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