Golden rules of blogging

1.Do not introduce it to family members/relatives: it can cause embarrasment.

2.Do not introduce it to your girlfriend ( if u have one): you never know what you might write.

3.Do not copy from published works: Its plagiarism.

4.Do not talk about the Fight Club: as you can see rule3 is optional.

City of Djinn’s

This vacation I was on a strict diet of anecdotal stories and historical findings of Delhi, brilliantly penned down by William Dalrymple in his travelogue “City of Djinns”-A Year in Delhi. This is an account of Scotland born English writer’s visit to Delhi with his artist wife Olivia. “City of Djinns” is not really a travel book at all. It is a kind of a memoir recording the response of a gentle, merry and learned mind to the presence of an ancient city. What impressed me most was that this book unravels the evolution of the city from the Mughal Era (i.e Shahjehanabad) through British Raj to the city as we know today. I deem this

book “compulsory” for anyone who stays in Delhi or studies history.
Delhi has more layers of culture, civilisation and history extant in it than any other city in India, arguably in the world. It is this, the enthralling and enigmatic features of this ancient modern city, that Dalrymple set out to trace in this book. The book moves through time than space looping and unleashing in the past and present. Dalrymple covers the evolution and the historical legacy of each and every part of Delhi right from by-lanes of Sitaram Bazaar in Old Delhi to suburbs of Shahpur Jat, from Lutyen’s Delhi to Shalimar Bagh spanning probably every nook & cranny of the city.
The book describes the unfortunate 1984 riots after Indira Gandhi’s assassination and speaks of the brutalities against the Sikh. On the other Dalrymple never fails to ridicule the Punjabi lifestyle and has an unimmitable style of doing it, using the words of his Punjabi driver (glimpses of Madhur Bhandarkar’s inspiration in ‘Page3’). But the great merit of this book is that the author conducts himself without prejudice or bigotry. He explores Delhi without idealogical or racial baggage and I can say that you will be amazed by the research this guy has put in.
Thing which might prevent you from reading it is that sometimes the author explores so much about city’s history that it gets into notorious depths like our old history textbook and you might see Romila Thapar’s horrid face but really its worth the shock.

Present state

Currently doing summer industrial training stipulated in my engg syllabus but only i know that it is an ordeal to get training. After going through an intense bureaucratic procedure i was able to secure a place at a prestigious but ailing institution. While my friends from big name colleges are learning the tricks of trade at leading foreign institutes I slog my my way through it...but good times will back soon.

Why MBA ( best of blog )

The Master's in Business Administration is one of the most sought after degrees in the world. The degree originated in the great capitalist country, USA and has now spread its wings far across the entire world. The course brings knowledge, experience, value and above all a good take off point to a career.

The business world some 50 years back was not as complicated as it now. Most of the best managers "climbed up the ladder" and there were no "lateral entries" back then. In fact Managers itself was not a common term among many of the biggest corporations. One of the most professionally managed big business of that time, General Motors was built by managers like Alfred P. Sloan and so was General Electric but they were seldom called 'managers'.

In fact Management as a discipline was invented by Peter Drucker by the way of his seminal study of General Motors in the "Concept of the Corporation". This was the first book which explained what management was and how it was creating the biggest change in society by creating and managing large organisations. Drucker went on to provide the benchmark of Management and management or business books by the publication of "The Practice of Management". He then took a step forward a wrote about the Manager or as he later changed the much abused word to "Executive" in "The Effective Executive".

Through time the schools of Harvard, Columbia (where Buffet graduated from) and later Stanford etc began to define the study of management and the skills need for the manager.

The need to better create change in the society through organisations has become the major tools of the 21st century. The concept of management, which until the 1970s was restricted to large businesses, has started flowing downstream to small and medium enterprises. This was best explained by Drucker in his book Innovation and entrepreneurship. The definitive guide to entrepreneurship and its main tool - Innovation.

The concept of management went through another major change when it was started applying to as varied institutions as the hospital, the university, the community center, the church, the government. Every institution is now in the ambit of management which in effect would mean the entire society.

Due to the rapid growth of population, resources and requirements we have created varied institutions to effectively manage ourselves. The way to accomplish this is the organisation and the tool - Management.

From where I see, I do not see an MBA as an education to manage a business but a "set of codified knowledge" which will help me to create, run and manage varied institutions which will help to bring about change in the society.


And by the way this from some other blog, I hope the author doesn't sue me for plagiarism.