Deepak Rao- ESP Show - Mind Bending Metal

Yesterday it was Nakul Shenoy's Beond Magic show in TAPMI campus, Manipal and about nine months back, I witnessed this event "Mastermind" or ESP by Mr Deepak Rao of Mumbai.....view it.

TEDxPilani - Nakul Shenoy - 03/13/10

Just worth watching to believe - BEYOND MAGIC SHOW BY NAKUL SHENOY!

ICICI Bank's Chanda Kochhar: 'A Very Exciting and Challenging Journey'

From a Management Trainee in 1984 to CEO (2009) in banking. Really a Progressive Banker!

Suneeta Reddy: 'Medical Tourism Is a Huge Market'

Youtube and Entrepreneurism..................India and Healthcare too....

Entrepreneurship in China

Here is our competitor - China and Entrepreneurship............interesting and informative clipping.

Entrepreneurship in India

Clipping of Entrepreneurship in India - interesting.

Indian Entrepreneurs Abroad: Business & Social Ventures by Gururaj 'Desh...

A very good account of Indian Entrepreneurs Abroad.....

Keynote Speaker Richard Branson, Virgin Group, at DMA06

One extraordinary individual par excellence in Entrepreneurship.

IBEF:: Blog

IBEF:: Blog

This message under IBEF's India Speak for November 2010 is really inspiring. Ms Kiran Shaw has proved that an Indian woman can be a highly successful entrepreneur in an entirely unknown industry of Biotechnology. Twenty first century Indian woman needs to draw many a lesson from such personalities. Thank you IBEF for this article.

The Hindu Business Line : MFIs must reform business practices: Rangarajan

The Hindu Business Line : MFIs must reform business practices: Rangarajan

The concepts and philosophy of rural lending, rural development, poverty alleviation, social security, priority sector financing, differential rate of interest scheme, group guarantee, relaxation in margin and security norms, lead bank scheme, eoconomic and financial sector reforms, etc seem to have been thrown to winds by SKS recently in AP

Tere Mere Milan - Amitabh Bachchan & Jaya Bhaduri - Abhimaan

The Special couple for nearly four decades on and off-screen!

KBC featuring Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir

AB and KBC ka Jawab Nahin.

Welcome to IIM A - Class of 2012

It is generally believed that youtube or social networks are for fun and friendship only. I lay my hands also on several educative, informative and entertaining clippings many times. Here is one on IIM-A. So many similar clippings of other leading B-Schools including ISB, MDI, etc., are also in.

Suhana Safar Aur Ye Mausam-Madhumati

Film: Madhumati (1952): Dilip Kumar.....

.................Group chorus...............................................(background).....

Suhana Safar Aur Ye Mausam Hasin (2); Hamen Dar hai Hum Kho-na Jaye Kahin;

Suhana..........hasin;......................................... ....................................................................

Ye kaun hasta hai phulome chupkar; bahaar bechain hai kiski dhun par;(2)

Kahin gun gun Kahin run dhun , ke jaise naachen jamin; ..........

Suhana.................hasin; ................................................................................

Ye gori nadiyon ka chalna uchalkar; ke jaise alhad chale peeche milkar;

Pyare pyare. Ye nazare nighare kahin; ....................

Suhana........... hasin; Suhana.............hasin; Hamen dar..........kahin;

Suhana..............hasin; ...............................

Ohoho, ............ohoho, ..................ohoho;

O aasman jhuk raha jamin par (2); ye milan humne dekha yahin par;

O aasman......................................................................................yahin par;

meri duniya mere sapne milenge shayad yahin...

Suhana...........hasin (2); hamen.............kahin; suhana....................hasin; suhana.............hasin.

Honey, I shrunk my Ads!

Indian Management Education is passing through interesting changes. While on one side the leaders and trend setters like IIM-A, B and C are forging ahead with innovating programs and strategies, there has been large scale mushrooming across the country by private B-Schools. After having been in the field for nearly five decades, IIM-A, B and C have been increasing the batch intake size, fixing the program fees suiting of course to the market conditions, etc. After expanding to Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode some years back, IIM-Shillong was added in 2008-9. GOI has also taken a policy decision to add more number of IIMs recdently in tier-2 places like Udayapur, Rohtak, Ranchi, Trichy, etc.


