23rd DEc
It is Saturday morning and we are supposed to go for the trip to the Golden Palms resort and we are to reach the office exactly by 7.45 so that we don’t miss the bus
I kept the Alarm for 6.30 and slept. Also Smitha was supposed to call me by 6.45 (back up). I slept but suddenly got up sometime in the night and through the pale plue light that came out from my cell phone I realized that the time was 3.30 am.
Suddenly my mind said “ Oye! It is still Yesterday”
I lost one of my most beloved people in my life. I cannot believe he is no more. No one told me that he was under treatment, nor did I enquire.
I last met him a few years ago when he advised me to go for MBA.Before that he taught me how to be good in life, be proud in myself and gave me thousands of ideas.
I saw a Rishi first in my life. A time when I had only heard about them and was of the thought that we could find such Sanyasis only in the Himalayas, I met him. A true Sanyasi, I loved his hair which was so long and I loved the way he kept it.
All my friends are disappointed, many called me and cried. I heard about his Samadhi when my friend called me and told “we lost it, we lost everything; the only person who stood for us is no more, Swamiji is no more”
Mohanlal film Keerthi Chakra is based on a real life experiance of terror that rocked Kasmir valley in the late 90's.Director Major Ravi(himself an Army personel) has done an extraordinary effort in bringing forth the realities in Kashmir.
Mohanlal brings out the actor in him once again as Major Mahadevan, the head of the top command force comprising of brave men..They are always there in the place of action where the jihadis try to disturb the peace and harmony of the valley by causing explosions or extortions. Popular Tamil hero Jeeva appear as Havildar Jayakumar, a trusted buddy of Mahadevan, who works in tandem to lead the activities of the command
The bondage of the indian minds with the soil of Kashmir,shared between the a commando force who braves the bombs and bullets of the heartless, recidivist jihadis in Kashmir valley. The film which dwells with the happenings in Kashmir has been powerful enough to essay the messages every army personal finds necessary to tell the people of the country. The director has very well focused to mix up his values of film making and the messages he is tring to put forth in a well compassionate manner, with out giving way to glorified nationalism.The power of the film is that it is based on a few commando operations and it has been copied with exact mixes of sound and pictures that are real.
The beauty of Kashmir is framed into the film in exact angles and the songs well fits in with the colours of the most important part of India.The plight of Indian soldiers in getting and maintaining the informers and some inside "politics" within the army is shown withinin the limits.This film makes every Indian proud in the sense that it shows brave our soldiers are and opens light to the whole world what really is happening in Karshmir.
Not many people can survive this song of the film without tears.
"Khudda se mannath he meri
Lot aa de jannath oh! meri
Woh aman ,woh chaman ka nazaara
Oh! Ghudaya lotaade Kashmir Dubara
Meri rooh ki thasweer mera kashmeer
Oh! Ghudaya lotaade Kashmir Dubara!! "
The final half an hour of the film keeps every one bite their nails.The plan of the terrorists to demolish the Hasrathbal Mosque by a missile from the roof of a house nearby keeps every one anxious.The director needs appreciation in finding the exact ambience inside a Kashmiri house with all the actors looking original.The Karshmiri people who acted needs to be appreciated as it makes the film more lively.
Me: Hi Prince
Prince: Hi Eashwar!
Me:Let me start with the same question that I ask to everyone,What is your dream for India?
Prince: India needs change. Change everywhere, right from our laws defined by democracy to the way we struggle for our lives. I want India to be free from corruption,If given a chance I would drive out the corrupt people from the face of this country.Corruption has taken deep roots in this country,now people have realized that corruption is a part and parcel of the day to day life in this country.If corruption is eliminated,we can work wonders in this country.India does not lack material wealth or knowledge wealth,but it lacks the wealth of honesty,magnanimity,righteousness among politicians,bureaucrats.If given a power to wish something for India,I will wish for the power to flush out the corrupt from the very face of India.
Me:You belong to one of the most beautiful places in the Country-Wyanad-Kerala, which his now a booming tourist destination. Do you see the threat to the environment is not being addressed properly?
