राधे रंग तुझा गोरा
सांग कशाने रापला |
मिठीतून सावळ्याच्या
रंग सावळा लागला ||
राधे दृष्टीतून का ग
घन सावळा भिजला |
इथे तुझा डोळा पाणी
तिथे मुरारी भिजला ||
डोळा पाणी जिने उन्हा
इंद्रधनुचा सोहळा |
पुसटले साती रंग
एक श्रीरंग उरला ||
for spidey : sandeep khare, sandip, radha rang rang tujha tuza gora, vedhyagat, poem, lyrics, radhe
June 20th, 2009 / 0 Comments / Tags: sandeep khare / TrackbackI’ve volunteered to take the junior batch (along with a few of my batchmates) on a city tour organised by the college. However, as usual they have gone overboard by making this “compulsory” for all the freshman (waay cooler term!). This means that we will have a fleet of 7 buses filled with IIMC junta making their way across the city.
Also the tour’s actual plan is kinda lame. It takes you to a couple of temples (Kali Mandir and Belur Math). While Belur Math is a nice place, its really really far in an area where nothing else exists, while Kali Mandir is in another nearer corner. This means that we will be spending most of our time in the bus! Also by making it a half-day tour and ending it around 1-2 pm means that all of us will be baked in the cruel Calcutta sun by the time we get back. I would’ve thought a roam through the streets of colonial Calcutta (like the wonderfully named Chowringee and Shakespeare Sarani) would’ve been nice – and so would’ve been a stop at the Victoria Memorial and the Eden Gardens. And if we had to go somewhere far, I’d take Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Stadium and the Science City anyday!
Anyway, the point for me is to meet these “kids” – and get to know them a little better. The hectic schedule that they will be under might not afford either of us much time to do so in the future.
June 19th, 2009 / 0 Comments / Tags: city tour, iimc / Trackbackकधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
भांड्या वर भांड कधी भिडायला हवे
उगाचच सखी वारी चिडायाला हवे
मुखातून तिच्यावर पाखारता आग
एकी कडे प्रेम गीत लिहायाला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
विळीपरी कधी एक चंद्रकोर घ्यावी
फिरविशी स्वप्ने धारे धारेने चिरावी
कोर कोर चंद्र चंद्र हारता हारता
मनातून पूर्णबिंब तगायला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
मनातल्या माकडाशी हात मिलवून
आचरावे कधीतरी विचारावाचून
झ्हादापास झ्होम्बुनिया येत हातापाशी फळ
सहज तेही फेकायाला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
कधी रात्री लावूनिया नयनांचे दिवे
पुस्तकाला काहीतरी वाचायाला द्यावे
शोधुनिया प्राणातले दुमडले पान
मग त्याने आपल्याला चाळायला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
स्वत:ला विकून काय घेशील विकत
खरी खरी सुखे राजा मिळती फुकट
हापापून बाजारात मागशील किती
स्वत:तच नवे काही शोधायला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
तेच तेच पाणी आणि तीच तीच हवा
आणि तुला बदलही कशासाठी हवा
जुनेच अजून आहे रीयाजा वाचून
गिळलेले आधी पचायला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
नको बघू पाठीमागे येईल कळून
कितीतरी करायचे गेलेले राहून
नको करू त्रागा असा उद्याच्या दारात
स्वत:ला कधीतरी माफ करायला हवे
कधी तऱ्ही वेड्यागत वागयाला हवे ||
संदीप खरे
for spidey : sandeep khare, sandip, kadhi tari vedyagat vagayala have, vedhyagat, poem, lyrics
June 19th, 2009 / 0 Comments / Tags: sandeep khare, marathi / TrackbackI’m working on a small term paper which requires me to mine wikipedia for some data. Somehow I’ve ended up downloading the whole of the Simple English wikipedia and a script is currently injecting the XML into the MySQL database as we speak. I think it’s going to take a whole day!
That proves perfect for the blog though. I just went through the entire blog – “eyeballing the data”, as a prof here puts it. I’d made a point about how the whole thing here is a machine, and the same stuff happens to students over and over again. Well another batch has entered while the previous batch has left, and the cycle spins again! We have another batch of 22-25 year old male engineers who worked in software sprinkled with a few girls who did the same. If you look hard enough you’ll find those accountants, economists and mathematicians, but only just. As they come back from the Student Store with a bucket in their hand with a broom and a pillow in it, I can predict their future better than any astrologer. And so can any one of my batchmates. It simply is a problem of binning. These are the bins
1. Middle ranked guy who mutely attends classes, studies before the exam and watches sitcoms
2. Top ranked dude who manages to study, takesactive part in clubs and is able to have a girl-friend, all at the same time.
3. Student admitted via the quota who struggles to keep up with academics
4. “Cool dude” who has given up on going to classes and sleeps, eats and watches sitcoms all day
5. Top-ranked studious dude who reads up all his cases, marks them with a highlighter pen and takes notes that everyone will use. This pretty much takes up all of his time.
I didn’t mean to undertake such an important classification in such an offhand fashion, but I think this list is quite decent. Maybe I’ll work on it and publish a more comprehensive one.
Anyway, once you have achieved this binning its quite easy to say, for example what his rank in the batch will be, what kind of jobs he will be doing etc.
Apart from that on a personal note, this term has proven to be really tiresome in a way. Though I like almost all my subjects (except the stupid Product Management!) they all are run by very exacting professors. I shall write more about them and the courses later. But one course, for example requires us to learn econometric modelling using R in the passing! But its turned out to be an asset in the skills armoury.
As I sit in the library typing this, the place is surprisingly empty. First years, scared as usual of the Qualifying Math used to fill this place up, studying and escaping the ghastly Calcutta heat all at the same time. Its empty now, because they are all attending a batch “crasher” organised by my batch-mates. I kinda like this place like this. With a couple of really serious students dotting the floor – rather than large groups of maniacal first year students with an almost obscene amount of enthusiasm for study. Hopefully it will stay this way for the rest of the year.
Lastly, this year will be described as “pre exchange term”, “exchange term” and “post exchange term”. Hence there is no escaping talk of my impending exchange term at Louvain School of Management in Belgium. Little has be done and much remains!
But what is life without the promise of an exciting tomorrow and the trail of an interesting past?
June 18th, 2009 / 3 Comments / Tags: update / TrackbackIn the secretive culture of the IIMs I find that the biggest surprise for new batches of students is the following fact about investment banking placements
1. Investment banks mostly recruit for summer internships and then decide if they want to extend full time offers.
2. Very few investment banks recruit in the finals
3. Summer placements are totally dependent on your “profile” and independent of your performance in IIM. This typically means that students from better undergrad institutions and better academic scores do better.
The implication of the above three points is obvious to the guy who thinks, “its ok if I dont get in during summers. I’ll study really hard and get into an i-bank eventually”.
I just thought I should put this point out there.
June 15th, 2009 / 1 Comment / Tags: placements, i-banking, investment banks / Trackback