Returned today morning from Hyderabad. It is seldom that in India one is impressed by a Govt sponsored setup and more importantly the organization of a Govt sponsored program. At least for me IDRBT was a pleasant change. I arrived in Hyderabad 6am by bus – there was a car waiting for me and I was whisked away to the IDRBT building. The security guy at the front gate there was aware that I would be coming and had my name properly spelled out on a visitor ID tag. Even though I was not staying the night I had a room to my own complete with a hooked up PC, I was later told that these were the rooms where the participants of the various programs stayed…
A phone call gave me my morning fix of caffeine. The program started at 9am – right on time, there were about 20 people and were not “totally clueless” and “totally uninterested”. I discovered that people really can take me seriously and reaffirmed something I knew about my self “I can talk” – SERIOUSLY!!
My sessions stretched into lunch and then spilled into the hands-on lab session.
In short I had fun. I only wish that there were convenient connecting flights and I would have avoided the tiring 8 hour bus ride…