 years of age. There was no one to speak to in one’s own mother tongue and, most of the fellow classmates were younger by 3-5 years. All that added to isolation and arrogance. However, the two years during 2001-03 involved lot of churning, destruction and construction, learning and unlearning. And, there I was moving out of the institute a better person in 2003. Ten years and I...

I am at IHMR, Jaipur. For the first time, I am here to teach for the program that I passed out ten years ago. This place has indeed played an important role in my life and career. It was like a launching pad for me. The time I spent here transformed me from a slightly arrogant listless person to a keen learner and a sensible youth. Various faculties taught may things and different friends helped the process of grooming. For a person coming from a small town of Gujarat, this was nothing less than going abroad, especially when one has not even travelled out of state or has not had any long train journey too till 25 years of age. There was no one to speak to in one’s own mother tongue and, most of the fellow classmates were younger by 3-5 years. All that added to isolation and arrogance. However, the two years during 2001-03 involved lot of churning, destruction and construction, learning and unlearning. And, there I was moving out of the institute a better person in 2003. Ten years and ...