Amid all the obvious differences, something very similar lies at the core of each human being and this belief strengthens after every new interaction you have with the people of Shillong. Amazing are those moments when you walk through the inner streets and end up hearing jam sessions or when you see little kids playing football barefoot on a slope. We can choose to fight among ourselves about the way we pray, the food we eat, the language we speak, the clothes we wear, or we can fight together against the deadly diseases, the rising unemployment, the threatening pollution, poor education, corruption and what not. With the change in the coordinates, problems remain the same, only the victims change.
That’s the opportunity of introspection which IIM Shillong provides to its students in the two years that she/he spends here. All those obvious issues that one hears around him/her do not remain so oblivious here. No doubt Rome wasn’t built in a day but at least a dialogue begins. At least we remove ourselves from the silent mode to a vibrating one. Also, where else do mornings begin with a rooster’s crowing, clouds flock the campus during the noon and sudden drizzle wash the evenings to pave way for a night full of stars.
Shubham Singh
PGP 2nd Year
IIM Shillong
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