Arrogant, over-the-top and short-tempered. These adjectives, when used to describe a person, indicate someone who would, in all probability, be disliked by his teammates. But when combined with elegant, breathtaking, passionate and mature, it portrays someone who is at the prime of his powers, is loved by his fans and is the heart-throb of the […]

It was 6 am. I had just entered the underground metro in Milan, where I had been studying on an exchange program for over a month. Not that I am a morning person; I had to catch an early morning train and was headed to the railway station, desperate not to miss the train this […]

Like most other festivals, Eid also calls for some authentic pakwan! One among the many delicacies served during the festival is Kashmiri wazwan! Their traditional, meaty, thirty-six course meal, prepared with pride and served with zest, is nothing short of an art passed on from generations but rarely passed outside of the family. It is […]

It was a gusty day with wind blowing forcefully all through, making leafs depart from their abode. The sun vanished, clouds roared as though men have intruded into their territory and captivated their beloved so they are doing it in reprisal. As night approached, the savagery of the bracing wind reached the acme, lacking even […]

Mumbai has a long list of batsmen to boast about : Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Vengsarkar et al. But there is a bowler who made Mumbai and India proud and now he has decided to hang his boots. After Sachin, now it is the turn of another Mumbaikar to say good bye from all forms of cricket. […]

The CAT paper was Tough in comparison to last year’s paper. It was fraught with questions to put the CAT aspirant on edge. A fair variety of questions were put in. The Interpretative, Grammar, and Granular Understanding Skills of the aspirant were put to test. A repeat of a question from the previous year’s paper […]

This CAT centre’s address was Auratech Solutions, Vikhroli, opposite Nagbaba Mandir. On a bank holiday and as early as 8.00am, this nook, which is an industrial estate, looked like a ghost town. Not that it looked much better for the rest of the day. For many test takers it was a difficult address to find […]

I took the exam at Aditya Institute of Management Studies and Research in Mumbai in the first slot. For people who are taking the exam at this centre, commuting by train would be the best bet as the centre is only about ten minutes away from Borivali railway station and rickshaws are easily available. The […]

In Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning, it was a standard paper again with no major changes/surprises. Logical reasoning had much easier questions compared to most mocks. However, quick data analysis and data arrangement would be the key here. There were three caselets with three questions each. Most of the questions were on Sudoku style and […]

The online Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 kicked off without any glitches. There were no surprises in the test. As declared earlier, the paper had two sections of 70 minutes each. Most of the questions in both sections were conventional CAT type problems from areas tested regularly over the years. There were no changes in […]