Sunday, November 19, 2006

Academic flexibility is one reason why the IIMs are awesome institutions...

Came across an interview of Harsha Bhogle, an IIM-A alumnus. Here is a particular question i liked...

Which was your most memorable day or event at IIM A, when you were a student there?


One event is tough to pinpoint. In retrospect it would be the day I knew I had met the person I would spend the rest of my life with. The first term was devastating and the last day was a bit emotional. While I didn't yet realise how important
the two years were going to be, there was sadness at the fact that it was over and that is why I tend to go back as often as I can. There was one other event that was crucial for me and that is when the PGP chairman, now director, Prof Bakul Dholakia, allowed me to miss my second term exams to do my first test match as a television commentator. I did my papers after I came back and that kind of academic flexibility is one reason why the IIMs are awesome institutions.

read for full interview

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'm sure even we have that kinda flexibility. i guess even bigger. if u were to request the same to our pgp chair he'd be extremely jubiliant to postpone it to the next year. How abt that?

Anonymous said...

Cool one!!