4,00,000 and Going

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Readers of course, are the key. I did not expect so many of you, really. I am truly madhosh. To celebrate, I am reproducing below an early blog post from 2008 titled Novelty.

What we need to keep us going is something new. According to guys like Osho, everything is evolving all the time, and therefore when you see it tomorrow it is different from what it was yesterday. This applies to everything- from a leaf on a tree to your wife, or for that matter, yourself (the mirror will vouch for that!). But everyone is not Osho. So we make valiant attempts to find variety in our lives. At least I do, sometimes with good results, sometimes with terrible ones. For example, I have tried almost all snacks available at airport counters, and they are equally bad! Ditto for food served inside the aircraft. Maybe when it is airborne, an idli has its way of getting "airy", and therefore tastes like tissue paper soaked in something. I have also tried flying all the domestic airlines now, and they all come across as callous. Just one example. If you know that the plane takes 2 hours, why put it as an hour and a half on the schedule? It fools novices into thinking they may get somewhere on time, but others by now know that they will get to know the sky at 30,000 feet a lot better while circling over the packed airports. So much for novelty. Now what is it that I need to try next? Maybe, Lalu's Garib Rath.

New Things

The most popular adjective in an advertisement is "new" or sometimes, "new and improved". Why? Because we are always searching for novelty in life. Amongst some of us, even the social greeting is "Hi, so what's new?"

Our quest for novelty is individual and institutional. I keep getting asked the question "Why did you join or continue working in academics?" One of the first thing that comes to mind is that you are constantly seeing young, enthusiastic and yes, "new" faces around you all the time-at least once a year.

It is that time of the year now. IMT Nagpur has a new batch entering for their 2011-13 journey through our PGDM/MBA program. The senior batch, 2010-2012, is also back 'renewed' from an experience of industry via their summer internships. There is a lot of excitement at the campus, and anticipation of the year ahead. The monsoon having arrived, both Nagpur and the campus are lush green.

There is another 'new' addition to the family as well. I mean the IMT family, not mine. IMT Hyderabad opens its doors this year to its first batch of students. July first week. It is located on a 30 acre campus at Shamshabad very close to the new airport. This will increase the Brand IMT penetration into the South, and make us truly pan-India. We also have a Dubai campus that adds an international flavour.