Memorable Moments 2009-2011

 Nine eleven, so called by Americans for the date of that attack on the World Trade Centre, was good for me- the years, I mean. 

I joined IMT NAGPUR as Director. Flew in a six seater private plane with the promoter, to be introduced to the faculty before joining. My former colleague Anwar Ali was with me too. 

I was interviewed by the student team that ran our newsletter- probably by Gowri. 

Met a lot of new colleagues, and Jayasimha, an old one.

Planned out a few things, and ran into a hunger strike by students in early 2010, over placements. Replaced the head of placements (faculty), and also MDP chair. 

Taught a Seminar course called Seminar on Thought Leadership, for the first time, with 40 students- one was an exchange student from Austria, Laura.

Met a lot of bright students through various functions, committees and events. Some of the best!

With Prof. Ravi Gadgil, built a green to play Golf on. Played Golf with him and others.

Taught a class on how to use the case method of learning, for students during orientation.

Started Alumni chapter meets in 4-5 cities

Conducted a Case conference planned by Harsh Halve and Jayasimha in Goa, for three consecutive years, at the International Centre, Dona Paula.

Conducted our first independent convocation in 2011 with Mr. Sunil Mittal as Chief Guest. Second with Mr. Mukesh Ambani, and third with Mr. Azim Premji.

Got IMT Nagpur into the top 50 B schools as per a major survey.

Recruited Anant Ram, TK Chatterjee, Vijaya Kumar and Smita Dabholkar, who have been around for many years. Also Rajnandan Pattnaik.

Guided Naveen Das through his Ph.D., jointly through NLU Jodhpur and IMT.

Helped students start F 'n F on campus.

Ate a lot of Oranges.

New Academic Year

It will be a busy time of the year starting this week. Senior batch of students is back, and juniors follow in a couple of days. A series of Programs for Executives are planned and a couple for other B-school Faculty too. The campus is throbbing with life.

Starting on a good note too, because Business world, a respected magazine, has ranked IMT Nagpur as 34th among Indian B schools. Considering there are 2500-or-so B schools in India, that's a great number to have. Collective efforts of students, faculty and admin support have made it possible, and we hope to sustain this and improve continuously.

Just got back from Mumbai after a very successful alumni meet of IMT alumni from the last few batches. Extremely interesting and enthusiastic group, and partied till late (early?). About 125 alumni turned up, upstaging the Delhi numbers at a recent do there. We hope to do this more regularly.

The rains are here, after a scorching summer. Suddenly, the road leading to the campus has turned green, so has the campus, and the summer is forgotten.