So how the love used to take place in 2000s in C grade Engineering colleges? First thing first: Getting her phone no. was the most difficult thing. There was no WhatsApp that time, so no chat group named as "Mechanical Rockers of Krishna College" used to exist. That was the time when Nokia had those bulky phones and you used to go to a doctor to replace your thumbs every evening due to bone crushing SMS'. That was the time when grooming for the guys was taking bath and for girls: wearing lipstick. Guys used to flaunt their mustache and girls rarely tried to hide theirs. I am as God made me, was the motto of life. Guys used to gift deodorants to girls for their own good and girls used to...naah, girls never gave gifts in the history of womankind. Recharging someone's mobile was a religious duty. Samosa was of 5 Rs. and so was Coke. So if everything goes well, 100 Rs a date was the usual thing. Girls were as dumb as guys and people used to search Kadhi Chawal in the menus of Pizza Hut. Dates were not about going to pubs; company gardens were good enough. Trees are awesome, they provide oxygen, shade, and privacy. Hey don't be too imaginative, fleeting contacts of hands while showing the latest Santa Banta joke in mobile, was the achievement of the day. If you touched female skin today, you were supposed to die or something with joy.
11 PM was the most crucial time of the day, as after 11, night call charges used to be applied. 9 Rs for 1-hour on Airtel. Remember chota recharge ad of Irrfan Khan? Electric current was not as vulgarly available as nowadays. You got 15 hours of current today? Some minister must be visiting the town! So in a hot summer dark night, you nervously walk on the roof, with a 1 Kilogram phone on right ear, as hot as iron, and 120 species of mosquitoes and moths have a gang bang with you, but nothing matters; she is on the other end. When you used to fall in love, your first need was to search the guys who were from Aligarh or Jaunpur. These were the people who remembered some cheesy couplets filled with words like mohabbat, aashiqi, deewangi and mehboob. You used to bribe them with gutka and khaini, note down their sher-o-shayri and send that to your mehboob. That was the time when real efforts were put in affairs. When content was not available on random Facebook pages but had to be collected from some guys who were from Avdhi or Bhojpuri belt. That was the time when even guys used to fast during Navratri and girls used to do poncha (cleaning) at their homes. When affair used to be called chakkar and people used to express their feelings on late night radio FM shows, being broadcasted in 7 states, while their crushes fall asleep with open mouth, saliva dripping away.
Do you see the guys who help girls in assignments and practically work as their handyman, perfectly knowing that the girl won't touch them even with a 10 feet long pole? Yeah, their elder siblings were just the same. For you, these people are nothing short of those ancient eunuch guards who used to protect the queens and princesses. You very well know that they can't do anything, but they won't let you do anything either. How can you exhibit the usefulness of your existence to the girl, if she already has 2 guys who would run to the photocopy room with open mouths and tongues hanging out? That was the time when you used to woo two girls at the same time. One: That beautiful, out of range princess of yours and second: Her ugly, Anganbadi worker looking kind of friend. That ugly friend was quite instrumental in passing on chits to your crush in class or helping you in buying gifts for her. Anyhow, a date was never a two people phenomena those days. She would come to the ice cream parlor, but with 2 more friends accompanying her. So when you admire her dress sheepishly, you had to tolerate 4 staring eyes and suppressed giggles over your cheesy lines.
I love you meant I want to love you. For some lucky ones, a jugaad of the room had to be established. Whole friends' community used to contribute to this as if it was some altruistic religious ceremony. Everyone knew how rare this opportunity was, and yeah, everyone was interested in hearing the story after. That was the time when co-ed hostels existed only in New York and girls hostels were built at the distant corner of college, guarded by the Scotland Yard and FBI together. Girls' hostel for guys was an imaginative, mythological, utopian, exotic, majestic island. Where the air smells of expensive perfumes, room floors are covered with soft cotton, walls are painted pink, cute teddy bears tell the bedtime stories, and the most beautiful girls in shorts, giggle and had pillow fights all the time. Every guy, every single guy wanted to see it from inside, just once. A heaven, where angels float. Most envied job in the world that time was that of the security guard of girls' hostel. There were villains in the story too. There were some proactive fat lady wardens of girls' hostel who used to collect the girl's mobile phones at night. So that the society does not get polluted by the suspended love particles floating in the air. Each girl had to switch off and submit her phone in an envelope to the warden at night. Girls used to play tricks and put soaps, small bricks in place of phones. And if the warden checked and gave punishment for it, there was a way to take revenge. Each girl used to put an alarm on her cell phone of 1 AM, 1.15 AM, 3 AM etc. The alarm rings even if the phone is off, so if they don't sleep thinking of their guys, so won't the fat lady; bursting her head with 200 phones ringing late at night.
