Buddies - On Making Friends

 This Bud's For You was the tagline of Budweiser.. now that I am wiser, I see some sense in that, though I never liked the beer, after being bred on the King of Good Times, or Kingfisher. The Mexican ones were more up my street..but I am digressing. This is about bud-dies..making buddies.

Two new, and two old buddies- made through a Play directed by Shweta Kushal at IIM Indore first. And then, through an impromptu invite for a pizza. Prachi Jain, Pratishtha Batra, Neeti Ingole (she turned out to be an alum of IIMK too) and Aakansh with me at a year end meetup. 

So I have these major kinds-

School buddies

College buddies

MBA class buddies

Ex-student buddies

Office buddies

Single Malt Buddies

Golf Buddies

Niece/nephew buddies

Chaddi buddies from home

Facebook buddies too, who I may not even have met.. though I try.

Copenhagen Business School

IMT Ghaziabad has an ongoing partnership with Copenhagen Business School, and one program out of this is a short-term exchange program for 20 of their students who come to Ghaziabad for a 2 week exchange with a small project that they do for a company in Delhi, and learn various things through experiencing Indian food, culture and places.

The second such program started today, and an enthusiastic bunch of youngsters came over. They are assigned buddies from among our students here, to guide them through their logistics and exploration. There are also some talks on entrepreneurship, and this is part of a program on International Business that they are pursuing at Copenhagen.

Had a chance to interact with them, with a brief talk about India and its diversity of cultures, languages and faiths. And definitions of forts and mountains (the tallest one in Denmark is about 150 metres, according to estimates). I told them about my visit to Charleston 'fort' from my time in the U.S.- it was a puny affair, compared with what we are used to here.