SPJIMR shines on GE Day - Part 2

About GE Day: http://www.ge.com/in/imagination/index.html

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11 November 2006: Rachit was geared up for his maiden flight, I was freaking out, and somehow we made it to the airport on time, thanks to Loki and Dheelu aka Vinit. Lucky Rachit and Addy had a beautiful damsel for company on the flight…Rachit even gave up his window seat for her!! They went on discussing the business model with her, RJ was almost feeling ‘J’ coz he had Ranjan and me for company. Anyways, 2 hours and we were in Delhi.

12 November 2006: The day started as usual, I was the last guy to get ready. We left for USI, that’s where the Semi Final was being held. We went round and round Delhi, till we finally reached half an hour late. We joined the presentation and were just in time to attend the one on IMLP (Information Management Leadership Program) at GE.

The presentations began, and trust me guys, there is a dearth of ideas on this planet. The first few were not that impressive. Then came our chance. My hands were all sweating….it was my first presentation in front of a formal, unknown audience and that too standing on stage. Our presentation went well (as said by my team-mates, don’t want to sound like I’m bragging ;) ). We finished well within our time limit and we handled the questions from the panel quite well. There were some rather insightful questions from the audience but we managed to convince them as well.

It helped to get a lot of compliments from the other B-schools. But the competition kept getting stiffer. The best compliment for me came from Mr Sunil Khurana, Director, GE Commercial Finance, he said “This was the best presentation I have seen and I enjoyed it”. GE decided to announce the Top 6 teams the next day, and whoever was chosen would have to present right at that moment at “The Grand”.

13 November 2006: We reached the venue “The Grand” on time. Those were moments of anxiety. We were sitting there waiting for the best to happen to us. However, I guess life isn’t that easy…I mean to win a PPO at GE…just 6 months into this program, against second year students from the best B-schools in the country would have been a stupendous achievement. Yeah it didn’t happen, but what was heart warming to see was the professionalism with which each one of us handled it. Three Cheers !! To all of us….Cheers!! Cheers!! Cheers!! We knew we had a job at hand and Addy (The placom guy) immediately got to it.

By the way, the 6 teams that got short-listed were very good and had brilliant ideas. There was a lot of learning for us, by just watching their presentations. I am listing down some of these…because we did sit down and analyze where we lacked and some things that came up were:

About the presentation...

The Positives:

1. Visually the presentation was very good to look at.
2. The business idea was very innovative and unique (We still believe it was the best idea in its segment that day)
3. The delivery was very good. (Everybody was convinced, even the judges)

Improvement Areas:

1. The presentation needed to be more STRUCTURED. This would have made it self-explanatory and increased CLARITY.
2. The DEPTH of research, should have been much more.
3. Our technology should have been emphasized and we should have looked at maybe a more implementable technology solution
4. We worked hard on the financials, but we were not able to present them properly.
   
5. Though we had a lot of winning propositions, we could have projected them better and should have identified and stated some of the others. What I am trying to say here is that we should have left any room for ambiguity.

However, GE DAY was not just a B-school competition, it was much bigger. The magnitude of the event may be understood by the fact that the GE DAY happens each year in a different country and this was the first time it happened in India. The people who attended, were the top leadership at GE, in the lines of Director, VP’s etc. Most GE employees were not even invited. The exhibition that showcased the different businesses and products of GE was one of the best I’ve seen and the Directors themselves were guiding us through what their business does and how.

All in all…it was a great learning experience to be an ambassador for SP Jain at GE DAY.

Cheers,
Kartik

IIMA Confluence - Advitiya team Fotos

IIMA Confluence - Aarohi team Fotos

Futball - Fotos

Gita Shibir - Fotos

Buddays - Fotos

Dandiya - Fotos

Independence Day - Fotos

PG Lab - Fotos part1

Dilli ab duur nahin!

Sudhir Kumar Jena & Parijat Kumar have secured FIRST place in POWER UP event (B-plan contest) at FMS FIESTA!! The other teams that were in the fray during the final round were ISB, IIFT and FMS. Hearty congrats folks!

