Deja Vu … Randomly

Prof Chopra … Today when you talked about a slide being dense, the class was quiet since it reminded us of a time when most of us collectively felt dense 🙂 you also spoke of how when 80% of the class gets an answer wrong, then it’s most definitely the teacher’s fault. I beg to … Read more

Term 4 – Permanent Value Add

I nearly boarded the flight to Delhi last evening …. And Vandana today is eating Jalebi on my behalf at Bikanerwala :):) I so miss Delhi and Term 4 is a good indication of how life changes with PGPMAX ! In Aug we started our first term and some tentative friendships – by Dec, we … Read more

What a start to Term 4 !!

First we manage to conduct our own classes on Saturday and what informative sessions they were ! We found out about how Ahmed spiritedly helped turn around the fortunes of his spirits organization and how much of thought goes behind changing a brand’s positioning. Also some alarming statistics on the southern region’s consumption of alcoholic … Read more

Completed Term 3 and not finished yet !!

It was part of the pre-read that we probably didnt read in detail – Economics is the study of unintended consequences … And it is right. The unintended consequence of Term 3 is a sudden sense of understanding about fiscal deficit, currency exchange rate, broken window fallacy, MPK and MPL !!! This term started with … Read more

Daspalla

A storm 22 years back nearly brought on a rain of tears 🙂 I was at Vizag and Krishnan had to come there in order to celebrate his birthday, the first after we had met in March that year. A cyclone left planes grounded and trains were canceled … He still managed to come over … Read more

Term 3 begins ..

It was a laugh riot while we were on the plane together and then at the airport and finally before the EFM exam – like Arun said, all of us were nervous and it was being expressed as uncontrollable giggles. The late night Akerlof prank by Antony and the early morning call from Venkat to … Read more

Term 2 – Rational to Delusional :)

The term started with two words “motivation” and “intuition” and in a Managerial Economics class ! So fascinating that what we thought would be just numbers, turned out to have an “intuitive” element as well. More on that … We discovered so much more about each other in this term.. Sreedhar and Bhat’s dancing, Mehraj … Read more

Irrationality

Yesterday for the first time I was defined as a rational being !! By Prof Shamika explanation of rationality as defined by the Economists, I do qualify for a rational being – most of the time. So all my friends who think I have lost it and am being irrational, I will explain why I … Read more

Term 2

After many flights I finally got my favourite window seat and that too in row two, the Indigo flight was as always full but the one person who had the window seat didn’t come !! I take it as a positive omen for the Financial Accounting test tomorrow morning. It rained as we took off, … Read more