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After nearly 45 days of hibernation, Iam back to blogging. My thanks to the loyal readers (however few they are) for continuously checking on me. More than everything, it’s for you guys I wanted to get back ASAP.

Anyways, some dope on what's been happening all these days:

1) Summer placements of juniors - With the batch of 180 coming in, the summer placements this year were the biggest operational exercise in the history of IIM Indore. Our placom had worked hard and the results were there for everyone to see. History was created when all the juniors were placed in the day process itself with no one going into rolling. And the kind of the companies that came in was simply outstanding. Hats off Placom - we are really proud of you!

Some excerpts from the placement report:

"With 199 offers from 58 companies, IIM Indore has placed the entire batch of 2008 in the first 4 days and moved on from being a business school at the front of the pack to being a trendsetter, setting both the direction and momentum for placements across all IIMs this season."

“95 companies expressed the intent to participate though only 58 could be accommodated this season. On Day 0, a total of 133 offers were made, an increase of 82% over last year's summer placement process. Of the 58 companies on campus, 23 were here for the first time. An average of 3.5 offers was made per company which indicates the growing confidence shown by Corporate India in IIM Indore.”

2) IRIS – Within less than ten days of summers getting over, we were all gearing up for the next big challenge – IRIS, the annual management festival. The four day festival was a big success this time around as well and reiterated why IRIS at the top of all B-school fests. Our flagship event ‘Ashwamedha’ got bigger this year with the winner taking home Rs 1.5 lakhs. The event, into its third year now, is a big draw across B-schools and as any of the 30 finalists would confer, this is easily the most challenging and complete game you can imagine. Kalpavriksha, the social venture business challenge, started for the first time across any B-school also had a fantatstic start. (For more details visit www.iimi-iris.com )

My own event - Marksman, a marketing strategy game, also went off smoothly. It was personally a very satisfying experience for me and my team. I will make a separate post on this some time.

Anyways, in between all this I also managed to lose my cellphone. After all the formalities with the concerned authorities, I got back my number and the eighteen hundred odd balance from the old SIM.

That’s about it then. Iam back and hope to have a lot of posts(sensible ones) in the days to come!