Of Life and Love

Confused kya? Well then. I won’t try to explain; maybe if you read this piece you will get the drift. Be warned that I am writing this down in special circumstances and I have a certain objective in mind which just might miss the objective you have in reading this! Although I can’t prove it, I think you are smart enough to figure out things that life throws at you. So you will figure this one out easily. I am sure of that! So who was Adam? That flamboyant Australian wicketkeeper-batsman who played some really painful innings for our team and for other teams as well? I guess you must be right. But wait! He is not ‘was’, he still ‘is’? Hey, don’t try to mislead me now. I was talking about the first Adam of the world, The Adam. Yes, now I am back on track. Ok let me get down to whatever I have to say and then you can go back to whatever you were doing that was so boring you had to turn to reading my piece! I had checked the lecture schedule before sleeping and had been absolutely ...

What do you think is the right time to take a break? Living a monotonous life is something no one wants. And yet people do live such lives. I don’t think it is easy to decide the kind of life one will lead in the future. But I think it is very much in one’s control to make life interesting. It is easy. Go take a look at the still water surface of the lake and look at the reflection of the moon in the water. Look at the beautiful night scene (you need a lake in a beautiful setting and you need to go there at night, preferably a calm one without wind) in the water and feel the deadness of the atmosphere around you. It seems to be desperate to shout, to talk; the leaf hanging limply on the branch over your head is praying for a gust of wind, something like the one that came last night (who knows he just might manage to touch the beautiful leaflet by his side); the blade of grass that survived your boot wants some insect to come out of the earth and to tickle it (ah…if only that talkative ...

Value Add Infinitum A treatise on the phenomenon of Value-Add in B-schools and the classification of the B-schooler in this respect Paper by: Abhishek Tripathi Dated: Nov 6, 2005 “I joined a B-school for value addition to my career.” “The course was ok but there was absolutely no value-add in it.” “Oh, I am not enrolled in this course. I just attend for the learning value.” Well well, what do you make of these? These are utterly common and weather-beaten phrases uttered in B-school campuses, at least in our country. And just before you start thinking it is simply a fashion statement, the in-thing, I’d like to warn you that you run the risk of offending serious B-schoolers who walk about their campuses with their Value-meters slung on their shoulders. Although I am tempted to talk more about these creatures of precision and astute judgement, I will consciously refrain from it for the simple reason that I might, in the very near future, need to learn something from them. If you want to...