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Times of India Movie Reviews: A Scam of Freakonomical proportions

Times of India Movie Reviews: A Scam of Freakonomical proportions

I have been a loyal TOI reader since I was about ten. Since then, my daily routine has revolved around reading the newspaper. I was also, in my school days, a TOI Young Journalist for two years and fleetingly considered a career in journalism. If you read a paper for a decade and a half as I have (and for several decades as have my parents) you grow addicted to it… you begin to take it seriously. The newspaper business is all about loyalty. People will tell you their breakfast/ tea didn’t go down that well if for whatever reason, they could not grab hold of their favourite newspaper (which was, by the way, a common occurrence during all my childhood vacations with my mother). Anyhow, back to me. What I did, when I did not become a journalist, was to become an engineer and an MBA. What that gave me in turn, was an introduction to several simple yet powerful mathematical tools… some of which I will showcase here today…

vaibhav Anand
An International Classroom - Study Tour at SJMSOM

An International Classroom - Study Tour at SJMSOM

Most of the good things in life often tend to keep a low profile. Study Tour at SJMSOM is one such opportunity. Though not much spoken about in the outside world, it certainly adds a strong value to its Management Program. Every year around 20 odd students get a chance to go and spend 2 weeks with a college located in world’s one of the most beautiful cities, Paris. The study tour, partly sponsored by the college, is organized in collaboration with Telecom Ecole De Management, France during the winter semester break in December.

SJMSOM IIT Bombay