Live From Summer's,hyd.

Hi guys, hope everybody are going well with their sip’s and enjoying their stay. Well I’m writing this letter to share my experiences during my sip. And the situation was like this: We were having hand full of big value orders and the work was going fine, but suddenly three of the workers formed a union & did many unethical things and also forced the remaining workers to quit their jobs. And at this situation my dad thought to increase their salaries and bring them back to work. But I insisted not to do so, because few weeds in a crop can destroy it entirely, and we were managing the shop floor with few workers. It’s easy for me to say no, but it is really hard for my dad to manage the project without the right skilled workers. We also gave an advertisement in the newspaper of the vacancies but that also did not go well. And the situation was becoming tense as the delivery date is approaching and pressure from the client was also building up and we also have a construction project going on…………. My dad was having sleepless nights because of these problems, I can empathize his feelings. I was thinking what all I can do with my experiences, And me pursuing my MBA, never ever came across a case study like this or a solution where I can find a relevant answer in any of the books, I barely remember the subject names, but this is reality. In reality life hits you pretty hard…........ And I was remembering how I and saad beg(and many others) used to stick the posters of PRAGATHI 2010 around midnight from 12:00 am to 5:00am in the morning. Carrying a bucket full of glue in the main roads of Harihar where trucks used to travel at high speeds and we use to take the glue with bear hands and apply it to the posters and stick them to the dividers and to make this situation more worse there was power cut in the midnight we used the flashlight from the cell phone and carried on our work, and I was getting all kinds of thoughts like what am I doing in the middle of the night having glue all over my clothes and how this adds value to me and stuff like that. I said to myself don't give up, don’t expect any appreciation for this work, and all your hard work could vanish within few days, but do it for your satisfaction and for the batch. So from this experience I thought If I did it for pragathi then why not for my company & came up with an idea and took 100 printouts of (wanted so and so) and did things little differently like surveyed what are the big companies having CNC machines in an industrial estate then I have placed the posters In the sensitive areas where the employees of those big companies could easily see while they were on the way to home, and most of them use public transit so I had stuck up posters in all those places. After this, by god’s grace lot of people have poured in for the vacancies and my dad is filtering people for the right job profile…….and he is feeling good about it. And we have also given part of the project in the form of subcontracting and in the market you will be facing all kinds of people, but the real talent comes when we convince them & get the work done without any delays…………….this remembers me of the cultural during pragathi how divya prabhu,samyukta,nishta what pains did they take In convincing the bongale people……… And how ankit gupta used to mesmerize the shopkeepers, be it ramaprabhu, for operations and for prospecting, promotions, kaushik, robin, adhitya, manoj pandey,ashish,chaitra,vishnu…….and I wish I could write the entire batch names for their tremendous hard work…… Every day or the other I remember each and every person in the campus as the situations I come across, be it the advertisements that seniors do in ananth ram sir’s class, be it making a movie like the creative mind of vinay thakur,vishnu and be it a game, when I play badminton I think of how sangram and piyush used to play these shots, how would they smash it………..i never missed those memories. And believe me guys I don’t know how great Billgates, Ratan tata are and were their strategies. I observe common people in and around me, like my father he may not be having a MBA degree but the dedication he has, the hard work he does, the way he plans things and the work pressure he controls it’s mind blowing and today’s managers cannot stand for it. Different people are having different skill sets right from a pot maker to an entrepreneur, it doesn’t depend on what work they do but it depend on how tactically they would do it. We all have an opportunity to learn the best of how others can do things. I initially hesitated to write this letter, thinking that how would students react, how would they think about it……….but there is a saying if you want to praise anybody do it in public….and I also thought if not now then when I would express my feelings to the batch. So this is what I learnt from pragathi and implemented it. It might be a small thing what I did but made a big difference so once again thank you one and all and for the entire batch………….miss u all. Regards, N.Vamshi krishnam raju

KIAMS UPDATE. . .

Hello Frnz. . .

BATCH 12:

It is time when all the members of KIAMS Batch 12 are busy with their Summer Placements. Hope everybody is having great time with their respective companies. KIAMS has a record of producing some brilliant, dazzling Summer Projects of sky scraping quality, Hope we will continue this stream and come up with some good projects and in the mean time help enhancing brand value of our College. I wish all my friends "all the best" in their effort towards their summer projects.

