Response to a Fan
Hi, dear Abhishek !!
This to inform you that I have just finished reading all the posts on your blog…. I had sort of became hooked to it during the last few days, but now having completed reading all the posts I feel a bit relived.
hmm…..My favourite one was Sunil Handa one, but I also liked the couple of posts about ‘the zoo’ , but didn’t actually understand which/what place were you referring as ‘the zoo’ ??
also thanks for your ‘real’ insights on IIM-C , from an insider’s point of view…..
You promised in 2007 that more posts on the ‘good old days’ will follow, which I fail to find !!
One question I will like to ask you, as you have aroused my curiosity, about the post on ‘confusion’ posted in jan, 2008. You told that you were in confusion between abhi@DA-IICT v/s abhi@IIM-C…. so did you manage to find any solutions for that confusion? I am asking you that, because many people here may be facing same problem after just entering the college , so your experience may come useful to many people…
congrats for your job in Johnson & Johnson … but you posted ,more than one time earlier, that u didn’t want to do the ‘zombie’ job instead you are determined to become an entrepreneur, what happened suddenly ?
also I want to know the procedure for reading all that private posts ;~)
P.S. : I found your thoughts on Google very true and have some similar experiences with Google, also I have an explanation of your post topping Google search of “duniya ka naara”, if you want to know
and thanks for your amazing tips for preparing for cat/gd/pi on your blog
sorry for writing such silly things in your scrapbook(can’t resist it), but such outburst occurs when u read too much from a single author in too short time, you get sort of linked to him/her and he/she captures your thought process for a small amount of time.. I would b highly delighted even if u read all this silly outburst, and b highly obliged if you have time to answer even some of my querries/questions !!————Another one after a few days———–
Hey, it’s great that you are in France… it should be a wonderful place, but at the same time it’s not Britain(whose language, food, structure r all somewhat expected, ) ……. hope you enjoy a great time there !!
About your surprise, well I told you that I used to read very much since I was a kid I was hooked to reading, it was similar effect in your case because..
1) Your use of language was really good ;~)
2) Your thoughts and insights were original as well as different (non-stereotype ! , I liked your idea about TAJ MAHAL in particular, but I don’t think “people we elect” are going to implant such fantastic ideas :~9)
3) You projected/marketed your thoughts well enough
4) “Tips on preparation for cat” acted as an initializerI am very much pleased to know that u r going to answer all my queries/concerns/thoughts/suggestions;…time doesn’t matter
First of all, Thanks for all the appreciation and apologies for taking so much time to respond to it. It is my pleasure to know that you liked some of the posts in this blog and again the expression of surprise that you read more than 100 posts within 2 days!! That is simply incredible!
Now answer to your queries-
Regarding missing posts: Well, it happens a lot of times that you commit yourself to certain posts but then do not find enough time/motivation to complete that. That is particularly strong when you write about past incidents from your own life- You got to feel nostalgic to do justice to the post. But now since you have pointed it out, I will try and complete those posts next time I go nostalgic. 
Private posts: Sorry buddy but certain posts need discretion. There are certain matters related to one’s private life or certain posts related to politics at work places / study places / peer groups etc. which can only be shared with appropriate audience otherwise things might get blown off out of proportion and hence, whether or not to allow someone to read those posts has to be decided case-on-case basis.
Zombie job and enterpreneurship: As you have already gone through the entrepreneurship posts, you know that I was always very motivated with doing something of my own. The spirit still lies intact and I am still game for something challenging. As far as it goes about jobs, probably you mistook every job for “Zombie” job. The Zombie job was a phrase used in particular for Investment banking jobs and I am still very much against those. On the other hand, marketing and consulting jobs are very much different from the investment banking jobs and it would be absolutely inappropriate to treat all these in the same category. Also, I must mention it to avoid any ambiguity that my hatred for finance jobs should not be considered as hatred for the field of finance. I have a lot of respect for the field of finance as such and it is just the finance jobs that I hate – that again more due to the work-life imbalance point of view. Again I would like to repeat what I also mentioned in concerned posts- This is very much a personal disliking – Do not hate it because I hate it – Just make an informed decision.
