Category: ISB

  • Alum life during orientation week

    This is how a typical alumnus, if you could think of one, would spend his day at ISB during the orientation week: 9:30AM – Get up wondering if it is already past 10AM and if breakfast would have already been over (Sarovar closes breakfast session at 10AM). Happy that it…

  • Orientation Time

    Its orientation time for the new batch here at ISB. Till now they have been tortured with all the official presentations and they are spending most of their day in the auditorium here. We had the treasure hunt and some of the student club presentations today. The presentation of the…

  • Back at ISB

    Yaahoooooooooooooooo ….. I am back at ISB. Had a wonderful view of the campus at night from the sky just before landing at Hyderabad ….. could clearly see the main building, the SVs, the road to the main gate, the campuses adjacent to ISB etc. The ISB swimming pool was…

  • I m home

    Imhome. Reached here yesterday afternoon and since then have been sleeping and eating home made food for most of the time. Spent the day watching India get thrashed by England in cricket. Got a call from KP yesterday just a few minutes after I arrived here and it felt really…

  • Last day at ISB

    Today is my last day as a student in the Class of 2006 at ISB. The campus looked so full of life today morning, but since then a lot of people have left this place and there is a strange calmness all around now. When I went to have dinner…

  • Graduation day – Class of 2006

    Here is a press release about our batch’s graduation ceremony which sums up the event well. I think this should be up on the ISB site also soon. I will also try to post some more snaps from the event soon. So here goes …….   ISB Celebrates its Fifth…

  • Some snaps from photo shoot and award ceremony

    Here are some snaps from the batch photo shoot and the award ceremony that happened yesterday: Snaps taken during photo shoot (L to R) Vikram & I Thats me Thats me again … Some of my batchmates from my section (D) ISB Yound Leader & ISB Torchbearer Award (YLA &…

  • Tomorrow is the big day

    Its graduation day tomorrow – officially the last day of my year at ISB. We had the dress rehearsal of the graduation ceremony along with the batch photograph session today afternoon. We also had the awards for the Best Professor of the Core Terms, Best Professor of the Elective Terms,…

  • News about Class of 2006 Placements

    You can check out the following links for some news about the Class of 2006 placements. A word of caution in case you are planning to apply to b-schools: Though ISB has broken many records w.r.t b-school placements (highest international salary offered etc), please do not judge a b-school just…

  • Graduation day draws closer

    Just three more days to go to graduation !! Went to the Golconda fort yesterday in the evening. The sound and light show was impressive (they basically tell you about the histrory of the fort and the narrative is supported by lights thrown at different places in the fort so…

  • Enjoying the last few days here

    I am just chilling out and enjoying the last few days on campus as a student. It feels really strange to no longer have any assignments to do or bulkpacks to read. Went to see the movie “Being Cyrus”. The movie has a powerful cast (Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Saif…

  • A trip to Nagarjunasagar

    A group of us planned all of a sudden during the party day before yesterday to go to Nagarjunasagar and hit the road yesterday morning. Nagarjunasagar is the world’s largest masonry dam and is located about 150 kms away from Hyderabad. The dam was inaugurated on 10th Dec 1955 by…

  • More parties

    S had invited some of us to his home for dinner. I had home-cooked food after a long long time and I must thank S and his wife J for the same. Felt really nice eating such good food without using fork and spoon (with hands of course) after such…

  • Its all over !!!!!

    Yessssssss …. I am through with all my exams and have completed all acads related requirements here. So god willing and profs and academic services office permitting, I should graduate next week. So what am I doing right now …. relaxing, writing this blog entry and exploring the Yahoo Mail…

  • Last Class @ ISB

    Just came back from my last class at ISB – the last lecture of Managing Markets by Prof Nirmal Gupta. It was an awesome class, especially because of the case chosen for analysis today. It was a two page case after reading which none of us could have possibly predicted…