BATCH 11:

Regarding Batch 11, most of the batch has been placed already and some of our beloved seniors are still waiting for good offers for their final placements. I on behalf of entire KIAMS COMMUNITY wish them all the Best. I would say relax friends, keep patience, maintain high self confidence and self esteem, By God's Will and with Good Wishes from all the members of KIAMS Family (especially Batch 12) you will get good job offers soon. We wish you all the best..

And we heartily congratulate all our friends from Batch 11 who have already got placed and getting ready to march into the corporate world. We know you will definitely make us proud by being the able, capable and successful managers. Wish You all the best for your new life. ROCK ON!!

Soon to be BATCH 13:

As days are passing by, one more significant thing is coming closer. Batch 13 is going to make their entry into the KIAMS community. This time Batch 13 will be hosted not only by KIAMS Harihar but also welcomed by the new campus at Pune. We wish all the students participating in the GD/PI process all the best for both Pre admission process as well as Post admission process ;)

Our faculty is also busy selecting students, we wish all our Faculty and all those concerned, Good Health and Good Luck!!

Alumni MEET:

Batch 12 has also taken up the initiative to increase the communication channel with our prestigious, cherished and esteemed ALUMNI. For this, Students along with the KIAMS faculty and duly supported by the Management is co ordinating alumni meet in all the cities. We Welcome all Alumni for this meeting. We request all alumni to please take some time out of your busy schedule and do attend this meeting, KIAMS is calling you!! We need You and your Experience. Please do come, and make us feel proud KIAMSIAN!!

Besides all these things, I am pretty sure that each and everybody of us is Missing KIAMS a lot.

With the Hope of Meeting all of You soon, I Pray Almighty to give all of us Good Health so that we can accomplish all our goals with great precision..

Take Care Everybody!!

With Love and Cheers,

On behalf of Batch 12.

Basharat Abass

KIAMS UPDATE!!

Hello Frnz. . .


It is time when all the members of KIAMS Batch 12 are busy with their Summer Placements. Hope everybody is having great time with their respective companies. KIAMS has a record of producing some brilliant Summer Projects of sky scraping quality, Hope we will continue this stream and come up with some good projects and in the mean time help enhancing brand value of our College. I wish all my friends "all the best" in their effort towards their summer projects.


Regarding Batch 11, most of the batch has been placed already and some of our beloved seniors are still waiting for good offers for their final placements. I on behalf of entire KIAMS COMMUNITY wish them all the Best. I would say relax friends, keep patience, maintain high self confidence and self esteem, By God's Will and with Good Wishes from all the members of KIAMS Family (especially Batch 12) you will get good job offers soon. we wish you all the best..


And we heartily congratulate all our friends from Batch 11 who have already got placed and getting ready to march into the corporate world. We know you will definitely make us proud by being the able, capable and successful managers. Wish You all the best for your new life. ROCK ON!!


As days are passing by, one more significant thing is coming closer. Batch 13 is going to make their entry into the KIAMS community. This time Batch 13 will be hosted not only by KIAMS harihar but also welcomed by the new campus at Pune. We wish all the students participating in the GD/PI process all the best for both Pre admission process as well as Post admission process ;)


Batch 12 has also taken up the initiative to increase the communication channel with our prestigious, cherished and t

A Journey of 7.5 Months

The journey started with some unique ‘rotunda sessions’, convent like rules and useful or somewhat painful ( obviously not physical) tasks( sometimes weird also) . The journey experiences a halt today ( I wont say it is over) with love, emotion, admiration and tears.

The 1st station offered the buddy sessions, buddy dinners. Now, is the time to give some gifts with some mesmerising memories to you buddies.

The next station came with the initiation of the budding manager building course (the actual reason to board the train), getting tips, helps, suggestions, old papers, slides, assignments.

This journey sometimes changed the taste of some unpalatable foods. The midnight chats, the boys` night at boys hostel ( upss, I never witnessed it), a bit of romance, a lot of learning and guidance ………….. and two important junctions disguised in two memorable tour on the lap of the nature (Jog falls and Kemmanagundi).

Now, when you look behind, each of your co-passengers has already left or leaving shortly, the dining hall does not resonate with some familiar noise. There are lesser number of chairs in the triangle, the love lane does not experience the intimacy of few familiar couples. Firoz bhai has stopped credit sales, Raghu bhai prepares lesser number of plates of maggi everyday, Bhuti Sir observes an almost vacant volley ball court.

