Academic and intellectual affairs @ ISB

On the intellectual side, I passed my X(with a Centum) , XII, B.Com and my CA, shifted 3 jobs in 2 years before I landed at ..........

The ISB at Hyderabad......Hereafter this space shall cover all the events at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Its been a month since i ve landed here and man..it has been crazy ever since.......Lot of people have been updating on the weekly/daily/some even hourly progress but ....................



Here I go...........I hope to update the space on a regular basis



The first week was induction wherein we had the alums talking to us abt life here....they were alums not seniors. For those who dont know, the PGPM @ ISB is a one year program. No ragging, no gyan. Help is plenty though. Every 'senior' drills us the same message "When in doubt, consult." Very helpful ppl, provided you go that extra mile

The next week was pre term . For the benefit of people from different background, the school "tries" to make a smooth transition. The modules are on Financial accounting, statistics and mathematics.

Main terms started on April 30. The school functions on a 4 day week schedule with four hours of class day. All people are grouped in teams of 4 or 5. Division into groups is done keeping in mind the need for diversity in the group. Rarely do 2 CAs or 2 entrepreneurs come together in the group. Each term is of 6 week duration and there are 8 terms in all.

Assignments are given which may have to be completed in groups or individually. All these are graded and count for your final marks.

This year we had four subjects for term 1 viz, Financial accounting and decision making, Managerial (micro) economics, Marketing and Statistics.

The best part of the course is the visiting faculty model at ISB. Teachers, mostly from Wharton and kellogg come here to teach. And man, most of them are fabulous. A few things stare at your face when you listen to them. First, their sense of humour. The humour they bring to teaching is marvelous. In stark contrast are the home bred faculty. No doubt, they are technically as brilliant as their counterparts but the zest and zeal is evident in its absence.

The next is their exam orientation. The economics prof of the first half of 1st term(an indian) did not dare to venture out of the confines of his room for nearly 3 hrs after the eco mid term fearing repercussions. In contrast again, the faculty for accounts from Wharton was elaborating on the exam pattern, method of study etc in class and stuck to the schedule in the exam. Not only this, the orientation in class of this faculty from Wharton was on the practical side. Teaching, analysis etal.

Thats all folks for now...........

Coming up ...........Acads is a very small part of ISB life.........life beyond the classrooms with photos... Until then byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Where do I begin

"Where do I begin ...to tell the story of how great love can be ... the sweet love story that is older than the sea.......Where do I start"


Ok. let me begin from the beginning. God seperated himself from himself to love himself. And on the sixth day of creation he created man.............Fast forward.

To cut the long story short, He achieved perfection at 2:57 PM (ok there is confusion on the timing though) on the Dec 3, 1981 in the erstwhile Madras. (Why should i be any different?Let me blow my trumpet.)

And so the years passed by and I crawled,rolled, ran,rummaged and ruined the roads of Chennai ruthlessly. 24 summers ran by..................................Oh my God, I didnt realize that... I still remember the brown colour shirt my dad was wearing when he dropped me in kindergarden and the rocking duck which I occupied pushing a kid out.

In the meantime I did achieve some things in life .........started copying in Std I, first crush in class II,( I'll talk of her later), shuttled between life and death on 3 occasions(in one case, the doctor had given up........more about it later) broke my teeth, cracked a few glasses and so on...

On the intellectual side, I passed my X(with a Centum) , XII, B.Com and my CA, shifted 3 jobs in 2 years before I landed at ..........

(Hi, hold on.................the best is yet to come.................stay tuned for regular updates.......till then....... ciao) (Coming up next................where did Sampras go and whom did he want to impress?)