Thursday 9 August 2007

a city called aizawl

people have always said that the north east is extremely beautiful... i got the full force of that in aizawl... beautiful beautiful place... nice and green and high atop hills, it aint too high so ur not feeling too cold, the mornings are slightly nippy, but the rest of the day is quite pleasant...

aizawl for those who need a geography refresher is the capital of mizoram... and the lietracy rate exceeds kerala, a mindboggling 90% sorts... all english medium (mizo is written in english script)...

oh and the most interesting part is to come... you see more women on the streets than men, it is the women who are shopkeepers and thery converse in english...

for most fmcg companies it is a almost virgin territory, nobody has explored it to the full and im guessing im the first management trainee to ever set foot there... loadsa work to do and a brilliant place to do it...

oh, and did i say it, money aint the last of worries, the economy aint particularly down, the rich are extremely rich and you have showrooms of every major brand there...

so the crux is getting the goods down to the right guy...

but its not as if there are no problems... the catches include problems similar to a lot of the north east... bandhs and strikes and the rest... and the terrain isnt exactly the most suited for travel... distributors hav to at times go to places, stay overnight and then move back... issues galore...