Goli No 4...Ten headed Ravana.... Manak Singh

Impressions….

Manak Singh…. Executive Director Tie Mumbai..

My interaction with him started when we reached his office 10 days before the summit… He was multi tasking.......… A sandwich in his hand…....... attending innumerable phone calls….. Co-coordinating with his team…......sternly instructing caterers….... inviting speakers like me with a smile…...seriously warning lethargic persons.........humbly requesting sponsors........... angrily questioning deadlines...........diplomaticly turning down security requests .................silently listening to a colleague............loudly laughing with a journalist........when I looked at him…. I could see different faces ....... stern..... smiling....... serious........ humble......... angry......... silent....... laughing ......... looked like a ten headed Ravana ......modern day C.E.O ........thinking 100 different things....executing 10 different things. ...... simultaneously…

Later on when I met him at the summit on the day 1… he was cool as a cucumber…. As if somebody else had co-ordinated this great event and he was a guest…. When I spoke to Harsh… his colleague at Tie… he said Manak hasn’t slept since the last 3 days… working 24 x 7….

And I thought.... 'God what a temperament'….. what a commitment.......Indian “Steve Waugh”….

Manak was moving around… coordinating…. Meeting speakers…. Solving problems…. And what not….. all this without an air of drama!!!!...