Prince: I agree with you. To give an example, during my recent visit to my native, I happened to visit Soochipara waterfalls, a beautiful creation by nature. I saw tourists consuming alcohol and littering eatables near the falls. No doubt it is going to accumulate and generate a foul smell all around the area. When you said threat to the environment, can you agree with me that a small step from each one of us can address this great solution in a considerable way? I believe yes!
Me:You were one among the first batch MBA s who came out of DCSMAT. How do you see the “real life” experiences, looking back at your classrooms?
what DCSMAT is by implementing effective strategies and working with innovation. I can ensure you that once you complete your education from DCSMAT you can survive anywhere and everywhere with a cutting edge. Analysing Cases and indentifying problems to the precise level is always important in life,which we gradually achieved during our fights over cases. Remember to be passionate contributor over a coffee from Baby's shop or during a lousy Saturday evening.
Me: As always,it was a pleasure talking to you.
Prince: A pleasure for me too.
Me: How do you see our Country in the future?
Bops: To begin with our country is huge.There is lots to be seen and explored, people have underestimated India, it is up to people like us to give it a future, a future everyone should look up to.
Me: What is your future plans in Symphony?
Bops: Plans are many.I just remember a saying "Dont believe in your future by looking at your palms, because even people without hands also have a future.
Me: Do you dream big?
Bops: I always use my MBA books as my pillow.So i dream big.Seriously speaking dreams are good, it brings out the creativity in you and yearn for more, so dream big....Remember dreams has not killed anyone.
Me: So you believe in Examination competencies than your managerial competencies.(U mean Bookish Knowledge is greater?)
Bops: To sum it all its your experince and your attitude towards life is all that matters, Remember not all top managers are rank holders, not all rank holders are top level mangers, books will not get you to the top.
Me: What is your message for the new generation of India?
Bops: Be what you want to be and not be what others want you to be.
Me:Thank you Bopanna .It was a pleasure talking to you.
Bops: Same here.Thank you
*Bopanna Vishwanath sits to the left of his team leader Subbu.He can be reached at bopannacv@gmail.com.
Me: Hi Sudeep! How are you?
Sudeep: I'm Fine.Thank You and what about you??
Me: I'm doing fine as well.thanks!
Me: What is your dream for the Country?
Sudeep: I have a lot of dreams which i need to achieve in my life that can bring about some changes in my country.
Me: Can you be specific on some of them ?
Sudeep: See, i'm as patriotic as anybody else in this country.My dreams are genuine and specific.
I would be starting my own consultancy in the entertainment industry.As an event management graduate and an MBA ,I would love to be in the field of entertainment service.It could be self as well as public.
Me: So how is this going to help the Country?
Sudeep: My consulting would help people think better ,live better and practice living better.
Me: What is your motto for others?
Sudeep: For self rea
lisation! towards your personal achievement and value enhancement towards your life.
* Sudeep sits next to me at my office and he can be reached at +91-09845146800
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Today is Thiruvonam
After celebrating 25 Onams in Kerala...
This time I will Celebrate Onam among the soft copies of reports which i need to send to all the 'world class' clients .......Colgate,Mcneil,McCormics
This time I will Celebrate Onam with Roti,Culcha,Bindi masala...
This time I Celebrate Onam with the E-mails and Sms that were send by my friends
This time's Onam has nothing to give me but silence...
Though I can hear "those songs" inside! inside Me!
From 2002 to 2004 I was always hit by tsunamis, unpredictable attacks of love and laughter. Two extremities of experiential management learning and foolish examinations. Wars of ideology, speculations over roles in case studies , hedging friendships with compassion and arbitrages of jokes . The University calls two and a half years of mine as mighty MBA. I would like to call it “Anubhav ki dhaayi baras”;with profound experience of creative schools like Moodal Manju and Pulli
If I speak in pure Physics terms, the fifty-nine human beings of my class-my classmates were born in the regions of space where the field was immensely intense. I cannot say that they are super humans but they have made glorious all the projects they have taken up, won all competitions participated and more significantly made the soil powerful by helping the poor and caring the environment. Nobody who have met them cannot forget them because of their simplicity and hospitality .
