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Symphony 02 2015 Symphony SYMPHONY2015 03 2 0 1 5 From the Director’s Desk 04 IIM Shillong - The Seventh Heaven 28 Book Rules of the Game From the Faculty Advisor 05 Yet She is Being Killled Sumit Chowdhury 59 From the Editorial Team 06 Chirag Tekriwal 30 A tale of two Revolutionaries The Name is Right, Centre-Right Navneet Kumar 61 The Symphonies of Insurgency Debarun Majumdar 31 The Truth of our Existence Fear Sumon Chaudhuri 08 The Inevitable Shillonging ! Parsita Kundu 64 Karma Economy Karanvir Gupta 33 Art Window 66 Ramanathan K 11 A Student’s Musings on Shillong Sports Persons Lost in Transition Varsha Poddar 34 Sujoy De 67 Bharati Das 13 When IIM Shillong Comes Together 36 Relevance of Greek Literature in the The Un t Face Of Democracy HR – In-House Money Monger but Space Age (Mohammed Fahd) 68 Mohit Kumar 14 Outsourced Expert I’m Not an Atheist Scotland of the East 19 Eashwar Rajan 38 Pratik Chakrabarti 70 Tainted Textiles Revelolution by Rhetoric The Space An unexpected Journey Bhagyashree Dhawan 18 Agnitra Ghosh 40 Rupam Thakar 73 Fear You May Judge An Event But IIM Shillong Golf Cup Season 7 75 Kasturi Guha Thakurta 20 Judging a Person Is a Crime EmergE 2014 78 Leaders are a dying breed Gaurav Jain & Nishesh Bhasin 45 Podium 80 or are they ? Freud and his psychoanalytic approach Tedx 2014 82 Peeush Goel 21 Nandita Choudhury 47 Committees 83 A Pair of Chairs All the stage’s the world Clubs 88 Siddharth Chaudhary 22 Garima Kumar 50 Students’ Achievements 94 Interview All it takes is a click 52 Faculty Speaks 96 Mr. M. Ravichandran 23 Brokers and Insurance Sector in India Alumni Speak 97 A Continuation: Working in Start-Ups and Shubhabh Rustagi 54 Batch Picture PGP 2013-15 98 Mba’ing in IIM Shillong The Entropic World Order Siddharth Chaudhary 26 Shubhang Srivastava 56 Symphony 04 2015 FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK Dear Readers, With enormous pride, I introduce to you the sixth edition of Symphony, the annual magazine of IIM Shillong. The magazine aims at striking a harmonious chord with the readers and the North- Eastern region of this great nation. IIM Shillong has progressed immensely during these six years, bringing various laurels in both the academic and co-curricular elds and earning accolades from every quarter. It is indeed heartening to see that the students leave no stone unturned in ful lling every initiative they undertake and are constantly endeavouring to the best of their abilities to achieve our vision of becoming an internationally recognized management institute with a global outlook while remaining grounded in Indian values. The sixth edition of Symphony is built around the theme ‘Revolutions’ and strives to drive home the inalienable fact that progress in any aspect, be it for an individual or a corporate entity or even a nation, can only be achieved if we are prepared to embrace the radical and the unknown. Often, precursors to revolutions are viewed not in a good light, but looking closer one would see that the people who are unwilling to give up the present condition, however bad it may be for the vast majority of the remaining, are the ones who are most reluctantto usher change. The various articles and poems in this magazine touch upon this point and endeavour to showcase the need of looking forward and not being afraid of letting go of the present and past, however glorious they might be, in search of a better tomorrow. Before concluding, I take this opportunity to congratulate ‘Team Symphony’ on conceptualizing and developing this edition of the magazine. I am sure that the students of IIM Shillong will always be able to carve out a niche for themselves, wherever they are in the world, not only as managers, but also as leaders. Prof. Amitabha De Director IIM Shillong Symphony 2015 05 MESSAGE FROM THE FACULTY ADVISOR The world of business wasn’t always as liberal as it is today. The modern world of business began only when a radical and profound change occurred in the economic relationships and technological conditions.This radical change was referred to as the industrial revolution. It could’ve easily been given some other name, but it was called a revolution. The reason for this apt naming was that those drastic changes in the economic and technological scenario, prevalent at that time, helped industrialists break the shackles of prohibition and take their business to soaring heights and unprecedented levels of success. What we can infer from this short trip down the memory lane is the fact that breaking established structure can, at times, not only be a good thing, but also be extremely necessary. Our students have always been able to draw inspiration from signi cant things that a ect our day to day lives and hence, the signi cance of revolution in our lives has been showcased in the current edition of Symphony. I must congratulate and thank the dynamic team of Symphony for their vigour, perseverance and devotion in giving their best to shape the present edition. Without their relentless and sincere e orts for over last eight months, it would not have been possible to bring Symphony to its readers in its current form. