Come next term, IIM Calcutta is gearing to go quite a few steps ahead in supporting the Differently Abled students of its flagship MBA program. The institute is in talks with Webel, a non-profit government organization, to set up a centre for differently abled students. This centre aims at providing adequate support to these students primarily from the perspective of academics. The centre will jointly be managed by IIM Calcutta staff and a representation from Webel who has expertise in handling issues related to this section of students. This contract with Webel which is in the negotiations stage will initially serve the visually challenged students and subsequently cover students facing other challenges too.
After a break for a week, we are back with the 15th edition of our weekly series on InsideIIM, where PwC Consultant Shreyas Panse curates a list that is the best from across the web that industry professionals and current students must read.
“Dude get up ...get up dude ...it is already 7:50 .....now I am putting off the fan??” ... “yeah Prakash ...I am I am.....Please put it on... ..” I said hurriedly, realizing that my morning sleep had already come to an end. I really did not want to count the number of hours for which I had hugged my pillow last night. It would have made me feel even sleepier. But I knew I had to hurry up, and it had to be faster than yesterday. My Harley,(that’s what I “pyar se” call my cycle) has not been keeping well for the past two days. It had developed a problem in the front spoke, one more day and I will have to put it in the Intensive care unit beside the MMM canteen. “Mota-da” runs this ICU for the cycles for the SDS-block. As I grabbed my toothbrush and gazed across the balcony there were already few cycles racing across the basketball court tin front of the LLR hall. We call our hostels as “halls”.Plunging three slices of buttered bread into the glass of warm milk and devouring it almost like a refugee; I somehow made my way to the cycle stand.
"Chal peene" are your favorite two words. So much so, that you say it every time you get screwed in a test or a presentation. Basically, everyday
In case you are an engineer, when you got admission your friends were most excited about the awesome DU girls you will get to meet.
You love to move about in IIM-L Tshirts, Sweat shirts etc. You have such a huge collection that you hardly have any other clothes.
In case you came into IIM-L single, you are still single.
If you were committed when you came to IIM-L, you are still committed but the object (guy/girl) has changed.
In the first year, you felt the whole Internet, infrastructure, mess and the entire system sucks. When you entered the second year, you realized that status quo is the best way to move forward.
You hate the PGP office with more vengeance than Thakur hated Gabbar or Harry hated Voldemort.
You have spammed more than once in your life. And have also shown disgust at somebody else’s spam.
You free-ride most of the time and yet bitch about other people in the group freeriding.
You are convinced that Not Just Tea's food is much better than GNB’s andGNB inflates canteen bills. Or Vice Versa. Although there is no evidence to prove the same.
You realize some things need to be changed. But when they do, you create a furore and dare the person who changed them.
You have not seen the cover of most of the books of the subject you have already passed with a decent grade.
Your favourite game is “Candy Crush Saga".
You participate in every damn college competition. Even if it is an operations or an HR game and you are a hardcore finance person.
You do social work to build up CV points. In fact, you believe that the very reason for human existence is "collection of CV points”.
You are an absolute stud at Googling and can unearth reports from Scribd, Management Paradise etc on any topic without even batting an eyelid. Also, you know how to fool Turnitin.
You are terrified of QAM-3 even though you had aced the very same concepts during engineering.
Your most often visited websites are Wikipedia, SlideShare and Facebook.
You feel that Gupta Ji is the most important person on campus, particularly at the end of a grueling week.
No matter how busy you are, you will definitely find time to read such silly attempts of your batch-mates.
This article is written by Mayank Lodha, an IIM Lucknow alumnus, from the batch of 2014. An avid blogger and writer in the humour genre on campus, he is currently making PPT’s for a living as an Associate Consultant at Feedback Infra, Delhi.
Reservation ,one of the most controversial aspects in India. Now the question is why this discrimination? Indeed difference is infused in the nature of India from the eve of its civilization. Difference between casts ,class, gender, skin color ,everywhere its prominent in Indian society. Somewhere People even refuse to acknowledge an human as human if they belong to a lower cast .The easiest solution for government was to reserve some of the privileges for them rather than trying to eradicate this mentality.
