One exhilarating step at a time

One exhilarating step at a time Mohit Roshan Srivastava, of the incoming class of EPGP 2019-20, describes the first few days of the year-long journey that he and 75 others have embarked on at IIM Bangalore

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 Mohit Roshan Srivastava FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Student Connect 0

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future” – Steve Jobs On the morning of 27th March 2019, 76 odd folks, who came from various cities and towns of our diverse nation, joined IIM Bangalore’s one-year MBA program – Executive Postgraduate Program in Management (EPGP). Unknown to each other, only a couple of known faces and, in some cases just the names, the incoming class of EPGP 2019-20 batch enrolled for…

….Till we meet again On the eve of convocation, Subham Awasthi, from the Public Policy and Management Program at IIMB, dedicates this post to all those who made his year on campus memorable

March 22, 2019 Subham Awasthi FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak 0

Controlling one’s ecstasy is tough, particularly when you are in situations which demand a specific code of conduct. I was in the middle of a client conference call when the first of the two emails from the admission team of IIM Bangalore showed up on my mobile phone screen. I could never forget the next few minutes, which, by the way, felt like an eternity! I clearly recall how I kept myself composed, excused myself from that meeting just to read and re-read the offer of the admission. I was…

No mountain too high to climb, no summit too tall to scale: Divyanshu Ganatra At an event co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at IIMB, the blind super achiever shares stories of triumph. Arun Nayan Singh reports

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 Arun Nayan Singh FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak News and events 0

05 February, 2019, Bengaluru: Imagine, you are nineteen years old. One morning, you wake up and realize that you cannot see. You are in a state of disbelief and people tell you that the blind can only make cane furniture or be telephone operators. But you refuse to be corralled. You believe you can do much more, and you actually do. This is the story of Divyanshu Ganatra, for whom achieving firsts and setting records is par for the course. He is the first blind Indian to paraglide solo, the…

For twelve hours of divine music and dance, years of patient labour Doctoral scholar Prabhu Venkatachalam, key organizer of ‘Yamini 2019’, takes us behind the scenes to tell us what it takes to bring Indian classical artistes of world renown to a dusk-to-dawn concert, under the stars at IIMB, year after year

January 28, 2019January 29, 2019 Prabhu Venkatachalam FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak 0

28 January, 2019: It was an unusually cold Republic Day morning in 2013. At 3:00 am, a Dhrupad concert was in progress, and some of my friends and I settled in eagerly awaiting Bombay Jayashree who had just then been nominated for the Oscars for her rendition in the movie – Life of Pi. Her concert was short due to the severity of the weather, but there was something about the experience that morning which left a profound impression. The initial push to attend Yamini was an opportunity to visit…

The road so high

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 Kevin Dharmesh Gandhi FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Opinion Student Connect 0

Dark above the world, under this scenic sky, We feel the frostiness of snow, with moonlight as a spy. We finished our mission, and assembled as a group, Warming our hands, cherishing a cup of soup. Came our trek leader, who was a local host, Frightening us all, with his tale of ghosts. Every mountain has its story, he said with a smile, This landscape creates memories, with every passing mile. Away from home, with phones free from network, This nature-imposed isolation acted as a perk. Little did…

Career Pivot of a PGPEM Student Sourav Dey, PGPEM (2017-19) at IIMB, shares valuable advice

January 8, 2019January 9, 2019 Sourav Dey FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Opinion Student Connect 4

07 January, 2019, Bengaluru: I am a student of the 2017-19 batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) at IIM Bangalore. Like most of the PGPEM aspirants, I joined the programme to keep career plateau at bay. I perceived that IIMB is a big brand and creating a career pivot based on an IIMB education would be smooth sailing. Although I did not know the destination (my next career move), I was confident that I would figure that out during the two-year journey at IIMB. At the…

Mountain magic Mohan Rao Padi, PGPEM at IIMB, shares snapshots from the Himalayan Mountain Challenge that he recently participated in

December 22, 2018December 22, 2018 admin1 FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak 1

21 December, 2018, Bengaluru: As a child I used to long for adventures in cool, faraway lands. As I grew older, I felt drawn towards the Himalayan mountains. So, when I got the opportunity as a student of the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) at IIM Bangalore for the Himalayan Mountain Challenge (HMC) course, I was delighted. The Himalayan Mountain Challenge (HMC) coursework, designed for practical learning, had a calming effect and we surrendered to the pristine beauty of the mountains. Yes…still loads of waste may remain on…

Solution to sales challenges? Selvitate, an incubatee at NSRCEL, functions as an integrated platform working on both a SaaS model as well as an operational model to help MSMEs improve sales and after-support

July 18, 2018August 21, 2018 Dhruva Jaishankar FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Student Connect Uncategorized 17

Selvitate (a play on the words sell and levitate) is a startup founded by Charith G Kashyap and Ruthvic R. They improve online sales for medium, small and micro enterprises (MSMEs). Selvitate works as an integrated platform working on both a Software as a Service (SaaS) model as well as an operational model to improve sales. This differentiates them from their competitors who only provide software to improve sales. Selvitate provides software to manage online sales and after-support to their customers. They take care of the entire online suite for…

Rethinking playtime Anthill Creations’ goal is for every child to have a playground within walking distance

July 9, 2018August 21, 2018 Dhruva Jaishankar FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak 0

Anthill Creations is a not-for-profit startup, being incubated at IIMB’s NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, and aims to bring playgrounds and play back into the lives of children. The team aims to involve the community and build sustainable playgrounds. They are the first company in the market who is working on accessibility of play. Anthill Creations was formed when the five founders – Nancy Charaya, Souradeep Paul, Vishesh Gupta, Nupur Agrawal and Pooja Rai – were in college. They, “like ants”, came together to build something bigger than themselves.…

Plop: Stories that Pop This start-up being incubated at NSRCEL offers stories in a completely different, chat-based format.

July 9, 2018August 21, 2018 Dhruva Jaishankar FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak 0

Penbound is a startup founded by Anushka Shetty and Vineet Shetty. They believe that their product Plop will re-introduce storytelling to the world. They decided to develop the idea when they pitched it to a group of publishers who, they say, loved it in the Delhi World Book Fair. Co-founder – Anushka Shetty Co-founder Vineet Shetty “Attention spans of the youth today have shrunk immensely with some studies claiming that it is only 7 minutes long. This is a product of our digitalized society and the shorter attention spans have…