Wharton MBA

Rediff.com published an article informative about seeking admission into the reputed MBA programme of Wharton Business School; Here are some excepts from the article:

Why would you give up two years without a salary and get into significant debt for an MBA?" The question came from Thomas Caleel, director, MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

It was an extremely valid query -- one every student who decides to do an MBA ought to ask himself or herself even before looking for the right place where he or she could do it. Why do you want an MBA? Is it because you think it's the thing to have on your CV? Or is it because you know it will enhance your chances of success? Questions like these popped up repeatedly during a recent Indian reception for potential candidates at the Wharton School.

"Do your homework," was Caleel's advice. "Wharton is not the right place for everyone. Find out what a school's culture is." Again, a valid point. For those who have decided on an MBA, the choice of school is crucial, considering it is where you will spend a minimum two years of your life. As any student studying abroad will tell you, every university comes with its own character, its own culture, its own set of values. The kind of individual you are should determine the kind of school you pick.

"I would never say an MBA is the right thing for everyone," adds Caleel, "nor would I say an MBA at Wharton is right for everyone. I think it is very important for candidates to have a good understanding of themselves and why they are getting an MBA. Wharton offers tremendous things for the right person. It offers an unparalleled breath and depth of offerings in terms of curriculum. We have over 250 professors with over 200 electives being taught. It also offers a global network of nearly 80,000 alumni!"

So, assuming you would like to do your MBA at Wharton, here's what you should do.

For detailed study here is the link:

http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2005/oct/06wharton.htm

Gandhi and Nobel

Mahatma Gandhi never received Nobel Peace Prize; though he is seen as one of the epic human beings who walked on earth; comparision for him can be done only with the God's incarnates.
(Courtesy: Times of India Site)

Here is the link:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1256755.cms

Four Blogs within 40 hours..

So, I am about to complete my fourth blog indited within the past 40 hours.

Guess, how eventful these few hours have had for me!!

First things first, I have a midsem paper tomorrow. Junta in Kgp have started executing their celebrations plans which they had so carefully crafted while screwing their time on those damn notes of the professors for Midsems. Some are gone, going or will go(does not matter for me) to several hangout zones of Kgpians..Cal Park Street(bandis are too huhaaa here!!), Aquatica(ohh..this splash of water!!), and some have confined themselves to LS bar, Venky's etc etc or are boozing in their wing or room.

And see me, I have to give myself for the sixth and final assault by those 2 hour long midsem papers when half of the time is usually spent on leaving some papers of the answer sheet with the intent to clear some so unhealthy blockage in some distant corner of your short-term memory cells.(tissue would be the right word..but number of cells in the short term memory location of your brain has considerably dwindled over the last three years of your stay in IIT..no doubt about it.) Anyway, some how you manage to pen some formulae and solve some fraction of some problems and leave the room in a hurry to escape from that dyspneal surrounding.

By God, any how midsems' papers go by; but a somewhat wierd thing happened to me today.
We had our class on Evolutionary Computing taken by Prof.D.K.Pratihar today; hey i am so eager to make this issue publicly covert that i have mentioned the name of the professor also, come what may come!!So Pratihar Sir decided to give us surprise presentation of midsems' answer sheets fully checked. Midsems khatam nahi hua ab papers deekhana shuru...bachche ki jaan loge kyaa??..With his phenomenal pitch of voice, He didnot hesitate to take my name in front of whole class.."SK Sahoo, You are moving towards the end of the class.".Man, this man has not forgotten me, I had bunked only four classes that too, two for being suffering from malaria fever. Eventually the marks I received also didnot delight me. I am really obsessed with anathema for that course, I am so poor in coding stuffs(a poor soul somehow managing to be a mechanical engg.), algothirms dread me like anything and all of a sudden a course arrives in final year with "Evolutionary" tag attached to computing.

SRK:"I do not do anything overtly macho; so people think I am effeminate"

Excepts of an interview of KIng KHan :

(Courtesy: Times of India Site)

#On his recent ad campaign for a beauty soap making round of rumours about his act epitomising the 'gay man's fantasy':

>>>>I found it very strange. For me, when I signed the campaign there was no analysis attached in terms of sexuality. I think it’s an over-simplification of things, because I usually don’t do anything overtly macho, so people think I am effeminate, which is OK by me.

