Jorhat Teachers' Meet

Our partners from NDRL School, Ms. Surabhi and Ms. Rani Khound, above. They speak to the press, below. 

 We did a unique program for school teachers of Jorhat, Assam. Around 50 teachers of various subjects participated enthusiastically. Our Dean Dr. Bhattacharyya and I were the resource-persons, and talked about how pedagogy needs to change with changing times. 

This was the program. Our partners from NDRL School, Ms. Surabhi and Ms. Rani Khound, below. It was held at the local Planetarium.

Above, the Dean with the participants, taking them through an exercise..

Year end Musings- 6

 A year is an artificial division of time. But it helps consolidate our life into compartments. Of course, it gets confusing with the financial year thrown in for calculations, and others-academic year in my profession.

This year, September -November were eventful. Some pics..

Apple orchard, and other delights, Kashmir

Guwahati and Shillong, or nearby (above and below)

Nagaland, with Education Minister at Kohima, above, and with Tetso College bosses, Dimapur

Chai bagaan, at Jorhat and nearby.

Abhishek above, and Kanika Mhendiratta, below

At IIMB with friends.. Bhuvanesh, and Jayadev

Akshat Surana visits Prestige.

Nagarjuna and Venugopal Reddy, Hyderabad Golf Club

Bhagyalakshmi and Venkat, Mumbai BKC.

Golf and Tea Combined

 There's a Golf Resort in Jorhat that's in the middle of tea plantations. Don't believe me? These pics will prove me right.. 

With a couple of lovely ladies who work at the garden

View from the Club House.

..and in the club house.

The gardens

The hats.. and Arun Bhattacharrya wears a new hat- learns to chip and putt

At another tea estate in Jorhat.. Cinnamara, with the manager.

Nagaland- a First

 I had been to Assam a couple of times before, but not to other parts of the North East. This time, both by train- a vistadome compartment, no less, and road, managed to travel to Dimapur and Kohima, both in Nagaland. Also found a Golf course near Jorhat, called Kaziranga Golf Course/Resort. Worth going to again, some day. It is owned by one Mr. Barooah, reminding me of two colleagues, Ekalavya and Prerona Baruah from NMIMS at Bangalore. Also ate duck for the first time- like a cross between mutton and chicken.

We were trying to promote our MBA programs and also tie up for other activities, such as Entrepreneurship training. Or corporate training programs. Met the ONGC ED, and a dynamic edu-entrepreneur, among others. A minister also, and an MLA from Nagaland. Very positive, all of them, including the director of NIT at Dimapur, Nagaland.

These hats are worn by plantation workers to keep off the Sun. Resemble the Mexican sombreros.

At Jorhat engg. college, set up in 1960, one of the oldest in Assam. Being introduced by a prof. of Computer Science, and placement cell head.

At CKB college for a seminar in Jorhat.

Dynamic edupreneurs at Dimapur. Mr. Kvulo Lorin and Dr. Hewasa L. Khing (left) who run Tetso College, a vibrant institution.

 

At a seminar in Golaghat engg college above, and with Dr. Venugopal and faculty at NIT Dimapur.

The Minister of Education and Tourism, above and MLA below.

The vistadome, and a lake where we stopped for lunch with a view.

Lady seller at Umiyam lake near Shillong -above

Above and below- IIT Guwahati with Dr. Priyankoo Sarmah, and below, a building nearby