My campus of IIM Shillong is located on the hills, is dwelling between the clouds and was crafted as a summer palace for the erstwhile kings from the Mayurbhanj dynasty is the unique world in its own. Its location away and above the mainland makes it the best place to nurture the future Managers of the country by giving them the view of the whole world from the raised arm of the nation. The campus is blessed with the utmost beauty, where the mother nature is decked in her most beautiful apparels.
Just like the mother, she immaculately cleanses each and every being on this land and then offers the fruits of spring, exactly the way a mother first bathes her child and offers him the food.
One can experience all the 4 seasons on a typical day at IIM Shillong, people wake up with the bright refreshing sunshine. Then there comes the rain which washes away all the pains, the soothing cool breeze runs though the campus and the night brings on the excitement of the cold winters.
There comes the mist of clouds in the classroom which truly speaks what Campus in Clouds actually means.
The mother nature also glorifies the campus on its ethics of Peace, Justice and strong institution by offering cherry blossoms in the winter season. Shillong which is known as the Scotland of the east is truly a land of the sacred forests and mesmerizing beauty.
The campus has huts and husk umbrellas to provide the beautiful natural shelter for the humans
The roads in the campus have high slopes both going uphill and downhill providing the best natural cardio trek and signifies the roller coaster journey a student experiences during his term in the pursuit of management studies.
The campus hosts the unique Annual Golf Tournament where the students and professionals from the community participate in the Tournament. There is a dedicated golf club in the college which is the first in any Indian B-school institute to host practice sessions within their premises. The ultimate aim of the club is the proliferation of the love and spirit of the game amongst the students of the institute
The lust green campus with bamboo trusses and bamboo dustbins all around is the perfect place to study the pedagogy of sustainability which reflects the true character of the college where it not stands by the beauty of its campus but also on how to preserve it. The college also has a dedicated club where the passionate students in the campus promote, practice and study sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility by organizing the blood donation camps, annual tree plantation drive and the cleanliness drives thereby attaining the institute's goals in the field of sustainability through its thoughts and actions.
IIM Shillong is unique in its own sense of being the youngest among the olds and the oldest among the new IIMs today stands at the crossroads of passing the baton of knowledge and wisdom from the generation of old to the new IIMs of the nation.
It truly lives up to its commitment of passing on the baton as it has the experience of the old and the vigour of the new!
Which Aditya Birla Company you wish to join. Why?
I wish to join the Aditya Birla fashion and retail limited as it is one of the largest retail group across India. It has the finest groups like MF&L, Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England, Pantaloons etc. which are the leaders in the market. I wish to join it because here I will have the opportunity to get the exposure to the entire clothing sector reaching from footwears to clothing and jewellery. This wide range of exposure will provide me the deep insight to the whole clothing sector and will give me the right challenges to be a dynamic manager.
Ankit Purohit
PGP 1st Year
IIM Shillong