While living in Bombay for the past four years , I came across somethings and I learnt so much about Mumbai in the last four years. If you live in Grant road (W) you should not tell people that you live in Grant road, you should simply say that you live in South Bombay. Do […]

Praveen Suthrum, MBA Class of 2004 at Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, is co founder & President of NextServices, a healthcare management and technology company. His work spreads on a wide canvas from running operations to marketing to technology. What are your most memorable moments at Ross? The entire experience was […]

Election Funding in India Healthy competition between political parties is a prerequisite for a vibrant democracy. At the same time, all these parties need funds to function and to campaign. But as these parties are not revenue earning enterprises, where do such funds come from? How are they spent? And should we care how they […]

The end of CAT 2013 is in many ways similar to the end of the world hy(steria)pothesis . All the hype leading up to it is slowly beginning to fade away, but for some of us the real test begins now.Around 85% of PG has attempted 85% of the questions with 85% accuracy leading me […]

Late in the evening when I take a drive to my home back, I suddenly take a diversion to a store to buy a few things and when it’s time to pay, I hand over the cash. But most of the time cashier’s run out of change. Instead of the few rupees I have owed, […]

A couple of exams being over, we all (correction: most of us) must be busy right now preparing a list of colleges to apply. And this is where a first-time applicant raises at least three questions about the system in practice: 1. Application fee: Rs. 2000? A: This much high application fee just to shortlist […]

“Keep Calm and Carry On” was a motivational poster created and circulated by the British government in 1939, before the beginning of WWII, intended to boost the morale of the Civilians in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. Some 2.5m copies of posters were printed, but in the end they […]

Recently I fell from the good graces of a beautiful woman who I had been courting for past four years. For when she said last Monday, “I have been observing you following me around for the past two days. What do you want ? If you do not have a valid reason for doing so […]

Rank of a word is the position of that word, when we arrange the words formed by alphabets of that given word in dictionary order. Lets see an example. To understand this type of problem just assume that we have only 3 letters A, B and C in the English alphabets then the dictionary will […]

1. What’s the reason behind doing a BRICS University Rankings, when you already have an existing set of rankings for Universities at your end? Pretty simple – I honestly think that educational systems of the emerging markets are strong, but hard to compare with the US or the UK systems / budgets / progress level. […]