That was hairy, sweaty, smelly, ugly time. Bad haircuts, worse dressings, and pathetic tastes; still people used to fall in love with each other. Some love stories concluded as marriages and some caused heartbreaks. The majority was still of the one sided lovers, starers, followers, and gawkers. That was the time when a boyfriend had to be called "Bhai" on the phone when girls used to visit their hometowns in summers. That was the time when people used to stare at faces, not at screens. That was the time before selfies and Snapchat. Those were the days when people's identities were not managed by social media. Things were simple; you were one person; ugly, beautiful, whatever. In those days girls were not divas and men were not metrosexual. People were made of bone and flesh, not of plastic and fiber optics. People in real were liked, not their images. A guy had to look into the eyes of a girl, stammer, sweat and express his feelings; emotions were expressed by choked throats and shaking hands, instead of technical applications and downloaded emoticons. That was the time when bodies were distant but hearts were close, affairs were few but bondings were strong and kisses were rare but feelings were real...
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Amandeep .
Student at Indian Institute Of Management, Kashipur
ISB Hyderabad at 12th ? IIM Kashipur below 3rd Gen IIMs ? The whole process of ranking the top B-Schools seems flawed.
5 Apr 2019, 09.37 AM
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Team InsideIIM
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It's possible that your own ranking does not match our survey. All we can say is that this represents the brand equity created by these schools among Aspirants who have taken CAT in 2018 or will take in 2019.
5 Apr 2019, 11.46 AM |
Amandeep .
Student at Indian Institute Of Management, Kashipur
Talking about your "TOP MBA COLLEGES" survey, most of the private colleges provide PG Diploma Courses , not MBA. So, Choose your words and questionnaire carefully.
5 Apr 2019, 02.11 PM |
Nikhil George
Nikhil is an MBA (IB) candidate at IIFT Delhi. He interned with Axis Bank and secured a PPO. He is an avid reader and quizzer. You can follow him on his blog, www.inducedcatalysis.in
For all purposes within India, PGDM is considered equivalent to an MBA. Many of the old IIMs now give out MBA degrees
13 Apr 2019, 07.24 PM |
Bibek Pradhan
Also, XIMB fees last year was 22lacs. Have seen their letter personally.
5 Apr 2019, 11.32 AM
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Team InsideIIM
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We will check this and rectify if necessary. We are using information available on the website.
5 Apr 2019, 11.46 AM |
Gaurav Shukla
Is TISS Mumbai a private institute or a government run institute.?
5 Apr 2019, 11.36 AM
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Mayur Anupchand Soni
Hhh
TISS is Deemed University or a government run institute.
6 Apr 2019, 09.13 AM |
Pradhumn Shukla
No GIM ( Goa Institute of Management ) ??? Is it that bad.
5 Apr 2019, 11.41 AM
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Team InsideIIM
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Unfortunately, GIM was not part of the survey. We cannot comment on its rank since we did not have it as a question in the survey. We may incorporate it next year.
5 Apr 2019, 11.47 AM |
Dhanraj Suryavanshi
Hi Pradhumn, I did my PGDM from GIM 2017-19. I personally feel it's one of the best tier 2 BSchool in India. InsideIIM has not added GIam in their survey
5 Apr 2019, 12.46 PM |
Sameer Gupta
IRMA is also not there?
5 Apr 2019, 12.11 PM
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Team InsideIIM
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Hi Sameer, You are right. We didn't add IRMA in the survey questionnaire. We may incorporate it next year.
5 Apr 2019, 12.28 PM |
Darsh Doshi
Is this fees for 2019-21 batch? NMIMS fees has increased to 20L
5 Apr 2019, 01.22 PM
Akshay Uttam
be positive...........always
How can NITIE and SJSOM below SIBM Pune ??
5 Apr 2019, 01.54 PM
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Ashwin Likhar
Because their survey methodology is like, 'Salman has the biggest fan base that's why he is the best actor'.
5 Apr 2019, 03.47 PM |
Team InsideIIM
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Hi Akshay, These are Brand perceptions. Do also remember that both NITIE and SJMSoM offer roles which are very domain focussed. Schools like TISS, MICA, NITIE often suffer in many perception rankings because of their branding around specific domains. It makes them less appealing to the overall pool of Aspirants.
5 Apr 2019, 03.55 PM |
piyush kr
Even then it is far better then these colleges, People in NITIE leave IIMs like K,L,I to join. You can't but it below SIBM
6 Apr 2019, 09.44 AM |
Prabhakar Gund
Sibm is private...has big fat pr cell with big budget....is duniya me sab bik Chuka hai.
6 Apr 2019, 01.18 PM |
subhajit roy
The rankings are very much true except for 2 colleges i think.One is sibm pune and 2nd is vgsom.Sibm should be a bit down the list and vgsom should be a bit up the list.
7 May 2019, 01.08 PM |
Ankit Mirajkar
Ankit Mirajkar is 24, young blogger, geek and fitness freak with strong passion. He is currently pursuing his MBA from Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur (2019-21) and has 2.5 years of work experience in TCS as a Functional consultant. He loves public speaking and is an active member of Toastmasters International Club.
Haha.. rightly said
16 Jun 2019, 10.22 AM |
Ashwin Likhar
How were you able to rank a category of B-school ( 3rd gen IIM ) with individual Institutes /universities ?