So as far as venturing out all by myself is concerned, I would surely do that but as of now I am just playing safe and building up strategy to get in there when the time is right.
And lets face it, it takes a lot of guts to sacrifice the security and foray into a territory yet unknown to you. Probably I am scared to take that risk now!
Regarding abhi@DAIICT v/s abhi@IIMC – You know there is this particular thing God has gifted to all the living beings – an automatic ability to adapt. Let me tell you my friend, this ability is nothing but a true gift! It makes things so easier for us humans. [:)]
Well things have changed on that front as well. I hated it initially and that was the time when that particular post came out but it was not very long before I realise strengths of both the lifestyles. And the thing after that was not really difficult – I just had to adopt the positives (better said – the way I wanted it) from both and come up with a lifestyle of my own. You will come across such issues many a time in your life and believe me all you need is a strong will power. You can transform it in any way you want – just got to have will to do that.
On the same lines, I would also like to point out the difference I feel about the IIMs now as compared to the time of posts on ‘Why not to join IIMs’. Well, frankly, even as on date I do not feel very great about IIMs but it is not that bad as well. It is just a totally different lifestyle than what I was living and it was probably that change, for which I wasn’t really ready then. Now when I look at my friends who joined B-schools last year, yelling at the system and the lifestyle I find it amusing as I was doing the same last year and no longer have that strong reaction! One possible way of explaining this is the cliche – Everything changes with time. Another possible explanation as I mentioned earlier as well is that probably I was not prepared well to experience that huge change when I joined almost 2 years back. Yet another possible explanation could be that I identified my interests here and that totally changed my perception.
“The Zoo” – Thanks for refreshing my memories of “The Zoo” [:)]. While I was working, I used to stay with my friends – Nitesh Luthra, Prashant Tholia and Gaurav Jain and we used to call our place as a zoo. It doesnt take any rocket science to guess why that was so! [:P] Still if you do not get it why it was so, just go through “Awesome Pathetic” once again.
Eurotrip- To tell you frankly, that was an amazing experience. I travelled to 15 countries in 3 months and had many incredible experiences during that. More on this in Eurotrip post.
And finally thanks again for your comments and appreciation.
P.S.1: I was so moved by you passion that I decided to create a full post to answer your queries. I could have rather answered your queries by sending you a personal mail but I like your spirit and please consider this post as my gesture to show appreciation to that!
P.S.2: It feels good to be back!
Congrats to me
I am surprised!
I was just browsing through the navigation of visitors on this blog and to my surprise there were repeated visits with Google search on “Sunil Handa”, “Mahesh Murthy” and “Duniya ka naara”. Apparently the post on Sunil Handa’s visit to IIM Calcutta also happens to be the most popular post on the blog. While I was still wondering about the reasons and all, a Google search on “Sunil Handa” revealed the secret.
Try it yourself. Go to www.google.co.in. Type Sunil Handa (with quotes or without quotes) and hit Search button.
Do a similar exercise for “Duniya ka naara” and “Mahesh Murthy” and see the results.
Abhi’s Space is the FIRST result on Google Web Search for Sunil Handa and Duniya ka naara while it appeared on second page for search string Mahesh Murthy. (See attached screenshots)
Not to forget the FIRST page(and first result) appearances for various search strings on Google Blog Search, which apparently looks insignificant compared to this current finding. Other prominent visits through Google search come from search strings related to CAT GD-PI preparation (where again Google Web search honours me by keeping the blog on first page)
SS1: Web Search result for “Sunil Handa”
SS2: Google Web search result for “Duniya ka naara”
SS3: Google Web search result for “Mahesh Murthy”
Of these three, the fact that Abhi’s Space is first result on searching Duniya ka naara excites me most. Reason: With a large number of websites dedicated to Bollywood movies (including professional websites for Music reviews, Music downloads, Movie reviews etc. and not to forget Youtube), it was beyond my imagination to have thought of a result ranking above them. Realty is larger than Imagination here. I am impressed!