From now…….. the dance floor will shake itself with some new tunes ( it never got bored with ‘sutta’ or ‘pyaar hum e kis mor pe le aaya’ ), The recreation room will not vibrate with some familiar yelling, the culturals will miss one mesmerising singer, the man with always fine-tuned strings, few male Shakiras and female Prabhu Devas…..


Because your co-passengers have reached their destinations.

Sudeshna Rakshit
Batch-12

Life@triangle. . .

As i’ll leave this campus tonite, i realize that i will be passing by the triangle for the last time as a student, and this reminds me of various memories that i have attached to the triangle. In school i learned about triangle – a shape that is made up of three lines, that’s it, but when i came to KIAMS i learned new meaning which i would carry with me rest of my life. Here at KIAMS i learned Triangle KIAMS is the most happening place; there is always a hustle-bustle here, a place to hang out. Triangle has played different role in different occasions, becoming a dining room for us at 9.30am breakfast time, a place to gossip and a place to share entire day’s happenings at tea time at night. Triangle is our dance floor, it makes our evening rocking, a stage for all the parties, triangle also gives shelter to us when we don’t get GD rooms to study, we sit at triangle and make it our meeting room, our chamber. Triangle - a place to interact, share, have fun and learn, all in one... at triangle i have numerous memories attached to, it reminds me of our fresher’s party, where we rocked in the KIAMS for the very first time, the times when we sat every night at tea time and discussed everything, endless talking sessions...enjoyed them like anything, guitar nights are sure a memory that i will cherish, where batch gets together and sing their hearts out, studying at triangle in cold nights shivering and having hot coffee,,, will remember everything.... will miss everything.... for sure TRIANGLE Rocks.... !

By,

KShama Mehta

Batch 11.

Hats Off To All Our Seniors: Batch 11!!

Still remember the days when we used to have interaction sessions in Rotunda with Seniors. . .

The Time really passed fast, till now we used to be carefree. . . But now as the March is coming close and close and seeing our Seniors getting ready to leave the campus so as to start the life with new role and new responsibility, we started to realize that we are going to miss something great.. It seems as the SOUL of KIAMS is leaving, KIAMS is going to miss its HEART.. and we are going to miss all those wonderful moments which we spent with you all.. we are going to miss our buddies.. we are going to miss our coupa mates.. we are going to miss our valuable Friends.. we are going to miss all our Sir's and Mam's.. we are going to miss our mentors who helped us at every point.. Now whom shall we give our SoS call at the time of exams... !!

Hats Off To ALL of You..

OUR HUNKS...!!

OUR PRIDE...!!

We Wish You all the Best in Your Life..

Please do Stay in Touch!!

YOU ROCK!!

WE ARE REALLY GOING TO MISS YOU ALL A LOT. . .

Regards,

Basharat Abass

On Behalf Of Batch 12...

Pragati 2010 TVC

Thank you Ms. Chaitra for the wonderful narration and Mr. Vishnu for the direction, editing and other technical contributions.

The Memoirs Of 4 Researchers.

Pragati, the second most used word in the campus(Refer post #1), has moved up the list. This time around the students have founded another wing of Pragati for “Market research”. This wing works for companies which have untapped segments in the rural market by preparing questionnaires, carrying out the research and making the results available to the companies. Our MR imitative aims to leverage the demographics within which KIAMS is located. The clients this year include KBL,Dandekar’s and talks with companies like Colgate, Uninor are being finalized as I write.

The inaugural of the MR was done 4 days(10-feb) back when 4 students embarked on a journey to a rural with a back pack, a water bottle and a map, apiece. They embarked on the first survey to be conducted by this wing. The village was “Honnebagi” which was tugged away 10 odd Kms from the nearest taluka “Channagiri”.

(Switching over to first person narrative)

It was 8 in the morning. The four of us had assembled at the main gates of the campus after having gone to the temple to take Lord Hanuman’s blessings. We were going on a journey that we knew would be demanding, physically. In a unknown village ,under a hostile environment all we had at our aid was a group member who spoke kannada, Mr Abhayesh-An Andhra joker(Anathram sir Fans please appreciate!!)

