Golden Jubilee Celebrations – Grand alumni meet laser show

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IIMA Golden Jubilee Celebrations – ‘Domino Show’

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ConneXion 2010 .. A warm welcome to entire IIMA Alumni community

PGPX is gearing up for October 22nd 2010; a day which promises to be one of the most eventful since our induction on April 8th.There is heightened activity & a sense of eager anticipation everywhere on the new campus. Placement season is still a good 3 months down the road, so, what’s all the adrenaline [...]

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Happy Independence Day!

Filled with pride for our country’s independence, we witnessed the hoisting of the flag by Dr. Barua and sang the national anthem. Louis Kahn Plaza has its own charm, no matter what time of the day or what the occasion. We then proceeded to the RJM Auditorium to be treated by some terrific performances, including [...]

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T-Nite 2010 PGPX Newsletter – Day 3

The tempo gets higher and faster! PGPX-ers donned their bright yellow orientation t-shirts and tied bandanas with X written all over. Enthu participants and families even had their faces painted… like real baraatis we made our way to RJM beating the drums and rocked the nite! Bomb squad news – DAY 3 – 07-Aug-2010

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T-Nite 2010 PGPX Newsletter – Day 2

For all our dear X’s out there, here’s the Day 2 edition covering our T-Nite hungama! Bomb Squad News – DAY 2 – 06-Aug-2010

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T-Nite 2010 PGPX Newsletter – Day 1

Hot off the press… PGPX brings to you a freshly-squeezed daily dose of T-Nite news! Bomb squad news – DAY 1 – 05-Aug-2010

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Shifting gears…

On the left you see what the PGPX classroom looks like when we get our exams back. It’s a quick, executive take at what went right and what went wrong. Then, on the right, we shift gears and start to prepare for the next challenge. This week it is Talent Nite (a.k.a T-Nite) which one [...]

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Harsh Thakkar running for ‘Social Cause’

Pattu is skilled in making bags & flower pots using plastic wires. She makes lot of such goods & sells it in the weekly market. Since she did not have money to invest, she was not able to make more such products even though she had enough demand. Dhanabakiam is an ‘established’ tailor and she [...]

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PGPX in Mumbai Marathon!

Three of our colleagues – Asif, Raja and Venkata, participated in the Mumbai Marathon and made us all very very proud!!! I need to mention the name of Arvind Krishnan who was with them throughout in preparing for the marathon. We are especially proud because the above 4 did their running practice in addition to [...]

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PGPX goes to school

Last Saturday PGPX students revisited their childhood when they paid a visit to the Eklavya School in the Sanathal village in the south western part of Ahmedabad. The visit was arranged as a part of the “Laboratory for Entrepreneurial Motivation” (LEM) course taken by Prof. Sunil Handa. The school was founded in 1997 by Prof [...]

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PGPX@ Mumbai and New Delhi

Time Place Location Thursday 5 July 1800-2100 Mumbai The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Appollo Bunder Mumbai 400 001 India Saturday 7 July 1500-1800 New Delhi Hyatt Regency Delhi Bhikaji Cama Place, Ring Road New Delhi 110 066 India

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Open House Session@ Bangalore on 27th May

IIMA is conducting open house session in Bangalore at Le Meridian on May 27th for its PGPX. Chairperson, PGPX – Dr.Arvind Sahay is the speaker of this event. Please visit http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/pgpx/news.htm for more details.

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Farewell Function – Behind the scenes

It was one month before we had to hit the roads of Ahmedabad. At that time, there was suggestion from Tejbir to give the seniors a farewell function. The suggestion was widely welcomed by all sections of our group and no questions asked on why we should not give one. There was Rakesh’s simple logic [...]

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PGPX Pre-admission Meet – The Culmination Of

Read the story so far here …To pick up the thread, I remember Darsha, Tejbir, Kannan, Anuj and Rohit as the earliest arrivals at IIMA. As the forenoon progressed, more appeared on the scene, including a Jackie Shroff-look alike who introduced himself as Vaibhav! Thanks to circulating the questions in advance, everyone had a fair [...]

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PGPX Pre-admission Meet – The Setting Of

…To continue the story, once a pre-start visit to IIMA was decided upon, the next step was to finalise the date and the number of participants. Sounds simple! Isn’t it? But believe me; it wasn’t, since willingness to attend was directly impacted by the likely date of visit. The initial suggestion to visit towards end [...]

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PGPX Pre-admission Meet – The Making Of…

This is the story of the first collaborative venture by PGPX-IIians. A simple excursion, yet showcasing the democratic and collaborative spirit developed in our batch even before we have joined IIMA. A beginning which I believe has given us a head start – to enable us to hit the ground running.  “Hey!” “what is it [...]

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