#Soaps's ad are traditionally women's domain:

>>>>The people who talk about me don’t know me well enough. I am very happy being what I am. I don’t need to make a gesture from charity to masculinity, from goodness to meanness to prove a point to anybody. I cannot sit down and rectify people’s perceptions. Unlike earlier, when I used to get affected by such comments, today I don’t react. I am very confident about myself, my children, my family and friends. That’s what matters. I am comfortable with my inner world. The outer world will have a lot of takes on me and now, I am comfortable with even that. I don’t have to prove anything to anybody.

#On the recent documentary on him to be made by Nasreen Munni kabeer named "Inner and Outer World of SRK":

>>>>It is very difficult to demarcate my inner and outer world. It’s the perception of the maker.

#On rumours that Chopra camp and SRK have drifted away:

>>>>We are not related to each other because of our work as people wrongly think ki char picture saath mein banayi toh close ho gaye. On the contrary, we made the films because we are close to each other. Adi and I have no problem, because we are the same age and know how things work here. But with Yashji, there’s an age gap and such rumours can get embarrassing. He is very emotional about all this. He tells me, log jab yeh sab puchte hain toh bahut sharm aati hai. We never discuss work. He calls me up and says, yeh film karni hai, and I don’t ask him further. I just do it. Even with Veer Zara, I didn’t hear the story. He asked me to do it and I did it. We never discuss money and don’t have any contracts. That’s my equation with him,”

#On rumours that there is cold war between Amitabh Bachchan and him:

>>>>I think all this is related to the set of rumours that talk of Yash Chopra and me drifting apart. Why should anybody try to spread something like this? Who has the time? Amitji is a gentleman and everyone knows him. He is a big star, somebody who we’ve grown up watching. I respect him for that. He is a friend and so is his family. Abhishek is a close friend. Jaya aunty calls Gauri and me her children.

Benefits of Nishkama Karma

Recently I read a wonderful article on the topic of fruitless(motiveless) service or "Nishkama Karma" in ET; and I positively felt for the intent that article desired to carry. I have decided to note down some lines of the article in this blog of mine.

>>Valuvar, author of great Tamil work, Tirukkural, notes that all worldly attachments should be renonced gradually and in right time.

>>Socrates declares, "To have no wants is divine".

>>Total renounciation of worldly bounds and possessions could actually prove impractical in many cases. However, the concept of renouncing the fruits of one's actions could, in fact, prove not only practical but also rewarding.

>>Bhagwad Gita has a famous injunction : "You have rights only to the action; never to its fruits".

>>In this state of reorientation of priorities, all actions are performed as discharge of one's sublime duty with joy and dedication, as rewards in themselves. In fact the Gita terms this approach as true sacrifice(tyaga) and total renounciation(sanyasa).

>>Modern management concepts and also scientific and practical studies, as that of American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on 'flow' and clarity has also borne out the fact that power, concentrationa and effectiveness are concomitant with any work done for its own sake, regardless of status, money or acclaim that may accrue in consequence. This indeed is nishkama karma or Karma Yoga, whereby energy, anxities and obsessive analysis that would otherwise have been expended on brooding over the results are now channeled to constructive and effective work. This actually serves to contribute to the favourable final outcome.

BSE Index up and rising: Mt. 8500 scaled.

The journey of Bombay Stock Exchange over past months:

>>15th May 2003: BSE reaches 3000.

>>25th June 2003: BSE scales 3500.

>>19th August 2003: BSE marks up 4000.

>>3rd October 2003: BSE reaches 4500.

>>3rd November 2003: BSE crosses 5000.

>>19th December 2003: BSE reaches 5500.

>>2nd January 2004: BSE index scales 6000.

>>27th December 2004: Index reaches 6500.

>>21st June 2005: BSE reaches 7000.

>>25th July 2005: BSE crosses 7500.

>>8th September 2005: BSE reaches 8000.

>>20th September 2005: BSE scales 8500.



The story of BSE so far, has been bristling with a sense of urgency in rising to unscaled heights each passing day. It has brought unprecented profit to the stock investors who have been successfully able to multiply their investment money. But this success story also carries a malicious caveat too underneath its surface.

Official warning bells have been rung for the investors to be more cautious in their money-trading.

Tu meri zindagi hai..

tu jahan main wahan...
saang saang yun chalun tere, jaise tera aasman...

jo dhoop nikele.....chaya ban jayoonga...
jo ho tu akeli...saaya ban jayoonga....
jo oolzon me ho mann..main bhelyaloonga..

ho gham ke badal...mujhpe tham jane de...
bechnoyion ko..mujhpe aane de...

dhookti ho koi baat..mujhpe aane de...

