Hello once again dear friends!
Initially i had plans to first share my GD/PI experiences at all 3 colleges in the blog followed by some more topics but after reading my first comment from Prakhar,i too felt excited about sharing my experiences of reading and brief u abt some of the books i have read or plan to read.I love to read and its the best investment one can make.So here goes the list of some books i have:-
Favourite non-fictions:-
Rich Dad Poor Dad : A book on financial IQ.An excellent comparison and contrast between the rich and poor mentality and basics of finance in the most practical manner.A strongly recommended reading for all age group and with any field of interest.
Freakonomics : Proving conventional wisdom wrong in so many cases,this book uses Economics to find hidden answers to questions in vast fields.Ur eyes wud pop out wide on reading the unbelievable but convincing expainations to various scenerios given.
The Goal : After books on topics like finance and economics,here comes my personal fav.- a book on Operations.This is a case study of a manufacturing plant which is not performing well.The author gives common sense based solutions to the most challenging situations .As i read it,I could relate most of it to our own textile unit and the application based solutions are powerful enough to turn around an ailing plant.Most importantly,it teaches you to approach the most difficult problems in a simple and logical manner.
The best part about the above books is that though so core technical yet they are easy to comprehend with no jargon.Thoroughly practical knowledge and change the way of thinking for better.
The GE Way : An all encompassing knowledge on basics of management touching on every aspect of it.
What they dont teach you at Havard Business School : Another very famous book on management.
The World is Flat : Quite an informative book on Globalization.
Some more non-fictions:-
A brief history of Time : Physics in a simple and condensed form.
The 7 Habits of highly successful people : The most selling book on self help.
The monk who sold his ferrari : Another book on self help which gives Gyan,gyan and only gyan..Zzzzz...
Six Thinking Hats : A book by Edward de Bono suggesting a new method to approach discussions and carry out meetings.
The argumentative India : Makes a very dense reading about culture.
Who moved my cheese : Advices to sense the changes and accept them.
Many lives,many masters : As claimed by the author that every word in the book is true and he has proof for it,its a ground breaking book on reincarnation.
The Secret : To warn you,the next lines to come would serve the purpose of spoiler.Either stop reading here and read the book to find the secret in first few pages on read to find it in next line. Yes,the Secret is all about the power of positive thinking and how it can change the life from good to great!
Ignited Minds : Our fav. Mr Abdul Kalam isnpires young India to attain the bream of India 2020
Biographies:-
Business Maharajas : Short biography of six business leaders of India's 20th century.Writing style keeps you engrossed with good language.
Men of Steel : Business profiles of few current leaders in Indian corporate world.
Prince of Polyester : Ooops..Banned in India!An insight into the life and working style of my fav. - Dhirubhai Ambani !
It happened in India : India's version of the book 'Made in America'-this book is an autobiography by India's Sam Walton-Kishore Biyani
Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish : Short stories of 25 IIM-A passouts who are now entrepreneurs.
My experiments with truth : Autobiography of Mr. M. K. Gandhi.
Books on puzzles by:-
Ravi Narula : My personal fav. with good level of puzzles of diff. types.
George J. Summers : The toughest set of logical puzzles i ever came across.
Shakuntla Devi : Mostly Mathematical puzzles quite boring and simple ones.
Lateral thinking by Edward de Bono : While all other books have logical puzzles,this one is different with loads of lateral stuff to make ur thinking complete.
Fictions:-
The Alchemist : One of the world's most sold books-its a simple yet profound story which encourages one to follow his dreams.Makes a light and pleasurable reading.
Jonnathon Livingstone Seagull : Another short story about a seagull which follows its hearts and fails to win.
Five Point Someone : I bet everyone knows about this one and the other two.
Joker in the pack : A plot similar to above book set up in the campus of IIM-B
The funda of Mix-O-Logy : A fiction by Mainak Dhar which appeared to me very filme but gives a beautiful message that a perfect life must be a blend of all things(work,money,famile etc) in some well defined limits.
The White Tiger : This booker prize winner is a fiction that represents in the same depracating manner as did by The Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire.
Q&A : Book which inspired Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire.
A sunny shady life : A fiction by Sachinn Garg,a student of MDI 1st year.Written on similar lines as most of the other books by youth authors all inspired by our Chetan Bhagat.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
@ MDI
As i have already posted about my 3 calls,i would be mentioning my experience in detail starting with the most recent one-MDI for PGPM on 25th March mroning slot.
GD: 11 guys with 4 of us from MIT
Topic: Effect of global meltdown in India.
My initial impressions as i read the topic was WOW! i know this pretty well only to realize later how ignorant i was.
GD was overall noisy but yet everyone made some sense.I was amazed by the data thrown by Gaurav and Pritish.I hardly spoke and made a little sense.thankfully each of us were asked to summarize in 30 seconds where i did a decent job.
PI: There were 2 guys-same from GD who took the interview.It was better than i could imagine with interviewers asking questions from those little areas i knew.It went as follows:
P1: Tell us abt u
Me: sir i m pursuing my B.E from MIT in EEE..P1 interrupted
P1: Y u went so far?hows ur college?wats good abt it?dont u think fee is too high?
after these general questins i again continued with the intro as told
Me:I come from city of lakes-Udaipur. My father is a businessman.We have a textile spinning unit
I1: Wats the turn-over?profits?Do u export?what r ur markets?
I1: ok compare India and China's economic growth.
Me: India's is slow but steady as compared to China.Gave some data on growth rate,FDI and FII in both countries,Job losses and domestic markets.
I1:FDI and FIIs are good or bad?
Me: They are good for any economy but dependence on them is bad.
