To Babu or not to Babu – that is the question.
It is that time of the year again. The UPSC results are out. Over a thousand new entrants make their way jubilantly into the bureaucracy of the country. Many will be publicly felicitated on this...
Category: Perspectives
“WHAT IFs” that could redefine the business school experience
Having spent a year at the school, its time to step back and brood over things that oft-occurred to me. Some of these I may have a strong opinion on. Others are questions I am...
Don’t go to a business school. Here is why.
Business schools are supposed to provide a jumpstart to your career; catapult you to the league of extraordinary businessmen/women. And the measure of success traditionally has been (rightly so?) the astronomical graduating salary figures. But...
‘Putting in a good word’ – Is it okay to encourage favouritism?
Favouritism – the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another. Favouritism in India is a widely accepted phenomenon with political families ruling us and Bollywood families...
In St. Stephen’s, students are as much the problem as the institution
A foreign exchange student from the United States spends six months at Delhi’s prestigious St Stephen’s College, and is left very disappointed. Somewhere near the Vice-Chancellor’s office, 2 am, we were searching for the famous...