Sania Marches to Top-50..

India's Tennis Sensation Sania Mirza has officially advanced to the list of Top 50 women tennis players of world.

There had been three such instances in the past where an Indian occupied a place among the top 50 tennis singles' performers.

>>>> Vijay Amritraj was ranked 16th in July 1980.

>>>> Ramesh Krishnan was ranked 23rd in 1985.

>>>> Ramesh's father Ramanathan Krishan had been world # 3, before Open Era.

Leander Paes had been to 73, which is his best ever ranking.

After Sania's success in international tennis circuit, the interest for tennis in India has gathered momentum. There has been organisation of ATP Tata Open Ranking Tennis event in Chennai everyyear. Hyderabad has also summoned considerable interest in organising tennis events of international stature.

Tennis, a originally an European past time has been followed by Asian COuntries like China, Russia , Japan in the recent past to the extent of international participation. India has a long way to go, players like Sania can only make it jaunted.

Indian Stock Market Getting Mad..

On Monday 8th August, the Bombay Stock Exchange fell by 146 pts to drop to 7600 somthg.

Over the past two months, BSE has seen a commandable rise of about 55%.

The investors got increased by one-and half fold within 2 months.

FDI..Foreign Direct Investment in India has risen considerably.

Significant boosting of Sensex has led our companies swell their market capital value.Reliance Industries became the first private Indian co to have a market cap of $1 billion. Also there has been advancement of India to the Top-10 chart of the countries having highest market value.

During the cataclysmic deluge that poured over Mumbai, Sensex had rose by around 200 pts.

Even when India had been afflicted by phenomenal Tsunami, there was ascent of Sensex.

>>Now Is Indian Stock Sensex behaving fickle or there is some sense in the economic progression of India??

P.Chidambaram , FM had recently expressed his opinion for the investors to be more cautious in their action. Now there has been a debate in Parliament when a veteran communist party leader accused the government of creating a delusive notion of the good performance of government by allowing the pouring of foreign money in large scale.

Ok, coming to Earnings per Share of 30 cos in BSE-30, which has risen to Rs.485 today makes sense for the feeling of despise among the investors towards the Indian shares being over-priced in their equality value.

One point is that the P/E ratio of the stocks, their profit to Earning ratio has not significantly risen; has been on the proximity of 15 which weakens the possibility of economic cession owing to the complex factors of supply and demand.

Lets hope for the salubrious growth of Indian Stock Market.

~Parineeta~

"Piyu Bole Priya bole kyaa e bole janoon naa....jiya dole haule haule kyon e dole janoon naa"








Parineeta---movie produced by Vidhoo Vinod Chopra is the adaptation from original Bengali classic by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhay. Last time i had heard of the bengali adaptation in the hindi movies was from Devdas by Sanjay leela Bansali also from the author.

When you adapt time-lasted classics into a movie, the movie is bound to be a hit. After all people have acceptable reason to go to the theatre; story being attractive.

Parineeta accounts on the "not so unfamiliar" love story between a rich boy and a poor girl. Saif Ali Khan being the lead actor and stunnily beautiful Vidya Balan as lead actress.The movie runs with the background of the city of Kolkata--City of Joy; undoutedly the most ornamental city of India. Those backdrops of Victorial Memorial and Howrah Bridge were used to give the feeling of "Kalkatta-an" touch on the movie.

Sanjay Dutt and Reema Sen are also influencing in the movie; so are the songs. Besides "Piyu Bole", there are "Kasto Maza","Soona Man ka Aagan","Kaisi Paheli Zindagani" to strike your eardrum with exuberant sensuality.

Financial Hub of India

City of Mumbai...erstwhile Bombay...derived from a portuguese name meaning "Good Bay"..has been devasted by the deluge, that poured over some 944 mm of water in about 21 hours; interestingly the megalopolis of India got the record of maximum amount of rainfall in the shortest span of time..overtaking the wettest village of Manipur, Cherrapunji.Now coming straight to the issue, Mumbai is what??..A city of around 15 million people, rightly regarded as the financial or commercial capital of India with its business accounting for India's half of the corporate tax collection.