Im proud to belong to this batch of managers for the culture that we have imparted remains everlasting and the leadership that we have shown remains as a noble cause in the development of this institution. I wish the very best for DCSchool in the future…
I remember one of our guest, Mr.Alok Wadhwa, ex-CEO, Encyclopedia Britannica’s words about my class when we discussed a case on the Encyclopedia Britannica “your ability in identifying analyzing and articulating the problems facing Encyclopedia Britannica is at par with any expert opinion. Your suggestions; some already implemented, some being implemented and some which we haven’t even thought of; brings forth the clarity of thought within you. Unlike others you have expressed it in simple language and with humility too”
This is what distinguishes us from others; we are that simple and modest.
Our college had a project with Grand Valley State University, Atlanta, USA was a matter of great help for our students in understanding the present global scenario of bussiness.the Hindustan coca cola India Pvt Ltd was facing a huge problem in Plachimada, Kerala.
Since the company’s Head Quarters was also situated in Atlanta, the company also took the case writing seriously. There are some situations in corporate life that we fail keeping up our companies aspirations, the case is one of them.
The team consisted of me, Prince,my class mate and a dozen students from my junior batch. We took the leadership and the other dozen took a little time coping up with us. They really didn’t like we joining the team. At that time we were having a little quarrel between our batch and their batch. But in a short time we became friends.
The target was to study the problem and put it in front of the students in the form of a case. The problem existed between the local people of Plachimada, the tribal people mostly and the company. The problem of water scarcity was huge in the area and the starting of the factory made the situation worse. This was the much talked about problem.
The team first met with the problem affected and anti Coke agitators. Then we met the management. These meetings, controversial in nature made a wave of conflicts in our mind.
Mr.Arun, the Librarian of DCSMAT and myself went in between to see many bureaucrats and know their opinion. Many, almost all were indifferent to us. At last tired one afternoon we went to the famous Palakkad Fort and sat on the historical and archeologically important fort, beneath a papal tree and we had a huge discussion over the issue and at last we redefined the problem from water scarcity to water pollution. We smelt an international conspiracy behind tarnishing the image of the company.
But we couldn’t understand the reason for it and didn’t understand why our people are so innocent. We went back and saw the factory and the plant manager gave a jumbo treat for us. He made a presentation as well. After that there was a question answer session as well we asked scores of question .I meanwhile asked a question as to why coke cannot stop running a factory which is not giving them any return for the last couple of years. The plant manager was upset over this question. He pretended to be over smart and answered very diplomatically that being MBAS you tell me why I shouldn’t close down.
But I felt that my question was not answered and I re- framed my question (thanks to Sreekumar’s Research Methodology Case studies) and asked. Sir, you have invested Rs 80 crore and for the last two years you don’t get a single paise out of it. This means that you return on investment remains zero and considering the inflation rate and the level of depreciation don’t u have any other option? even then his reply was the same as before.
Preliminary lessons of my Post Graduation in journalism had taught me that unless there is clarity, never stop asking questions. I didn’t give up, I asked the question again, but a little harshly, you are not able to solve a problem for two years and why don’t you close down a factory that doesn’t give you any return? This mode of my questioning annoyed him and he shouted at me that why I was asking the same question again and again. I told him that I need to ask him because I didn’t get a satisfactory answer from him. I was still calm and he wanted me not to ask questions any more. But I was determined to ask. When we are students we feel that all professionals should be ideal and none should be in a level below our expectation. When we come across such a person, we get irritated and try to thrash him. Here also same thing happened and we were irritated by him. Whatever question we ask he would just rebound it on us telling that you people tell me what should be done. Any way we squeezed him and we got what ever we wanted.
The first step in the case, an outline was written successfully and the process is continuing with new and new students entering the project.