- Special correspondents P&G (Partho n Ganga), Bistrobanter - New Delhi

SPJIMR shines on GE Day - Part 1

This is first of the two parts of the article written by Kartikeya Rathore about his team Panacea's experience before, during and after GE Day. The guys who made us proud were Rahul Jain aka RJ, Rachit Agarwal, Abhishek Ranjan, Aditya Baliga aka Addy and Kartikeya Rathore of PGDSM MIT 03. Good goin guys!
- Ganga

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13^th Oct – 3rd Nov: Just before we left for our Diwali holidays we had registered for the GE Day. The opportunity was exciting, GE was a dream company and the prizes were just the icing on the cake. There was no way we would let this go!! Within 30 minutes of receiving the email the team was formed, the topic was decided as “Early Health Solution – Is India Ready For It” and not as “Potable Water”, the registration was done, and the tasks divided for holidays. So, Rachit and Ranjan had to research Cancer as a disease area; Rahul had to look at how hospitals actually go about understanding the market for Healthcare equipment; Addy was looking at the statistics ad trends; and me – I decided to work on the business model.

We had our short-listing round of presentations on the 3^rd of November 2006. There were 77 teams across India, that had registered and only about 1 in 3 were going to get an opportunity to participate on GE DAY on the 13 November 2006.

We were back from holidays and there was little time, the brainstorming sessions started and we put together the ideas we had during our holidays. The business model was decided and we had our first cut presentation. It was sent to the GE team and we were now waiting for the presentations to happen. Soon we realized there were many errors in our presentation – the spellings weren’t right, there was a issue with the version of Office being used and so all the images were turned upside down. And we couldn’t do much about it. We decided to go through with what we had.

On the 3^rd, the VC didn’t work, and we had to go along with a tele conference. Anyways, we did what we had to and when we got out, honestly, there we thought our chances of making it to the semi finals were meek.

6^th Nov – 10^th Nov: Rachit and Addy would agree with me…when I say the emotions were running high…they wouldn’t forget the moment I ran into their rooms and screamed “We are going to Delhi”. Frantic phone calls were made to let Ranjan and RJ know as well. Actually everybody was tensed and none believed me when I told them that we were going to Delhi. Anyways a copy of the mail convinced them all, Soon we realized we were the only team from SP Jain and also the only team from the Mumbai segment to make it through to the Semi’s. It was a proud moment for all of us and also a huge moment as we realized this maybe was our chance to let the GE world know PGDSM MIT exists and is good enough, if not the best.

The preparation began for the final presentation and the business models were tweaked over the next few nights. The brainstorming sessions happened through out the nights and everybody was researching and working hard in those few days. It was a common sight to see RJ and Rachit scratching their heads working over the financials, Ranjan listening to webcasts to understand the latest technological research in Cancer. Addy was looking at the Trends and the Multi Level Marketing aspect. And thanks to the help from Lalwani Sir and Renuka Ma’am, we arrived at a model that we thought would work. Me – I was just freaking out.

Anyways, the presentation was made…a few trial runs were done in front of some our batchmates and we were geared up for the challenge...

Cheers,
Kartik

What’s your story?

Folks! This is the debut article of Ruby Singh...Read on!

This article which is based on HBS case study will guide you how to justify a drastic career change with grace, confidence & conviction. . Most of us confuse this transition as a time of loss, insecurity, diffidence & uncertainty. This article will emphasize on the importance of a compelling yet genuine story to back up your move.

“All of us construct narrative stories about ourselves-where we’ve come from, where we’re going wrong. The kind of stories we tell make an enormous difference in how well we cope up with change”
-Harvard Business Review

Stories are integral parts of our life because they define us. To know someone, it’s imperative to know her story -the environment that has shaped her, the turning points, challenges & odds that have tested her.

Case study says “Seldom a good story so needed, though, as when a significant change of professional direction is underway-when we are leaving one profession without yet having left it and moving towards another without yet having gotten there. In a time of such unsettling transition, telling a compelling story to interviewers-inspires belief in our motives, charcter & capacity to reach the goal we have set for ourselves.”

Creating & telling a story that matches with our condition & convictions also helps us believe in ourselves. Most of us confuse this transition as a time of loss, insecurity, diffidence & uncertainty. We vacillate between holding on to the past & embracing the future.why? It’s because we have lost the narrative thread of our professional life. Without a compelling story that lends meaning, unity & purpose to our lives, we feel lost & rudderless. We need a good story to reassure that our plans make sense.

