First of all... its hearening to write the blog after so many months.... atlast a break from regular hum drum of life... Drove down with wifey to Patiala day before yesterday... only the delhi part was maddening... took about 2 hours to cross gurgaon and delhi... after that it was breeze.... roads were so good that we reached patiala in 3.5 hours after exiting delhi... i.e. ~ 200 kms...
Branch had fixed up a nice hotel... Grand Park... Chairman (Ajay Singh) and Secretary (Munish Sood) of the local branch of ICAI played gracious hosts.... Enjoyed good dinner with their families.... Food was fantastic... really nice paneer dishes... Hotel was also good... stayed overnite.... One side of the room had only windows and overlooked the main crossing..
Ajay mentioned that the Branch has approx 220 CAs... out of this about 50 odd turned up for the gathering... Dr. Raj Singh, ROC was the Chief Guest and a good man... After reaching the venue I realised that I'm the only speaker... Munish quietly told me to run the session atleast for 1 hour, which was not a problem (considering my experience earlier in Chandigarh, where session of 45 min had ended in 30 min due to my incorrect estimation)....
Post lunch drove to ludhiana..... roads in Punjab are really good... maalum nahi kaun si chakki ka tar coal daalte hain... reached in about 1 hour... Here the branch is much bigger... about 1200 CAs... The Auditorium had a seating capacity of 500... this was the depressing part only a tenth were there.... well "Corporate Governance" is also a dry topic, but cannot help it if the Ministry of Corporate Affairs want it, they get it....
One really good part is that these sessions forced me to take a break... so am now off to other parts of saadda punjab....
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