“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned – quote by Benjamin Franklin has a myriad of meanings. With this quote as a tool lets try to find a relation between the ‘CAT-preparers’ and the platinum standard MBA dreams which are already over-hyped. Almost every one of the students preparing for...
Read MoreLate Prof. N. K. Bose very often used to send his scholars to study life and culture of the tribal people of undivided district Medinipur, West Bengal. One of his scholars late Prof. Prabodh Bhowmick was assigned by Prof. Bose to collect information about Lodhas of Medinipur for field of...
Read MoreI got calls from 2-3 B-schools last year. Here, is one of my experiences. It was 2-minute interview. Still a Nightmare!
Read MoreIt seemed like any other day. I had returned from the office. I was just wondering what to do next and the door knocked. Who is it? Who would come to visit me in this lonely place? May be it’s Sam, my only friend here. Excited, I opened the door...
Read MoreZeller’s Rule Formula: , 1) K = Date. So, for 06/08/1990, we take K=06 Zellers rule, months start March. 2) M = Month no. So,… March = 1, April = 2, May = 3 so on… till Dec = 10, Jan = 11 Feb. = 12 So, for 06/08/1990, M=6...
Read MoreSince CAT is just around the corner, I thought of expressing my views for the aspirants who are on a sticky wicket like me. Studying for CAT became a part and parcel of our life and all of us somewhere started avoiding movies , social gatherings, uninstalling watsapp (this one...
Read MoreLink to Part 1 As the D-Day came closer, I studied harder. I, however, cut myself off from studies 3 days before my exam. I watched movies and sitcoms to lighten myself. The D-Day arrived on October 15. The exam passed smoothly and Anshul was the first person I called...
Read MoreCareer building or rather choosing is, I believe, one hell of a task because we all wish to be successful in what ever we do, well most of us atleast but the probability of liking a particular job or not is something which no one can predict! I did away...
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Last month I had a chance to visit a fruit farm where chikoos, coconuts, mangoes and the likes are farmed and reach your dining tables through the markets. (What?, fruits come from somewhere else? I always thought they were magically created and placed on the shelves at Food Bazaar!) Other...
Read MoreDreams are an interesting phenomenon. No matter how vivid or horrible they are, we tend to forget most of them as soon as we wake up in the morning. Nevertheless, some of the simplest of the lot do get engraved on our mind and end up giving us a memory...
Read MoreFRIENDS was one addictive series and what made it so special was the well defined characters.The characters managed to awe their viewers with their witty remarks and emotional outbreaks. Whilst Chandler was famous for his sarcasm, Monica was known for her obsession over cleanliness! When Joey portrayed a playboy image,...
Read MoreI am not a believer of New Year resolutions. For me, those are just gimmicks of weak-willed people. So I refused to categorize my first lecture in Career Launcher on January 1, 2012 as a New Year resolution. I was just happy to be in a classroom, away from my...
Read MoreAn IIT-ian friend very tauntingly said to me last night, “Please, you can’t be a woman and be intelligent at the same time.” That made me wonder if that’s really true. What is the measure of being intelligent? Being in a national level management or engineering institute makes you intelligent....
Read MoreIn this article , i would like to articulate my views on the Growth models of the Two big nations of the world , both competing for Top spot( as world Super power) in the next 20-30 years . The China Model is State-Sponsored Growth: Where the Govt mostly invests...
Read More” It is going to be a tough journey ahead, you would find it really hard to live in this modern world, in case if you are not making a living of your own..It is you who is going to decide your future.” Nevertheless, almost all of us have been...
Read MoreAlthough the cartoon is what it is, a cartoon, but is Dilbert right? Is an MBA degree really worth it or are we foolishly joining the herd ?? Are we simply learning some complicated jargon to glamorously hide our ignorance ? Are we adding any skills when we go for...
Read MoreOkay, so the idea of this note emanated from a three hour long intense discussion (Bakchodi, as it is being called these days) that the three of us had in the car a few days back. Though the central idea primarily remains different from what we had discussed with great...
Read MoreTo be a successful man you need to do something i.e Follow your passion. What if I say I still don’t know what my passion is and you would say only a dumb man can assert that. And by this piece of writing I am not pointing anyone who shares...
Read MoreThe Common Admission Test will be conducted as usual in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, despite Phailin. Even while this article is being filed, cyclone Phialin is creating havoc in coastal areas in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh making it certain that it will take days for normalcy to return there. When...
Read MoreWhat I knew before I came to Mumbai (WIK) and What Mumbai Taught me in the past 8 years. WIK – Judge people by their work not their background WMT – It’s all about some kinda “background” – always. One can cover up the inability to do good work by...
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