Ajmer

So the type of customer service solutions that we have brought is phenomenal and whereby everything is again digitized and we have empowered the customer that on their mobile they get to see their consumption and how they can optimize the consumption.

so the customer experience again has been very very unique and the third is our employees how do we train them so that they are always innovative they are always quick to learn new technologies new thing and use it and adapt themselves for that So I think these are the three things which are very very important and of course the rigor of training, the rigor of performance and its regular monitoring at each level is something very unique and I think those are the things which has helped our distribution business in Delhi or in VISA or even for that matter in Mumbai and Ajmer to do exceedingly well and we continue to be i would say hungry to learn new things and try many of these new technologies in our workplaces

so i think you may have just outlined your strategic competitive advantage because i can't imagine a public sector utility grid company or distribution company being able to implement that with the sort of nimbleness that you had so is being a private company an advantage in the sector

Yeah, because we are able to make a lot of changes and a lot of changes with speed.

Chapter twenty-one, Out of the Hurly Burly.

It was close upon midnight when we reached Ajmer, the last halting stage on the return journey to Bombay.

It was some consolation to know that the Dork Bungalow, where we were to stay, was just over the way from the station.

These Dork Bungalows are an institution peculiar to a condition of things rapidly passing away in India.

The structure is created by the government, who, at more frequented stations, place a khan-saman, or caterer, who supplies food at charges subject to the supervision of the district committee.

In out-of-the-way places, the Dork Bungalow is simply a shed, as comfortless as any in Alpine passes.

It had not hitherto come in our way to stop at a Dork Bungalow, and hearing that there was an exceptionally good one at Ajmer, we decided to go there.

The room into which we were shown was plain, but sufficiently comfortable for a traveller's rest.

Anjmir? Oh, I can see.

Aj- Ajmer or something.

Ajmer?

Yeah, okay.

Anyway.

Yeah.

In, in the, in the

A- Ajmer, I think.

He leaves Delhi on the 23rd for Bombay.

That means he'll be running through Ajmer about the night of the 23rd.' "'But I'm going into the Indian desert,' I explained.

"'Well and good,' said he.

"'You'll be changing at Marwar Junction to get into Jodhpur territory.

Who is the fellow, anyway?

A mad priest, Sahib, who has arrived only this morning from Ajmer.

Ah,

I see, I see.

I have two camels

just beyond the wall here.

The blessings of Pir Khan and the gracious sahib consents to look at the poor toys of a priest from Ajmer.

Over this way.

It was just at this time that Islam began to spread among the Mongols.

In India, Muslim preachers were extending the faith in Ajmer and the Punjab.

The Malay archipelago first heard of Muhammad about the time when Lowell was born.

Babar is the first, the first and greatest of the Mamluk Sultan sat on the throne of Egypt.

Some recent excavations, accidentally conducted, have brought to light a number of slabs of stone covered with inscriptions, which as far as I could gather from inquiries on the spot, no one has attempted to decipher.

In the main street stands the mosque, in much better preservation and in daily use by the faithful, who form a considerable proportion of the population of Ajmer.

The mosque was founded in the early days of the Mogul Empire by Khwaja Sindh, the first missionary to the heathen Hindu of Ajmer.

We have visited many mosques in India without let or hindrance, and were taken aback when on proposing to enter this building, a Mussulman with ferocious beard and imaginary scimitar in his hand waved us back.

The barber is one of the luxuries of European residence or travel in India.

He was gazing upon the moldy mass of soleless uppers and earthquake-rent soles, a picture of despondency.

A possible customer coming along, he brightened up, and in a long and animated speech appeared to be demonstrating that, though eccentric in appearance, these were the kind of shoes which, with judicious mending, were warranted to carry a man on to fortune.

Boot-making and boot-mending, a poor trade generally throughout India, is brisker in Ajmer, where the men are much more given to wearing boots than is the rule.

He leaves Delhi on the 23rd for Bombay.

That means he'll be running through Ajmer about the night of the 23rd.

"'But I'm going into the Indian desert,' I explained.

"'Well and good,' said he.