Thodi Game-Theory Thoda Magic (2008)
Oh My Goodness!
Now what the hell is this?
Even after having seen one of these movies, I had no clue that these were two different movies altogether. I saw the name different at two places and neglected that for a possible typo but after having seen the movie and when I could not find any of the songs, I was confused. A basic search on Google revealed something that made me jump out of my chair!!
Jun 27, 2008 – Two new movies were released.
One from Yash Raj Films – Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (TPTM)
and the other one from director Anand Rai – Thodi Life Thoda Magic (TLTM)
Should I call this a case of game theory in practice?
Consider the scenario: Two directors have decided upon the name of their movies as TPTM and TLTM and conflict regarding who came up with the name could not be resolved. Now the next issue in context is obviously the advertisements, promotions and the release date of the movie.
YRF being the bigger banner could get a larger share in the media and the other group did not contest it much (Not a dominant strategy for unknown banner to spend high on advertisements). So the more important factor here comes out to be release date.
Consider the case when Movie 1 comes before Movie 2. The name of these movies is so much similar that the second movie would be lost in the identity of the first one. If the first one is a success, it could draw some public or alternatively could lose market since people might confuse it for the first one, which they have already seen. On the other hand, if the first one is a flop, then there would be hardly any public knowing about the second one and it would pay for the sins of other one. So the payoff matrix if we see comes out to be negative if you move late, positive if you move first and unpredictable if you move along.
As a result, both the players would try to move before the other player but since it is like a game of simultaneous move where all the information is shared between the two players, second player would know as soon as first player tries to release it. This would lead to a further early move from the second player.
Clearly the dominant strategy for both the players comes when they move along, i.e. release the movie together, which is exactly what they did to avoid heavy negative payoffs involved with late release.
How much did it pay for each of the players and what is the effect of others performance on each movie would be known only by the end of this week or may be by the next week but in any case, it is really confusing and misguiding for the moviegoers. Moviegoers will have tough time in deciding which of the magic they want to see – Life or Love is the choice!
Preparation for GD/PI – Tips (2)
This post was supposed to be out about two weeks back but the extremely hectic and busy schedule forced me to postpone it to this date.
Step 3: Content
So after you are thorough with Steps 1 and 2(as described in first post of this series), you are almost ready for the personals part of the interview and now need to focus on building content for the talks.
At this point, I would like you to think over it for a moment – What is it that you “must” know? What is it that you “should” know? and What is it that you “may/may not” know to talk sensible in a discussion or an interview?
Clearly there are no defined rules for preparing for content. Nobody knows what is it that you will be asked in an interview so the scope of topics is unbounded and limitless. If we can classify the topics in above three categories, we can save sometime by not doing things which are less important. We can prioritise must dos over should dos.
Again the classification also has no defined rules. Only a general set of guidelines. For an example, there are a few things that are more likely to be asked in an interview like your work experience, some recent happenings in the related industry, some theory related to what you have done etc. Similarly topics from your UG which may not be directly related to your field of work or topics from your desired field of specialisation may be asked and then you have topics which are remotely related to you or are highly technical to the field of your UG etc., which are not very likely to be asked. Based on my experience and observations, I can prescribe you an order of readings, which I strongly suggest you to change to adopt to your particular case. I suggest you follow 3-1-4-5-6-2 or 3-1-4-5-2-6 (where 1=Newspaper, 2=Magazine, 3= Work-ex related, 4=Academics, 5=Interview experiences, 6=PG articles)
1. Read Newspapers properly
Spend atleast 2 hours daily to those 20 odd yellow pages. I can tell you those will come really handy in GDs and PIs. You may go through Economic Times or Business Standard for this purpose. Business Line and Financial Express would be a bit too much for new readers so you may avoid those at this stage. Business page of TOI is good as well but not sufficient at all. Do not waste much time on Sports page. You may like to refer to editorials to gain new perspectives on the topics of discussion, which may be useful for Group Discussions but otherwise the knowledge gain there is very limited.
