Year: 2006

  • Its all started

    Placement week has started. All the consulting biggies were here yesterday to have their initial rounds of interviews. A few more firms also had their first few rounds yesterday. All these firms will be conducting the remaining rounds of interviews today and are expected to declare the results by tonight.…

  • A typical day (these days)

    This is how my typical day looks like these days: 8:00AM – Get up. Call Alok to see if he is up (he usually is) and ask him if he will come for breakfast. 8:30AM – Have finally gotten up, brushed my teeth and am off to the student dining…

  • Concerts in Delhi

    This one is for all carnatic music fans in Delhi or visiting Delhi towards the end of this month. Delhi’s Sree Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha is organizing its annual Thyagaraja Music & Dance Festival this year from 25 Feb to 5 March, 2006. The following is the concert schedule that I…

  • 4 days to the D-Day

    Four more days to go for the placement week to begin. An IT company announced a part of its shortlists yesterday. All of its postings are for locations in the US or Europe. Interviews are being held today and they are expected to make up their mind by tonight. Pretty…

  • Rang De Basanti

    ISB had booked the entire 2pm show of Rang de Basanti at Prasadz today and what more, the movie, popcorn and coke were all on the house. The movie ran almost housefull possibly indicating that everyone here badly needed a break !! I liked the movie a lot, though I…

  • Tennis @ ISB

    The tennis court is probably the only place I had not visited on campus. KP (my quaddie) and Aditya play tennis regularly. Though I have been following tennis on TV, I hadn’t got an opportunity to even hold a tennis racquet till about two days ago when Alok (another quaddie…

  • More shortlists

    British Telecom (BT) released their shortlist for interviews. This time, CAS (our placement cell) decided to mail each of the shortlisted guys individually instead of sending a mass mail to all junta giving the names of people shortlisted. They did the same thing for the shortlist that Macquarie Bank released…

  • Shoppers’ day out

    Four of us decided to go shopping for stuff essential for the placement season last Saturday. It had been quite some time since we had gone out of campus. We took an auto from ISB to Hyderabad Central (a mall here). Since we barely know the way around the city,…

  • Musical Evening in Mumbai

    My brother, R. Shridhar will be giving a carnatic classical vocal concert today at Shanmukhananda Hall, Mumbai from 6PM to 8:30PM. In case you are in Mumbai and want to listen to some classical music, do check it out. News from here is that one of my quaddies has been…

  • 63 days to graduation

    Its just 63 more days to graduation …… yes …. 8th April is when the ceremony is scheduled to happen. Looking at it from a different angle, its just 64 more days of stay at the ISB and we were reminded of this fact by an email on the graduation…

  • Professor of the year – Core Terms

    Prof Krishna Kumar, who taught us Macroeconomics in the second term, was voted as the best professor of the year for the core terms by the student community. He had been voted the same last year too. Prof Anjani Jain (Decision Models & Optimization) and Prof Mark Finn (Financial Accounting)…

  • One more shortlist

    BCG shortlist came in day before yesterday. The list is almost a photocopy of the McKinsey shortlist except for a few names. Wishing lotsa luck to all batchmates shorlisted. They have been working really hard for this. Hope all of them get jobs with the top consulting firms. Key takeaway…

  • Resumes

    Companies that make products can be imagined to lie on a continuum that has two ends – one end where all products manufactured are the same (standardized) and the other where each product manufactured is customized to the specific needs of the customer for whom it is manufactured. I think…

  • Return of a married man

    Kamalesh got married in Chennai on Saturday and returned to ISB today. KR & Co had decorated Kamalesh’s apartment here and we all planned to get inside his apartment and surprise him when he arrived with his wife. As soon as news came that Kamalesh had arrived on campus, we…

  • AT Kearney Session

    Came back just now from AT Kearney’s PPT and the informal chat with ATK employees after that. On the whole, it was a very useful session. The PPT was done very professionally and we had a fruitful interaction with two of their employees, one of whom was an ISB alum…