The question is why these transition stories are so important? This is because the person who will be facing the transition consequences will be you & what’s at stake is your career. Only love, life & death could be more important. Transition is always about a world that’s changed. You’ve somehow decided that your life doesn’t work anymore the way it was working in past. Perhaps you have reached a point of no return-one that marks the end of a period of frustration & struggle. This much of effort requires a systematic approach to get maximum return.

Hence, a good yet genuine story is essential for making a successful transition.Yet most of us fail to use power of storytelling to match our conviction & goals. Or when we craft a story we do it badly, this may be because many of us have forgotten how to tell a story.

Let’s discuss key elements which will make your story successful

· The story must be about a person or group whose struggle listener can relate to.

· The story should include the catalyst that compelled the person to take major decision.

· The obstacles, frustrations, conflicts confronted by the person should be integral to the story because it reflects the strength of the character to fight against odd.

· Turning point, a point of no return should be the crux of the story. The person can no longer see or do things as he did in past.

· A resolution, in which the person either succeeds magnificently or fails tragically.

Coherence, it’s an essential narrative element because it earns the listener’s trust.


- Ruby Singh

All the best folks!

The following participants of PGDSM MIT 03 will be representing SPJIMR in various events at FMS Fiesta 2006. Wish you a happy journey guys! All the best!

Power Up

1) Sudhir Jena

2) Parijat Kumar

Bankex

3) Rakesh Josyula

4) Sohamnath Mannem

Nascence

5) Parijat Kumar

6) Sohamnath Mannem

Big Companies Big Mistakes

7) Navneet Nayyar

8) Rachit Agarwal

9) Vinit Parekh

Genesis

10) Vishal Dedhia

11) Amit Kumar

Cheers,

Ganga

IMZine paper results

IMZine paper contest is a wonderful initiative from SBUIM06 (pgp). The top three papers this time are -

1st Prize - Amlan Mukherjee

2nd Prize - Swati Mukherjee & Souvik Das

3rd Prize - Navneet Kaur Nayyar & Delzin P Irani (PGDSM MIT03)

Congrats everybody!

Cheers,
Ganga

AMC learns to check drop-outs in school

It is heartening to note that Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is planning to implement some of the ideas that the teams from SPJIMR (teams Advitiya and Aarohi) and IIM-A have proposed. The topic of our paper was “State of elementary education in Ahmedabad”. The Indian Express and Gujarat Samachar have written about this (27.nov.06).

Meryll Lynch ko supercomp kyu mangta?

May be 'coz lot of their money is riding on the commodities market...and supercomps do a good job of climatic predictions and cluster analysis. You get the drift..

On 2nd December, Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan shared with us his experiences in building the world's third fastest supercomputer, System X. Dr. Srinidhi is the Director, Centre for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS), Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA
and CTO and Co-Founder of Evergrid Inc.

In this talk, Dr. Varadarajan gave us an insight about the entry barriers, production and marketing challenges faced while bringing to market a product (supercomp) whose life cycle is just 4-5 years and of which 5 units will be made. He also presented the motivation for System X, its architecture and upgrades, user experiences, the challenges faced in building, deploying and maintaining a large-scale supercomputer, and his thoughts about trends in supercomputers and high performance computing.

Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, at the age of 31, was credited with building the world's third fastest supercomputer, from the ground up. His path breaking approach has given a new direction to the world of supercomputers and high performance computing.

System X was conceived in March 2003 and had achieved a sustained performance of 10.28 Teraflops, making it the third fastest supercomputer in the world at that time. Unlike other supercomputers, System X was built out of 1100 ordinary Apple Macintosh desktop computers wired together. This revolutionary approach made it possible to build supercomputers at a fraction of the prevailing cost.

Biography:

Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2000. He presently serves as the Director of the Centre for High-End Computing Systems at Virginia Tech and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Varadarajan is the recipient of the ComputerWorld Honors Award in the Science Category 2004, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Egg Factory Technology Innovation award and a Faculty Fellow award from the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. He was also honored by the MIT Technology Review in 2004 as one of the top 100 young innovators transforming technology. He is listed by HPCWire as one of the top 15 researchers worldwide in the area of supercomputing.

Dr. Varadarajan hails from Ahmedabad, where he did his schooling at St. Xaviers' Mirzapur. He then went on to receive his B.Tech in Computer Science at REC Warangal. He worked as a research assistant at IIM Ahmedabad with Prof. B. H. Jajoo during his school and college days.

