just like that

If there was one thing that was not part of my activities planned for the second year, it was writing B-plans. But tuning myself in with the flavor of the season, I have also taken part in a couple of them. And actually it was fun - Thinking carefully about concepts learnt, how practical/impractical they are in the current market scenario and finally selling your plan despite all this. There was also this paper on World trade we did and sent in for another competition. So why am I suddenly doing all this? I guess its partly due to the inspiration from a few of my fellow batchmates here. Just giving you a glimpse of it,

1) Sandeep kumar wins the Tata 'Smart Manager' award beating competition from all other B-schools

2) Hushi,Joseph and Sanika win the national level contest of L'oreal Brandstorm and are among the elite 32 teams in the world to take part in the finals in Paris.

3) Sandeep(again) was selected for St Gallen's Symposium; held annually at the University of St Gallens, Switzerland, it is the world’s leading neutral platform for critical and constructive debate on the issues of global concern.

4) And just yesterday, Sanika and Mrunalini won in the 'Cherry Blossom' case contest held in MDI, Gurgaon. The grand prize included not only cash but also an PPI from Reckitt & Colman.


My congratulations to all you people!

As you can clearly see, there is enough motivation for all of us to keep emulating these people and bring in more laurels for ourselves and the institute. These things definitely go a long way in conveying to the corporate world about the potential of the students here. Being the youngest of the IIM's hasn't prevented us from taking rapid strides over few of the others, but as we look ahead, we would like everyone to view IIM-Indore more for the 'Indore' part and less for the 'IIM' part. It isn't something that happens overnight. Everyone here realizes that and we all want to contribute our little bit while we are here.

Moving on to other news,

1) The juniors have gone on their first term break. The first term break is usually the most awaited one and everyone has gone home.
2) The classes are running pretty light - Finally some time off to catch up on movies, jogging and going to the city (incidentally, none of which I do regularly)
3) On Super Sunday, Arsenal bt ManU and Chelsea(my team) bt Liverpool. This is very much a campus news due to the huge number of fans for the various teams and the fights that happen in the newsgroups.

Thats it for now! See u soon on the next update.

Update - Sep 24,2006

I never thought I will be updating this so soon but Sandeep Kumar and Vivek Chopra just won the second place in the Banker's Day finals held at FMS,Delhi. Congrats guys!
The way things are going, I guess I will have to keep updating this post every now and then :)

Update - Dec 20, 2006

Prashanth, kaushal, Ashik and Parry have been winning left,right and center with their incredible business plan. They finished second in the Pan-IIM business plan contest held in Singapore. They have also been selected for one of the best business plan contests in the world, the name of which I seem to forget. They also won the first place in the FMS business plan contest. All in all, a rocking year for them and IIM Indore.

Anoop, Bhajanka and Banka won the first place in the JP Morgan case study contest and won themselves a PPI along with 2 lak cash prize. The win was even more significant as they competed and won against some of the best teams from the other IIM's.

Great work guys! keep it going!