Author: Kavitha Kumar

Golden Jubilee Committee at IIMB hosts ‘The Prophet & The Poet’ Directed by founding faculty of IIMB Prof. Vijay Padaki and starring PGP alumnus Karan Singh, the play reveals rare facets of the friendship between the Mahatma and Gurudev, through a gripping exchange of letters

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Independence Day celebrations at IIMB turned a tad more special with the performance of the play, ‘The Prophet & The Poet’, at the IIMB auditorium on Tuesday evening.  Designed and directed by Prof. Vijay Padaki, the play, offers rare glimpses of the exchange of correspondence, spanning 25 years, between Gandhiji and Rabindranath Tagore, and takes the audience through the heart and mind of the stalwarts, their triumphs and tribulations, their glory and grief, their dreams and dilemmas, and their delight and despair. Poetry meets philosophy meets practical wisdom, in powerful…

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Breaking new ground comes naturally to her No glass ceiling, no sticky floor. Radio City CEO and IIMB alumna Apurva Purohit says nothing – neither biases nor boundaries — can stop a determined woman professional from reaching the top

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Update, Feb 27th 2018: Apurva Purohit, PGP ’89, is now the President of Jagran Prakashan Ltd. Source CEO of a popular radio station, author, evangelist and public speaker, Apurva Purohit, IIMB alumna (PGP ’89), wears many hats with panache. One of the very few women CEOs in the Media and Entertainment industry in India, Apurva has built several media brands like Zoom TV and Radio City. She strongly believes in building organizations around an enabling culture and employee focus; and in encouraging diversity of opinion and thought. Her formula for success…

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An opportunity, not a challenge: Malavika Harita Be it dealing with labour trouble while running a factory at 19 or getting her point of view across in a roomful of alpha males in corporate board rooms, she has done it with aplomb. Meet Malavika Harita, the bindi-wearing, soft-spoken advertising ace and winner of IIMB’s Distinguished Alumni Award 2013 who has turned every cliché on its head

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Titles do not bother her. Tags do not define her. Alpha Woman, Ice Queen, Holy Mother …they throw it at her and she takes it all on the chin. With a smile and a shrug, she races along the highway of life — learning, teaching, sharing, and then learning some more. But when she walked up to the dais to receive IIMB’s Distinguished Alumni Award 2013 on October 28, 2013, Malavika Harita had eyes and ears for only one person. Mrs. Leela Ramanathan, her 86-year-old mother, who demanded to be…

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