Summer Internship Experience At TATA Motors - Kshitij Arora, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management

What should I say? When I think of writing about my experience. There is so much to say but I am not able to find the right words. Let me just start with the start and let's be frank. I was really scared, there won't be an intern in this part of the country from any college in the company and it is the first time I am going to this part of the country. People eat fish and Rice. How will I adapt to the food out there? People speak Bengali. I don't know ABC of Bengali. And I am alone. Well, that would be the best part of it.
The first thing I had to do was to understand the hardcore yet basic mechanical concepts (and I am an electronics engineer, so you know what I mean) and the construction of a typical heavy commercial vehicle-4 stroke engine suspension, differential, gearbox, chassis, Tyre design, axle combination, BS4 & BS6 requirements. It was new and exciting. It went to another level when I went into the field and saw them working in the sand mines, stone mines, and coal mines. I was in love with 4M's - Mechanical, Mining, Marketing, and Man-Management. I had to interact with the wide array of stakeholders and that's where the real learning emerged. Everyone wanted something from the deal. They wanted different things, yet the same thing. Confused, Right? Well, that's how things work and we just have to find that win-win situation to provide that same thing.