You all must be busy in the last miles of your preparation for CAT. And I am pretty sure many of you must be thinking of “BEING a BAAP” in other management exams like NMAT, SNAP or XAT as you have ruined your CAT preparation. When you started the course...
Read MoreAjit Agarkar recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket which was quite a surprise since most forms of cricket had presumed it long before. A day after the announcement, he has approached another cricketer whose similarities with Agarkar start and end at their same retirement month, Aila yes,...
Read More‘Dear Father’ is a hindi play featuring Paresh Rawal, who makes a comeback to theatre after almost 16 years. It is one of the longest running plays in India, having been performed more than 200 times over the last decade. For me, the play defines Paresh Rawal as an actor...
Read MoreTravelling in a bus on a Monday to go to an Axis Bank to buy a CAT Voucher didn’t give me any jitters. During the registration process, when I was about to select my exam slot, I paused for a while. After deep consultation with my mother and my aunts...
Read Morelol what you lookin at boy, go make some money.
Read MoreDearest Father I never wanted to share my words with you this way, yet I am up with pen on this because you didn’t leave me any option other than this or partially because I am confined, to talk to you tete-a-tete, and reclusive. In so far I remember, I...
Read MoreToday is “World Food Day” World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organisations concerned with food...
Read MoreCongratulations to everyone who has published their work and enjoyed the recognition that has come along with it. Like the previous week, this new weekly digest brings to you the best and most popular articles every week, containing the five most read articles and the editors’ selection of the most...
Read MoreStudents at IIFM can decide to do the wildest things as part of their summer internships. From studying finance, marketing, organizational behaviour or strategic management to running after birds in forests, nothing is impossible for the IIFM student! I got unique opportunity of having my summer Internship at Wildlife Institute...
Read MoreWhen I worked in the newspapers, a ‘blooper’ day was the busiest of all. One, because it started early with that portentous call from the editor at 5.00am (four hours after you have closed the edition and hit the bed) informing (read yelling) about the slip-up and second, because confab...
Read MoreSitting on my porch, as I was reading the epic ‘Jobs’ biography by Walter Issacson, one word kept recurring in my mind and that word was ‘Innovation’. Right from the time Apple was founded; Jobs epitomized innovation in everything he did. Starting from the name ‘Apple’, it’s logo, the products...
Read MoreArrogant, over-the-top and short-tempered. These adjectives, when used to describe a person, indicate someone who would, in all probability, be disliked by his teammates. But when combined with elegant, breathtaking, passionate and mature, it portrays someone who is at the prime of his powers, is loved by his fans and...
Read MoreIt was 6 am. I had just entered the underground metro in Milan, where I had been studying on an exchange program for over a month. Not that I am a morning person; I had to catch an early morning train and was headed to the railway station, desperate not...
Read MoreLike most other festivals, Eid also calls for some authentic pakwan! One among the many delicacies served during the festival is Kashmiri wazwan! Their traditional, meaty, thirty-six course meal, prepared with pride and served with zest, is nothing short of an art passed on from generations but rarely passed outside...
Read MoreIt was a gusty day with wind blowing forcefully all through, making leafs depart from their abode. The sun vanished, clouds roared as though men have intruded into their territory and captivated their beloved so they are doing it in reprisal. As night approached, the savagery of the bracing wind...
Read MoreMumbai has a long list of batsmen to boast about : Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Vengsarkar et al. But there is a bowler who made Mumbai and India proud and now he has decided to hang his boots. After Sachin, now it is the turn of another Mumbaikar to say good bye...
Read MoreThe CAT paper was Tough in comparison to last year’s paper. It was fraught with questions to put the CAT aspirant on edge. A fair variety of questions were put in. The Interpretative, Grammar, and Granular Understanding Skills of the aspirant were put to test. A repeat of a question...
Read MoreThis CAT centre’s address was Auratech Solutions, Vikhroli, opposite Nagbaba Mandir. On a bank holiday and as early as 8.00am, this nook, which is an industrial estate, looked like a ghost town. Not that it looked much better for the rest of the day. For many test takers it was...
Read MoreI took the exam at Aditya Institute of Management Studies and Research in Mumbai in the first slot. For people who are taking the exam at this centre, commuting by train would be the best bet as the centre is only about ten minutes away from Borivali railway station and...
Read MoreIn Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning, it was a standard paper again with no major changes/surprises. Logical reasoning had much easier questions compared to most mocks. However, quick data analysis and data arrangement would be the key here. There were three caselets with three questions each. Most of the questions...
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