Wide range of new private Schools have been surfacing with innovative ideas and campaigns to lure the gullible and not so informed MBA aspirants. Sectoral programs are being offered by several Institutes without any bearing as to their specialised faculty resources. Today there are B-Schools not only for regular flagship PGDM, but also programs for Technology Management, Banking & Finance Management, Risk & Insurance Management, Rural Management, Petroleum Management, Advertising & Communications Management, Treasury Management, Health care management, Defence Management and so on.

Another interesting feature is B-School Rankings by a host of business magazines, journals, market research agencies, Newspapers, Consulting Companies, etc. Different Strokes by different folks. Each one has its own parameters, yardsticks and perceptions. And then, the intelligence of the reputed Coaching Centres like TIME, IMS, Career Launcher, Career Forum, PT, Erudite, etc. There is stiff competition among all these.

And then, the race for advertisements, advertorials, road shows, exhibitions and so on. One of the active Institute has been aggressively putting up full page ads in leading news papers challenging IIMs and other reputed Institutes. They claim several 'firsts', 'ranks', 'visiting faculties', 'foreign collaborations' or free-bees like trips abroad or lap-tops. After making a lot of noise for nearly a decade, there was a public notice from the regulator about a month back, to which they also released a rejoinder. And recently, I see a drastic reduction in the size of their advertisements. This is what I call (remembering a movie), "Honey I shrunk my ads". Only time will probably solve all the aberrations and lead to a proper consolidation of B-Schools.



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India among 40 most improved economies: World Bank report

India among 40 most improved economies: World Bank report

I laid my hands yesterday on this news item and had a quick reading. Very interesting and encouraging that the World Bank has been surveying the countries since 2003 and releasing such reports from 2004. This is the eighth such report on the 183 countries all over the world including India. While this caption is encouraging, I feel pained that overall, India has been at no. 135 in 2010 and 134 in 2011 reports in the ranking (with a consolation that we moved up one notch).

Long way to go for the world's second (or first) largest democracy; wanting to be an economic super power with over 9% growth rate; entering the UN Security Council with a permanent seat soon (thanks to Obama) after having initiated reforms about two decades ago. Our neighbours China and Pakistan are at no. 79 and 83 respectively! Its time that Indian politicians, bureaucrats, policy makers / academicians / businessmen and citizen at large to tighten their belts and work for realising all the dreams of being a super power.

If the US President can occupy the coveted no.1 position in the world with an ordinary background (An Afro-American) with a resounding slogan like "Yes, We Can", why not the Indian counter-parts move forward with a united agenda that "Time, we should". The Twenty-first Century generation is eagerly waiting for all-round development in India - be it by Government, Scientists, Corporates, Politicians, etc!!!

BlackBerry Boys-The Cypher

an interesting ad by Black Berrys

Oh TAPMI, my TAPMI.....

TAPMI is getting prepared for bunch of events this month.  All TAPMIans - students, faculty, staff and Alumni are gearing up to have colourful official and cultural occassions on campus.  While Diwali, the festival lights and bang bangs, is already on, Sunday the 7th is going to kickstart the Brandscan-2010 with a marathon by all in Manipal with a theme "say no to drugs".  On the 11th, there is going to be a press meet for BrandScan, which is in its eighteenth proud year. The same day, members of the musical group of students GOONJ are conducting the annual contest open for students, faculty and staff to showcase their talents. And then, 13th and 14th are the main days with full of fun, games, events, speeches, contests as also market research by the students. 

Come 15th Nov., there will be launch of the eGPX2, the special program in eGovernance being offered by TAPMI.  Senior Government Officials, Eminent Academicians, Industry Experts would be addressing the participants from public and private sector pursuing the one year residential program supported by GOI-DIT.

Alumni of TAPMI would be arriving in Manipal on 19th and 20th for the annual Homecoming 2010 on the two days 20th and 21st Nov.  This event is dedicated to the five senior batches between 1989 and 1993.