India poised.......

After long days,

As i am learning management will start writing today's blog with some figures/data

1] My MBA friends will get salaries around RS. 16-22 lakhs per annum from their first jobs

2] I am getting 25,000 stipend for doing my research and taking the education

3] My Photographer friend is struggling to earn steady 25,000 per month (at this stage, in future he may earn in crores...)

4] My engineer friend (Mtech- non renewable energy resources) is getting salary of Rs 6 lakhs per annum

5] My friend working in IT is getting 5.5 lakhs salary per annum after working for 4 and half years

6] My mom is getting salary of 2 lakh per ammum after working for 20 years in Bank..

7] One of my best friend who can be the best event manager and better manager than most of my friends is struggling to get the job.

8] Mess boy is getting 3000 for cleaning the food wasted by all MBA studs in my mess.

9] Gardners are getting less than Rs 100 for maintaining the lawn where future managers throw their bear bottles,

10] Farmer , 40 km from my college don't get any assured income and sometime Rs 80 per day.

11] India'sPrime minister's salary is..........

and so on... Why is it like that......Except prime minister, i have seen everybody.. so i don't believe that differences in their salaries are any way are related to their skill level or intellectual level. Are these MNC's are bringing new capitalist structure in society ? is it right distribution of wealth ? Where this will lead the society ? What is attitude that will develop in these managers ? what will be the attitude that will develop in the people who are earning less without there fault ? will anybody go for engg in non renewable resources rejecting the HR job? will anybody choose their passion such as musics, photography, arts as their careers? Do we need some reforms in the systems ? Do we need CHE in India ? Alla kasam :), mere dost MBA pura karake job suru karenge tabhi muze es cheej ka answer milega !!!

4TH term "learnings-unlearnings"

I should have one line common for all the posts on my blogs..

"I am writing after so many days....:)"

Anyway, here are few things i did in last term in XLRI.

1] We had great fun in our sportscom comittee. We started one super league consist of all games. We had a bidding process to form the 4 clubs..and then we started the tournament with 2 events this term. Good innitiative in XL.

2] In SIGMA, we started project school on new mode. We are conducting workshop for students on each saturday-sunday. We have completed 6 workshops this term and we are targetting overall 42 in whole year. We got 100 volunteers. We had clothes distibution under GOONJ. We also started campaign against food wastage in mess.

3] We had a bike trip to some fall about 50 km from JamashedPur. And near about 10 trips to Dimna..And now we are going to bhuvaneshwar (400 km) on bike in next two days...

4] I listened to many good speeches on TED. I had a good collection of poems in last three months. I collected few good presentations...

5] I attended all social entrepreneurship, indian Philosophy, MCCD and counselling lecture without missing single one. I learned a lot...it was fun. 3 of them were without notebook and pen.

6] I made one really self satisfying presentation on self actuallization. It was fun.. I had a few more creative presentations in IPLE and social entrepreneurship lectures.

7] I made one good documetry with srinath on platform beggers.

8] It was fun reading Yayati, Geeta, Developmental Economics, Freud and many more..

9] I had one beautiful morning with hari, near dimna lake reading Geeta..

10] first time many full night outs..no exercises whole term....lot of tea......and variety of friends

11] LONG HAIRS>>>>>>>> i am loosing many for that... but its ok...any how i will loose them

12] More thinking on "Kama Purusha, Swadharma and purpose of life"

13] more empty and loneliness feeling by thinking of future and thinking the world as constantly changing..

XL 2nd year begins !!

Back to XL !! With great experience of summer project with Basix, again eager to get some more knowledge. This term looking forward at two subjects

1] Indian philosophy and leadership

2] Social entrepreneurship

Summer has created lot of interest in reaserch. Now i need to think about finalising my subject.

Thats it !!

just trying to come back on blog.

Kakani special !!

God ! we finished our end term for financial management today. I started studying yesterday with Laxmi stotra (as paper was finance :)). then night out and today whole day- study..it was surprise as expected when we faced the end term. This term we only had KAKANI in our life. Whole PMIR batch was kakanized..(new word added to dictionary :)). Here are few reasons for process of kakanization.

1] He creates his own rule and follows them by heart.. as hard as RAJA Harishchandra.

