NITIE Begins!

Leaving a company like Infosys would never have been easy if it has to be for some other cause. But NITIE made it all simple for me. Finally I made it to India's top b-school and yes, it's NITIE Mumbai. And what more can I expect than the famous Mumbai rains welcoming me to the God's own campus, a lush green surrounded by ponds.

And it feels even better when I realized that my batch is the Golden Jubilee Batch of NITIE, that will surely make my campus life more enjoyable, more entertaining, more exciting.

It all started with Prof. Mandi' class on June 17th, 2013 at 9 am in Syndi 1, who was substituting for the absence of our communication's professor.  A regular student would expect professor to run through some PPT and deliver the lecture on 'Principles of Management'. But Prof. Mandi has purely different plans. Soon we found 2 globe (depicting) stress balls flying in air, 2 pink colored butterfly shaped toy going hand to hand and a wooden hen with a inclined stand chirping our heads for the purpose of their introduction in India's top business school's management lecture. Prof. Mandi gave us a short intro about himself and then began to teach us in the most fascinating way one could ever imagine. The props circulated were all actually Physics Made Fun toys. Stress ball with whole world map on it, plastic butterfly which can be balanced on a single point and the hen which oscillate its way down the inclined stand without any external interference. Thus we were made to realize the old forgotten concepts of center of gravity, balancing, inertia and most importantly the concept of building business around an idea.

Prof. Mandi explained about the importance of earning and supporting oneself with his mind boggling words-"Aaj ki roti, aaj hi kamana hai (Today's bread shall be earned today itself)." With his spectacular way of teaching, he made us calculate our PDC which roughly estimates to 2500/- INR. If we are able to earn merely 10% of this amount then most of the problems of this 'begger' generation (which depends upon their guardian's money) would vanish. Thus explaining the insights of "Socho Becho, Becho Seekho, Seekho Socho (Think & Sell; Sell & Learn; Learn & Think)." Prof. Mundi also referred to Mr. Mrunmay Chakraborty of PGDIM 6th Batch who stood on those words and founded Cyprus Semiconductors. His idea was to end the era of education through institutions but to take education to mass free of cost.

Internet would play the vital role in taking education to suburbs and the deprived. All we need to do is to make our education available to them on internet. It is our responsibility, who are fortunate enough to manage our education, to make our education reach these people. Hence we would be writing blogs on the topics we will be learning in the coming days. In this way, quality learning would no longer would be institution bound. What a visionary idea!!

Lately, we were introduced to a song by Pink Floyd titled- 'Another Brick in the Wall'. My buddies- Ishan, Anupam and Abhinav sang it superbly and we followed. Too good to be a song. Learning achieved should not make us just another hay in stack, but one should be able to stand out for the betterment of the people and the society, was the lesson we learned from this song.

Probably, I covered all the happenings of Day 1. Stay tuned as I would be posting more in upcoming days about 'Principles Of Management'. Comments and compliments are most welcomed.

Cheers,
Ashutosh