. This freewheeling interview with Prof. Rama Rao, Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), Hyderabad sheds light on the present day placement scenario for fresh management graduates 1. With the 2014 placement season going in full swing across Indian B-schools and particularly VJIM, what is your take concerning the current...
Read MoreMr. Tarun Dua, Associate Director- HR & Training, Country Development and Management Services Pvt. Ltd recently in an expert session addressed students on the MIS. The session began with Mr. Tarun Dua sharing the company dossier with the students, followed by an AV on Carlson Rezidor. He also did brief...
Read MoreYou firmly believe in the power of ‘liberal education’. Tell us more about it. I not only believe but also live liberal education. I’ve either been a student or a teacher all my life. It took me eight years after marriage to complete my first degree. But I did many...
Read MoreThe process of gamification is the art of using game mechanics, frameworks and elements in a non-gaming context. It has emerged as a prominent trend in recent years, especially in the business sector. Though still an experimental business strategy, gamification is expected to be used by 70% of the world’s...
Read MoreI call it extroWorld because introverts are a rare breed nowadays and the world is ruled by extroverts. So we need to survive in this extroWorld and here are a few guidelines that I have developed over the years. 1. To the point answers – A big NO!! You may...
Read MoreBenjamin Franklin, founding father of the United States (also known as ‘the first American’) experimented and discovered a few revolutionary thoughts and habits to uplift productivity and developing his personality. His principles, famously known as Franklin’s thirteen virtues have been adopted and implemented by countless number of individuals, corporates and...
Read MoreMovie: Mastram Director: Akhilesh Jaiswal Cast: Rahul Bagga, Kapil Dubey, Tara Alisha Berry, Vinod Naharidh, Istiyak Khan, Akash Dhaiya Rating: *** Is this a biography or a fictional story of ‘Mastram’ writer? The answer to this question is not found in debutant Akhilesh Jaiswal’s adult-comedy “Mastram”, which gives us a...
Read MoreI’ve been hearing about it everywhere. I can imagine it as some kind of a fire breathing dragon who ate a lot of Mexican chillies, and got so agitated that he set his foot from Latin America and decided to drink the entire ocean up to the shores of India....
Read MorePre-preparation 1. Be absolutely sure why you want to do an MBA and does doing an MBA fit-in with your career plan. 2. Don’t confuse yourself with asking too many people; talk to few people then make your own judgement 3. Choose an institute for coaching (if required) where you...
Read MoreThere is a big difference between ‘Pessimism’ and ‘Reverse Psychology’. I am someone who believes in the concept of Reverse Psychology and that is because it works for me most of the times. When I say I won’t get through something, deep down I am very much confident I will....
Read MoreDiary Date – June 13th, 2000 – 12:30am (My maternal house, Bikaner, Rajasthan) We just finished ludo, a game we play most in summer vacations at Bikaner. I asked Shobha didi if I could break my fast and eat something as it was past midnight and the date had technically...
Read MoreThis Sunday, Game Of Thrones conjures its sixth episode of season 4 and well, truly it was a hell of a roller-coaster ride. It was guilty, guilty of enormous entertainment..so much so that I feel the urge to write this article. In the initial parts we see mind-boggling cgi effects...
Read MoreA lot of people can offer you advice on finding happiness, but how many can and will admit to those things that send you spiralling off into a future with disillusionment and lesser fulfilment than you envisioned? At thirteen, you envision yourself as a future somebody, a big shot calling...
Read MoreWith only few days left for the results, time is of the essence for political analysts and Media to predict the number of seats each party will score. If there is one state which is crucial for any party and all political analysts will be having their eyes on Is...
Read MoreSo.. ” AAP k pyaar me Kamal is baar Haathon pe khil rha hai” The campaigning voting polls and party rolls all done and hope india stood together for better.These times are & should be like the India-Pak match..where whole India FEELS together for whole India. Our India is Huge.....
Read MoreSo here I am composing my period of uncertainty in a lazy afternoon with birds chirping outside and a Bollywood song sending me to times of nostalgia.Never have I experienced such a period of uncertainty before. It has been 2 weeks and I am clueless about what lies ahead.Just gave...
Read MoreI wish I could write that this is about the stuff that dreams are made of but I just can’t. After watching this movie that I had been really looking forward to, I now understand how a few movies which could have been brilliant in almost every aspect, lose the...
Read MoreRight from my birth , I have been in Goa . But never did I realise its importance till now . I went to a decent school and got into Goa Engineering College and finally secured a job in Infosys in Pune . And that is when I got a...
Read MoreCome Elections, you get to see Oscar nominating and Golden Globe winning performances from politicians across the spectrum, every politician tries to make a mark and attempt to take as much limelight as possible especially the debutants or the novices, in this entertainment industry, my bad, politics. Well, it gets...
Read MoreGetting an MBA seems to top the minds of the youth today. You would find more and more people rushing to get an MBA in any specializations. Striving to get through top institutes and the best of specializations has just managed to get in the pace of competition to match...
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