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Walking the Char Dham: Notes from a Himalayan Journey

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Prof. Deepti Ganapathy, Management Communications area, on why young Indians are increasingly drawn to this centuries-old pilgrimage Setting out on the Char Dham Yatra in May 2025 was an interesting quest of genuine spiritual progress, inner peace, detachment, compassion, and realization. This organized sacred Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Uttarakhand Himalayas comprises four holy sites, the Dev Bhoomi or “Land of God”: Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath, that pilgrims visit to seek salvation (moksha) and wash away their sins. The questions that arise are: do these pillars encompass genuine spiritual…

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Classroom to Boardroom: IIMB’s ‘Shadow a Leader’ puts MBAs in the hot seat

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Across two months, PGP 2025 students shadowed top executives, many of them IIMB alumni, gaining firsthand exposure to high-impact decision-making In a unique experiential learning opportunity, PGP students from the graduating batch of 2025 stepped out of classrooms and into corporate boardrooms, policy chambers, and executive decision-making arenas as part of the Shadow a Leader initiative at IIM Bangalore. The premise of the program was to embed students into the field, among industry front runners, decision makers and innovators to better understand the complex changes and challenges shaping the business…

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IIMB students recount industrial visit to Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited

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The session was held as part of the ‘CEO’s Agenda Towards Climate Action’ course offered by Prof. Deepti Ganapathy As part of the course ‘CEO’s Agenda Towards Climate Action,’ an industry visit was organized for the PGP, EPGP, and PGPEM cohorts at IIM Bangalore to Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM) in the Bidadi industrial area on 2 January, 2025. The course, designed by Prof. Deepti Ganapathy, Chairperson, Centre for Management Communication (CenComm) at IIM Bangalore, is the first of its kind in India to focus on providing future leaders…

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Dr. Basha (center) with his colleagues at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka.

Can doctors be good administrators? A doctor’s prescription for healthcare overhaul

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Dr. Riyaz Basha, GMHE Exec Programme alum, outlines the new face of healthcare leadership Dr. Riyaz Basha is part of a growing tribe of senior healthcare professionals who want to shoulder the administrative burden of healthcare operations. There’s a general sense that healthcare providers cannot be good administrators due to the strong human element involved in their day-to-day jobs. An ally to one, an adversary to another, bureaucrats have perennially been relied upon in administrative roles. Armed with firm will, ready to change minds, Dr. Basha climbed the ranks of…

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Vision Beyond Boundaries: Shekar Naik’s unseen journey to IIMB 

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“My journey at IIMB started in 2012, during the first ever T-20 World Cup,” says Shekar Naik, Program Administrator at IIM Bangalore.  Shekar is many things- a Padma Shri awardee, an accomplished national cricketer, and captain of the Indian National blind cricket team. Achieving everything that he has, Shekar says, “There is only ability in disability.”  The first ever Blind World Cup T-20 witnessed a participation of more than 9 countries. Ramping up to big event, Shekar, then-captain of the India National Blind Cricket team couldn’t avail a single practice…

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The Global Ranking of Startup Funding Ecosystems

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by G.Sabarinathan, PhD1 So, for all the excitement about being India’s Silicon Valley and so on, Bangalore seems to be ranked 33rd among startup cities in the world.  That is what I noticed from PitchBook’s (PB) survey of October 2023.2 The scoring methodology PB’s list identifies the top fifty cities in terms of Venture Capital (VC) financing activity.  And its survey ranks cities on two different top level dimensions, namely development and growth.  Development itself is measured in terms of size and maturity.  Size comprises value and number of deals…

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Sibling revelry helps foster culture connect Three sisters who are passionate about their cultural heritage launch ‘Waves of Bharat’ and credit NSRCEL at IIMB with helping them scale their venture

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Waves of Bharat is a platform where culture conservation meets earth optimism. This social venture connects the dots of ecology, culture and people through awareness workshops, cultural events, Go green celebrations at ‘goshalas’, structured learning programmes, and sale of eco products — the proceeds from which are used to support its various eco-initiatives. The vision of the venture is to build a greener and compassionate world by connecting the present with the past. The founders are three sisters who are passionate about their cultural heritage and promote earth optimism as…

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Auditing homes for buyers

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‘Nemmadi’, incubated at NSRCEL, empowers home buyers and here’s how… ‘Nemmadi’, which translates to “peace of mind”, helps homebuyers by conducting a technical audit of their homes using a proprietary app in conjunction with other advanced tools.  As part of the process, Nemmadi checks for workmanship in civil engineering, plumbing, electrical engineering and safety-related aspects. They also perform an analysis for any dampness that may be present using thermographic cameras. They measure carpet area of the apartment/villa as mandated by RERA.   One of the Co-Founders, A N Prakash, has over…

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Responsible hobby craft Made from natural materials like clay, sticks and stones, products from Kattoos, a start-up incubated under WSP 3.0 at NSRCEL, seek to redefine the hobby space

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Kattoos, a start-up that works with women from rural areas, is incubated under NSRCEL’s Women Start-up Program (WSP) at IIM Bangalore and offers a range of green DIY hobby resources created for hobbyists of all ages. Made from natural materials like clay, sticks and stones, products from Kattoos seek to redefine the hobby space, by reducing carbon footprint, while enabling everyone to give vent to their creativity. The first Kattoos product was miniature terracotta bricks, launched in November 2019. The bricks come in five shapes and can be stuck together…

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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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