Note that this is a daily activity and above given order for this activity is just to represent its importance.
2. Magazines
Scan through a few magazines of your choice(General/Business) to get an idea of what’s going around in the world. Dont spend too much time on magazines. The purpose is to be aware of national/global happenings.
3. Work Experience
Arguably one of the most important component of your Personal Interview. Since you are already doing the job, I’ll assume you know how to do it but for the purpose of interview, you are expected to know the theory behind those things as well. Also, in case of large teams working on a project, you can’t get away by saying that others in my team were looking up this issue and I was not involved(unless very domain specific issues are there). Now since you are aspiring to be a management student, you must have been thinking about the practical applications and new innovative uses of the project you are doing. If not then start thinking as you are expected to be knowing that if you are genuinely motivated to get into B-school.
4. Academics
If I say, preparing academics is a nightmare for people in jobs, it would not be an overstatement. It must be noted down that preparing academics well is must for a fresher(a person with no prior work experience) and the importance of knowing academics well goes down with the number of years of experience. Although it must not be taken as a sacrosanct statement for there have been instances where candidates with 6-7 years of experience had their interviews totally based on their academic courses.
While preparing for academics you may like to prepare well for 1-2 interesting(*interesting in managerial language is generally interpreted as something of practical use and yet not very popular in people) courses and the courses related to your field of experience. To take an example, a person with IT experience in ‘development’ should know the concepts of structured programming and object oriented programming well. You know which courses can be related to your field of work, so give high importance to those. In that sense, acads and work experience are not mutually exclusive.
Another very important point to note over here is that interviewer’s perception of your field of work may not exactly match the actual work you do. To save your face in such cases, it would be good if you can get some basic understanding of fields of those possible wrong interpretations. To give an example, I worked as mobile solutions developer but during many interviews, interviewer interpreted mobile solutions as embedded programming. They are different.
Basically, in academics the target is to do certain related courses well and a basic understanding of a lot of courses.
A special tip for people with B.Tech./B.E. in communications or related field(Electronics/Electricals/ICT) – Prepare well for course on Radio Frequency and Radio waves. You will find a lot of interviewers obsessed with obsessed with RF,AM/FM etc.
5. Read previous year Interview experiences
A lot of people write their interview experience on their personal blog and PagalGuy. Go through those to discover all that I have written. [:-)]
6. Read articles on PG
In case you still have sometime left, just go through articles on PG. They generally have some articles on recent world happenings to make candidates more acquainted to the topics and intricacies involved. This might help in Group Discussions/Personal Interviews.
Step 4: Practice
The Last and very important step is to practice.
Any speech, no matter how short or long, without modulations is boring and ineffective. Relate it to listening to a song or a movie. A speech with proper modulations engages audience and force them to listen to you. It is not the decibel level that gets you a chance in Group Discussion, it is the modulation level. If you speak flat then rest assured, somebody will cut it off in between and others will support him/her. Make it interesting for others to listen to and you will emerge as a leader of the group. Similarly, in an interview, it is equally important to keep the interviewer interested in you and your talk.
I’ll try to put on another post in this series, covering Do(s) and Dont(s) for GD/PI. Keep checking Abhi’s space.
Google Sucks!!
Breaking News:
Google lost yet another of its fan a few moments back.
