June 21 2010. My first official class at IIM Lucknow, induction to the post graduate program in Management. We sat there waiting for the session to begin, unaware that the best two years of my life is all set to begin. Mr. Vinit Chauhan, Global Business Manager - JP Morgan Chase and President - Alumni Asso IIM Lucknow, flew down all the way from London to deliver his welcome address. All through his speech he shared the stories of several alumni in the business world - CEOs of companies, partners of firms and so on. Fat paychecks, fancy cars, glamorous lifestyles - students in the room got what they want from an IIM. The undertone for his speech was to get equipped and take on the business world.
The next session on that day was by Prof. Ashwani Kumar, the chairman of the post graduate program. He had quite a charismatic aura and caught the attention of a 400 strong batch in the first few minutes of his speech. His conveyed that the campus is a temple of knowledge, and the main job of the students there is to learn, as much as they can. I still remember his words, that campus recruitment gives students their first job, but the learning there stays through out their lives. We all somehow liked his speech, and were impressed by the commitment of the faculty toward the students.
The next session for the day was by Prof R K Srivastava. He is famous as Rocky across the student fraternity and is often called the best professor on campus. The theme for his speech was responsibility, ethical life. He took several examples of alumni involved in social causes. He narrated the life story of Manunath Shanmugam, an alumni of 2003 batch of IIM Lucknow, who was killed in 2005 after his attempt to take on the oil infiltration mafia in UP. He did his best to convey his topic, especially after the two earlier talks with different points of view. The sincerity in his speech and in the thought he conveyed was astounding.
Jan 22, 2011. Mr. H K Dua, Member of parliament and one of the senior most journalists of India, was addressing a host of VIPs, faculty and students at IIM Lucknow's annual business conclave, Manfest. I still remember the first line of his speech which goes something like "I am glad to come from a place of cynicism (which he meant was Delhi) to a place where people are talking about hope (The theme of the summit being Renaissance)". In the course of his thought provoking speech, he mentioned about the vision that our erstwhile leaders had about India and the current path which India is on. He raised a few questions like when we have started projects like Space research, nuclear plants, IT revolution in 1970s and 80s, against all odds, there have not been any futuristic projects in the current times. Through out his speech, he expressed his belief that the younger generation (us) should lead India forward. He mentioned that people of the country are looking at the elite institutions in the country for leaders.
I had the idea to write his post immediately after Mr Dua's talk in Jan 2011. Moved by Mr Dua's speech, I wanted to write this in a sarcastic undertone towards the happenings at B Schools. Now when I look back at the two years at Lucknow, I understand that the curriculum and the faculty have done their best job to educate students on all fronts. Though CG and CV were the two most heard words, thoughts like above expose the students to realities, which in some cases may influence a few students to make right choices in life.
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The next session on that day was by Prof. Ashwani Kumar, the chairman of the post graduate program. He had quite a charismatic aura and caught the attention of a 400 strong batch in the first few minutes of his speech. His conveyed that the campus is a temple of knowledge, and the main job of the students there is to learn, as much as they can. I still remember his words, that campus recruitment gives students their first job, but the learning there stays through out their lives. We all somehow liked his speech, and were impressed by the commitment of the faculty toward the students.
The next session for the day was by Prof R K Srivastava. He is famous as Rocky across the student fraternity and is often called the best professor on campus. The theme for his speech was responsibility, ethical life. He took several examples of alumni involved in social causes. He narrated the life story of Manunath Shanmugam, an alumni of 2003 batch of IIM Lucknow, who was killed in 2005 after his attempt to take on the oil infiltration mafia in UP. He did his best to convey his topic, especially after the two earlier talks with different points of view. The sincerity in his speech and in the thought he conveyed was astounding.
Jan 22, 2011. Mr. H K Dua, Member of parliament and one of the senior most journalists of India, was addressing a host of VIPs, faculty and students at IIM Lucknow's annual business conclave, Manfest. I still remember the first line of his speech which goes something like "I am glad to come from a place of cynicism (which he meant was Delhi) to a place where people are talking about hope (The theme of the summit being Renaissance)". In the course of his thought provoking speech, he mentioned about the vision that our erstwhile leaders had about India and the current path which India is on. He raised a few questions like when we have started projects like Space research, nuclear plants, IT revolution in 1970s and 80s, against all odds, there have not been any futuristic projects in the current times. Through out his speech, he expressed his belief that the younger generation (us) should lead India forward. He mentioned that people of the country are looking at the elite institutions in the country for leaders.
I had the idea to write his post immediately after Mr Dua's talk in Jan 2011. Moved by Mr Dua's speech, I wanted to write this in a sarcastic undertone towards the happenings at B Schools. Now when I look back at the two years at Lucknow, I understand that the curriculum and the faculty have done their best job to educate students on all fronts. Though CG and CV were the two most heard words, thoughts like above expose the students to realities, which in some cases may influence a few students to make right choices in life.
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