KhAnA KhAzAnA

Oh Calcutta

Gunpowder

Big Chill

Mamagato

Creps and More

Chidambaram

Nizam’s

Karim

Pind Balluchi

CR Park

NFC Shawarma

Punjabi By Nature

Near East KFC

KFC, Nirula’s, Pizza Hut, McD, Dominos

Subway

Chi Kitchen

Café Olive

Khan Chacha

Moets

Andhra Bhawan

Sarvanna Bhawan

American Diner

Wengers

Haldiram

Paranthe Wali Gali

Delhi Haat

Select City Walk, Ambience, GIP malls

Garam Masala

Chocola

Chocolate Room

Yellow Chilli

Lemon Twist

Bercos

Pandara Road

Zen

Deez

Rajinder Da Dhaba

Amici Café

Cola Wala at Green Park

Arabian Nights

3C Mall

Lebanese – PVR Saket

Bonsai

QBA

DU

Chawla Chicken

Kadami

EDM and Pacific

Sec 39

Bengali Sweets

Nathu’s

Om Sweets

Galaxy Hotels

Seven Wonders

Understanding what life means at 45 Deg C

Well, just to give you a background. The author was an investment banker, and had worked in some of the poshest places on the face of the city, with the best facilities around, and without ever stepping out in the heat. Having work for 3 years in such conditions, the author had no idea of what life would FEEL like in a place with no electricity, no air conditioner. A general perception was that of difficulties galore.

DOCC - Development of corporate citizenship, goes the formal name. But this one initiative at SPJIMR goes further than just creating corporate citizenship. It goes to the extent of making one realize that things in life are difficult to come by, and that the intensity of your struggle is only a relative measure against the benchmark. You set a benchmark that you see convenient.

DOCC changes this benchmark. It takes you to unexplored shades of life itself. And in these shades, when you see how even water and hygiene are a luxury, you first feel disgusted.

This is normal, because whatever you may want to feel, you do not like what you see.

But then you see, how people still live with something like this. You imagine, have they evolved to become zombies, numb of all pain, and sense of reality? You imagine, who can survive such a thing.

As you spend time with them, you begin to understand, that how these simple folk, never complain. Their resilience continues to grow with each passing day. Do not mistake them to be passive about not improving their lot. They do have aspirations, but their aspirations are not at the mercy of their present situation. They dont give importance to what gets them to think lowly about who they are. There is enough fire in that belly, to beat the heat of the sun.

AS they take another stride to silently achieve what they desire, you begin to see, the heat can only take away their soul, it cannot take away their spirit. Lesson's like these dont come from the text book, they only come only when you experience the world at 45 deg C.

Weird, Wicked, Wild, Wizard Like, WoW = the First year of an SPJIMR MBA

yeah, why the W word you may think? my Whims...

things get to your head here...
Numbness and a rush of energy.. something you may experience in a matter of minutes.. (like when you get the Quant quiz in Hand, numbness... like you strike a solution in the dying minutes, A rush of energy)

You feel sleepless and sleepy at the same time... Like when you have not slept for day's together, and there is an exam coming up, and like when your colleague is about to start studying, and is expected to do better than you..

You feel elevated and devestated in a matter of minutes... like when you come out of an exam hall, thinking you have 9 / 10 ... and when you hear that everyone is pegging a 10/10.. which under the draconian rules of relative grading means, you are failing ;)

Like you shamelessly adapt, and get a astonishingly original idea... when you doing a Gas filled assignment, and shamelessly copy it, or when you think, well, the source took i t from wikipedia, and since he has not mentioned the original source, i will put it as a link under the write up.. so that the assessor thinks i was the one who got it from there first.

Like you dont know how to cook, and you yet know how to cook... especially when you are hungry and don';t know what to eat, and especially when you are answering a HRM exam.. :)

Like you miss the bus, and you miss the bus... previous one, when you miss the complete quiz, as it leaves you blank... like you miss the feeling of being blank ...

Like you go to the mess, and recycle the mess.... Going to the mess to eat lunch / dinner / crap, or go through your group mates assignments, and re do the whole mess, improving its quality substantially, making it edible (oops readable)

Like when you talk of giving a damn, and really dont give a damn... especially when asked about a bad exam, and especially while checking the marks for tha bad exam.

Like you hate the DCP, and you want the DCP... especially when you hear inconsequential gas, and especially when you hear earth shattering Thoughts ( bureaucracy and pythagoras theorem)

Like you Want to leave, and so want to be a part of ... especially when you looking to go home, and especially when you want to be a part of the group snap...

This can go on... Hmnnn I can now say a pride, i have enough contradictions to award myself Half an MBA... half an MBA WTF?

Se Sentir Bien

Se Sentir Bien = It Feels GOOD....

And it really does feel that way.. Foundation exams over... And even those who slept over the past two days, while taking their books for their pillows, will spend the night awake tonight, and this could mean either by rambling over a tele-series, or seeing a movie or 2, or playing a hard fought game of Counter strike, or FIFA, or speaking to your girl-friend, or just painting the town red.. the festivity will last till one gets to another round of exams, and then the same dreary activity of sleeping with your eyes open, (to understand more read the article posted a few days back.) begins to get replayed.

However the next few days are looking very promising, with a PG Lab and a trip to khandala summing up the festivities.. however they say too much of a good thing is a bad thing, as it makes re-transitioning difficult... :-) . But for now, let enjoy the next few days.. in the mean while a Khaulti Khabrein PG LAB Special is expected.

A sense of nostalgia

In the mean while, the CAT Notifications came out today, and, having taken the CAT 4 times to finally get though here, it feels genuinely, amazingly, astonishingly, brilliantly, sincerely, truly and pristinely GOOD... Finally you can say with your head held high... you are on the other side of the finshing line of this RAT race.

P.S : the race just got a little more tougher as more than 250K students expected to be in contention ( thanks to extensive marketting efforts of TIME, IMS, CL etc.etc.etc) for the top 10 institutes which have a (ball park maximum figure of) 2500 seats... now I know why it feels so wickedly good...

Hooked on ...

"Love, Devotion, Feeling, Emotion/ Dont be afraid to be weak/ don't be too proud to be strong / just look into your heart my friend/ and that will be the return to your self/ your return to innocence."

A beautiful song from New age world music group, Enigma, and it applies to everything that you do while you are at a B-School. You believe you are the best, till you find that there are many who are far better than what you are, however, you also find that since everything is relative, there are many who are worse of than you as well.. and thus you learn your second lesson... which is the continuation of the lyrics in the song..

If you want/ then start to laugh/If you must,/then start to cry/Be yourself dont hide/Just believe in destiny./ Dont care what people say/ Just follow your own way/ Dont give up and use the chance / To return to innocence.

Life moves on, and each one gets a chance to shine, the point is to continue to do what you do the best, and hope for the best. Because " the Harder you work, the Luckier you get."

Signing off till the end term exams get done.... wishing everyone the best of luck