Shillong

Where do you stay most away from Haryana most of the time?

Like I was in Delhi, I was in Punjab, I was in Gujarat, I was in Hyderabad, I was into the East, various places, Shillong and Assam, Guwahati.

So it's been so many places.

It

We've barely scratched the surface.

If you think about the new frontiers that we are opening up geographically, whether it was Post Malone in Guwahati or Guns N' Roses that will play there in November, Ed Sheeran in Shillong, Def Leppard in Shillong, um, adding fragmental markets like Chennai and Hyderabad and Pune, um, you know, in addition to all of the big markets.

Uh, we are seeing tremendous interest and appetite for music all over.

When we started Lollapalooza five years ago, uh, you know, for our first festival, we may have had around 30,000 people, right? We're more than two times that now, uh, and it'll continue to grow.

It was Arvind Dave, a 1962 batch IPS officer.

I got to know him when he was posted as a kind of RAW Northeast head in Shillong.

I used to go to his office once in a while on my motorbike.

It was a first gear climb in a locality in Shillong called Nongthymmai.

After retiring from RAW, Arvind Dave was sent as governor of Arunachal Pradesh.

Since then, I haven't been in touch with him.

They've been training this and it's why it's embedded and why you go over there in Thailand.

If you walk around in Thailand, you walk around in Shillong, you walk around in anywhere.

Mm-hmm.

It's everywhere you look.