From one hill station to other, with the same motive to enjoy as a vacation but, ultimately struggle with your work. While the platform provided by a b-school is second to none, little did I realize I would be sharing this platform with some of the brightest and the most competitive minds in the country. For most students, MBA is the last leg of their academic stint and while it is laced with its fair share of fun and friendships.
Standing on the top of the huge waterfall and beautiful scenic hill in Athirapally feels heavenly and peaceful. This place became one of the most memorable from my internship. Not many footprints were there as if it were a kingdom of isolation. It seems as if all doors are open here, allowing me to truly be the captain of my destiny.
I started my internship with a very happy heart that I am going to Kochi- a destination each one wants to go for a vacation. My friends were jealous of my location. Little did I know that I would be spending my next two months in a village in Kochi, of which people have hardly heard about.
Kadayiruppu- my internship location, a small village which is an hour from Kochi. New place, unknown language, a very new field to work in, all these scared me a little bit, yet a positive mind helped calm for some time.
‘Oleoresin’- a very rare business taken up in India. Oleoresin means liquid spice. A very big business but very few people know about it. Working for something you do not know about when your ultimate goal to come to such a reputed b school was a good placement makes you think deep. We’ve often heard that fortune favors the brave, but through my past experiences, I’ve come to understand that fortune favors the brave and the prepared. I surely wasn’t prepared for this work, being a commerce graduate and understanding the active elements of various spices, fruits, etc. which seemed an uphill task for me. Yet, I tried and understood the company, the culture, the people there. With no other intern to compete with for a PPO and being the youngest one in the office, I was mostly pampered there. It was a wonderful experience, still an alien in spicy land.
So yes, Spice is an essential part of food as well as our life.
Sriya Gupta
PGP 2nd Year
IIM Shillong
