FORTIFIED IN A FORT
The office decided it needed to give us massive targets to achieve, for the current financial year and so it took us on an offsite seminar to a 600 year old fort called Neemrana in Rajasthan.
The trip was actually the sugar coating on a bitter pill, as we got to know while sitting through the day in a stuffy seminar room, as figure after figure were rattled off…..the good, the better and the ugly they called them. What were these? Basically the revenue for last year, the figure by which we exceeded the target and the money yet to be collected…in that order.
And then came the ugliest…huge targets for the ongoing year.
We sat through two beautiful days cooped up in a small room….as nature and history stayed richly displayed outside…..can you believe, it actually rained in Rajasthan in May and we didn’t enjoy it at all?
The fort is nice, though through so much refurbishing and recreating its
now difficult to make out which is
the modern installation versus the original.
In the distance, could see more construction work going on, more rooms being added, cleverly camouflaged to look like a part of the actual fort.
What remains of the original is perhaps a bit of the view outside, though it too was pockmarked by random urbanization, wide open spaces, a small clinging to the fort village, peacocks and a bit of hill which is the backdrop of the fort.
So after two days of a lot of gyan, we came back to town, fortified by a lot of backslapping and bucking up messages and the promise of a new carrot dangling in front of us.
The trip was actually the sugar coating on a bitter pill, as we got to know while sitting through the day in a stuffy seminar room, as figure after figure were rattled off…..the good, the better and the ugly they called them. What were these? Basically the revenue for last year, the figure by which we exceeded the target and the money yet to be collected…in that order.
And then came the ugliest…huge targets for the ongoing year.
We sat through two beautiful days cooped up in a small room….as nature and history stayed richly displayed outside…..can you believe, it actually rained in Rajasthan in May and we didn’t enjoy it at all?The fort is nice, though through so much refurbishing and recreating its
now difficult to make out which is
the modern installation versus the original.In the distance, could see more construction work going on, more rooms being added, cleverly camouflaged to look like a part of the actual fort.
What remains of the original is perhaps a bit of the view outside, though it too was pockmarked by random urbanization, wide open spaces, a small clinging to the fort village, peacocks and a bit of hill which is the backdrop of the fort.
So after two days of a lot of gyan, we came back to town, fortified by a lot of backslapping and bucking up messages and the promise of a new carrot dangling in front of us.
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and very good photos...
and thanks for those nice words on my blog... and keep visiting
thanks for the compliments especially for the photographs since they are all taken on my mobile camera.
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