2] Now , term began with kakani explaining class that it is a game we are going to play for next 20 lectures..(Rules defined by him)

3] All lectures at 8.30 morning (it is midnight timming for XL :)). If you r 1 second late , you are out.

4] First lecture 15 marks are deposited to your account. Now game will be played base on reduction and addition to this 15 marks.

5] Random presenty.. Day he feel that there are more than 2 people absent, he will take attendance. And -2 for absent people.. So (you have to present all lecture on time, also he dont have to take attendance everyday)

6] If mobile is on, and somebody calls you... uffff !!  -7 marks for you and entire row gets -2 each.

7] Before each lecture - one group assignment based on chapter that will be there on that lecture. Result- you should read chapter , discuss it in group and then only come to class. U will need to spend 3 hrs before each lecture.

8] He assigned one company to each . And we had individual assignment after each lecture based on that company. (Great idea so people cant copy each others assignment) . Result- You read that chapter again after lecture and spends 3 hrs for doing assignment.

9]Now for checking each assignment he will generate no. by random no generator. Say for assgnmt 1, no generated is 1, then that assgnmt will be checked for roll no 1,11,21,31.... REsult- In given 18 assnmt your no. can come any time so that you have to do all assgnmt properly. you cant do trade off. Again good assignment will add 2-3 mark to your deposit of 15 mark and bad assignment can subtract upto 7 marks.. BAAP-RE !!

10] First quiz, - all numericals, options were given very close. Say answer is 16.75. He will give option as  a] 16.2 to 16.4 b] 16.2 to 16.6 c] <=16.2.. and answer will be option (e) for all questions saying as "none of the above". Who will dare to answer"none of this" for all question although you calculate right answers.

11] before end term all people  have spend 3hr * 21 group assgnmt + 3 hrs * 18 individual assignments + 1.5 hrs * 20 lectures + quiz study + 1 hrs * 26 chapters reading = 173 hrs on finance in span of 2 month.

12] Still everybody struggling to pass, So people studied for atleast 24 hrs before end term

13] end term is - he gave one business standard newspaper. Exam time is 150 min. And we have 55 questions on 55 news spread over all the papers even in suppliment. :)

What else you don't want ???? hihihihihihi

One should experience Kakani rather than going for tirthayatra ! What else u want ?

Dear sir, people may say anything about you.. You are great !! 

Latur - Summers

I am getting one very important break in life. Going to Latur for summers ! Life is going to be complete different out there ! How i will face it ? It is very interesting. What is so big changes are going to happen ?

1] XL hostel - full time with friends around to alone in latur

2] unlimited hot water, beautiful scenary around, nice mess food four times, AC classrooms and library to rain drained area where nothing is fixed abt accomodation, food and all such things

3] 24-hr wifi network to no network

4] 24 hrs electricity, separate rooms to stay --> 12 hrs load shading, water problem and hot summers

5] English, hindi ---> Latur special Marathi :)

6]profit oriented business world ---> BPL farmers and their aspirations

7] dont know what else !!

Fun !!

Can i do few things ?

1] Let have no connection with XL for two months

2] Full time focus on work

3] Travelling in marathavada

4] meeting new people

5] Completely different things than normal schedule

Let us see how it happens - new change !!

Nothing

Going under one of the most bad mental state of life !!

Be rebellious!

External environment, long term blindness is killing me. I don’t know what is happening to me. Today I have feeling that I should be rebellious. Just break the rules. Just throw off the system. Just do something not done before. Break your own limitations. Kill the fear, burn the insecurities and do nothing.

                Give presentations without PPTs, give presentations without using word strategy, go in shorts to class, don’t shave for months, wear hair band, and ask some basic doubt to professor. And don’t stop till he gives answer. Submit report in the simplest format. Watch movie before each quiz. Abuse front benchers as well as back benchers. Just explode the mind..

                We are living in environment where we don’t have any control! Elections are at neck. Leaders are giving some random speeches, Taliban is doing something in Afghanistan, USA in great depression, naxalites killing somebody every day, meaningless bolly wood movies coming out, my classmates are under pressure for their jobs after 1 year, professors are showing egos, daily I am doing something which everybody is doing without knowing why?, Zarakhand villagers don’t have foods for 2-3 days, having love for some girl, looking some very happy families, watching school children playing football, beautiful sunset and birds flying everyday back to their nest..Friends, where we stand in all this ? No control, or so limited control or complete unconsciousness!!