Cheers,
Ganga

FMS Fiesta - Selection (Power Up)

Sudhir Jena and Parijat Kumar have been shortlisted for the final round of 'Power Up' contest.
The other teams that are selected are ISB, IIFT and FMS. The final round will be held at FMS, Delhi on December 9-10th, 2006. Congrats folks!!

Results Page: http://fmsfiesta.com/downloads/Fiesta_PowerUp_Results.pdf

Cheers,
Ganga

FMS Fiesta - Waiting List (Mayhem)

Sonal, Shireen and Saurabh (team Advitiya) are in the waitlist for the event 'Mayhem'.
Check out http://fmsfiesta.com/downloads/Fiesta_Mayhem_Results.pdf

Cheers,
Ganga

FMS Fiesta - Selection (Team Bankerz)

Rakesh Josyula and Sohamnath Mannem have been shortlisted for the second round of Bankex-the online simulation game! Round II of Bankex will be a 4 day event and will run daily starting from 4th December, 8 pm. The teams would be allowed to login and submit their decisions till 11 PM.

Way to go!!

Cheers,
Ganga

FMS Fiesta - Nascence: Selection

Parijat Kumar and Sohamnath Mannem have been shortlisted in FMS FIESTA paper presentation (Nascence)! The final round will be held at FMS, Delhi on December 9-10th, 2006. Congrats folks!!

The other teams in the final round are - ISB, NITIE, IIMC, FMS and MICA.


Results page: http://fmsfiesta.com/downloads/Fiesta_Nascence_Results.pdf


Cheers,
Ganga

FMS Fiesta - Selection (team The Crusaders)

Navneet Nayyar, Rachit Agarwal and Vinit Parekh have been shortlisted in FMS FIESTA paper presentation (Focus Event - Big Companies Big Mistakes)!

The final round will be held at FMS, Delhi on December 9th, 2006. Hearty congrats to 'The Crusaders'!!


The other teams in the final round are - IIMC and 2 teams from FMS. http://fmsfiesta.com/downloads/Fiesta_BigCos_Results.pdf


Cheers,
Ganga

FMS Fiesta - Selection (team Lakshya)

Vishal Dedhia and Amit Kumar have done us proud again! They have been shortlisted for the prestigious FMS FIESTA paper presentation (GENESIS-Ring of HR) & will be rocking the capital city this time!!

The other teams in the final round are - XIME, SCMHRD, DSE, SIBM and MDI.

Results page: http://fmsfiesta.com/downloads/Fiesta_Genesis_Results.pdf


Cheers,
Special correspondent - Divya Dhankar, Bistrobanter - New Delhi

MyVT...

Hokie Nation has taken to Virginia's highways. . . and they have the license plates to prove it.

Virginia Tech was among 41 organizations that recently received checks from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles based on the sale of revenue-sharing license plates during the last (2005-06) fiscal year. As a result, Virginia Tech received $214,000—more than twice the amount of any of the other 82 in- and out-of-state colleges and universities that have revenue sharing license plates.

Monies received through this program go directly to support undergraduate scholarships for Virginia residents.

“In addition to showing your support for Virginia Tech, these license plates can make a world of difference in the lives of our students,” said Barry Simmons, director of scholarships and financial aid. “The funds received through this program over the years have helped dozens of students from lower income families gain access to and afford a Virginia Tech education.”

“The DMV implemented the revenue sharing program in 1992, and it’s a great way individuals can shore their support of their favorite cause or institution,” said Bill Foy, public relations manager for Virginia DMV. “Revenue sharing plates cost $25, in addition to vehicle registration fees. After the sale of the first 1,000 plates, $15 of the $25 fee is transferred to the designated organization. Individuals who registered their vehicles with special plates helped generate $2,209,440 for their favorite schools and causes this past year.”

Currently, three license plates are available that support Virginia Tech. The original plate displays the university seal in maroon in the center of the plate. The second design has the university’s shield on the left in maroon and orange with the words “Go Hokies” written across the bottom of the plate in maroon. The third plate features the Athletic Department’s VT logo with “Go Hokies” written on the bottom.