Google Search ruled the search engines for quite sometime. MSN, Yahoo!, Altavista, Ask etc. tried giving some competition but by now Google had become synonymous to Search Engine. Then Google launched Gmail, e-mail service with 1GB – something no body had thought of at that time. Yahoo and Rediff lost their share. As a reaction to this, Yahoo raised mailbox sizes to 100 MB and Rediff made it 1GB. Note that Hotmail was still offering 2MB mailboxes at this time. Gmail added another funda of ever increasing mailbox sizes and in very short time, it reached 2GB mark(As on date Gmail provides more than 6GB space in mailboxes). Then came Google News – collection of news articles from various news portals compiled under appropriate headings. Sites like Rediff, Yahoo and Indiatimes again lost some visitors. Then they bought Blogger and Picassa, promoted Orkut – All three of which being very popular and addictive services. They launched Google reader – yet another RSS reader with the provision of sharing the links with friends. Google Docs and Spreadsheet have as well started getting accepted by people and not to forget Google Earth, which became the craze of people sometime back. Other popular services include Google Videos, YouTube, Google Labs, Google Book Search etc. So overall Google seems to have done a very impressive work.
But there is something which I observed a few moments back and disliked it from bottom of my heart. While I was just browsing through my Orkut profile, I happened to click at the Orkut interface of my blog and what I found there was surprise!! All the posts that I have and I had deleted are still there. The posts I deleted more than months back are there in completion. The videos I even removed from YouTube are still there. The images I uploaded to my Blogger account with some particular post are still there. The next thing I did was to check the Google Reader for my blog and no surprises..each of those posts were there as well!!
Would anybody tell me what the hell is going on!!!
Why is Google spying into our lives!!
Even if I were to believe Google that these things are just to direct appropriate ads to me, I do not see a reason why Google should be keeping the data that even I have deleted. And this gives me a feeling that no matter whether you enable or disable saving and archiving of data/ search queries/results clicked/ chat records/.. , they always save it. If you enable, they provide you a view of that and if you disable, things happen against your wish and you dont get to know that.
Recently I remember reading an article on some research going on in the field of bio-medical field, do I interpret it as Google making virtual models of our personality in the cyber-world, who can predict with reasonable accuracy, the next thing we are going to do.
I know this might sound overtly skeptic at the moment but Doesn’t it pose a threat on our identity??
And above all, is there any reason why this should not be considered as breaching into my privacy!
Preparation for GD/PI – Tips (1)
STEP 1: GETTING TO KNOW YOURSELF
You have taken the first step but the winner is one who walks till the last step.
Are you a winner?
What makes a winner?
It is simple. A winner is one who has a good aptitude (and can adopt according to situations), who has a firm determination, who has a good luck and very importantly he/she has access to more resources than others.
People might ridicule but this is what is the fact of life. You need to be more resourceful to succeed in this world. Talent takes you till certain points..from there it is you and your chances. (These chances come from luck and resourcefulness, so do not undermine this important aspect)
Anyways that was just a passing thought…might be useful for many of you but the real motive of this post is to help you with some GD/PI prep tips.
First, I claim no expertise in this but having gone through a number of GD/PI (s), I can talk a bit from my experience.
Personal Interview:
Why do they take personal interviews?
First and foremost it is important to understand the basic purpose of an interview. Interviews are conducted to get to know you – this is what you must have heard a number of times – but this is actually only half part of the story. Interviews are conducted to get to know you and to see how well does the person matches with the requirements of the organisation (in this case IIMs) and to see the potential benefits that the organisation would have if the person is selected. IIMs conduct GD/PI also to check whether the person can sustain the academic pressure and rigour of a B-School.
And believe me, expectation levels are very high. All of you are expected to be achievers and these things will get more clear to you when you join any of the top 3 B-schools in the country (IIM- A,C,B).
IIMs expect a person to be academically oriented with very strong extra-curricular achievements and having held significant Positions of Responsibilities. In simpler language that should sound like scoring 90% in Boards, CPI equivalent to 80% in Graduation(preferably from IIT), a few international publications, Played a few sports at national level, Won a few competitions at national level, President of your college council and played Captain atleast a few times.
If that scares you, it is fine. But that is just a set of expectations and nothing can be done about it but what can be done about is to get to know yourself well. Believe me, all of us have done something or else in life which can makes us stand out in the crowd. We generally ignore those things thinking those to be trivial but any achievement that you have had till now could turn things in your favour(You never know). The idea is to get as close to those expectations level as we can get.
