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Japan has 3 agents to control India. Modi is one. He is happy with election fund gift, Shinkasen train, and having tea in Tokyo. Jaishankar, born to an influential dad, was not a good student, but thanks to usual padding of interview scores, scored high on IFS. Completely dumb, Team China is waiting for him… Continue reading Modi, Jaishankar and Kyoko

There is a common misunderstanding that Japanese look alike. I worked with them, at Mitsubishi, Japan’s most notorious company, and understood that they were different. Dr. Shinaya Fushini, was a graduate of Todai, University of Tokyo. His GREO database was popular. He had spent nearly 2 years at IBM USA.He was quite good in English.… Continue reading Diverse Japanese staff

He was an excellent movie director. Saw his last English language movie – Home and Outside. There was a scene where Utpal Dull mentioned evils of the world and he mentioned atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When I was as student in Bengal, dropping of atom bombs was frequently mentioned in debates to… Continue reading Satyajit Ray’s Movie

1982. Didn’t intend to study computer. Computers was hot in 1982. My roommate challenged my to study computer science because in his view being a MBA guy I was mentally-challenged to do computer science. I took IBM Assembler Language course, in Summer, with three more courses. Was not allowed to register because the maximum number… Continue reading GRE Computer: Better than Stanford PhD #1

He was well-known. Now, I don’t know. Maybe, like Subhas Chandra Bose, aka Netaji. I don’t like to cover him. His life is almost over, but he has his millions still with him. Means he can still come back. As the Industry Minister in Bengal. Hope that they have some sort of industry in Bengal… Continue reading The curious case of Rajat Gupta

We all know of schools where about 700-720 seems to be a decent score. Stanford, Chicago, MIT, listed on their their application forms, the GMAT distribution of its admitted students in the MBA program, and sometimes in their PhD programs. About 10 to 20% entering classes exceeding 700, was many times mentioned. Distribution of 800… Continue reading GMAT 800 – My story

He was my classmate. Got his gold medal in 1978. Often he used to question professors which got them stumped. I didn’t understand most of them. Even other toppers like Gurjar didn’t understand them. He was helpful to me. Not showing the arrogance most of the toppers displayed. I liked him. In Bombay most came… Continue reading Dr. Narendra Karmarkar

People refer to IITs as IITs. And everybody understands what they are referring to.A few years ago, when I was in IIT, well, make it eons ago, we at IIT Bombay used to laugh at when common people on the street used to get confused and used to call it ITI. A good techical school,… Continue reading Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Indian youth is quite determined to make USA and Japan their friends while hate China who is the root reason of all that is evil in the world. Could it be that thousands of years of slavery has its impact on the Indian mind, unable to understand the reality.Most animals until the exact time they… Continue reading US, Japan and India

MIT MBA is not a prestigious as the Harvard MBA. HBS had George Bush, or some other Bush I think. Still it ranks among the top MBA programs in the USA because it is supposed to be a powerhouse of quantitative analysis. Even though I didn’t expect to get in, thanks to poor grades by… Continue reading Is MIT MBA for quantitative giants?