“All that glitters is not gold” – You must have heard it a million times but you hardly remember it when you need to. Well, this is neither an angst-filled rant nor a failure story. This is about the trade-offs you make in life, sometimes when you’re hardly aware of it.
On 20th July 2018, I arrived in Mumbai. My Enfield was low on fuel and I was low on patience. What should have been a short ride of 4 hours from Pune to Mumbai had turned into a nightmare. I was drenched in rain, had no place to stay, I took a wrong exit near Navi Mumbai and spent nearly an hour in a traffic, and to top it off my dad forgot to send my luggage to Mumbai, which meant I had to shop for new clothes. So when I stood outside Plaza, Dadar; all I could think of was the expectation vs reality sequence from 500 days of summer. The rains washed the color right off of my rose-tinted glasses through which I adoringly looked at Mumbai.
A day of rigor ends, another starts, where you are to give your cent percent despite not being up to performing even at half steam. Sounds like regular life at a B-School? Yes, quite.
Professor Tarun Jain, Faculty at IIM-Udaipur, was recently voted by the students of IIM-Udaipur as the InsideIIM Professor of The Year! He was kind enough to answer a set of questions we posed to him around his experiences as a Professor at one of India’s top IIMs, teaching some of the brightest minds in the country. Here is what Professor Jain has to say –
“It was good knowing you. All the best for your future!” the manager exclaimed as I handed over the headphones and the drawer keys. The day has come when I leave behind the organization where I made so many beautiful memories in the past two years. I had always dreamt of this day and had prepared my farewell speech a zillionth time. But today, when everyone had gathered to wish me luck, I was speechless. I had this strange feeling of a dream coming true. It is expected that you feel happy when your dreams come true, but I felt numb. I wanted neither to leave nor stay.
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Belonging to a family, living in a conservative Muslim community, Talat Khanam was told to hide behind Burqa from her childhood. Pursuing higher education to achieve her dreams was a luxury for her in a society that is dominated mostly by men. Religion comes as another hindrance for a woman in her community to branch out and live a life of her will.
