Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

A few observations,

1. A disappointingly large number followed the theme of one guy getting 98 percentile, another getting 99, and the girlfriend defecting. I know we are from the land of Bollywood, but people, dare to think beyond.
2. A stunningly large number of potential MBA students write ‘loose’ when they mean ‘lose’, ‘its’ when they mean ‘it’s' and suchlike. Shape up, guys! (Yes I know some of you might have got 99 percentile in verbal ability as well but try telling that to your future client, the one you sent a poorly-worded email to!)
3. I know we didn’t impose a word limit, but some of you have just assumed that this was XLRI’s essay section and gone on and on. Bawyys, yeh to comic strip hai. Exercise restraint and use judgement.
4. A gut-wrenchingly large number of entries also followed the April’s fool theme. Hi, I’ve got 99.x percentile -> Haha no, we just fooled you. Come on, guys, that was a wee bit predictable!

Well, we hope you understand why we are handing out only one prize this time (no, Apurv and I are not splitting the other vouchers between ourselves and there will be no IPL-style auction) and for the same reason are not sharing the submitted entries on an Excel.

Congrats Jaydev Doshi, your Flipkart voucher worth Rs 4,000 will be on your way!

Until the next contest :mg:

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

LAST TWO DAYS to send in your entries for the PaGaLGuY Comic Contest # 2 – with Flipkart vouchers worth Rs 8,000 as prizes. Send your entry now!

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

PS: The inspiration for this comic came from the rather brilliant @nayakgirin, who randomly mentioned the first cost-cutting measure.

Meanwhile, we hope you have put in your entry to the PaGaLGuY Comic Contest # 2 running here, with prizes of Rs 8,000 worth Flipkart vouchers.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

Complete the above comic and win yourself a Flipkart voucher worth Rs 4,000 if you are mind-bogglingly superbly belly-blastingly funny (First prize) and or a Rs 2,000 Flipkart voucher if you are superbly funny (2 X Second prizes).

There are SEVEN bubbles in the above comic with numbers in them. Fill ‘em in using this form so as to form a coherent, funny story. Or maybe even a serious one. Or perhaps tragicomic. Or Greko-Roman Romantic… Ok, you get the picture.

If you succeed in making the hard-nosed buggers behind this comic series laugh, you stand to win big. Enter as many times as you want. Remember – Make. It. Funny.

Enter the contest by filling this form.

Last date is Monday, April 16, 2012.

And the prizes are,

First prize

• Flipkart voucher worth Rs 4,000

Two second prizes

• Flipkart voucher worth Rs 2,000

Multiple entries are allowed!

Oh, and by the way, this is a special moment for me. This one happens to be my 50th comic on PaGaLGuY, a huge milestone. Here is why the PaGaLGuY comics will always remain special for me.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.