Oh, you’e writing CAT this year and are feeling jittery because this time you’re going to be wielding a mouse? Some people lose sleep because of CAT while others chase CAT in their dreams. People in b-schools or done with their MBAs look back at their CAT preparation days with misty eyes; they’re done with […]

There’s been lots of discussion about whether OBC quotas at educational institutes are justified or not and now we have some hard facts to back up the chatter. Half a dozen students belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) have made it to the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) after applying through the general […]

There is no lack of ways to get information in this day and age; all it takes are the right amount of keywords. However, we still rely more on the information given by a person than by a website, a magazine or a journal. The spoken word holds more water here than the written word. […]

The Budget-2009 has allocated Rs.15, 429 crore (Rs.154.29 billion), including a planned allocation of Rs.9,600 crore. The break up is as follows: 1) UGC has been provided Rs 4,374.95 crore, which includes expenditure for both Central and Deemed Universities.2) The allocation for Central Universities includes allocation of Rs 1,033 crore for implementation of OBC reservation […]

The Right to Information (RTI) Act is not another law which results in cases hanging around in court rooms for years without any action coming through. In a major development, the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi has revealed the marks breakup for the entire batch of students admitted to the institute in 2008. Prof […]

Relationships are meant to last. And they are meant to grow. And who can better demonstrate that than our very own forum members at PaGaLGuY.com. I have recently joined the company and was blessed with a chance to go for an All India PaGaLGuY meet (AIPGM) soon after joining. This is where I saw the […]

Students will benefit from this year’s Union Budget but there is a lot which remains to be done on the part of the government. Let’s go with the facts first. It’s been declared that students from weaker sections of society will not have to pay any interest during the study period for loans which are […]

Some time back, I wrote about the view points of directors of various business institutions on the Yashpal report. Recently I got Ajit Rangnekar, Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad to present his views on the same document; He had some interesting suggestions: a) Abolition of all regulatory bodies such as the AICTE […]

A Talk with the Director SIMS makes you put an MBA in perspective. Quite simply. Brig Rajiv Divekar is a retired Army brigadier who did his MBA while still at services and through it realized the ‘why’ of his own job. He still believes that this is what an MBA ought to do for a […]

Nothing can stop you from taking a pause at the dome of Symbiosis Institute of Management (SIMS), look up and say a few words in its praise. The colored stripes intercepted with translucent ones create a semi luminescent environment below which is as close to serene as it gets. No wonder it is prohibited to […]