I1: Wat abt the tax structure
Me: sorry sir i dont hav any idea abt the taxes of China but recently i read an article stating Indian textile is losing to China due to a marginal diff. in cost.
I1: wat r the factors due to which China's production cost is so low.
Me: 1. Cheap labour(which India too has) 2. Organised and technologically better production plant
I1. Asked about extra - corriculars.mentioned many but didn't get into details of any.
Then i got a call and indicated I2 to carry on while he went around the room talking over the phone for rest of the interview
I2: Took my file and started reading it.On looking at CAT scores- wat r ur other calls?
Why u didn't get any call from IIM?
then looking at my grade sheets of engg.So u studies a sub. on mgmt. in engg.tell me wat do u understand by management?
Me: Sir to me its both-an art and science.Its the study of learning to manage resources like man,machine and money in the most efficient manner.
I2:wats the diff b/w generator n transformed?wat is Lenz' law?tell the 2 electromagnetic principles?state uncertainty principle(I said mass n velocity instead of distance and velocity).de broglie's equation.
I2:y u want to join this institute?
Thats it !
Interview lasted for about 15 mins. but i never knew hw time passed.The interviewers really made me quite comfortable.Now keeping the fingers crossed and awaiting results.Pray for me..
Piyush
GD: 11 guys with 4 of us from MIT
Topic: Effect of global meltdown in India.
My initial impressions as i read the topic was WOW! i know this pretty well only to realize later how ignorant i was.
GD was overall noisy but yet everyone made some sense.I was amazed by the data thrown by Gaurav and Pritish.I hardly spoke and made a little sense.thankfully each of us were asked to summarize in 30 seconds where i did a decent job.
PI: There were 2 guys-same from GD who took the interview.It was better than i could imagine with interviewers asking questions from those little areas i knew.It went as follows:
P1: Tell us abt u
Me: sir i m pursuing my B.E from MIT in EEE..P1 interrupted
P1: Y u went so far?hows ur college?wats good abt it?dont u think fee is too high?
after these general questins i again continued with the intro as told
Me:I come from city of lakes-Udaipur. My father is a businessman.We have a textile spinning unit
I1: Wats the turn-over?profits?Do u export?what r ur markets?
I1: ok compare India and China's economic growth.
Me: India's is slow but steady as compared to China.Gave some data on growth rate,FDI and FII in both countries,Job losses and domestic markets.
I1:FDI and FIIs are good or bad?
Me: They are good for any economy but dependence on them is bad.
I1: Wat abt the tax structure
Me: sorry sir i dont hav any idea abt the taxes of China but recently i read an article stating Indian textile is losing to China due to a marginal diff. in cost.
I1: wat r the factors due to which China's production cost is so low.
Me: 1. Cheap labour(which India too has) 2. Organised and technologically better production plant
I1. Asked about extra - corriculars.mentioned many but didn't get into details of any.
Then i got a call and indicated I2 to carry on while he went around the room talking over the phone for rest of the interview
I2: Took my file and started reading it.On looking at CAT scores- wat r ur other calls?
Why u didn't get any call from IIM?
then looking at my grade sheets of engg.So u studies a sub. on mgmt. in engg.tell me wat do u understand by management?
Me: Sir to me its both-an art and science.Its the study of learning to manage resources like man,machine and money in the most efficient manner.
I2:wats the diff b/w generator n transformed?wat is Lenz' law?tell the 2 electromagnetic principles?state uncertainty principle(I said mass n velocity instead of distance and velocity).de broglie's equation.
I2:y u want to join this institute?
Thats it !
Interview lasted for about 15 mins. but i never knew hw time passed.The interviewers really made me quite comfortable.Now keeping the fingers crossed and awaiting results.Pray for me..
Piyush
My tryst with CAT 08
CAT-08 :- My biggest dream till recently is now a passing affair.Cant really say if it was good or bad but definitely a ride full of fun with all highs and lows one could expect.With 99.36%ile overall and 95%ile + in all three sections,it was really an end of euphoria when i got to know that i had no call from any IIM.I have loads to write on CAT- my experience,preparation phase,result and my wrath on selection criteria of some IIMs(though no use crying over the split milk-its still important to analyse why the milk split) and finally those terrible GD-PI experiences.I find GD-PI process such a pain in the ... that i would rather give CAT thrice then GD-PI once.but could not do away with it and finally attended the calls from MDI,IIT-B(SJMSOM) and IIT-D(DMS).Now awaiting results due next month..So friends wish me luck !
Piyush
Piyush
Random thoughts..wild imaginations
Truly said - "Empty mind is a devil's workshop" and though i had most of my mind vacant throughout my engineering,it was never so empty as now - the 8th sem. - an ideal time to be an idol of idleness..so this devil thoght of putting some of these random thoughts to pen and hence came up with the idea of publishing a blog.After reading the GE way,i am quite inspired to give this blog a mission and vision statement.so here it goes:
Mission: The blog aims to serve the purpose of a purposeless reading with nothing much creative to offer and catering to needs of no one in particular or general.
Vision: With my uncreative,unimaginative, uninspired and unyielding content,the blog aims to soon gain the reputation of the most pakau blog ever.
With this hope to live up to these high standards that i have set for my blog,i sign off for now.
Piyush..
Mission: The blog aims to serve the purpose of a purposeless reading with nothing much creative to offer and catering to needs of no one in particular or general.
Vision: With my uncreative,unimaginative, uninspired and unyielding content,the blog aims to soon gain the reputation of the most pakau blog ever.
With this hope to live up to these high standards that i have set for my blog,i sign off for now.
Piyush..
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