Purvodaya

Purvodaya – National Conclave @ VGSOM

With rich natural resources, an ample and able talent pool and carefully engineered industrialization, Eastern India stands poised to take its place as an economic hub.

Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, has conceived a platform where policy-makers, corporate doyens, academicians and the student community can bring this grand vision to fruition.

PURVODAYA - National Conclave is where both the opportunities and obstacles that line this path can be explored.

While economic growth is important, it is imperative that the development process is all-inclusive and the spin-offs of the process trickle down to all sections of society. Several issues like striking a balance between agrarian and industrial interests, SEZ's, need to be explored and debated to enable informed decision-making. It is such strategic, social and geo-political issues related to the development process that will be set before the galaxy of distinguished speakers at PURVODAYA.

The conclave would encompass vital sectors, which would play a prominent role in "Ascent of the East". The program is divided into four sub-themes each focusing on a key area namely Mining & Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Service Industry and Sustainable Growth along with Manthan – The Panel Discussion.

Speakers who have confirmed participation (till date) include dignitaries like:
Speakers:
Mr. G. Ojha - Director Personnel, SAIL
Mr. Debasis Som - Managing Director, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation
Mr. S.Shivram - Director, Deloitte
Prof. Prakash Apte - Director, IIMB
Mr. Sunil Mitra - Power Sect. West Bengal Government
Mr. Mundhra - Chairman and Managing Director, Simplex Infrastructure
Mr. Ambarish Dasgupta - Partner, PriceWaterhouseCooper
Mr. Vivekananda Pattanayak [IAS (Retd)] - Head, Bhubaneswar Stock Exchange
Padmashree Prof. G. C. Mitra
Mr. Suman Chattopadhyay - Editor, Kolkatta TV
Mr. N.K. Chaudhari - Ex-CEO Mittal Steel kazakhistan
Dr. A.K Chanda - Chairman, Kolkatta Port Trust
Mr. Kaushik Bhatacharya - IBM
Mr. Gautam Wahi - Asst. Commisioner, Indian Revenue Services
Dr. Y.P Saxena - VP, Ambuja Cement


In addition, the event also includes a challenging competition for students across the nations. Titled SARVUNNATI it aims to bring together the future leaders from different B-schools across the country to present their innovative ideas on various issues of the resurgent east.

PURVODAYA, we hope, will generate ideas that will leave their impression on the "sands of time" and give solution to those outstanding issues that act as roadblocks to the growth of the East.

PURVODAYA welcomes you to shape and share its vision for the Ascent of the East.

To know more about the event click here.

Perceptions about relations!

A certain movie I saw today had a dialogue - "the current world is getting too complex and to deal with it, we need to build equally complex relations".

How does one really differentiate between relations which were otherwise supposed to be the usual ones? Is it more of a break-up of the existing framework or an entirely new platform?

The first person perspective, I guess, is divided into three aspects - social, professional and personal. Colleagues and friends, traditionally an overlapping set, seem to drift towards two mutually exclusive sets, barring a few exceptions. To complicate it further, situations demand the same person to be in both the sets as two instances, existing independent of each other. Can this itself be considered as an "instance" of the statement earlier?

I dunno a jackshit about philosophy or human behaviour, but a little thinking opens to a lot more...

Life @ VGSoM

Finally...... i get a small breather to post here

Last coupla weeks have been like a martian... some weird timings.... sleep at dawnbreak (east of india... day breaks at 5 am) ... get up at 8... eat ... caffeine doses every 2 hrs --> LIFE

Its been crazy since day one.... juggling between cases (studying and taking ), assignments, 'x'plans (x=variable {A..Z}), volleyball, night canteen, adding mass to body (otherwise called eating), presentations, reports and ... uhmm.... mmm... studies

The interesting part is... end of the day... U kinda like it

Faculty has some real gurus... giving a different level of thinking... gets you thinking on your fundas and rework on your perspectives and perceptions. Junta happens to be senior, quite senior, having a good touch of practicality in every discussion/chat/argument that happens in and out of the class. Add to that the usual hostel life (ah....finally!), lots of arbit talk and incoherent happenings giving the smirk and smile on a hard day's night.

Wel....... cutting it short now..... gotta get back to POM (ops mgmt) ... exams frm 15th can be painful


Rock on ...

Main Bhi MBA

Sometime in the month of March '06, I realised I did have some luck left in life. I got an admit for my MBA (as mentioned earlier) at one of the very respected institutes in the country - the probability of that being lower than me getting struck by lightning right now! ..... I am still alive.... so you can well guess.

Writing this at 4 am in the morning from my hostel room at Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur.

The "B-school" life begins...