Guys, please share your thoughts on implementing such a revenue sharing model here in Indian state RTOs...We could generate a few millions for education of underprivileged. What are the business opportunities? What are the entry barriers? Pls shoot your comments...

News Courtesy: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2006&itemno=634

(By Mark Owczarski)

Happy Birthday Subir!!

Here's wishing Subir Mitra many many happy returns of the day!

Amdavad Calling!

Two teams from PGDSM MIT 03 had made it to the final round of IIM-A Confluence ‘Managing Nations’ case contest.

• Team Advitiya - Shireen, Marietta, Saikumar Swamy, Saurabh Mantri, Ankur Joshi and Sonaal Bangera
• Team Aarohi – Anamitra, Partha, Sukanya, Shruti, Moon and Ganga

The results are out!

First Place: SPJIMR - Team Advitiya

Second Place: IIM-A

Third Place: SPJIMR - Team Aarohi

The other teams in the final round were IIM-C, FMS and IIFT.

Cheers,
Ganga

TAPMI Young Biz Leader Contest - Selection

Somansh Bansal has made it to TAPMI's "Young Business Leader Contest"! TAPMI & Infosys are the joint sponsors. 15 contestants from top B schools are participating in this event. YBL is scheduled to be held from 1st to 3rd December 2006. Shine on Somansh!!

IIM-A Confluence - Selection (team Advitiya)

Shireen, Marietta, Saikumar Swamy, Saurabh Mantri, Ankur Joshi and Sonaal Bangera have been selected for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on 'the state of elementary education in Ahmedabad'. The final presentation would be during Confluence, on 26 th November at IIM-Ahmedabad. Hearty congrats!! Book your tickets asap...













The results page is at
http://www.iima-confluence.com/sessions/manations/case2_results_rules.php

The final battle will be fought among -

Team Name	Institute
JOSH	IIFT, New delhi
Aarohi	SPJIMR
Advitiya	SPJIMR
11:59:59	IIM Ahmedabad
Acumen	FMS, Delhi
Theteamwhichsoldtheworld	IIM Calcutta

Cheers,
Ganga

IIM-A Confluence - Selection (team Aarohi)

Anamitra, Ganga, Sukanya, Moon, Partha and Shruti have been selected for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on 'the state of elementary education in Ahmedabad'. The final presentation would be during Confluence, on 26 th November at IIM-Ahmedabad.













The results page is at http://www.iima-confluence.com/sessions/manations/case2_results_rules.php

The competition looks something like this -

Team Name	Institute
JOSH	IIFT, New delhi
Aarohi	SPJIMR
Advitiya	SPJIMR
11:59:59	IIM Ahmedabad
Acumen	FMS, Delhi
Theteamwhichsoldtheworld	IIM Calcutta

Cheers,
Ganga

SCMHRD-Neev '06 - Selection (Mavericks)

It has been a wonderful day for PGDSM MIT 03! Flashnews..now from SCHMRD-Neev'06. Javed and Tarun Gupta (team Mavericks) have been selected for the final round of "Measure for Measure" to be held on 25th November at SCMHRD. Their paper was about HR case study analysis. Hearty congrats!!!




Cheers,
Ganga

Flashnews: IIM-A Confluence - Selection! (Spandan)

Rohit Upadhyay, Parijat Kumar and Parag Mukherjee (team SPANDAN) have been selected for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on Gujarat Gas. The final stage would be during Confluence, on 24th November at IIM-Ahmedabad. Congrats guys!
The url for the result page is http://www.iima-confluence.com/sessions/manations/case1_results.php

The battle lines are drawn...

Team/ Team Leader	Institute
Raghuram KS	CEIBS
Lokesh Chaudhary	ESADE
Barry Neal	SAID
Parijat Kumar	SPJIMR
Kartikey Singh	XLRI
Anurag Khetan	IIMA
Atisha Banjare	IIMB

Cheers,
Ganga

Flashnews from IIM-A Confluence - Waitlist

Chandan, Guru, Major Bappaditya and Adi K (team Zion) are in the waitlist for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on Gujarat Gas. The final stage would be during Confluence, on 24th November at IIM-Ahmedabad. Way to go, guys!!

