February 4, 2012 
Carpe Diem 2012 : Day 1
Day 1 events Carpe Diem kicked off with much fanfare on the 3rd of February 2012. The event was inaugurated by the Dean Prof. Ashok Banerjee, who appreciated the efforts of the students who were part of this festival, and also promised more support in the future. This was followed by a play produced by the ...
Live.Revel.Escape : Paridhi Agarwalla
To select one favourite moment of my life at Joka would be absolutely impossible as it has been a journey filled with so many little bits and pieces that have made these two years not seem like two years at all, but a never ending moment with endless surprises. Whether it was the JBS Jam session on ...
Dr. Kalam’s Faux pas
It’s been nearly 5 years since Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam quit his office as the President of India; he still continues to be one of the most inspirational leaders in the country. His charisma hasn’t declined a wee bit, and his unassuming personality galvanizes legions of youth. Hailing from the temple town of Rameshwaram, off the southern tip of Tamil Nadu’s coast, Dr.Kalam went through immense hardship to ...
Warriors Off to a Flyer
There have been huge levels of excitement and anxiety throughout the campus about ICPL-3 and Boy, what a start it got off to, with Mumbai Warriors locking horns with “Angry” Lions, Punjab in the tournament opener. Our skipper, Joyjit won the toss and put the opposition in to bat. I had the privilege of bowling the first over of the third edition of ICPL, and I immediately settled ...
My Intag story: Vaibhav Joneja
My Intaglio story as the Overall Coordinator When it all started a few months ago, I used to wish for 30 hours a day and 10 days in a week. I felt it would be better no! More time to call up sponsors, more time to call up speakers, more time to think about what can be ...
My Intag story: Abhinav Gupta
My Intaglio story as Event Coordinator (Modulus) December 20 - 9 : 50 pm. I get a call from a student based out of FMS, Delhi - 'I did not register yet', he said, his stricken voice hardly concealing the panic within. 'Please, please look into this - I really really want to participate!' - This ...
Making a point
They said he couldn’t swing the Cosco tennis ball. They said the batsmen were reading his variations. They even said he was spending more time on Markov chains than on the field. Prof. Sumanta Basu heard them all, without batting an eyelid. More than the urge to prove his detractors wrong was the resolve to change his game. Like someone said, victory can bring the warmest glows, but ...
Match Report: The faculty win by 80 runs
To compete with the faculty team on even terms, the student side headed by Vsax needed to play to their full potential. But with poor match practice and a general lack of confidence, it was not to be. In what was one of the most one-sided contests in recent times, the Professors beat the students by a whopping 80 runs.
JokaSpeak- The Campus Magazine
It was a usual club heads meeting in Feb 2011. The President and the Cultural Secretary were striving their best to make themselves heard over the din. Every time the group was on the verge of making a constructive decision, up went some hand raising an objection. Yet, unbelievable as it might seem, out of these chaos, emerged the concept of JokaSpeak, a campus magazine. Each and every ...
Greater emphasis on liberal arts, experience-based learning at IIMs
KOLKATA, November 16, 2011 Shiv Sahay Singh A consensus seemed to emerge on experience-based education and more emphasis on humanities as Directors of the six Indian Institutes of Management and heads of other premier business schools discussed the future of management education in the country at a Directors' conclave at the Indian Institute of Management here on Tuesday. Professor Pankaj Chandra, the Director ...
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