5 Apr 2019, 03.41 PM
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Team InsideIIM
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3rd Gen IIMs are too new and are yet to create an individual identity. There is very little data available yet about each of them individually for aspirants to have different perceptions about each. Maybe in a couple of years we will ask them to be rated individually.
5 Apr 2019, 03.53 PM |
Shriram Padale
Shriram completed his Master’s in Business Administration (M.B.A.) with specialization in Finance and Strategy from Indian Institute of Management (I.I.M.) which is recognized as the best B-school of the country with Institute of National Importance status. He is presently working as Associate Partner in Founder's Strategy Team, MarketsandMarkets™ and his tasks are focused on strategic organizational initiatives, management consulting, business administration, project management, performance management, brand management etc. MarketsandMarkets™ is the world's largest revenue impact company, presently serving over 8000 organizations which include 80% of Fortune 2000 organizations. He is directly working with CEO & other CXOs of organization for tasks involving various global teams of organization.
Never expected this kind of analysis from INSIDEIIM. Totally disagree... You shouldn't include all third generation IIMs in one bracket
5 Apr 2019, 08.11 PM
Moin Shaikh
How is SIS college?
5 Apr 2019, 09.20 PM
Moin Shaikh
How is SIMS college?
5 Apr 2019, 09.20 PM
Prash Mal
This kind of Survey is biased. We can easily see the consensus from other guys passing out from top institutes here : 1. ISB is RANK #3 and comparable to IIM A on international platforms 2. Boconi and Athena have paid you ? Since there are top Colleges like SDMIMD Mysore, GIM Goa, BIMTECH which are excluded from your survey !!!! 3. Mind you , you are playing with lives of millions of students and presenting wrong data to companies. This is as good as illegal.
7 Apr 2019, 02.43 PM
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Team InsideIIM
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Hi! 1. These are Brand perceptions of MBA aspirants on InsideIIM.com 2. Bocconi and Athena are/were partner schools with InsideIIM.com and hence were added in the list. We will add more schools going forward in the survey. 3. The data presented in this survey is completely based on brand perception of each b-school which is very clearly mentioned in the article. Hope this helps you get a better idea of the rankings.
9 Apr 2019, 08.20 PM |
Vineet Chandra
You lost your credibility when you said Bimtech is a top college. Far from top. It comes under Tier 3 college accepting 85%ile score.
14 Nov 2019, 12.51 AM |
Anurag Bharti
How can you not consider DU MBA colleges like DFS, DBE, DSE or SRCC GBO???
7 Apr 2019, 04.03 PM
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Team InsideIIM
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We may consider adding these colleges in the survey in the coming years.
9 Apr 2019, 08.20 PM |
Mannpreet Kaur
Senior System Engineer at Infosys
How about Great Lakes PGPM course?
8 Apr 2019, 12.04 PM
Sejin Jacob John
Freelance
Can you do the rankings for fpm programmes as well?
8 Apr 2019, 02.56 PM
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Team InsideIIM
We are the team behind your favourite platform.
We will try and incorporate rankings for FPM programs at a later date separately.
9 Apr 2019, 08.21 PM |
Raghav Khanna
Hi team, Just a minor correction - While the website is common for IIFT Delhi & Kolkata campus, which makes sense since all the courses are common for both the campuses. However, the Kolkata & Delhi campuses have a few events that are exclusive to each other. To effectively cover all these events, the Media Committee maintains a separate Facebook page for the Kolkata campus - IIFT Kolkata Reflections - https://www.facebook.com/IIFTReflections/ All events happening under the name of brand IIFT are covered on either the official Facebook page or the IIFT Kolkata Reflections page.
12 Apr 2019, 12.09 PM
Gaurav Kumar
Hello team Insideiim thnx for this list but can u provide another list of these 50 in which u provide fees and average salary of these b-schools only according to their rank in a single list like this one...plzzz...
14 Apr 2019, 09.50 AM
Veer Jain
The author is a mechanical engineer, currently pursuing his PGDM at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore.
What about NMIMS Bangalore?
15 Apr 2019, 01.33 AM
Rahul Gupta
ISB 12, MDI 13 & NITIE 18.... awesome job with the survey guys
24 Apr 2019, 03.41 PM
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Rohit Suri
Haha.. true.. an awesome job.. these guys are coming up with this long lost methodology again. No way isb below iim i/k/l?? Mdi below iim i/k/iift ? Really? It seems its been paid by bocconi/athena.. time to junk this portal for good.
24 Apr 2019, 09.24 PM |
Joseph Gonsalo
What about XIME Bangalore
8 May 2019, 10.40 AM
adarsh iyer
I am passionate towards getting things done as per my ways and I like things done with my attitude and perception. I am willing to do MBA so that i can get immense flexibility in getting the things done in a niche and great way.
I am planning to do executive full time MBA. Can you please let me know about the colleges and it's details?.
12 Jun 2019, 07.43 AM