Cheers,
Ganga

Workshop on APICS Certification

Guest Lecture by: Mr. Pradeep Khetan (CPIM, APICS certified)

On 30th September we had arranged a guest lecture by Mr. Pradeep Khetan, head of APICS Indian Chapter. He discussed and clarified the concepts of SCM and Operation Management.
Objective of the workshop was to discuss -

• What is APICS?
• What is Operations Management?
• CPIM Certification
• What is SCM?
• CSCP Certification
• CPIM/CSCP must for ERP/SCM/Operations Management career
• APICS-Consulting/Manufacturing firmsFuture of Operations Management/SCM

Mr. Khetan gave a holistic view about how APICS Certification helps an Individual to grow in the organization. He emphasized more on IT/Service industries. Further, he talked about the organizations that are in SCM consultancy and implementation. Some of the big players are Atos Origin, Accenture, Bristlecone India Ltd, Cognizant, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting India Pvt Ltd, Genpact, Datamatics Ltd, IBM Global, Infosys Technologies, I2 technology, L&TITL, Oracle India Pvt Ltd, PCS, QAD, SAP, Satyam, SSA Global Ltd.

Mr. Khetan is very much eager to help us in arranging guest lectures from various industries. Following are some of renowned personalities in the IT industry who are APICS certified:

• Mr Vivek Marla, CPIM, Senior Director, Oracle India Pvt Ltd
• Ms Mythily Ramesh, CPIM, VP & Business Head, Wipro Ltd
• Mr Satish Kumar Das, CPIM, Chief Security Officer, CTS (I) Ltd
• Mr K L Bhaskaran, CPIM, CSCP, General Manager-Logistics- TCS
• Ms Shalini Sinha, CPIM, Asst VP, Genpact
• Mr Sriram K Moorthy, CPIM, VP, Supply Chain Services, Genpact
• Mr Sameer Khetarpal, CPIM, Asst VP-Operations, Genpact
• Mr Prasad Akerkar, CPIM, CSCP, Practice Head - SAP Logistics, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd
• Mr Vijay P. Motwani, CPIM, Country Manager, SAP Indonesia
• Mr Chandrasekhar Kaza, CPIM, CSCP, Senior Manager-Capgemini Consulting

There are five Exams one has to give to get APICS CPIM certified. The five exams are –

• Basics of Supply Chain Management
• Master Planning of Resources
• Detailed Scheduling and Planning
• Execution and Control of OperationsStrategic Management of Resources

2006 Exam Dates for CPIM are:

Exam date Form filling deadline

• March 11, 2006 January 15/ January 22, 2006
• June 17, 2006 April 22 / April 29, 2006
• September 23, 2006 July 29 / August 05, 2006
• December 02, 2006 October 07 / October 14, 2006

He also discussed about Certified Supply Chain Professional exam. A CSCP certified professional is supposed to have in depth knowledge in four domains:

• Supply Chain Management Fundamentals
• Building Competitive Operations Planning and Logistics
• Managing Customer and Supplier Relationships
• Using Information Technology to Enable Supply Chain Management

It was a very informative session and helped the participants of PGDSM MIT to get initiated about SCM. Also, helped us understand how SCM facilitates the processes in organizations.

Cheers,
Amit Kumar

Pinch Hit: Winning streak continues..

PGDSM MIT beat PGDM by a whopping 88 run margin. Arvind made a splendid 28 runs and garnered 2 wickets. Nitin scored 22 with some impressive stroke play and took 2 wickets. Arvind was declared Man of the Match.










Scorecards - Courtesy: sCuLpToRs 06

Cheers,
Ganga

Fine Leg: PGDSM MIT record big win over PGP1

PGP1 won the toss and elected to field. PGDSM MIT sent the cherry all over the field. Apna shek..Abhishek Ranjan made a fluent 38. A dubai sheik gifted him a yellow SUV for his remarkable debut of the season...













Arvind finished the match with a splendid bowling figure of 5-14. Arvind was declared Man of the Match. His Audi Avant has run into customs problems!



Scorecards - Courtesy: sCuLpToRs 06

Kurukshetra – Do you have it in you to be the last one standing?

Our experience: The Journey from Mumbai to Bhubaneswar and then back to Mumbai

Bahuth lambi chowdi kahani hai… I shall try my best to present it crisp…

12th October 2006 10:30 pm
2 days before the start of our diwali vacations… I somehow managed to get my tickets booked earlier and had reached home by that time…

Tring Tring… Amit calling…I ended up waking everyone up at home when I let out a shriek… “Woooow thts a good news… Our paper got selected!!”