Somedays back a poll was created in ET: which Indian city should be the commercial capital of India:
a) Mumbai

b) Bangalore

c) New Delhi

Now, this question seems significant as we have seen the great megalopolis of Mumbai, can be severely affected by the nature. The deluge that poured over Mumbai in the last week of July seemed to have brought this city to a standstill.

>>Somewhat around 1000 people got killed.
>>Around 1000 flights got cancelled
>>1.5 million people got stranded in the Mumbai's local trains.
>>Roads that use to carry the ambitions of the "never-say-die" Mumbaikars soon got flooded to the extent that the mumbaikars who are used to survive outdoors came out with ferries and boats.
>>Trains to the financial hub of India got invalidated.
>>Mumbai got cut-off from rest of the world.

Mumbai has the reputation of the city where Indian corporate world delivers things. Corporate Tax of Mumbai account for more than 50% of the total corporate tax collection in India. Again, Mumbai leads from the front in regards to the collection of commercial tax, IT and revenue income of the government.

Having stated those accomplishments of this city, let me come to the point of resource management. Some estimates suggest that a bit more than 5% of the total tax collection from Mumbai is actually spent in the infrastructural development of city itself.

India has conceived the ambition of having one of its cities as a regional financial hub, somewhere in the proximity of cities like Shanghai, London, Manhattan. If a city in India can carry forward that ambition , it is none other than Mumbai.In such a case, how much feasible does it stand to spend about 5% of total tax revenue of Mumbai in Mumbai itself??

"DATA DELUGE"
150 CEOs surveyed
80% Timely warning could have prevented losses
90% There are glaring gaps in infrastructure in big cities
81% Negligible part of taxes is invested in development
90% What happened to Mumbai could happen anywhere next
80% Amchi Mumbai is still the best!

These are the results of a survey conducted among some 150 CEOs of Corporate India about issues regarding weather warning, infrastructure of Mumbai, shifting the commercial capital tag to some other city.

Back to Kgp

After the third and the last summer break of my graduation, I have returned to Kharagpur. Nothing seems to be cheerful as far as my semester results are concerned..no intention really to figure the exact digit and the decimated coupled numbers..hehe..seems to have created a euphony with those words..neway..i should get into the act of delivering some words referring to my future ..(hey the future seems so near and gloomy too)...endeavours...i got to desire to establish being some one after this graduation..which has as so far seemed lacklustrous..no regrets for it though..ironically these three years have gone a long way to teach me start dwelling in a state of paradox where you believe that the results on papers dont necessarily vindicate your grasp of the affairs pertaining to it..for me, this seems to be the befitting excuse for that inappropriateness in the papers..

Ok..ready to create some confusion..first of all, let me start with some dates..we have got CAT on 20th of November..then perhaps the campus recruitment is getting underway in some point of time of December.. and of course i have to start deciding to fix the date of giving gre ..though giving gre seems partly on the rear part of my mind..

Then..some points on the desires and ambitions..i should mention these as day - dreams...for my record..first of all, i will feel more comfortable doing a services job rather than a core engineering job something related to bearings or coding...that cuts off the options of choosing a software firm recruitment or being a part of a workshop in a manufacturing plant...being a part of consulting team in a institutional manner seems a better pick..

Why CAT??....hey this question needs to be answered before giving that coveted exam..having done some working out on the limitations being a capable engineer..some soul-searching about absense of desire to swoo(fly) abroad and finding myself being a part of some P.H.D. program or more fortunate M.S. course in some U.S. university..learnt that the M.S.es are difficult to get enrolled into now a days..more so for me...now if going for M.B.A. then impossibility of getting enrolled in the Ivy League B-schools hunting me...option to finance my M.B.A. seeking some education loan seems decent prospect when the salaries of IIM pass outs have started to take some richly figures lately...then finding myself in some sort of emotional state where i have started seeking gaining sainthood in terms of relationships..no point of bonding responsibility in them..let me negotiate these days with a hope to be better off as some one who has completed two of the most coveted professional degrees in India..know what ..IIT+IIM.

Essential Musings

Sometimes the heart gets filled with lot of unspoken words usually completing a phlegm of experiences; intense enough to arise you for searching ways of renouncing some experiences so as to make your living all the more comfortable or say lively.Me, going through some lean phase now, though the phase of activities always have an weakening impact over me.Any way, i am also compelled to hide my words now.Let that phlegm coagulate more.Will write a poem sometime later..hehe.