                One day I will feel that I should be pure, one day I will find life beautiful, one day I will be emotional dependant, One day I will find it boring, one day I will be like rock star- complete energetic. And another day I will be no where!!

                Be rebellious! That’s it…… I want to read some novel like this. I should see motorcycle diaries! Today I have effect of song Gulaal- Aarambh he prachand !!

new learnings last two months

Learning 1.

• We are always driven by imagination that our dream will come true. This is sometime possible sometime not.
• Interesting fact is that we are many times more happy by imagination that certain dream will come true than actual happiness we get when dream get realised.
• Now, most dreams come to end on negative ends. then we are unhappy.
• When we are unhappy , we find some external locus of control. We find some logic saying that current state is more favourable than what we wanted to. But this is not good. Accept the truth as it is. Feel the sadness for some time. And then... How to come out ? ..That is great question. Answer is that visualise new dream and follow it.
• Now how happiness can be permanant ? See some big dream which will be unlimited, which will be for others (not self). Then you will be happy for whole life by imagination that dream will come true.

Learning 2

• Be pure ! Loosing something by being pure is better than getting something through cheating.
• Be what you are ! Dont change yourself for somebody else.
• Face the reality.

Learning 3

• Happiness is in sharing.
• Share with everybody. Dont create dependancy. If people start ignoring you because of your high sharing. Find few more. World population is growing as anything. :)

Learning 4

• Nothing is constant. Everything changes. You should be in synchronization with natural cycle.

Learning 5 (combo)

• Key to happiness is creating good humor. Laughter. Happiness is not something you achieve. It is what you think !! 
• Busy schedule is remedy for all problems. Empty mind creates distration

Few practicals

• Avoid excessive use of Gtalk ! :) :)
• don't analyse so much.. live the movement.. Hihihihihi..
• I feel really sorry for emotional dependant people. I am happy to be independant. :)

breaking circles

"All good things always have end". Santosh told me when i was on mumbai platform to catch train to Jamashedpur with leaving back memorable 6 years with JP youth wing work and looking at new XL life for 4 years. I was literally crying with close 7- 8 friends around me and everybody knowing that this was end. Those days would not come  back. Now, after 1 year i still remembers those moments.

Now seniors are leaving campus. I dont have close bonding with all seniors. But yes, footaball team i am surely missing. Same with my volleyball team and few individual members. Fact is that everybody here leaving campus is knowing those days are gone. New life has started. Time cant come back. Today we had last football match and JLT chat. I am feeling too much emotional. 

I know, everything will get settled again in few days. That is life !! yes .. i should enjoy it.

one should be like hero of "into the wild". Accept the fact that past will not come again. Take memories with you and enjoy the present !!

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There is always one thing which creates problem in all other things. Our life according to me is like some vehicle, where problem in one part can create problems in all other part. Consider example, when we see somebody not doing work well, we start blaming him or consider him as someone with less quality. But this happens because we see only that part. Many a times that person may have some other problem going on in his life which results in particular behaviour in other parts. Due to my current phase i am learning few things.

1]Never judge anybody based on particular behavior. any human being is always good. 

2]Whatever plan you may have, always expect something uncertain.

3] Real happiness is in creating joy at wherever u will go and whatever u will do.

4]tight schedulel is very much important. Try to break all the bonds otherwise u cant give your 100 %.

** today again writiing blog desparately...wanted to write something and i thing, i have written something..Anyway, it will reflect my some learning.

Tablet of happiness

Last week was very rigorous !! we were flowing together between different submissions and mid terms..Then surprisingly i got today's evening and night free !! I was so happy. I wanted to lot of things to do.. So i prepared one tablet of happiness and i took it with liquid of songs..Here is my report.. As I am under going managerial training, will write it in points.

1] i went to gym. Enjoyed cycling and weights and ultimately SHAVASAN !! (background was english rhythmic music)

2]Then i took my bicycle and went for cycling(1 hr). I went on one road going high up. I drive my cycle in 5 th gear !! enjoyed the pain. And then enjoyed flow while coming back on slope. (background was peaceful tunes !!)

