The TV Series that helped me through Welingkar

• Lost: The evergreen series;
• Prison Break: Me and Shah still hold the record of watching four seasons in about a week;
• Life: It is a must watch series, Charlie Crews quotes rock;
• Heroes: Not as great, but still very enjoyable;
• Criminal Minds: about Crime fighting Jason Gideon and FBI Profilers; House: Last TV Series here;
• Simpsons: Well actually I dint watch, just heard loads and loads of it at Mihir's Place.
• Jericho: The fictitious and exhilarating tale of Nuclear attack on US;
• 24:Jack Bower fights terror.
• Lie To Me: about people who can see you and tell if u r lying.
• My ranking would be 1-LOST, 2-Prison Break, 3-LIFE, 4-Jericho, 5-House, 6-24, 7-Heroes, 8-Criminal Minds,9-Lie to Me

5 lessons MBA taught me

1. All insane people arent locked up in jail or rehab, there are some doing an MBA;
2. It is possible to watch 4 seasons of a TV series in a week;
3. Eventually everyone passes all the exams in MBA (if you dont they give the paper as a Home Assignment);
4. Knowledge and Placement do not share a positive correlation;
5. It is possible to hate a city and then gradually fall in love with it.

MBA is about to end......

Looking back,

its been fun not bcoz of the classes but the Hookah sessions,

its been competitive not bcoz of the exams but the Room Cricket,

its been expensive not bcoz of the feebut bcoz of Ranjeet,

its been rewarding not bcoz of knowledge but bcoz of placement!

My Adventures with Diet Eating!

Day 1, 24th Oct

• Morning Tea
• Sada Dosa
• Lemon Juice
• Sprouts

Day 2, 25th Oct

• Morning Tea with Marie Light
• Corn Salad
• Evening Tea
• Tomato Soup

Day 3, 26th Oct

• Morning Tea with Marie Light
• Sprout and Vegetable Salad
• Watermelon Juice
• Evening Tea
• Tomato Soup
• 1 Roti with Half Egg without Yolk

Day 4, 27th Oct

• Morning Tea with Marie Light
• Lemon Tea without sugar
• Sprout and Vegetable Salad
• Evening Tea
• Vegetable Soup & 1 Puri with pickle

Day 5, 28th Oct

• Morning Tea
• Milk
• Vegetable Salad
• Evening Tea
• 2 Roti with Cabbage

Day 6, 29th Oct

• Morning Tea
• 1 Samosa
• Watermelon
• 2 Roti with Peas and Dal

Day 7, 30th Oct

• Tea
• Mausambi Juice
• 1 1/2 Roti with Vegetable Sabzi
• Vegetable Salad
• Tea

Day 8, 31st Oct

• Tea
• Veg Salad
• Soup
• 1 Roti + Dal

Day 9, 1st Nov

• Tea
• Corn Salad
• 1 Thepla
• Tomato Onion Vegetable +2 Thepla
• Cake

Day 10, 2nd Nov

• Tea
• Juice
• Atuls Trea (Dont Ask :))
  

Day 11, 3rd Nov

• Chiku Milk Shake
• 1 Thepla
• Evening Tea
• Vegetable Salad

Day 12, 4th Nov

• Tea
• Pineapple
• Chicken & Beer

Day 13, 5th Nov

• Tea
• Milk
• Pineapple
• Corn Salad
• Tea

Day 14, 6th Nov

• Tea
• Soup
• 2 Parantha

Day 15, 7th Nov

• Tea
• 1 Uthappa
• 1/2 Tomato Soup
• 3 Thepla with Tomato Onion vegetable

Day 16, 8th Nov

• Tea
• Milk
• ?

Day 17, 9th Nov

• Tea
• 2 Uthapa
• Atta Maggi

Day 18, 10th Nov

• Tea
• Tea
• 2 Roti with Dal

Day19, 11th Nov

• Omlette
• 2 Sada Dosa
• 1 Roti with Dal
• Tea

Employee Value Proposition- written by me

Employee Value Proposition 

Orios,  a pool of dynamism, creativity and ideas. This pool is built over 10 years by our employees who are thrilled to make a difference. With a team of just about 50 people running a $ 5 million organization, every employee contributes 2% to our topline. So, we say Small team = Large exposure = multiple portfolios.

The learning with Orios = 3 times a big company. Your ideas matter to us and the discussion for the same is open to none other than the CEO.

We are excited about our future growth. Each one of us is restless to get to the next level, to be the next big thing. In this Journey, you will experience the thrill of pointing out your own creations and taking more responsibility. In Orios there is no clUtter and henceU are visible.

If you are ready for challenging avenues,  if you want to bloom with flora and if you want go global with Remindo, we welcome you to Orios Family. 

- Charmie and Saurabh

India has decided.....

Do we care?

Does the youth of India even care who runs this country?

That is the question everyone has asked over the last 2 months of election frenzy. 

I just know that I DO.

UPA has got an undisputed mandate, and the NDA has been ordered by the electorate to have a relook at their organisation and leaders. That is the truth.

But would this mandate have been possible without Manmohan Singh, i have my doubts. Rahul 'Greenhorn' Gandhi has done well in UP and after years Congress has resurfaced in UP. But this is in noway his victory. He is an elite prince who aint fully aware of what India is. Young leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot have far more credentials than RG. Sachin Pilot won from Ajmer this time which has been a BJP bastion for years unending. Then why aint they being projected as the future leaders, why only RG. Only the Gandhi name does the trick. I believe 1 billion should not be lead by 1 family. I dont know how they do it, but they work their magic on the Indian electorate. We the youth havent faced and dont even remember the attrocities of the emergency that the same family committed, and I dont know why no one holds it against them anymore.

As far as BJP goes, it has committed blunders in the past. Post-Godhra, Kandhamal, Varun Gandhi. But I can name a longer list for the blunders Congress has committed. That apart I had hoped for BJP to come back to power, the strength and decisisiveness of BJP cannot be matched by Congress. I prefer a government which made the telecom revolution possible, a state govt that gets approval for a project as big as Nano in a matter of days compared to a government that has to ally with person who drove Nano out of WB to start with (ready Mamta Banerjee). 

But I gotto wait another 5 years I guess.

Consumer Brand vs Employer Brand

It wasn't before I came to do my summers that I came to realise that there is a difference between the two. Over the course of next 2 months would try and update all my thoughts and research on the topic here.

So as I understand till now,

Consumer brand refers to the image an organisation is able to create among its consumers. For ex: Google being perceived as innovative and associated with free services among its users.

Employer brand refers to the image and brand an organisation is able to create among its employees amd prospective employees as an employer. For ex: Google perceived as a young organisation and having an open work culture.

These two could be very different and they have a distinct way of being communicated. Consumer brand is generally advertised, but employer brand would take more effort and time to be established and built. Advertising an employer brand is possible but might not be effective and ofcourse there is a cost aspect involved. The problem I have encountered is interesting in its own way. The consumer market of the organisation is lets say in US and Europe, but the prospective employees are in Asia. So there is basic lack of brand recognition in the Asian markets. That makes establishing and communicating the employer brand a bigger challenge.

This is just the start, lets see where this project head to...