“What are u looking at the slum children? We don’t see any beauty in them? Day after day you come here and see. Can’t u see the peace in their eyes? If you had seen a slum child in Germany, his eyes would be burning with the spirit of vengeance that I am dwelling in a slum because of the upper class people who have denied me my due, so his heart will be burning his eyes with vengeance. Here I see the peace amidst the poverty and this is the tradition of your age old culture .I don’t have to blame somebody for my poverty .I can myself bear with my fate and my soul be always upward.”
-Mrs. Maria Burgi (Research Scholar ,Germany)
The young generation of India is upset over the scenario of the social welfare in our country. This is the reason why I think why our President itself is so interested in the students of this generation. Almost all discussions in our sleepless nights tend to be in this direction of improving this condition of the people here. The people in and around our school itself, situated in a remote village in the interiors of Idukki have no chance of any exposure to the rapid changes of this new world. Their children dosen't know what this IT and ITES is all about. what to say if they want to see a film itself, they should travel 23 kilometers, regardless of the fact that they don’t have electricity and our infrastructural facilities, their children show enormous intellectual capacity and remorseless maturity.
I feel great respect to my classmates who introduced education to these children of Pullikkanam in our campus.’im a lot thankful to you, unless otherwise you had not given this chance, my children would never had got this kind of exposure to English language, the computers and these kinds of modern games, my daughter is very brilliant I know, but we have nothing to give her, even tuition to her.im grateful to the children here who has provided free tuition to them' says a mother who works as a plucker in the nearby tea estate.
it was another Sunday at the holy mass in the Pullikkanam church that the priest was appreciating the work done by my class mates to the society. Words failed for him to express his thanks and regards for the help they gave for building a wall 1350m long at the outskirts of Wagamon. Around 28 of them in the terrible heat was fully committed to their work.’I thank them all’, he said .'they came in despite caste and creed. This concern for the society is that is what is needed for the new generation’, he added.
The first three months of our stay in our school, we were in a hostel which was very far from our campus. This was in Wagamon which is a local town those days were very enjoyable as they were much interesting. Those days gave us amble oppurtuni6y to mingle with the local community who were very nice to us even
All these began when we used to make fun of these typical reporting styles of the modern tv news channels, when we used to sit for food at the canteen. Somebody would ask hello reporter are u on the line?? Then he would reply ya im ...tell me...then the newsreader would ask what is the news at the library? etc...this continued until we invented the Pulli tv. The new venture of ours, the Pulli tv was so funny and inspiring for us. We wanted a medium to communicate to students, as they would be surprised to see themselves on the screen, we had just a Sony hadicam and an lcd-projecter for our help
My friends Lijomon, Manjith, Anoop, Cijo, Rins and Jayesh included me also in the team and we made many interesting programmes for the Campus, many of them, which could make them laugh. Students were thrilled by the vivid humor that we showered on them through Pulli. As marketers we can be proud that we effectively managed the brand Pulli(Pulli word basically derived from Pullikkanam).
Iam always fascinated by the charm and the creativity of my friends. They were very good in filming ,editing ,dubbing and screening. they were able to use new soft wares for this. Im especially thankful to Rins who created so many ads for us which made Pulli so popular.
Though my school is the end of the road, it is the beginning of life for many of us. At least without doubt I can say that I was subjected to some changes there. There is a slight controversy when I say this, once my friend and earlier roommate Shaji send an article that u can create an MBA within three months-no time. Like what Krishna said in Gita that all what u need is the karma kushalata.. Then do we need these IIMs and Harvard’s for mass production of MBAs?...I’m not there for a debate, but all that I can say is that when we left DCSMAT after our two years of experiential learning we were not those persons who came over there two years before. When I visit the houses of my colleagues their parents say that they have changed a lot.
When I talk of my friends, I would be proud to say that almost all of them came out of their weaknesses successfully. Many of them belong to families of farmers, they are familiar to the traditional ways of farming and I often find my selves thinking that how successfully they link those management jargons to the real life situations in the farms or in the fields.
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