The One-rupee Change.

Frankly, my knowledge and understanding of social issues is pretty feeble perhaps it never bothered me too much, but a small incident compelled me to introspect. I’ve been living in Jaipur for the past 9 months and since then I’ve been completely in love with this place (more on this...

Daily News Inventory 13th November, 2013

Registration of FIR in cognizable offence must: SC ● SC’s five judge constitutional bench ruled that Registration of an FIR in cognizable offences is mandatory. ● SC also said that no preliminary inquiry by a police official is permissible as a condition for registering FIR in cognizable offences and action...

No. of triangles with integral sides with given perimeter

Mumbai calling…anyone?

While living in Bombay for the past four years , I came across somethings and I learnt so much about Mumbai in the last four years. If you live in Grant road (W) you should not tell people that you live in Grant road, you should simply say that you...

The Alumni Story: Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Praveen Suthrum, MBA Class of 2004 at Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, is co founder & President of NextServices, a healthcare management and technology company. His work spreads on a wide canvas from running operations to marketing to technology. What are your most memorable moments at...

GK: Political parties funding in India Election Commission vs Congress

Election Funding in India Healthy competition between political parties is a prerequisite for a vibrant democracy. At the same time, all these parties need funds to function and to campaign. But as these parties are not revenue earning enterprises, where do such funds come from? How are they spent? And...

United we stand

The end of CAT 2013 is in many ways similar to the end of the world hy(steria)pothesis . All the hype leading up to it is slowly beginning to fade away, but for some of us the real test begins now.Around 85% of PG has attempted 85% of the questions...

Business Space in Coin Shortage

Late in the evening when I take a drive to my home back, I suddenly take a diversion to a store to buy a few things and when it’s time to pay, I hand over the cash. But most of the time cashier’s run out of change. Instead of the...

Application-cum-exploitation: 3 Questions

A couple of exams being over, we all (correction: most of us) must be busy right now preparing a list of colleges to apply. And this is where a first-time applicant raises at least three questions about the system in practice: 1. Application fee: Rs. 2000? A: This much high...

Keep Calm and ……….

“Keep Calm and Carry On” was a motivational poster created and circulated by the British government in 1939, before the beginning of WWII, intended to boost the morale of the Civilians in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. Some 2.5m copies of posters were printed,...

Knee Trauma Episode

Recently I fell from the good graces of a beautiful woman who I had been courting for past four years. For when she said last Monday, “I have been observing you following me around for the past two days. What do you want ? If you do not have a...

Rank of a word in Dictionary

Rank of a word is the position of that word, when we arrange the words formed by alphabets of that given word in dictionary order. Lets see an example. To understand this type of problem just assume that we have only 3 letters A, B and C in the English...

QS BRICS Rankings: Q&A with Zoya Zaitseva

1. What’s the reason behind doing a BRICS University Rankings, when you already have an existing set of rankings for Universities at your end? Pretty simple – I honestly think that educational systems of the emerging markets are strong, but hard to compare with the US or the UK systems...

The Winning Mantra of Success

Nothing succeeds like success, as the golden axiom says and aptly suits great successful corporate bosses like Lee Iacocca, Chairman of Chrysler, or Jack Welch, CEO of General Electrics (GE) or most recently, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., to name a few. What was one thing common to them...

Does It Happen To You Too?

I cannot think of one word to describe this species. Self absorbed? Nah! Too kind a word and does no justice to the callous and intentionally insensitive behaviour. I would have closed on cruel but then, isn’t that word invented by drama queens in the weepy serials? I had met...

In A Relationship with Football

It was 2006, world cup year. That was the first time I saw this beautiful game. Ball was passed to ZIDANE and he made realize the true meaning of poetry in motion. By the way, BILL SHANKLY once famously said “Some people think football is a matter of life and...

Admission Q&A : Darden School of Business

Admission Q&A; with Katherine Alford, Associate Director and Sara Neher, Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions 1)How would you define the Darden MBA experience to a new aspirant? Darden’s case study method, top-ranked faculty and tight-knit community combine to prepare you to lead in any organization throughout your career. Darden professors...

Boys, you are too much!

And I mean it in good sense ? It really makes me wonder, how come boys know so many things? I mean, if you are talking about sports, it’s not just one sport. They will know everything about every sport- football, cricket, tennis, cycling, swimming, chess. They know it all....

Institutes admitting through XAT can avail of any candidate’s essay from XLRI, so make sure you are good at it

Xavier School of Management (XLRI) has, this year, decided to hand over essays of XAT applicants to member institutes. This is in a bid to push candidates to fare better in essay writing. What this means is that any institute admitting candidates through XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test) can now request...

Cigarettes – A dangerous companion!

Suddenly, it occurs to me, more like a revelation of a the climax of some loosely woven thriller story ! Why do people, smokers in particular, are so fascinatingly attracted to the habit of smoking ? Is it the mild nausea , or relief you may say, which feels after...