20 mints later after having a hard time trying to figure out the appropriate mode of transportation we got onto a bus which the conductor claimed would take us directly into the villages of Karnataka. With a wide grin and a happy heart we flagged off our journey. 2 hours post sitting in a crammed up bus, with a child each in our laps, we were told we would be reaching our destination shortly. The definition of “Rural India” as I knew it was going to change forever!!

After a long and a tiring ride we finally got down at the bus-stand. To cut the long story short we finally reached the village,45 mints hence.(A dosa per person, A piping hot tea, A 6 Km walk, A Tractor lift and A short police inquiry happened in the interim) Our objective was to determine the farming practices of the villagers and the kinds of water pumps that were being used within that area. Our sample size was 50, which we were confident we would be able to cover.

On seeing us in the village some villagers were scared, some worried, some hostile, some inquisitive. We felt like foreigners in Timbuktu(Not quite, perhaps!) Within 30 mints of we landing in the village the news had spread like wild fire. The village being mainly inhabited by the minority community we found it reasonably easy to converse(Mr. Abhayesh, who was feeling very proud of his Kannada speaking skills throughout the journey, was considerably let down as the need-gap for him was growing with every passing moment)The initial 3 questionnaires took us around a hour to complete. This was because the people were wary of us and mistook us to be city dwellers who had come there with the motive of taking over their farm lands. A pen and a official looking paper in hand acted as a catalyst to their fears. As we conversed with one farmer, we were constantly surrounded by around 20 adults who were looking from over our shoulders, 10 children who were peeping from between our legs. We managed to convince them that taking over their farms was not our motive. After thorough interrogation from their side they did start to believe us. (We learnt a lot from their questioning too. How to ask two related questions at different time intervals and interpret answering discrepancies, was one of them. Our questionnaire modeling style was hence improved!!!)

We learnt about the conditions they were living in. Abject poverty, in accessible electricity, insufficient drinking and farming water were their primary concerns. They were ,in short,
Being denied the basic necessities of life. Almost the entire village used electric pumps. Electricity to run them was available only for around 6 hours a day at infrequent times. People had no food to eat, no water to drink, children had no schools to attend. They told us the primary reasons were a non-cooperative government, an uncaring panchayat and a un-educated village population. The purpose with which we had gone to the village had long taken a backseat. There are times when a goal is not everything. This was one of those times!!!

The learning curve came into effect as we learnt which villager to approach, how to approach and how many questions to ask. The questionnaire we had developed had some questions that were not at all applicable in case of the village. (Example :- Income and Education. People were not earning much and many of them were illiterate, Facts they were unwilling to reveal and sometimes even hostile.) We started neglecting such questions and were more concerned in determining how and what can be done to improve their conditions. With a heavy heart I have to admit that there is not much we can do unless we have strong finances. Government cannot be instigated to take any action as any instigation MAY lead to more promises. Promises is the last thing Honnebagi needs today! It cries for action.

By the end of the day we had managed to get only 25 questionnaires filled. But we were least concerned about that . As we started to head back to Harihar the memories held onto us. As we left people with hopeful eyes bid us farewell. There are probably a million villages out there with conditions worse than in Honnebagi. But it gives me no comfort. It only fuels my uneasiness.

As I finish writing this a child somewhere is crying. Not because he did not get his pizza, or because he broke his toy, or because the AC is not working. He cries for he is holding a rug, with an empty stomach, trying to sleep. But the damn mosquitoes refuse him that royalty!!!

Learning of A Representative

I am not so concerned about the dictionary meaning of the word ‘representative’. On a funny note, it always comes to my mind with a political context, the so called representatives of democracy. Coming to KIAMS I witnessed a similar scenario in case of the selection of our class representatives or placement representatives but the selection of the cultural representatives was a bit different, because it was a selection, and not an election.

My love, my passion drives me in this journey as a cultural rep and I really cherish all the moments. In Samanvay 2010, when our super senior cultural rep Mr. Kishore Kumar Tiwari asked me about the journey and whether it is affecting my studies or not, my answer was a no. Something can affect you only when you actually want to escape from that. The job as a cultural rep effects my studies but does not affect them. Me and my co-rep together organised so many festivals which I never knew about before coming to KIAMS. Experiencing the typical Malayali culture on Onam, having the special dinner on that day or celebrating Lohri in the Punjabi style- each comes with a bouquet of surprises.

