W.T.F.

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He was like sleep to her,

A blanket between her and the world,

A kaleidoscope of pain and despair.

Her eyes had the grace of tiny birds that hop around in shallow pools of water.

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- An excerpt from Love and Shadows by Divyangana Rakesh

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For such a long time now, I had been planning to write something that is at least of some miniscule use to anyone who is willing to take the risk of wasting precious time to read what is written henceforth. And even to write the above ‘mad as a hatter’ sounding line, I took nearly a month to do so. Not because I lacked the skill (if any whatsoever was required to write the above line), but because I fell prey to the 21st century man’s most favourite pastime : ‘procrastination’. This fancy word essentially means, to waste time. (I had to look for a better sounding name for the thing I did best). So as I contemplated on what to write, I had a Eureka moment : ‘Hey! Why not explore the concept of wasting time!’

- An Excerpt from one of the submissions to Black Coffee  - The launch nears! 

Its Taboo!

So PGP Taboo is underway at breakneck pace, semifinals and finals scheduled to happen today - as we stand on the cusp of midnight! There is a small surprise in store! To welcome the new CCC batch, Litcomm will organize a Taboo tournament within their batch and the winners of PGP and CCC will clash to claim the Taboo Champions of MICA! Keep your hats on, grab your seats for this is gonna be a helluva ride! Now lets Ta-Boo!!!

LaunDrama

No one should be allowed to wash their dirty linen in public. It is something that we MICANs firmly believe in (but apparently don’t practice much) and that is why when Paras Bhai (may God bestow better customers to him next year) started exchanging our clothes; we decided to get our own washing machines. SOAK first floor were the pioneers of PGP18 batch who after hearing the success stories of seniors went out for the kill. We named it Draupadi, as it was the loyal companion of SOAK 1^st floor. We even had a time-table drawn up and pasted outside Draupadi’s chambers, which none followed and just used her whenever we wished (shame on us). Even one or two rumours of girls using Draupadi were leaked out when a spaghetti top was found among washed clothes but closer inspection revealed it to be the drawstring of a pyjama. Soon, all rumours were dispelled and everyone got their own machines. Even the so-called slum-dwellers of Palaash Ground floor and Bai’s of Parijaat ground floor got one for themselves. So now we have Arjun protecting the sanctity of SOAK ground floor and Bheem looking after the dirty secrets of Palaash. We at LitComm wonder what will happen to these worthy warriors next year but until then we hope all of us will keep our clothes as clean as our hearts ;)….

Ten point somethings

A lot has happened in the past two months,albeit not here. MBA is taxing, especially when we try to make sense of business finance 3 hours prior to the exam  . All said, let us not talk ill of the dread. In the days i have spent here, i have learned and re-learned many a things. Let me reiterate some of them for the benefit of the general public who aspire to be in management. In order to sound more organized and to give you an idea of how long this is going to take, let me give a number to the list of things i will talk about:

10 Points:

1) The only things you would manage once you start your two year PGDM course is less sleep and more emails. 

2) If you do manage to stay awake and write down the seemingly-valid-points that you or your classmates make in the class, you would probably end up authoring a book titled  ’The Art of Pfaff’  which would be thicker than than ‘The art of war’ by Sun Tsu. (Point no.2 is an example)

3) The two most important phrases that a mican should acquaint thyself with are – ‘It depends‘ and ‘Chill maar yaar‘. Use the former with the faculty and latter with your friends to solve any problem under the sun.

4)  Re-learning:  CTRL+ALT+DELETE (this time to avoid terminations)

5) If you felt the competition to get into a b-school is tough, wait till you get here. It’s dog-eat-dog and pfaff-beats-pfaff world. You know your peers so much better than you did once you have been through a GD with them (you get to know more if they get in and you don’t  )

6)  Creative is subjective and everything is creative.

7) An open-book examination is tougher than a closed book, as you waste half your time searching hundreds of pages that you have never read.

8 ). The only conscious free time that you get would probably be in the loo. Make good use of it.

9) Remember, the two years of your life that you spend in a b-school is a paid social experiment.  Make the most out of it before it takes the most out of you.

10)  SOP, EOI, ROI, DCP .. You would start hating 3 letter acronyms

[This piece of writing is a blog post of a member of the literary committee and has been obtained with his consent. No Turning it in required  :)]

Grand Finale - MQC 2011

The patient build-up, a four legged trawl for the creme, the frenzied preparations behind scenes, the innumerable hours of lost sleep, zillions of google searches, an innocent penguin, a twisted thumb and a few gaffes, the MQC final was worth every bit of that and more. 

First up - A huge THANK YOU! to all involved - you participants who honored us with your presence, hounded us with your persistence - both above and below the board, Tarang and Pranjal - the hand that propped us up with external support, our Sponsors, the eminently lovable Senior Team LitComm and the equally adorable junies. 

Getting back to the quiz itself, the Final was an affair to remember - no warming up, it was for the battle hardened pros. They were:

Sania Narulkar & Divyanshu Bhoderia  (Anna ki tamanna)
Abhishek Rane & Dileep Tiwary        (Abhyutthaan)
Abhishek Joshi & Joseph Jacob  (Plan B)
RPulak Narain  Dhreeteman Das (Two 2 Tango)
Anupam Dhar & Divya Agarwal   (Hapless and hopeless)
Aditi Bose and Phalguni Aneja   (Apdi Pode)
Rohit Goswami & Abhimanyu Roy  (Que Pasa)

The format was different too - 35 Categories with 2 questions in each, teams getting to pick their choice for the first 2 rounds. The stake increased progressively with each round. The third round was a blind guess with the Topics masked by numbers, in return for 30 points for a direct answer, that came laced with a -10 for an incorrect answer. The killer touch came out with the 4th round, where the adjacent team picked out the topic for its previous team. This added a great deal of spice to the show as teams grappled to identify what their competitors were weakest at!

It was as exciting as a Finale could be with a different team leading at the end of each round. In the end it all boiled down to the rapidfire round, yet again. Divyanshu & Sania were in a close tussle with Pulak and Dhreeteeman for the top spot. A tense staccato of questions erupted with Bunty and Babloo definitely deserving their lead but the runners up not lagging far behind. All that held them from tying up for first spot was "Water" and "Waterman" for the inventor of the fountain pen. The winners received a cash prize of Rs. 4000 and two coveted trophies with the runners-up getting Rs. 2000 and it all ended up with jubilation from all quarters: the participants, the audience and the organisers who were left with a sweet taste of success in their mouths.