Why me ? Doesn’t everybody ask this question ? Well, guess today was my turn. My guide had a stroke of guilt it seems. Or what is more likely, shame at his own inability to get something out of me for the dough they’re paying me. Anyway, he’s really a nice guy who’s just at his wit’s end in my case. Seeing that my project was going nowhere, he offered to give me some other work to do. Boredom must have screwed me I guess, since I gleefully accepted to do the extra work (or project I thought). On a serious note, he asked me to find suppliers for Nickel in India since his Chinese buyer had been interested in it. The way he said it, I thought that this could keep me busy more than the usual 1-2 hrs.Like any MBA student, I did the first thing that came to my mind – googling. And lo and behold, India has no Nickel deposits. India’s been importing Nickel for as long as we can remember, There is one mine which is also owned by Tata. And my project came to dead end before it even started. I reported my findings to my guide, expecting him to see something which I had missed. To my disappointment (really, I should have expected this by now), he said, “Oh, is that so. We also got the same information. Nothing else we can do about it I guess”.

Now, what the hell do I do ? I stand there like a tree and say, “Ok Sir, I’ll be going now”. And the guy says, “Stay back. Samosas will be here in a few minutes”. Anyone who knows me should also know about my “limited” Hindi vocabulary. I understood him as, “Can you stay back? We’ll have a talk later”. “Sure”, I said. Thanks to Amit, I got to know that my meeting was only going to be with samosas and not my guide. And I humbly and embarrassingly excused myself from my guide. I should also mention that my guide was thoroughly amused by the incident. And so went one more day without incident. Ok fine !! Without any incidence of “consequence”.