Some Random Unanswered Questions

When I am faced with no intellectual activity, I tend to keep thinking of something or the other. One of the usual thoughts is, ‘Every face has 2 eyes, 1 nose, 2 ears, a pair of lips, and so on. The essential components of a human face [...]

An Ode to Calcutta

Some say its a dying city,
Others say its a rising one,
Does it matter to me,
If it’s my home you’re talking of?
Well, not my home exactly,
Since I have not stayed here much,
And neither have I been born,
On its soil per se.
But every Bengali worth his grain of salt,
Dreams of settling here one day,
And feels infinitely passionate [...]

A Season of Goodbyes

Well, the time has come to come to bid goodbye to my friends, one after the other. Someone’s leaving today, someone tomorrow, someone a week later, but everyone is moving apart. It feels bad to let someone go, someone with whom you have shared four years of a journey. Some of us have homes in [...]

On Parting and Leaving

So it’s time for one phase of our life to pass the baton to another. We embarked on our graduation path four years back, entering an engineering college like so many souls in our nation. We were like kids when we joined, and while I can’t call ourselves men by now ( would prefer if [...]

Acknowledgments

Getting into IIM Indore has been one of the most significant achievements in my life till date. So acknowledgments to all those who have helped me in my journey are due.
My heart-felt gratitude to
My parents, for playing the support-cum-critic role perfectly, and constantly pushing me to do better. Without my mom’s nagging nature and my [...]

My MBA Journey Part-1

This post has been due for many months now, but better late than never.
The seeds of this journey were sown somewhere in the 2nd year of my engineering college. That is when we realised that higher studies had to be on our radar, else we shall end up as one of the innumerable faces entering [...]

Stereotyping, and its consequences

In English August, the author Upamanyu Chatterjee says something I found very interesting and pertinent. He says that when people meet him, they keep asking him questions, about his family background and about his name, so that in their minds they can form a picture of the person that he is, which is in effect [...]

Importance of Teamwork

I recently read two things, one is about a war between Alexander and an Indian king, and another is an interview by Andrew Symonds, the Aussie cricketer. They may sound totally unrelated to each other, as chalk as cheese. However, both the things have something very important in common.
I am reading India Unbound by Gurcharan [...]

India’s Growth Story

Why things may seem great at the moment, but some things aren’t going right.
The country we live in is passing through a crucial transition phase. Change is sweeping across all sections of society, and none of us is immune to it. We have all encountered change in our daily lives. This change manifests itself in [...]

Twenty-20 Cricket- A True Reflection of Life Today

“Half the size, double the fun”
I used to be a cricket fanatic, a long time ago. After the Greg Chapell fiasco, and BCCI politics, I somehow lost interest in the game altogether. People around me kept raving about the Australian team, players came and went, but I chose to remain ignorant about the game [...]