AAhhh...Pune is so hot in fashion

Hey..i am back with writing something in this space after a long time...Working for some project in DRDO Pune...working seems so undulately misnomer here....heart speaking for it...yes conscience is against it though...Staying in Pune seems to be the best option to go through some latest trends India has to offer in fashion...MG Road..FC Road and Deccan and there is entire Pune central area to show you something raunchy...anywhere u put your feet on...just keeping your eyes open...

Back to usual stuff of how things unfolding for me...here i somehow find my office so comfortable to read...the Economic Times seems to be present in desk almost everyday now...finding it really interesting to spend my idle office hours with it...again going through an auto-biography of Jack Welch....WINNING...where he seems to replicate possibly the best possible convincing replies to those desperate cries of the honchos of the corporate world; he met from Shanghai to Bangalore...he has travelled a lot while attending several meetings....claiming to have spoken with around 2.5 lac persons through out this course...

Hoping to complete that book soon...will post a more detailed review of mine to that great work...an international bestseller now...being argued as the bible of future business community...

Sachin ....the GOD???

India lost to Pakistan today in 4th ODI encounter of the on-going series at Ahmedabad....Well..thats too trivial a issue to bother your heart over it.... i shouldnot have written anything; had Sachin not bowled that final over in the day....3 runs being required for Pakistan to win and also Inzy facing the cherry and fielders being shifted towards the periphery of the almost lifeless ground....either anticipating for an eventful Inzy boundary that would bring the game into shutters or alluring that herculean batsman for a comfortable and still crucial single.....Sachin arrives to the scene with so much modesty ; but still crusading for so improbable India's win....he bowls on ......first two balls dotted !!...Inzyman didnot score any runs and so 4 more balls were what Sachin needed to forbid Inzy to get that mutilating 3 runs...this time Pakistani commander rises to occasion and hitting couple of runs; thus Pakistan could no longer lose this game...well Sachin had not had enough till that time also....why not try for a tie??...next two balls dotted.....ahhhh....great players have so much say over the game that they are reverred as GOD.....skipper starts believing that this can be India's over ;Pakistan cannot win this game....so sure that one campaigning the game for this side at this moment has got some inhuman powers within him....Just he could not avert that boundary well struck from Inzy's bat ....with close in fielders....Sachin wasnt GOD in the last ball!!.....

HinDi ChiNi....bhai bhai!!

Event that Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is on visit to India....we can talk about some facets of relationship between the two Asian giants......58 years have passed since we became independent .....that is also precisely the age of our diplomatic existence with China...two countries have undoubtedly taken giant strides in process of modernisation....have been successful in securing their say in international affairs of the late....future beholds them to be global "superpowers"....their rapidly burgeoning economies would always levitate their positions towards the zenith of international business....their vast population assures them to boast of equally vast workforce....which by no means can be underrated by developed nations of today....under these circumstances it seems so natural that these countries share a mutual concordance for mankind to attain so much more milestones....

...Neighbours have often been good foes.....so is the case between India and China...we had had a short but bitter fight in 1962....Indian forces always regard China to be a medium to long term threat...Pakistan boasts to be a short to medium term threat only....China has openly assisted Pakistan in its nuclear and missile programme at its critical stages for its stratergic parity with India....Chinese armed forces have experienced tremendous growth for a decade or so, completely unnerved by US's paramountcy...PLA(People Liberation Army) having a strong strength of about 2.5 million is easily twice the size of Indian forces....

....Both the countries offer each other several avenues to derive benefits from which can be forseen as benchmarks of a possible symbiotic existence.....India is strong in several sectors like farm products,auto-parts ,pharmaceuticals which can sell away in Chinese markets...China boasts of a sound electronic goods industry and India being capable to present a proper market for it....India's ever flourishing IT sector also presents certain valuable lessons to learn for China....

....As Wen and Man shook their hands on the celebrated ocassion of 55th anniversary of Sino-Indian diplomatic relationship,it remains to be seen how China and India take forward their friendly ties for years to come....

jus the beginning....

Ok now....having finally decided that i should blog....frankly speaking i never managed to keep myself going into writing act....diaries were never wished for...but do have a sort of envisage of writing precisely of what i desire to express.....just would like to add a remark ......feeling of prognostication is making rounds within my mind framework that this blogging eventually turning into a pleasurable experience........anyway it ought to be a nice and appropriate beginning....