Victorious at home turf

Have been extremely busy for the past one week thanks to Confluence - IIM A's annual B school meet .The speeches by Chandrababu Naidu and Anil Ambani, and Santosh Desai's ad workshop were nice. Missed out on the Vijay Mallya and K Birla's speeches, and the Arun Shourie panel discussion.

Finished 3rd in the "management beyond the obvious" game and won Biquizitive - the quiz conducted by Harsha Bhogle - teaming up with D. and A. It felt really special winning a quiz in campus , especially after last year's debacle when we finished third.
Initially I was very tense as we were sandwiched between 2 of our strongest competitors. Also,I get really psyched out about quizzes which have half marks for pass questions. We trudged along till the halfway mark, trailing the other home team by 10 points and well behind the ISB team who had a lead of 25 points over us.But the second half was good and we comfortably romped home with a lead of 25 points over the 2nd placed team. And it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Many thanks ( from the bottom of my heart ! ) to Joy Bhattacharya for setting questions which weren't too "biz-quiz-like". There was a generous dose of questions on pop culture - movies, a whole round devoted to music , cartoons , media etc -- topics which , sadly, you don't see in biz quizzes. To give an example, there is this standard round in all Harsha quizzes where you have to select the six things from a grid of nine which are part of a certain group. Though some topics were predicable, like Ford car models and P&G brands, there were other really interesting ones like F*R*I*E*N*DS guest appearances and TIME 'man of the year' awardees - our topic. I was slightly disappointed that we managed to get only 4 of the 6 awardees given that this is something I have been reading up on for quite some time. But hey, being prudent paid off in the end.
Overall it was damn good fun to take part in an interesting bizquiz (an oxymoron, if ever there was one!).

Am going to Rishikesh in my term break and then to a resort in Zainabad in the Rann of Kutch for ERI - Explorations in Role and Identity - an academic course i have enrolled for.