“Teaching how to fish is better than providing fish” that’s the basic mantra of mentorship. The word “mentor” comes from “the Odysseus”, written by the Greek poet, Homer. As Odysseus is preparing to go fight the Trojan War, he realizes he is leaving his only heir, Telemachus. Since Telemachus is still a child, and since […]

With barely 2 months for cat remaining and my Infosys training regime not going well , I was at crossroads. To chase CAT where the mocks were mocking me or give up and concentrate on my job which wasn’t going smoothly as well. Those in the IT industry would buy how tough it gets at […]

The greatest fear of a storyteller is that of his story going unheard. And I shared the same apprehension whenever I thought of sharing it. But then a friend of mine managed to convince me to share it. And what better time than CAT season at its peak and what better place than PaGaLGuY to […]

Rajjo, an ambitious CAT aspirant, expresses his frustration about CAT, IIMs, Mocks and much more to his colleague:

Few days ago our PM made a striking remark on Narendra Modi stating all the secular forces to stand up against him (considering him a secular threat to nation).Secularism, in simple language , is the state of harmony, peace and respect for all religions in a country. Is ours a secular state???? Indeed yes…if we […]

At 5, I fell in love with planes. I wanted to be a pilot. At 15, I fell in love with Physics. I wanted to study the science of flying. At 24, I fell in love with the ticket counter. I realised that I had great talent of being a skillful passenger. Nevertheless, I loved […]

“Pagalguy.com”- often have I wondered, what the creator of this website had in mind while selecting this name as the domain name for an MBA preparation networking site. Of late, however, I have realized the major chunk of the website users seem to be some of the most “pagal” people that one would come across […]

“The Good Road”! A drama movie directed by Gyan Correa. I wounder if even 50% of movie lover have watched this movie but this has been selected as the Indian entry as the best foreign language film in coming Academic award. Well i watched this movie last weekend. The good road seems to be a […]

My fellow friends, please stop flooding my facebook wall with messages about Sachin Tendulkar retirement and don’t expect me to praise him. I am not a big fan of his. For me he will always be the greedy attention seeker; the one who will grab all the attention when his poor teammates have colluded to […]

With an epidemic outbreak of Sachin fever during the CAT season, the entire mood is of Sachinfluenza. Lets analyze Sachin’s attitude towards the game and try to implement in CAT. 1) 2003 World Cup Final in South Africa – India needed a mammoth 360 runs if they wanted to touch the world cup again after […]