Examples of a few trivial (as you thought) yet important achievements:
- You stood among top Three in class in your school in classes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.. (So what!!) — Consistently stood among Top Three for Nine consecutive years (Now what do you think)
- You initiated some club in your college (Yeah thats fine..I did it coz I liked doing it) — Founder Member, xyz club @ xyz college (Why not take some credit for things you have done)
- …
- ..
The above two examples are just two symbolic examples..there can be many more cases like this and with variety of types.
My suggestion – Collect all your certificates first..compile a list..Send over the list to a few knowledgeable people and let them decide which all points should and should not be there.
STEP 2: GETTING TO KNOW YOUR REASONS FOR DOING MBA
Now this is very important. I don’t know how many people would actually be knowing why do they want to do an MBA. I can say this without any disclaimers that majority of the people out there preparing for GD/PI (s) would say MONEY!! If that is your reason, it is fine but what would you like to do?
You people are gonna be managers and if you are so short-sighted, I have my doubts on a lot of things.
Get in touch with some of your friends, your seniors, your acquaintances who are doing MBA/who have done MBA and get to know the profiles on offer. Then, do some proper study to get an unbiased view of that. Evaluate all the options and decide which one you would like to go for. “Why?” would follow by itself.
You will be asked this question in almost all the forms and in almost all the interviews. This answer believe me is very important for you to get through Interview Process.
Draft your answer and again get in touch with knowledgeable people to review those answers. 5-6 revisions should make if an ok-types answer.
The next step is to Prepare Content – To be posted in Next Post -Tips (2).
My VisualDNA
My Visual DNA:
The Personality Analysis can be read at this link.
The summary goes like:
Mood: Dreamer
Fun: Conqueror
Habits: Junkie Monkey (???)
Love: Home Soul
Analysis of My Wishes by Visual DNA: (Also available at link)
I’d like to see when Adam met Eve and it all hung out. Ideally, I’d wake up early on a ranch where the horses run free in the fields and the mountain air is pure, and later, when the fancy takes me, stroll out to the best golf-course in the world, which I’d own; If I thought about it, I really need somewhere U can go and laugh at everything, and no one will think I’m in the slightest bit mad, and sometimes I wish I could be super-fit and be first to reach the finish-line in the 100m sprint. I’d like to make any plant flourish in any landscape, however derelict and however poisoned it may be, and it would be amazing to see planet earth from somewhere else, hanging in the stars maybe. Pet? I’m not sure I want to live with one at all. Finally, I’d like to have a party just for two, just on our own, and maybe I’d invite along a friend I haven’t yet met.
Interesting Indeed!
Kyon Duniya ka Naara Jame Raho
What a beautiful song!! Actually captures the lifestyle and the blind race to su
cceed among people..and at the same time we have individuals who do not get into this blind race and live the life the way they wish..These people dream! They do not care about the society, about others and are often regarded crazy. They fail to understand -Kyon Duniya Ka Naara Jame Raho
Kas Ke Joota Kas Ke BeltKhoons Ke Andar Apni ShirtManzil Ko Chali SawaariKandho Pe Zimmedari Haath Mein File Man Mein DumMeelon Meel Chalenge HumHar Mushkil Se TakrayengeTas Se Mas Na Honge Hum Duniya Ka Naara Jame RahoManzil Ka Ishaara Jame RahoDuniya Ka Naara Jame RahoManzil Ka Ishaara Jame RahoYe Sote Bhee Hain AttentionAage Rehne Ki Hai TensionMehnat Inko Pyari HaiEkdum Aagyakari Hain Ye Omlet Par Hi Jeete HainYe Tonic Saare Peete HainWaqt Pe Sote Waqt Pe KhateTaan Ke Seena Padhte Jate Duniya Ka Naara Jame Raho... Yahaan Alag Andaz HaiJaise Chhidta Koi Saaz HaiHar Kaam Ko Taala Karte HainYe Sapne Paala Karte Hain Ye Hardum Socha Karte HainYe Khud Se Poocha Karte Hain Kyon Duniya Ka Naara Jame RahoKyon Manzil Ka Ishaara Jame RahoKyon Duniya Ka Naara Jame RahoKyon Manzil Ka Ishaara Jame Raho Ye Waqt Ke Kabhi Ghulam NahinInhain Kisi Baat Ka Dhyan NahinTitli Se Milne Jaate HainYe Pedon Se Batiyate Hain Ye Hawa Batora Karte HainBarish Ki Boondein Padhate HaiAur Aasmaan Ke Canvas PeYe Kalakariyan Karte HainKyon Duniya Ka Naara Jame RahoKyon Manzil Ka Ishaara Jame RahoKyon Duniya Ka Naara Jame RahoKyon Manzil Ka Ishaara Jame Raho
Green Park turns Blue!
