The recent controversy surrounding the Decision Review System (DRS) technology during the first test of the Ashes 2013 series made me think about the future of the game. Not many debated that it was a howler of a decision by Aleem Dar to not give Stuart Broad out and it...
Read MoreA dark drama. As an audience you would leave with a grimace on your as if someone had kicked your balls. Ajay Bahl does not leave anything to imagination; he is blunt and never waits for a second invitation to showcase his raw take on cinematography and direction. Shadab Kamal(as...
Read MoreAs I followed the match of India A’s tour to South Africa on Monday, things simply kept going from real to surreal. Heck, 248 in a 50-over match is stupendous. Back in the days, 248 was a total which any team would have been content with, but now a single...
Read More“Everything I learned, I learned from the movies.” ― Audrey Hepburn Believe it or not, I identify with this as do many more like me. Movies have taught me a hell of a lot. Throughout college, I watched a lot of English movies and considering that it’s not my mother...
Read MoreThe most important strategy in solving data interpretation questions in the IIFT entrance test is the Approximation technique. Let’s work with an example one is likely to come across: 1617/1760. Here you should think of approximation, what one will do is reduce the numerator to 1600 and increase the denominator...
Read MoreFibonacci numbers or Fibonacci series or Fibonacci sequence, named after Leonardo Fibonacci, are the numbers in the following sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…. By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the...
Read MoreDisclaimer: Here is an amateur attempt to share my understanding regarding various Distributions in Permutations and Combinations. In case you find any errors/loopholes, please let me know. With respect to Distribution questions in Permutation and Combinations, most of the question types can be grouped under the following categories, 1. Distribution...
Read MoreMany of us live through life harboring a secret desire to write something and have people read and possibly appreciate it. If writing is not what we do for a living, then blogging, Facebook and Twitter provide transitory relief, but they come with riders. With blogging, there is the problem...
Read MoreWe graduates of India’s most creative business school are a proud lot, but there are some things that cheese us off. Chuck aka Deepak Gopalakrishnan graduated from MICA in 2009. Follow him on Twitter here and all his other comics here!
Read More“I am overqualified. I am underqualified. I don’t have the experience. I am too old for this, they need someone younger. I am not supposed to complain in this economy, atleast I have a job. Whaa !! Not everyone is supposed to change the world. ” Do you hear (or...
Read MoreMuch hue and cry has been raised recently over the movie Chennai Express; People are raging war of words on every social networking site, engaging in verbal fisticuffs, either in approval or disapproval of the movie or I should say the genre (on the likes of Dabangg 2, Bodyguard etc.)....
Read MoreHi there. In the last 10 years of PaGaLGuY.com’s existence, we have learned one thing for sure: there is more to MBA applicants than entrance exams. Throughout hundreds of forum threads on books, movies, politics, photography, finance, music or sports, the people of PaGaLGuY have shown that they are a...
Read MorePolicegiri starring Sanjay Dutt and Prachi Desai released this May just after Dutt was sentenced to three years in prison for the 1993 bomb blasts. The film was aired on television on August 18, 2013 -since it sank without a trace in the theatres. The only reason to watch it...
Read MoreThe first glimpse of the island from the sky is enough to mesmerise you. It looks like a bunch of polka dots scattered across blue water. Maldives, also known as “the last paradise on earth” is the perfect place to visit if you nature is your fix. It is group...
Read MoreNamgyal Monastery, Dharamsala: Another monk gets rather macho as he uses the animated hand gestures of theological debate.
Read MoreAshish Nanda, new director of IIM Ahmedabad After months of delay behind the appointment of the new director at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Harvard Law School professor Ashish Nanda will finally take charge on September 2, 2013. Currently in Ahmedabad, he spoke to PaGaLGuY exclusively through e-mail.What is...
Read MoreThe hunt was for the most unique dish at Bungalow 9, an upmarket restaurant in Bandra, Mumbai. And by what almost every table seemed to sport early in the dining experience, it was some kind of coffee capped with a generous helping of cream. The waiter corrected that in fact...
Read MoreThe MBA in Business Analytics at Galgotias University’s School of Business is a full time Program designed, developed and delivered in association with IBM. The initiative brings together the latest software applications, real-world industry experiences, hands on lab course, best practices and case studies all into a single unique education...
Read MoreA lot of students face problems in the General Awareness / Business Awareness / General Knowledge section of MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT and SNAP. That happens because they start “preparing” for it once they are done with their Quant, LR/DI and Verbal prep (sometimes even after CAT) –...
Read MoreAs kids under the age of sixteen headed out to play in their jerseys for the finals of the Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA) boys’ Under-16 football division one finals at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan, the excitement was palpable on their faces. Devoid of any other thought, these kids gave their...
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