Zulfikar Ali Bhutto popularized the slogan “ROTI, KAPADA aur MAKAN” ahead of Pakistan’s general elections in 1970. In 1974, Manoj Kumar alias Bollywood’s Bhaarat Kumar produced a movie named “ROTI, KAPADA aur MAKAN”. Although we knew about our bare necessities – food, clothing and shelter, we formally studied it in...
Read MoreGood Writing requires Focus & Time. So be focused since time give is less (20 – 30 Minutes). Your Essay will be one among the thousand, but you never know your essay may be among the first one to be evaluated. To make a mark you need to be Interesting...
Read MoreIndia is a country with the second highest population in the world. With so many people around, competition automatically goes up. A few years ago, there were only 100 engineering colleges in India, but now, there are more than thousands of engineering colleges. With the increase in population, the competition...
Read MoreI talk to business schools and Universities in India on a daily basis on subjects ranging from “candidate recruitment” to “zero based marketing designs” and sometimes regarding benchmarking their practices against the best in the domain. What I personally believe is that none of these business schools get any indicator...
Read MoreEverything that you see today or experience today is a result of the thoughts, actions, imaginations and a number of words told, untold and imagined by YOU. There was this girl who attracted my instant attention during my graduation days. She was actually my school mate. I never noticed her...
Read MoreLast week I was in Mumbai, sadly for a B-school interview and not for any film audition. The interview experience was more like a flop show from my side but the real picture started at the commencement of my return journey, when I saw my name at wait-list # 1...
Read MoreFor a market analyst, sleep doesn’t come easily unless we have our daily dose of combating with at least one of the acclaimed matrices and models. A part of our life, we actually spend trying to figure out where to place things in the mapping grids. Today was no different...
Read MoreI woke up to see 4 missed calls from my friend and by the time i could open my eyes fully, She was calling again. For a person who’s been working Night shifts and did not have a CAT so great that he would be dreaming of IIM-A,B,C ;i wasn’t...
Read MoreIt is the time we are entering the 2nd phase of the admission process. For some of us going through the 1st stage for very difficult I guess, but now we take it as a HANG OUT WITH FRIENDZ time which actually it is not. This is not the time...
Read MoreI am a mediocre person and as with all mediocre people I never set high goals for myself. With goals I mean the ones for which a person toils for days and nights. I am too afraid of such hard work. I was never good in academics nor had any...
Read MoreA short expression to capture the mood of the youth around the world, right now post the WhatsApp dhamaka! Oh sure selection is important Oh sure parents wait Sure my girlfriend’s family is desperate Do I make the cut Do I start the monthly regimen Do the cheques start rolling...
Read MoreToday is a new day gifted to me to utilize all my senses, knowledge, thoughts, muscles and it will end in the evening. I prepared myself to act accordingly. First of all i have to take the name of the almighty and i did the same by saluting him for...
Read More1. Population – “Bhara poora Parivar” – It feels as if more than half of India’s population is here, and in fact one-fourth of it is found at Palika bazar. Every place is crowded, no peace. More people, Less cows. 2. No Cow Milk – “Holy Cow“- It feels so...
Read MoreTons of reviews read on PagalGuy and more than 82 events hosted and yet I was nervous. Tomorrow was “it”. It was the day I quit my job for. It was the day I wrote 8 competitive exams for. Good “acads”, decent extracurriculars. As PG experts would have said, the...
Read MoreThe first of the RTI replies to the CAT 2013 issues is in and what a response! Not a single question answered. Abhishek Leel, one of the CAT 2013 candidates who was the first to file an RTI (in the traditional offline way) received a response from IIM Indore officials...
Read MoreOn 17th February (Monday), at around 5 pm, the IIM Ranchi PGDHRM thread was suddenly abuzz with activity. Posts started pouring in from candidates who had just checked their status on the admissions portal. Those who were being shown as shortlisted could even see their centers and dates. Strangely there...
Read MoreSome of you may have heard of the ‘consciousness of competence’ model that today I cannot find a source to attribute the origin to. With full credit to the original author, I will try and explain the model and add a twist of my own to complete the theory and...
Read MoreSmartphones are now in the process of replacing the use of laptops while-on-the-go. Giving easy access to internet, in other words social networking websites, our phone has become our new best friend. Have you noticed the various emotions you take the effort to express in your real life & the...
Read MoreIt was a hot and unrelenting Friday and I was waiting for the wall clock at my cubicle to strike 5.30 PM. I had plans, special plans; I had, finally, asked my colleague and long-time crush, Sneha, on a date. I had made reservations for two at a roof top...
Read MoreNo, No, No. No politics or history here. Keeping the core idea same, I just flipped the coin to see a positive side of this DnR policy. I have been actually using this technique for quite some years now. Be it any exam, I always devoted much of my time...
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