Now after through introspection, I realise that how the prestigious cultural events in Operacy or Samanvay taught me the people management skills. Organising the whole programme, assigning the right work to the right person, persuading them, scheduling the time for practice, and getting everything done before the D-day – each time these issues give me tension but I enjoy it. I love taking such tensions where my passion lies. Working on the whole schedule till 4 A.M. in the morning with my friends, having few arguments with the performers never dampen my enthusiasm and when the success comes from all the dimensions it gives the pleasure of a bond which we share here as a family.

I would like to quote Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy- the revolutionary Indian scientist who once said about our education system that “we are just pouring water in the container but we have never tasted whether it is suitable for drinking or not”. Management education is something which cannot be mugged up and applied in your workplace, management education is not a course of two years, it is obviously not the degree you receive after the completion of the course, it is a lifelong journey where you get to learn something new in every station. I am too sceptical about the theories of human resource management but when I discover my learning in the same as a cultural rep I thank KIAMS for giving me the opportunity. Being a member of a cultural committee (which exists in almost all B-schools) and being a representative is completely different and when your senior rep behaves as a mentor who practices the American system of management, which believes that success lies in the extent of empowerment, then you can only inculcate wonderful learning experiences throughout your journey, the memory of which lingers forever.

From now on the word ‘representative’ will remind me something else J

SUDESHNA RAKSHIT

B-12

Memoirs Of B-11. And A Thanksgiving Speech!!!

As i wait the departure of 80 of proteges, my heart bleeds.After 2 years of learning, my children shall starting walking on their own. If you want to know the juxtaposition of pleasure and sadness ask a mother when her child, for the first time, lets go of her hand and starts walking. The mother is happy because the child is now independent and sad because the child shall seldom rarely ever cling to her again.

As the dawn of a new day in the lives of B-11 appears i see scenes in the campus i want to share.

I see people huddled together at tea, sitting in groups discussing animatedly, things which previously didn't concern them. In their eyes i see the happiness of the moment. I also see the recognition of the fact that separation beckons. The petty differences have been forgotten and the bonding is more visible now then ever before.

Raghu's turnover is increasing exponentially as most of the time away from the classes is spent eating cheese breads and omelets."Breakfast show-up rates" have been increasing.Diametrically opposite are the "Dinner Show-up rates" which have been declining as more and more of them choose to quit the splendid mess food and opt for the tasteless vaibhav chicken!!!

I see the love. I sense the fear. I feel the memories. I know the pain. I have witnesses 10 batches leaving the campus. On the day when they leave me i shall stand at the gates. I shall have tears in my eyes and a smile on my lips. I don't want my children to go away. Nor can i have them stay!!!The paradox of life dawns upon me. AGAIN...

P.S:---The day approaches when our seniors shall leave the campus. We,B-12, shall miss them. Perhaps not enough time was spent together. Perhaps not enough stories shared...But Within B-12 runs the heritage of KIAMS ,B-11 showed us. They say the world is round and "everything that goes around comes around". We wait for these maxims to come true.We pray for you to enter our lives again in different, yet definitive ways.

We thank you for the rotunda sessions. We thank you for the freshers and the "boys night". We thank you for the support and we thank you for your love.

Thank you Mr. Arijit for those amazing guitar nights. Thank you dada for the invaluable gyan. Thank you Mr. Sagar for the the practical knowledge.Thank you Mr. Vijay for your "Tashan" and "Dj-ing".Thank you Mr. Soumya for letting us know when we were going wrong.Thank you Ms. Alkama for the excellent(Hygenic!!) food-ing cultures . Thank you Ms. Alifiya for your audacity. Thank you Ms. Nishta for showing us what sophistication means. Thank you Ms. Bharti for showing us professionalism. Thank you Ms. Kshamma for teaching us elegance.Thank You Ms. Sreelekha for the unexpected holidays( :-) ) Thank you all the senior reps for having shown your junior reps the ropes. Thank you one and all for helping us imbibe "managerial-ism".

In true accord you were and will continue to be our pillars of support. We wish you the best of luck for your future and are sure the wishes are mutual.

PLEASE keep in touch.Have one hell of a life!!!

B-12

(OOh...AAhh...Let The Music Play. The Legend Will Continue and B-13 will do it louder. WE PROMISE!!!)