When we(my colleague Andee and myself) reached Mysore today, this Emirates Airways tag-line kept whirring in my head - "When was the last time, you did a thing for the first time"!
We were on a strange mission. We had come to Mysore to meet a young man who wants to build India's first home-made air-craft all by himself!
About a month or so back, he had sent an e-mail to Andee outlining his dream to him! Andee shared the mail with me and together we believed in the sincerity of his goal.
Many mails and phone calls later, here we were at Aviator Simon's city. He took us through his blue-print, his make-shift garage and the old decrepit air-craft in his college campus!!
His passion was infectious...I hadn't heard a voice quivering with excitement in quite some time...
Let's see how it shapes out. Simon doesn't need much cash for his experiment. All he needed was somebody to believe in his dream!
Later, Aviator wanted us to go to some happening disc. But instead we opted for ABHYANGA the Ayurvedic full body massage, followed by drinks at the Road, the theme bar at our hotel, funnily named - Sandesh the Prince!!
End of a memorable day...forever etched in our memories...
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Monday, June 23
Aviator Simon Wants to Fly
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3 comments:
Thats a really facinating story Manish!
Heard you won the atticus award. Congratulations to you!!! Way to go!
not exactly a winner. runners up:-) got a highly commended...
tell you what...your 'unadvertising/unmarketing' stroies are so much more interesting...maybe you should start another blog for them. me shall frequent them more.
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