Pune Part 2

So the time came for my second trip to Pune and in particular the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park at Hinjewadi. A mouthful. Key goal was to touch base with the outsourcing folks and kickoff a new project.

Selfish reasons was to clock more miles on Krisflyer and to get more books. Unfortunately the 3 days that I was there turned out to be filled with back to back meetings starting from 10 am till around 9pm.

It was exhausting and the late, heavy dinners did not help either. But at the end of the trip it was fruitful and satisfing knowing that I personally accomplished all the professional goals and more but nothing of the personal.

Most eventful part of the trip and the incident that will stay with me forever was on the drive back to Mumbai. What was supposed to be a quick drive home due to the weekend turned out to be quite a shock.

There was a terrible crash down the mountain road which resulted in a jam. When the traffic started moving we eventually reached the accident site.

What I saw was six prime mover sized trailers involved in a pile up. It was surreal and what made it worse was when my driver pointed out that 2 of the drivers must have undoubtedly "expired" and looking at the crushed remains of the front compartments there was no surviving such a horrendous mangle of steal.

I pray the families of these drivers were not with him in their trucks and that they will be able to survive the loss.

As always India has a way of bringing the best and the worst experiences in a short time.

M pensive