Today Kanpur’s Green Park hosted 3rd ODI of ongoing India-Pakistan series but the Park was not the same as it has always been. The Green Park was found Blue today.
Not very difficult to understand the reasons with Bahujan Samaj Party being the ruling party and with a colour theme of Blue.
This I would say is very cheap ( as in cheap mentality) and is something that bothers citizens like me a lot. This is how the tax I pay is being spent!! What a pity!
They have rules prohibiting election campaigning in election days..what about these days? Aint it a simple case of Office of Profit? Why doesnt IT department asks about finances for this expense? If it is public money and is coming from share of Sports, is it really what it is meant for?
Anyways the bottomline is that I am reconsidering whether or not should I pay taxes!!
Here is a professional news item: (No point rewriting)
Kanpur Green Park stadium painted BSP blue
Kanpur’s Green Park stadium, the venue for the third India-Pakistan One-Day International, has been virtually given a blue hue – clearly resembling the official colour of Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
No wonder everyone seems to attribute it to the proposed visit of Chief Minister Mayawati, who is to give away the prizes at the end of the match Sunday.
The painting began shortly after Mayawati consented to being chief guest at the event.
What followed was incredible. Officials from the chief minister’s secretariat personally monitored the large-scale renovation by the state government to give the place a face-lift.
It started with refurbishing of the VVIP pavilion and the special enclosure for the chief minister but later large parts of the giant stadium were also painted entirely in blue.
The manner in which the colour has been used shows that care has been taken to ensure that right from her entry into the venue, Mayawati gets a total ‘blue view’.
All entry gates are draped or painted in blue and all chairs in different enclosures visible from the VVIP pavilion have also been painted the same colour.
Even road-dividers in the city have been painted blue.
No one is however willing to divulge as to how much money has been pumped into re-doing the stadium, which otherwise has often suffered gross neglect.
Unofficial reports estimated the expenditure to be around several million rupees.
The chief minister is scheduled to spend just about 30 minutes at the felicitation function.
Top aides of Mayawati have made at least 17 trips from Lucknow to Kanpur to personally supervise the face-lift of the VVIP pavilion.
Unprecedented security arrangements have been made in and around the venue, particularly between the police lines where Mayawati’s helicopter would land, and the Green Park stadium.
Think!!
Have you ever realised how loosely this word is being used in today’s environment? I think you should do this. I think you should not do that. I think this might have happened. I think you think. So what were you thinking? What do you think about it? And for that matter IBM claims its pads to be thinking(ThinkPad) as well.
How much do we actually think? and how much do we claim it?
Anyways that was just a passing thought. I saw this funny (or rather sarcastic) Fedex advertisement a few back, where this MBA guy has just joined the company and a lady comes to him on the first day to get something done. She takes him to a terminal and says that he needs to do some admin-staff work but it is all very simple. The guy retaliates back saying. “I am an MBA” and the lady looks a bit worried commenting, “Ohh! you have an MBA, in that case I have to show you how to do it.”.
The message is loud and clear- “FedEx.com makes shipping so fast and easy- even an MBA can do it”
I think this is not something to laugh at but is a warning to act before it gets too late.
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