1st November 2006 04:30 am

Terribly tired and deprived of sleep, we somehow managed to catch a Taxi at that hr to airport… Worse state was Amit’s after receiving the much dreaded b’day kicks from those victims who were literally waiting for this day to come..Ganga and I managed to catch some sleep onboard… But poor Amit could neither sit nor stand with his seat belts tied. Vishal was fultoo engrossed in his new hobby. Shooting clouds from inside the flight.

08:30 am : We reached Kolkatta. Managed to get a taxi after some 20 odd mins. Decided to take a short tour of Kolkatta. The taxiwala agreed to take us to a place for breakfast, wait for us there, take us to places around and finally drop us at Howrah by 1 pm. We went round and round almost half of the city (via Park street) of Kolkatta in search of breakfast. Our states went to the worst from worse. At last by 10:30 we found a Haldiram’s outlet. From there we went to Victoria memorial and then visited the famous bridges of Kolkatta and finally landed at Howrah at 1:20 pm. Had a hurried lunch and boarded our train to Bhubaneswar at 1: 35 pm.


10:30 pm : Finally we reached XIMB. Pleasant weather was welcoming and so was our assigned buddy Pradyum of XIMB. Xburns (campfire and a tug-of-war for students of XIMB) was going on when we entered the campus which was filled with greenery. Well laid roads and planned buildings – We were comparing what ever we saw there with our SPJAIN campus. Our Mess, Bistro and classrooms – Thinking about them was reassuring. :-)

The day finally got over and we managed to catch the most awaited sleep after the longest day. For Amit it was one hell of a B’day.

The next day simply passed with our preparations and a panel discussion in the evening on the topic “ Indian Steel sector- The way ahead ”.

3rd November 2006 12:00 am:

Ganga's B'day.. Had lotsa fun singing and dancing. We jus posed as if we are kicking him and took snaps. :-)

3rd November 2006 08:30 am

ENTERING GURUKUL

The D day dawned. It was a sense of pride indeed for me to be there competing against the likes of IIM ABCK, XLRI, MDI, TAPMI and XIMB. After wishing each other good luck we took different ways to our respective venues.

I was totally blank that morning. No fear… No tension…No expectation…No anxiety… Blank means blank… We were told as soon as we entered that we would be presenting first. First mover’s advantage proved to be a disadvantage. The projector did not co-operate. With few hits here and there we got it working. I tried to crack a joke in the meantime and somehow got the judges smiling. Finally we started again with a Good Morning to all.

Our presentation was finally over and with every team coming up on stage the competition grew fierce. After couple of hours results were out. Ganga and Vishal (MarkVeda) progressed to Chakravyuh, the next round. The competing teams in MarkVeda being equally strong all the four teams were qualified to the next round. Amit and I stood first in OpVeda and it was indeed rewarding for the efforts that went into the making of the paper after much research and survey.

Here ends the first part of the kahani…

4 of us were rejoicing as we entered the next round.
What happens next? What awaited us in CHAKRAVYUH?
How much more memorable did Ganga's B'day become?

See ya soon with more interesting parts of our AdVeNturous trip.

Cheers!
Sukanya.

SPJIMR in Venice!

Flashnews folks..from SCHMRD-Neev'06. Divya Dhankar and Vinit Parekh have made it to the waitlist in the event "Merchant of Venice". The topic of their paper was "Farmer's Fresh Dilemma". Check out the results page at http://www.scmhrd.edu/neev06/results.htm

The result page is a forest of I's and M's and X's and N's...You have done us proud.

Cheers,
Ganga

Make a wish

sweet smell of cake on ya face…

dancin’ flame on the candle that says..

moments wid friends are much like here-caught-now-flew butterflies..

gonna miss ‘em as the years pace..

- freshly brewed and dedicated to pgdsm mit 03!

Cheers,
Ganga

Dr. Balci has arrived

It is a great pleasure for the students and faculty of PGDSM MIT to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Osman Balci. Dr. Balci is the professor of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.Dr. Balci will be here with us from 13.11.06 to 17.11.06. He will be teaching ‘Software Engineering’ to PGDSM MIT 03 participants.


Cheers,
PRCom