IIM all yours

Saturday 22 November '08

After the emasculation of the IIMs through two-tier board control and a careful process of selection of the “right” board members, comes the bit about the “coordination” that the pan-IIM super board will do amongst the IIMs, bringing them all down to the lowest common denominator.

The great leap backwards

Friday 21 November '08

The report of the IIM Review Committee is finally out. If this were a student report it would get an A on “describing the current problems”, a C on all the sections they call “our analysis” - a C and not a D because some of the arguments made in the analysis are brilliantly tautological.

Westward Ho Chi Minh City

Saturday 15 September '07

I grew up on horror stories of Vietnam war, heard the music, saw the movies — then met the aam aadmi in Saigon