issues pestering me from quite sometime :-(

its hightime atleast to share with u on this platform n i'm happy for the same..

i dont and i cant really understand the ways things are going on..

can some1 make me understand the rationality behind grading some1 higher and giving some1 the worse?

grades r not the only concern now.. it surpassed many..

to be simple... crossed the threshold level.... :-((

main concern is:

does the rules of prm handbook applicable only to few?? (those who are not having the good image with the faculty??)

we often speak of level playin field and blah blah blah.. sustainable/equitable/equality & all the b.s..

is it only to the extent of speaking?? then wht is the need for all these things??

in the name of changin lives of rural ppl.. development....

every1 has his or her problems.. agreed.. but keep the issues and rewards equitable..

why the hell is some1 gettin undue advantage n why do some ppl suffer???

when some1 is in the position of influencin others and who is looked upon by many and holding some kind of power... shouldnt he justify the position he is holding?? shouldnt he be ethical??

i think this is hightime.. we introspect ourselves and other issues as well....

ps: i'm posting this only to vent out my anger.. no personal bias/issues/nor need any help(ofcourse cant xpect any)

only reason is to convey tht atleast try to follow wht u say or atleast try to..

Life@ whatever

As all MBA aspirants would do, I used to read a lot about IIMA aka WIMWI....And I didnt restrict it to merely the eye popping salaries they earned. It was the first year that interested me.
A lot of PGP students had written extensively about it and made it seem like hell. Average number of minutes slept was around 300,and similar statistics were bandied about. A lot of it was not really comparable or worthy similar to what is being done at IRMA (premier rural management institute....yeah...we dont compare ourselves with development institutions and vehemently deny being a management institute....so whom do we compare ourselves with??? :))
What is official is the number of case studies these guys do.300 in the first year and 250 in the second year. And a full case is something that I have read (IIMA is the academic mother of IRMA, NDDB being the financial father....pardon my gender insensitivity at making the money giving institute the father)...And if we extend the amount of time required to read the stuff, analyse it and then present it in the class 5 hours of daily sleep is something that seems believable.
I loved the feeling of being pushed to the wall.I felt the same would happen at IRMA...But alas....
All I saw was tacit agreements on going easy, quizzes being postponed and so on and so forth....
The faculty seems resigned to the fact this batch is like NAIRU...no use pushing it...and we have happily accepted that fact...
The academic rigour has been diluted...I fear...And everyone has to be blamed for it.

The one with all the sarcasm! :P

~In reply to some post, and its subsequent comment ;)

Straight and bitter are two separate words and need not always be conjuncted by an 'and'. you can talk straight without being bitter.

'Not being rude' doesnt directly imply you trying to be among the 'IN'-crowd either. 'Sugarcoating' sucks no doubt, but dude, there's a line that has to be drawn everywhere.

another misconception is that sarcasm is equivalent to bitterness.. what i understand of sarcasm is 'bringing out the irony' in a critical way.. note that being critical, being rhetorical, or being ironical are not the same as being bitter..

and trust me, even though it may "act as a stress-buster" for you, it does no good to the person who your 'bitter' sarcasm is aimed at!

theres nothing 'un-cooler' than getting in a group and trying to pelt all your s**t at one person to vent your frustration.. it may take any form.. for example there's nothing to be proud of your feat when 6 guys get together in a classroom, and do everything possible not to let some random guy speak at all, just because y dont like him!

one might come across as the hero then, but actually, he's far from it !

P.S. neither do i vow to drop my sarcasm, nor do i aim to please more people with what i speak, but getting rid of some of the harshness would definitely go a long way.. :P

Sarcasm..No More

A better friend at IRMA told me how I was not doing any good with my sarcasm. And with the prospect of my folks coming to IRMA at convocation and being introduced to fellow participants who would not number more than ten as friends made me think twice on this issue.
At the same time this conversation was being played out on IP, on another IP pop up I received a thumbs up on a sarcastic comment made on a friend outside the mess this evening. I had trouble recalling the incident. But when I did, I realised it was not meant to be a statement worth remembering..But someone did. And the advice did make sense.
Sarcasm somehow is addictive. So addictive that I walked into my Dad's hospital room immediately post his operation and joked how the next time it would be clean bowled and straight to the top for him...No intermediaries in the form of doctors.
Well, I guess its a comma if not a full stop to my sarcasm at IRMA.
Made enough people crib about it..
The stage is all yours Uphar (That was the last bit of sarcasm)!!!!
Adios

C K Prahalad

C K Prahalad was one of the few Indians who made a mark in the area of management science in the last century. He was along with Pankaj Ghemawat and Sumantra Ghoshal, the few Indians who were at the forefont of management science.
While he was always acknowledged as one of the top most management thinkers, what made him transcend the management field and be acknowledged as a great thinker was his seminal book "Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits".
Incidentally, this book was the first management book that I read five years back. The case that impressed me the most was the ITC e-choupal case. Funny that I am now writing this blog at a time when I am studying in an institution whose alumnus is responsible for creating the e-choupal revolution.
It is indeed a great loss to the field of management science. But ideas last longer than the man himself.
And Prahalad's ideas of "core competency" and "the BOP magic" will live on and help managers to demystify the complex environment in which they operate.

Ambedkar Jayanti

Good Morning IRMA. Woke up early today.HOLIDAY ! wow.. hard as it is to come by,useless it goes by..Dont know what is the matter with these HOL'(Y)DAYS that the more you procrastinate the work to be done then,quicker they will vanish :-(
If one day that has more irony attached to it than independence day is Ambedkar Jayanti. Long after he decided to stand up for collective voice of the silent majority,little would his departed soul known that the 'collective' itself was more of a 'Federation' than 'co-op' {as we IRMANS know better :-) } . His conversion antics failed to move the rock of Gibraltar they call Varna system in India. Reservations did help initially but like Jinnah/Savarkar's two nation theory, this also failed to work as a war cry for oppressed many to get fair deal out of oppressing few , or at least "SUSTAINABLY" :)

Several subdivisions within them and amongst all other religions also have contributed to this . With each divided sect wanting the biggest slice of the cake for itself. Little would they have known that this(reservation) was to be the 'trial solution' for 20 odd years.

With even the 'enlightened few' gonna be "rural managers" divided on the caste/linguistic lines... no end seems in sight..

Convocation Time For Seniors

today gonna be my first convocation ..Actually its convocation time for seniors and i will be der as a volunteer :).... And i missed my graduation convocation....So Freely enlisted for the service u see :)... And I invariably say YES to these services most of the times...We had a mock drill 2 days back where in DPM referred to some incident involving Jairam Ramesh during IIFM convocation recently where in he called wearing Convocation gowns as "Barbaric colonial relics" and "Medieval Vicars and Popes ".........I wonder what is so barbaric abt wearing Gowns and making perplexing statements... And in DPMs words IRMA's convocation stands for SIMPLICITY and GRACE and we all be witness to it tomorrow morning....May be we should have called Jairam Ramesh and perhaps he would have been proud of our practice :)

Getting it on cyber space

Yeah, so my dear friend Uphar generated this idea of creating a blog for dialogue.....
So wat used to be confined to IP and hopefully was transient (unless as the conspiracy theorists think all our IP is monitored by the faculty.....hell, most of them dont even know our names) is now out in the open and google will keep it here for perpetuity.
Funny that people who live within a hundred metres of each other have to log in to google and share, discuss issues and hopefully wash dirty linen in public (wont that shoot up the hits on the blog!!!!)
good luck and I am pretty optimistic that this blog will not run its course as envisaged by the idea generator!!!
ciao!!!

thanks...

thanks Abhijith for inviting...

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