February 6, 2012 
“Aap Ka Tharoor”
It’s late afternoon, and I sit here typing away at my keyboard after having attended a marathon marketing session on how successful brands differentiate themselves. In another hour, I will have the opportunity to listen to an individual who has done just that. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, I have been told, is on his way to the IIM Calcutta campus, and having keenly followed the vicissitudes of his political ...
Kashmakash: The “Director’s” take
Kashmakash, tells the story of a bollywood director Adarsh Bhandari who's out to make a movie of a lifetime. This play was performed by the Dramatics Cell at IIM Calcutta as part of Intaglio 2012, the International B School Fest. Adarsh has seen the high points of being a successful director, having won many awards, and the lowest points too, where everyone, including his own wife, loses ...
5 minutes with Shashi Tharoor
Writer, orator,diplomat,politician- Can you ever bracket him? On that lucky day, when we got the chance of our lives, we chose to interview Shashi Tharoor, the writer. Sir, you’ve had a glittering career full of professional achievements - and hope it continues. But what do you think is your biggest personal achievement? My twin ...
5 minutes with Prakash Jha
You have made movies such as Apaharan, Gangaajal, Rajneeti and Aarakshan covering a gamut of socially and politically relevant issues. Are these drawn from personal experience? What has been your inspiration? It’s not that I have personally experienced all these things but there are social movements, changes and reactions to certain policies which are continuously happening around us. I am aware of them, affected by them and ...
5 minutes with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
People call you Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Is there a reason behind having two ‘Sri’s prefixing the name? (laughs) I thought 3 was too much. So. Usually this country has reverence to put 3 Sris, 108 Sris etc. I thought that’s too much. I said don’t keep me too high like an emerald Buddha Whom nobody can reach.
My Intag story: Amardeep Dabass
My Intaglio story as Event Coordinator (Wizards of Biz) "The sixth team is not gonna come in. We'll have to manage with five." "Are you kidding me. How do we do that??? The game has been designed for 6." Frantic calls, changing numbers, working again on formulas and the model and making sure that we have the event ready before time for five ...
Intaglio 2012: Day 2
After a promising and hectic first day, the second day of Intaglio had to offer a diverse set of competitions and events. Competitions on social ventures, consulting, systems, marketing, game theory, policies and quiz kept the campus abuzz the entire day. Here is a snapshot of today’s (day 2) Intaglio events : Antyodaya Antyodaya is a unique international social project event where students from ...
My Intag story: Khushboo Kaushal
My Intaglio story as Event coordinator (Great Innovation Challenge) My story began with defining 'innovation', and the qualities one must possess to earn the word; this was followed by us (Ankit Fitkariwala, Vipul Nirwani and me) trying to convince ourselves that through an online format, that too of objective type, we could gauge how innovative, creative a participant is. After ...
Intaglio 2012: Day 1
I woke up this morning looking forward to the rest of the day. IIM Calcutta’s 3-day business summit Intaglio 2012 had just started last evening, and there were many, many events to look forward to – and boy, did the day live up to my expectations! Billed as Asia’s largest business school summit, Intaglio had the best students from the best B-schools visiting campus today. In the ...
Intaglio 2012: Inaugural Speech by Vaibhav Joneja
In the words of Avadh Shah, suit-clad Joneja tried to woo his female fans on Friday... Here is the transcript of the original speech.. It gives me immense pleasure to be addressing IIM Calcutta today evening, on behalf of a heritage it has always been and always will be proud of- Intaglio. And so ...
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