On 27th August 2014, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, witnessed one of the most scintillating speeches ever thanks to the Ex-President & CEO, Industrial Solutions and Intelligent Platforms, GE India, Mr. Ajay Kumar.
India can be the home of thought leaders across disciplines. We have some impressive role models – Professor J. Ramachandran from IIM Bangalore whom I wrote about two weeks ago, and people like Anil Gupta, Ramachandra Guha, Raghunath Mashelkar, A. Paulraj and Manindra Agarwal whom I wrote about last week.
Every time I feel low, a writer starts budding in me. This obviously does not cheer me up but mitigates the feeling and loosens my threads of mental agony. Additionally it gives me a constructive pass time.
Onam, Kerala’s rice harvest festival, marks the homecoming of the mythical king, Mahabali. Students of IIM Kozhikode dressed up in golden bordered traditional Kerala sarees and mundus to celebrate Onam on Sunday, 7th September. The beauty of the celebration lay in its secular fabric where students from different parts of the country and also the Foreign Exchange students, united to rejoice with equal joy and verve.
The semifinals got off to a roaring start yesterday with a rollicking debate between IIM Lucknow and IIM Trichy. Read that debate here. It is now time to get the second semifinal underway. This one is a battle between North and East. IIFT Delhi and IIM Ranchi will exchange blows in the second semifinal.
Will Football overtake cricket in India?
The Indian tango with Football
Learnings and insights have a strange way of coming from the most random places and at the most random times. An insight came to me the last week from a sprained ankle. The last week I fell due to a general lack of eye-limb coordination and sprained my ankle rendering myself unable to walk. An X-ray followed to ensure that it is not a fracture-thankfully it wasn’t and I thought that my ordeal is nearly over. But as the next day dawned, I realised that the ordeal hasn’t even begun. Doing almost everything on my own became a challenge, but the biggest one was going to class.