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the contributors for their active associationand valuable contributions. I am con dent that this year’s presentation will succeed inprovoking your thoughts and taking you to another level of percipience as you read along through this beautiful compilation. Happy reading! Tapas Kumar Giri Associate Professor IIM Shillong Symphony 06 2015 MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD Dear Readers story’ this time and instead we present to you an With the sixth edition of Symphony, we present to eclectic blend of issues and topics that caught the you our endeavour at taking stock of the academic fancy of the students of our institute and made them year that swept by us. Snippets of the days that ponder. The article ‘Revolution by Rhetoric’ brings to were spent in pursuit of goals and of the days that you a tribute to some of the great speeches of our celebrated their achievement, of days that tested times, speeches that changed the course of history. and changed us, of the mundane days, and most Yet other articles explore the relevance of Greek importantly, of the days that made us pause, think, literature in current times, throw light on Freud and express and take action are held in these pages. his theories, take a look at what it could mean to live in a ‘Karma Economy’, opine on various functions of We’ve done away with the idea of having a ‘cover management – such as HR, form personal memoirs Symphony 2015 07 of working in start-ups and living the ‘MBA life’. Also edition of agship events – Golf Cup, Khlur-thma, included in verse from the students are re ections EmergE, Podium and Tedx IIM Shillong have been on Shillong and the girl child. We hope that the covered and so have the student achievements. We variety we could not have included in a cover tag also bring you word from a couple of our faculty line has been included between these covers. members and from some of our alumni members. And as is wont from an annual magazine, one With this, we leave it to our readers to cherish the can get a full picture of the institute’s interest year gone by and wish them luck with the years to groups, committees, activities and events from come. the concluding pages of the magazine. The 2014 Regards Team Symphony Symphony 08 2015 THE SYMPHONIES OF INSURGENCY By Sumon Chaudhuri Symphony 2015 09 There is not a soul on God’s green earth that would It instilled in people the sense of urgency to do dare to claim that he has not listened to any form of something for the greater good of the country. Even music. In fact, many of us consider music to be the if one possessed the slightest bit of a nity towards friend who tells us a soothing story when we need it poetry or music, that person could identify himself the most. It understands what we are going through as a citizen of India and envision a future in which without us having to explain it. It is always there, by his countrymen would no longer remain enslaved. our side, like brothers in arms, ready to go to war, Bengal produced ve poets of considerable ability even if that war is something as simple as a maths who could sing and were capable of setting the test. tune to the words they had written. These ve poet- composers were Rabindranath Tagore, Rajanikanta Over the years, music has played a pivotal role in Sen, Dwijendra Lal Roy, Atul Prasad Sen and Kazi igniting, as well as intensifying, the re that burned Nazrul Islam. Political songs were only a small within the revolutionaries who fought for the fraction of their creative output. In these songs, freedom of their motherlands. It gave them the a person’s motherland is given the esteem of courage to visualise a future when they would no divinity and it would be expected that men would longer be oppressed. It helped them resolve their do anything in order to preserve its dignity. When di erences and amalgamate themselves into an we listen to these very songs today, we may nd it unstoppable force. Most importantly, it gave them di cult to comprehend its context.