Indore is strived as the cleanest city in India for a couple of years now and speaking of India, education dream for us drowns down to IIT’s and IIM’s for any typical Indian. IIM’s are stereotypically known for its round-the-clock classes, all night assignments, placements, and networking (still figuring out what this means). But what isn’t known to everyone is that MBA is more than that. At least MBA in IIM Indore is much more than that. There is a saying like, you don’t know the worth of what have until you lose it. Boy, I was too late to understand it. That moment when you step inside the campus after your summer internship makes you feel how good of a place is this and what I’ve been missing. The campus is a hill in the middle and surrounded by trees all around. Hostels at the foot of the hill and Acad block at the top, the rainy season with nonstop rainy and shivering winter and sweat taking summer season, you will have everything. But let stop for a moment, IIM Indore is more than these Tangible things. It is the people from the students, professors, the mess wala, daily workers to the pani puri wala who makes this campus beautiful. People put in their 100% on what they want. You must witness the students enthusiasm in Iris (Cultural fest) to i5 Summit (Entrepreneurship festival). The campus never sleeps, literally, there will always be something happening in the campus. From case competitions, club activities, all sorts of sports competitions, fests, industrial talk, company presentations, the campus will be occupied. The people around you, their thought process, will make you realize there will always be another side to every story. To summarize the whole thing, you will have freedom, and you will find out what you want, you will realize everyone has different priorities, success is different for everyone, and You will be sure that you are the very different, matured and rational person than you were when you entered the campus.
Which ABG company would you want to work for and why?
ABG as a company has a one big group of companies under it. I would like to work for ABFRL, Adithya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited, the fashion part of the ABG. The reason would be the support and guidance that ABFRL gives for the summer interns. I have heard about the internship experience of the ABFRL guys and the exposure they get, the freedom they get to work on the projects, the support they get to work them, the extent to which the company gives the interns to take ownership is something to be noted. So, ABFRL it is.
- Prem Kumar