By now Nimit has 3 companies in his folio, so whats next? Well, something totally unexpected. Nimit is a person who loves to share his knowledge. What better opportunity can he get other than teaching? You can guess the subject by now. Rural marketing and Co-operatives. Want to know the whole story behind this passion? Read on…

Nimit wanted to recruit some intern from his own college-L.S Raheja College of Arts & Commerce so he had called up the current co-ordinator Mrs. Kruti Shah sometime around June 2009. In the midst of the conversation a thought occurred I his mind about asking her if he could teach! But all the professors for that particular semester were booked. God alone knows what made Nimit call Mrs Kruti Shah again on the 26th of December for some work. She asked Nimit if he could teach the subject for that particular semester to second year BMS students. It took Nimit 10 miutes to react! Guess what? He agreed! But he had to take a demo lecture the next day itself infront of 46 students! With absolutely zero time to prepare, Nimit gave the demo lecture which left the students smirking at him and wondering whether he was really a professor! After 40 minutes of the demo lecture Nimit ended up teaching only 2 concepts to the students!

Things fell into place when the students gave a good report about Nimit to the co-ordinator which opened the doors for him to teach the subject of rural marketing and co-operatives to the students. Everyone who knew him heard the loudest shout of joy from him that day! His happiness knew no bounds. His father exclaimed that a guy who never attended college in his time would be standing and teaching today! His sisters, who thought Nimit was a complete waste, were dumbstruck! The first thing that Nimit did after being confirmed as a professor was to call up his old friend Samir Chirania who is a marketing professor himself. Samir had told Nimit that without a post graduation it was impossible to get into the teaching profession. But destiny had other plans for Nimit…he proved society wrong once again!

No, These are not Nimit’s favourites… Infact these are the terms he uses to communicate the subject to his students! Sounds strange right? As a matter of fact, these terms were very interesting to the students and it helped them understand the subject in a jiffy! For the first time ever, students found Mahabharat interesting! Can you believe it?

If a young lad in his early 20s was to teach a class younger to him by a year or so, a case of mistaken identity is bound to happen! During the exams Nimit came to morally support his students when the chief invigilator mistook him to be a student and shouted promptly, “You are late!” The students had a hearty laugh while Nimit was bewildered! She still didn’t realize and kept saying, “Go take the permission from the co-ordinator before coming in. You are late!” Imagine the plight of the invigilator when she realized that the ‘late comer student’ was actually a professor! So now its for you to judge, is he a professor or a student?

Time for the real panga! He had set the exam paper for his students in a bus while travelling from Churchgate to Bandra. He had tried to set the questions as simple as possible. But he never knew what lay ahead-Correcting those 120 papers! Nimit witnessed a variety of handwriting styles and an array of answers! He would fall asleep dreaming of the answers dancing around him! He landed up almost failing 3 students who had to be passed forcefully, and please do not ask why! So you can imagine that its not as easy as it seems!

The entire idea behind being a professor is not to stand and keep lecturing out of the texts. But it is about delivering from ones experience. Nimit did exactly that and achieved a sense of pride when he knew his students would take back his experience into the larger world! He was successful in shaping up the young minds to face the challenges that lay ahead of them by simply teaching through his experiences. This is what Nimit has to fall back upon at the end of the day. Each time he entered a classroom, he felt anxiety and nervousness but each time he walked out of the classroom after teaching, he knew he had wired the bulbs in his student’s heads so that they glow brighter than ever.