Location: Mithapur, Gujarat.
Work: Plan to make nearby villages self reliant in 5 years.
Duration: 7 weeks.

A day before leaving for mithapur, i travelled 5 hours in a flight for Mumbai-Lucknow-mumbai, sat at the amausi Lucknow airport eating fried peanuts waiting for a delayed flight, listened to a bemused flight captain letting his heart out on the in-flight announcement for 20 minutes (no kidding), wrote an appreciative letter to the flight captain on a tissue paper (no kidding again) to which he conveyed his thanks for 10 minutes again on the in-flight announcement system....returned home at 2:30 AM to unfinished packing and left again for Jamnagar the next day at 9AM. In short arrived in the 70 year old Tata Chemicals, Mithapur quite frustrated with life and quite unsure of what to expect.

Me and a friend start walking around the township and see a sign saying 'Seashore'. On walking for 10 minutes we come upon this huge white sand green water beach. Well, life does throw some pleasant surprises!

I am here for 7 weeks to work for Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development which works for nearby villages. Gotta prepare a business plan to make them self-reliant within 5 years. Big talk for a just-out-of-college MBA grad but lets see.

P.S: the white in the sands are actual sea shells and not the plastic bags that i am used to in bombay.