pocket picked

Yesterday I had palnned to go to haridwar for economics project work. unfortunately the trip did not materialize as my pocket got picked either in bus to ISBT or at ISBT itself. i have filed an FIR in ISBT station and also blocked both my ATM cards. I will apply for new cards as soon as possible

IIMB Vista

IIM Bangalore is conducting an intercollege competition. I and my room partner have sent a paper a case analysis and are planning to sent a CSR project. If any of them is selected then we will go to IIM Bangalore for the competion. The paper is on Evolution of Organized Retail in India. Lets hope it is selected

term 2 begins

The second term began today after a break of just two days (saturday and sunday) We had a registration for the term (again!!!) and then their were a couple of classes. there are 8 subjects in the term Bstat, Mktg, MANAC, CF, OSD, OM, ECO & NIT. it may be a difficult term as the number of subjects have increased and all the teachers are new. We will know the status as the term progresses

End Term Exams

My end term exams are going on and they will end on friday. I will post on friday or saturday.

Fantasy turns into fact

First of all I offer my heartiest condolences to family members of the victims of cowardly acts of terror taking place in the country. We must not let this terror interfere in our daily lives as this will fulfill the wishes of those cowards.

I find a very disturbing similarity between what is happening in India these days and the events portrayed in the fantasy world of Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling. The terrorists can be compared to the death eaters who strike any place any time without fear. They claim responsibilities for the attacks by sending emails to the news channels. In the books the death eaters claim responsibility to the attacks by using the dark mark.

The govt. of India is totally unable to do anything to stop these attacks instead it parrots the same line that we will go after the terrorists and punish them according to the law (when there is no terror law) after each such attack. In the books initially the Minstry of Magic was in denial about the very existence of Voldemort and later they could not do anything to stop the death eaters who had a free run of Britain.

The police forces and the intelligence groups are restrained from unleashing their full power against the terrorists. They are not allowed to bring in the terror suspects for questioning from the 'minority community' dominated areas by the govt who plays the dangerous game of Vote Bank politics. In the books the aurors are equally helpless and are not allowed to collaborate with the order of the pheonix as the ministry sees dumbledore as a threat to their power. In both the cases the government's desire to be in power allows the terrorists/death eaters to go scot free.

I fervently hope that we find our own version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix to end this scrouge of terror.

presentation after presentation after presentation

With the end of the term near a lot of presentations are taking place. Our Economics presentation which was to take place on friday had been postponed to monday thanks to the efforts of our group member and C.R. Pallavi. It was good as we had not analysed any of the data.

Today there were three presentaions for me. 1st was an O.B. presentation on the leadership qualities of Ratan Tata. Next was on the Marketing campaign of Virgin Mobile. Finally there was the economics presentation. Additionally in B.C. there was a group discussion on two cases. 

Overall from 11am to 7 pm I was attending presentations and group discusions. A really hectic day !!! 

Data Data everywhere not one bit analysed

Me and my team for the eco project are in a jam. we had a project to study the price discrimination in airline industry. I had collected data for over a month and then when we showed the data to our sir he said it was not ok and he needed more factors. till 9 last night we were in the college collecting data. we have to give the presentation today but the data is still not analysed. I had sat till 12:30 am last night and got up at 6 today morning. i have some ideas for the analysis of data. at present i am in the college waiting for other team members. Praful has said that he has done some  analysis and made graphs and regresion models so i am hoping it will be alright. we have not yet made the slides and we will make them now. The presentation is at 3:30 pm

Markibrand summit

On saturday i attended a marketing summit Markibrand organized by FMS Delhi. it was an informative summit in which senior executives from Pepsi, Pizza Hut, Apple, Star TV and BBDO an ad agency had come. they gave presentation on how brands evolve over time. it was very informative. I also got a participation certificate for the summit.