Memories of Bangalore

 I passed the Silk Board junction yesterday. Brought back memories, not all good. But the good ones were of joining PESIT in my first academic leadership role, with a set of 15 faculty and 120 MBA students. A university affiliated system in India was new, and some challenges were to transcend its limitations. We did Ok, with a journal being published (PES Business Review), case method adopted by many faculty, and training programs and conferences being done. An international collaboration with Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania too.

Then came a brief stint at IFIM in Electronic City. New colleagues, and we tried new things in admissions, touring 30 centres to admit students from all over India. I went as far as Dehradun and Amritsar, apart from Chandigarh, Udaipur and Jaipur. We achieved our target.

One common feature of places I was in-charge of, were the FDPs or faculty development programs we ran for our own and other B school faculty. On research methodology, or Case method of teaching/learning, Case writing, etc. that saw good participation. Alumni connect was also strengthened in most places I worked in, and continues to this day.

Of course, the metro railway is new, and the pubs and microbreweries have grown in number since then. 2020 was a peculiar year due to the COVID pandemic, but there's a lot to explore in Bangalore.