3] I met some unknown person. I asked him some random things. He enjoyed chatting.

4] I saw one tree. I felt as if it is hanging in the sky !! (hihihi). I watched that one for 10 min.

5] then i came back. I called one of my friend, and went to Cafe coffee day !! (background loud music in cafeteria)

6] Then i wanted to go to temple. In between i helped one very old woman by giving money. Then i saw one cow very ill. I bought some banana's and tried to feed cow !!!

7] I came back and made one (bad ) painting in word paint !!

8] I heard summer of 69 and we will rock you in loud volume !!

9]I took bath for half an hr in hot water. Before than shaving and then that smell of after shave !!

10] I had full bottle of water after heavy exercise.

11] Then i did prayer on  "Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha"

12] I interpreted one of the good poem by Ravindranath Tagore.

13] Then i had pastries from cafe coffee days. Shared them with friends and had chat abt "Pune"

14] I came back and called one of my very old friend with whom i had no communication for long time.

15] I Dreamed abt one movie , in which father would take his son on world trip, and would teach real meaning of life through actual experiences !!!

15]Now writing this blog.

16 ] Going to watch Liverpool Vs Real madrid football match at 1.30

I wanted to share this with somebody. lot of people are around me. I can call any of my friends in pune. But still nobody is there. (background song is my fav lonely song so gaya..)

What is happiness ? I say all above as tablet because i did all that but on back of mind i was enjoying a dream of sharing all this experiences with friends. Real joy was of feeling of sharing. So it is tablet and not state of happiness !!

Ya , I will accept that now my battery is 100 percentage charged but then,

May god help me in achieving real state of happiness in future !!

2 by 2 matrix

One beauty of management education is that in any subject for most of the concept, their is choice of selecting one of the quadrant of 2 by 2 matrix.. It is all trade off and decision making. there will be two parameters with two values streched and 4 different styles !!

i got one great idea !! i will  collect all such 2 by 2 matrices from all the subjects and will put it together and will publish 200 page book "2 by 2 "..And under each page , i will put interpretation of that concept in  real life wihin 2 sentences.. !!

Vision statement for my shaolin school will be MANAGEMENT OF LIFE -  finding the conficts of free mind. Deciding the trade-off. washing all other quadrants and following your passion !! 

Let hope each one will able to implement above statement in their own life including me....

race is on....

Last two week whole batch was enjoying quite relax schedule very rare in their buzy b-school life..then came the news of bad CRP in campus.. People started feeling pressure..then came result for 2 nd term.. there were quite a few prof in 2 nd term , who gave very bad grades.. decrease in CQPI.. what to do now ? You can't imagine the atmosphere in our batch now. Next week is going to be reflection of all..I am dam sure atleast 10-20 people will be there , who will spend their whole week sleepless.. add on to that we have lot of submission and 4, big 4 midterms..I really feel scary by imagining the next week situation in Xl..

I feel lost in such environment.. How one B-school should be ? They should go to various places and should solve real problem.. If grades are out, nobody should even visit the office as actually study is not grades but something else. I know that people have taken loans and that is the reason why they feel pressure...but anyway according to me these people are of such catagories that resulted in action of taking 7 lakh loan and coming for mba education. My dream of education and what i am actually doing are completely different.. But i have to that.. for first year.From second year , i will study on my own way !!

I had imagined that my XL fellows would be each one diamond having high self efficacy and doing something different.. but there are very few like this.

Conflict and trade off are fancy terms to study in management education...But in real life , what a big role they are playing ? God, give me the power to choose right one..Ya, i will create my own school of shaolin were , i will learn all this.

Leaves and flowers are falling down.. Vasanta (most probably) has started.. What a beauty it is.. XL campus is really heaven.. Why cant we have some Bodhi tree class or JLT katta sessions ? there is great need of dynamism in XL..

Now philosophy is over.. I have a marketing and IR class.. Again back to study of such a  system that to lock the people than providing them freedom..?

again after long time !!

when u start writing after long days , it becomes difficult to write..there are so many things but all trying to go in back up and nothing nin catche ..:)

Recently important activities in life are - XL-IIMC meet cancelled because of shift of placement(global effect on local sport meet :)), conflicts about motivation and learning theme going through my mind, Chilka Sarovar travelling, reading Jungle book again, Sigma conference- vijay Mahajan speech, seniors placement and so on...

