(Continued from here) As students with arts and commerce backgrounds, you might be aware of a few of your limitations. You cannot solve all the questions. Ideally, non-engineering students should focus more on logical reasoning questions that don’t involve advanced level concepts from probability and permutations/combinations. The idea is to choose the right questions – […]

Who does the stray dog in Mumbai belong to? Mumbaikars, NGOs or the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation? No one’s really staking responsibility and that has resulted in a bitter court battle between the NGOs and the BMC over getting rid of the lot. In 1994, the BMC started the Animal Birth Control (ABC) (sterilsation programme) to […]

A screenshot excerpt of PaGaLGuY Channels Back in 2005 when business education in India was peaking, applicants to b-schools deserved a niche news portal that dissected the MBA programs and admissions better than the mainstream media did. That’s when we stepped in with the PaGaLGuY News section offering niche MBA-related coverage, and since then our […]

Southpaw, sinistral, gauche, awkward, clumsy are all synonyms for left-handed. Really? Do left-handed people display all of these characteristics? The world thinks so, the same world where just 10-12 % are leftys or left-handed people. And so August 13 – World Lefty’s Day is celebrated by a very very small portion of the world. Initially […]

It is one thing meeting management institute directors and professors in b-schools. It is another bumping into them at a party or at a get together post a seminar and they are nothing like anything you have seen before. No, am not talking about all b-school officials, just those I encountered at a convention in […]

Photo Credit: Marian Institute of Health Care Management In jest, Fr Romuald D’Souza is often referred to as the founder of founders. After serving as director of XLRI Institute of Management, Jamshedpur and starting both, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar and Goa Institute of Management, this 88 year old now wants to start a wellness […]

Shah Rukh Khan and his surrogate baby have been in the eye of a storm lately. And only because the actor chose to have a surrogate child instead of an adopted one. Pray, why should Shah Rukh Khan adopt a child and not use surrogacy? The explanation to this from the hundreds hollering about it […]

(Photo: mingusmutter) In this post, we are going to talk about two types of questions: Find out the area of the bounded region Find out the points with integer co-ordinates within the bounded region Let us first look at some graphs. |x| and -|x| These graphs will be mirror images of each other where the […]

Cows produce milk just like humans and precisely for the same reasons – to feed their new-born. But cows in cities like Mumbai are rarely given a chance to celebrate motherhood. Their calves, mostly males, are weaned away within a day of birth and killed or kept in precarious conditions to be sold as veal […]

South Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park needs no introduction. Having started his career a couple of decades back with a little known film called Moon Is the Sun’s Dream (1992), Park has come a long way in his pursuit of filmmaking excellence. With his sanguinary “Vengeance Trilogy,” comprising Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and […]