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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?

“Over 77 per cent of the respondents rated the US as the most trusted leading global power. The US was followed by Australia, Russia, Japan, France, UK and the European Union (EU). The country that the respondents distrusted the most (77 percent) is China.” – TOI on Indian youth. The curvey result showed that the… Continue reading China distrusted the most

What a silly question. Everybody knows, especially Bengalis, that Japan is India’s best friend for ever. They built a status of Rabindra Nath Tagore in their famous Sakura garden, Netaji guided their military in their war to keep Asia for Asians, Japanese forces came with Netaji and kicked away British so that India got independence,… Continue reading Japan – an ally or a foe

I had a chance to be imprisoned once in my life. It was in Carbondale, end of my first semester at SIU. Vivek and Deva were my roommates. I shared the room with Vivek. Both were from IIT Kanpur. 1981 batch? The apartment was far from the campus, where classes were held. When I moved… Continue reading American Prisons – my chance for one