Year: 2006

  • ISB – Amazing View

    Here is a snap of ISB taken from an aircraft by one of my classmates here who is an exchange student ……. real good view of the campus. and here is the same snap with text indicating what is where ……… click to enlarge

  • HAPPY HOLI !!!!!!!!!!!!

    Wishing you a HAPPY HOLI !!!! Here are some snaps from the Holi celebrations @ ISB ……. Who are these hooligans?

  • A trip to “God’s Own Country”

    Six of us – Ramki, Rajani, Murali, KaRa, Clickie & I went on a trip to Guruvayur in Kerala. Guruvayur is home to the famous Guruvayurappan (Lord Krishna) Temple. I had visited the temple only once before this when I was about 9 years old and have very vague memories…

  • Yearbook

    Work has started on our batch’s yearbook. There was no concept of an yearbook at my engineering college. It will be really wonderful to open the yearbook many years from now and recount all the wonderful things that we did here. It would also be interesting to read all the…

  • 30 days to graduation

    Only 30 days remain before I graduate from ISB. Here is what most of my batchmates are busy doing these days – the 8th term coursework, finding out which of their near and dear ones will be coming to graduation and making travel arrangements for them and for their return…

  • Insightful CPs – Part 2

    Here are some more ……. —— Student: This industry is not very attractive Prof: What do you want to say? Is the industry attractive or not attractive? Student: I am not very sure! Prof: Again, what do you want to say? Are you sure or not sure? —— “Actually, I…

  • Insightful CPs – Part 1

    I was just sitting in my room today doing nothing, as usual, when memories of being in Section D in the first four terms came flooding in. The first thing that came to mind after that was the CPs that used to happen. Here goes some “insightful” class participation (CP)…

  • Bloggers in the next batch

    The next batch is scheduled to join ISB on 15th of April and has quite a few bloggers. The following are links to some of the blogs of soon-to-be-ISBians that I know of and visit: Abhishek Jain Alok Jain Anuradha Sunku Chiranth Chanappa Deepak Mittal Disha Rustogi Kapil Mantri Karthik…

  • Dubya comes calling

    US President George W Bush visited the ISB campus today. There were so many security personnel here that it looked like the whole of Hyderabad police force had been deployed at ISB. Needless to say, it was entertaining to watch/hear the president speak 🙂 I was not among the ones…

  • Dis-orientation week for “Almost Alums”?

    Got a mail today from the admin people here that addressed us as “Almost Alums”. The mail had details of the graduation ceremony. The week before the ceremony has also been termed as dis-orientation week (The first week on campus was termed orientation week). Upon reading this, a few of…

  • Courses this term

    After sampling the courses, I have finally decided to choose the following three: 1) Managing Markets – Prof. Nirmal Gupta 2) Advanced Corporate Finance – Prof. Francesca Cornelli 3) Negotiation Analysis – Prof. Cathy Tinsley (Sessions 1 to 5)/Prof. Stephen Nason (Sessions 6 to 10) Decided to drop the “Leadership…

  • Term 8 begins

    Term 8 started today. I have to take 3 subjects this term. Have got 3 and am waitlisted in 1. So would have to choose 3 out of those 4 after sampling the classes today and tomorrow. I had just one class to attend today – “Leadership Lessons from World…

  • Bush to visit ISB?

    US President George W. Bush is expected to visit ISB when he comes to Hyderabad during his visit to India. More details are available at http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/23bush5.htm

  • The Trip to Ahobilam – Part 3

    Its been really long since I wrote Part 2 of this thread. One of my friends is planning to visit temples in South India and might most probably visit Ahobilam. He wanted me to complete this thread ….. so here goes ….. (Please click here to access Part 1 and…

  • Update on placements

    More than 150 offers have been made till now in the first 3 days of the placement week. Today is the third day and some companies that are on campus today are yet to announce their offers. They will be doing so late in the night. A very close friend…