First time in six month i am in confused state- feeling the distance from Jnana Prabodhini..

I think manthan is going inside my mind. something will come out after one or two month..Everything going under turbulence, issue of emotional independancy, social entrepreneur Vs Faculty, some thing missing in life - dont know what ?..After this one month and 3 month summer, i am hoping that i will again in no question state..somebody in my college got job for 1600000...What really worth that ? I have seen people working 14-16 hrs and earning 50 rs...What is answer for this ? why it is like this ? And height is that people have ""services"" for serving these people during placement.. I cant do that... I dont understand that..

Good thing is that i can observe myself during all this and can laugh on myself watching as a third person..

One thing is clear, nobody can give answer to your queries. You have to find answers on your own.

pointers continue

1] I fought with Omaxi for republic day wet night issue, and i was able to do something...may in future i will do some more.

2] I am going under good practice for football and volleyball... ready to fight IIMC.

3] Life going under some different phase,i dont think i can express it in blog.

4] Social conference turning out to be good...

5] Acad complete neglected status.. :(.... plaanning to miss one or miss quiz purposefully to come out of peer pressure and do whatever u want.

6] Gsec election was interesting experience.

7] Kakani rocking, Guru's grade not understanding anything :) , OB no study, other reading lot off !!

8] Cast away movie

9] Tagore's poem..fundoo

10] Chat with Amol...Robaxi Saraswati pujan

11 ] thinking of writing autobiography of common room.. it experiences saraswati puja, dunking, wet night, birtday parties, thrilling matches, night TT, breaking news, group discussion and what not !! it will be interesting.

12] Today i am same as i was after two week.

diary pointers

Now days i am getting free time but not that free where i can enjoy writing the blog. So today i will write few points abt major events and learning.

• Sudden plan (10 min before) and biking from jamashedpur to Ranchi in heavy fog and chill cold in the night
• Maxi fair -work- sponsership work, ticket selling work and actual event day work (JP ani yuvi athavala, pan JP chi dhamal vegalich :))
• current questions inside the mind - my future life, does i am changing with XL ? , emotional dependance (better word - ownership issue), what is stable in once life ? all the things are changing...
• Kakani- one good prof in finance has actually occupied all the life of my batchmates. :)
• XL - IIM C meet preparations.

Novelty in life

First three days and XL life began with full energy. I am enjoying it and i want more and more strech.It is real fun of learning. 

Now, considering that i will have this long strech for 4 year :), what will be the novelty in the life ?

or any way for any body what is there that drive it ? i know, i am surely better than most of the people who are flowing with currents or having normal routine but then again what is novelty in my some different or own currents as  its again routine ...

So i will like to find that

Noveltty (as early as possible.)

Most of the people live not for novelty but for somebody else. Say GF, wife, childrens or society, or some dream.For all these people its emotions that drives their life.

But 

if i am thinking of living life as a learner or one with doing all but filling nothing... i need novelty and not emotions.

Currently i am impulsive and thus positive towards all the learning as well as experiences...but what if this impulse go down ? 

i need to maintain this impulse...(convert ac to dc :)..)

last one

if we find meaning in life and started living for that will we loose novelty ?

thus novelty and meaning goes against each other?

now leaving it ,

enjoying maxi admin work, football practice, kakani's work and all !! keep it up GAURAV !!

After long gap - just to start again

My last writing was on 28th nov. So i just wanted to restart it. Chinmay's writing in Marathi inspired me to write again atleast in english. After 28 th nov lot of learning in two busy week in Xl and meeting all friends and relative back in Pune.

I will write separately on that in one or two days.

Today i have started my third term in XL. i think i am in best mood to learn. I had glance through varsharambha upasana.Best part of trimester pattern is that you can make your "Sankalpas" and re-energies yourself after just 3 month gap rather than year long. :) 

I have three big event in XL in next month. Lot of interaction with groups and team. I will finalise my Sankalpa's for this trimester in two days. I want to generate momentum in this week itself.

thats it !  This is just kick start . I hope it will start ignition that will continue for three months.