Based on true life events
Posted on 21 Jul 2010 under Journal/Life Updates, XLRI
I’m going to have to keep this one really short because I have no time to write a proper post. Too many B-schools advocate “academic rigour”. A 30-hour contact course in XLRI supposedly requires 70 hours of work outside the classroom. We have 7.5 courses this term (one of them is a 4.5-credit course as [...]
Posted on 22 Jun 2010 under Random, XLRI
About 20 minutes ago, it started raining. You may remember some of my previous posts about rain in Jamshedpur, but today I have been defied. It is pouring heavily, accompanied by violent explosions of thunder and continuous flashes of lightning. I love it. Weather like this, particularly in summer, gets everyone (almost) in India high. [...]
Posted on 16 Jun 2010 under Journal/Life Updates, XLRI
It’s my third day back in XLRI. The weather gadget in my sidebar says that it’s 38°C outside, but I think it’s very likely that it’s hotter than that. Here inside my room, though, it’s definitely quite a few degrees cooler. I’m sitting in a straight-back, albeit moderately comfortable chair, listening to music pour out [...]
Posted on 02 Apr 2010 under XLRI
In another 45 minutes, I’ll be writing the last exam of my first year of MBA. In a manner of speaking, this puts me at the halfway line. I can’t wait for the exam to end, for this nightmare of a term to end. Just 2 more hours to go. Right now, I’m feeling a [...]
Posted on 17 Mar 2010 under Random, XLRI
Generally, here’s how it rains in Jamshedpur. First, the sky goes all dark…like sinister dark. Then, out of nowhere, the thunder starts rolling in, seemingly soft at first, but gradually going on to become the roar that echoes throughout the corners of the world. The wind picks up like a tempest possessed by the devil. [...]
Posted on 07 Mar 2010 under Journal/Life Updates, XLRI
So I recently bought a second-hand motorcycle from a senior at a wonderfully knocked-down price. It’s perfect because though I’ve learnt how to ride, I don’t have much practice. An old bike is really perfect since if I fall off or something, a few scratches and dents would probably give the bike more personality than [...]
Posted on 04 Mar 2010 under Journal/Life Updates, XLRI
It’s getting hotter day by day. One of these days, I’m going to have to start taking a shower with cold water again. If that alone is not strong enough proof of the fact that summer is just around the bend, consider this. What word do you most strongly associate with “summer afternoons”? Lazy. Everybody [...]
Posted on 20 Feb 2010 under Life, XLRI
After a long, long time, I woke up early a couple of days back to study for that afternoon’s Production Management mid-term exam. It was a glorious grey sky morning, cool and peaceful. It might be a huge coincidence, but every time I have a test or exam for which I’m not 100% prepared, the [...]
Posted on 15 Feb 2010 under Life, XLRI
Back when I was in 9th class (or was it 10th?), Hyderabad witnessed furious rains that flooded a small open drain (the best English translation of nala I could come up with) in Begumpet, which caused school to be shut down for about a week or so. This happened very close to exam time, and [...]
Posted on 01 Feb 2010 under Journal/Life Updates, XLRI
Life and I more than occasionally share a hate-hate relationship. I’ve often said that life is a female dog. Really, though, it’s a roller-coaster ride with a crazed loon on drugs at the controls. Every once in a while, life surprises you by sending you a hell of a day, and I mean that in [...]
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