Episode # 27: B School Rankings. A Farce? Of Course!!!

Monday, 13 November 2006 01:27

CUT TO - A Beautiful Mind. Scene - one Setting: An Ivy league School freshers batch being addressed by the Dean. "In medicine or economics, in technology or in space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph we need results, publishable applicable results. Now who among you will be the next Morse, the next Einstein ? Who amoung you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom and discovery ? Today we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton gentlemen." Now, that's a beautiful rant, ain't it? It is well worth it if the school lives up to the braggadocio! An MBA is the "in thing" in India among the "eager minds of tomorrow". We are not complaining. We hold that degree too. What we are against is the unprofessional methods of conditioning these eager minds to pick one B School from the other by publishing half baked survey reports based on perceptions and sheer lack of homework. Tell us what you think. Also, we are waiting for Joe Palos, the winner of the Indicast t-shirt to post us his pic so we could put it up on our site! Episode Notes:

JAM carries a beautiful article on 'The trouble with B school rankings.'
Indicast's Believe it or Not - Arindam Choudhry caught in the "act" AGAIN!!!
Sachin Tendulkar can never be a 16 year old again. So, http://cricket.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1779042.cmsand join the team, Sach!!!!
A comment on Sachin which we thought was worth a mention!
Three weeks post the bomb blasts and the Police and the intelligence are still clueless.

Yours Internetally, Abhishek P.S : Intro & concluding music provided by Alms for Shanti Listen Online (64 kbps) :/Episode length : 18 mins

Downloading episode :64kbps (size ~9 Mb), Note: Right-click on the above MP3 link and chose "Save target as" to download the file on your computer. You can also subscribe to Indicast using these channels (its free) to get automatic updates:

Comments

0 #1 Shashi 2006-12-30 01:33

You guys really need to rehearse :-) ??at least sort out the topics on which you are gonna talk??I like to listen to some light conversations but not too light??..This episode was not up to my expectations (but I enjoyed it!!!!!:-)

Quote

0 #2 Lavanya 2006-12-30 01:33

hiiii. well you guys were definitely ???stupid and silly??? in this podcast. it???s not a bad thing, i mean, you got into your groove somewhere in the middle of the episode. not that you???re not still one of my favourite podcasters around.

Quote

0 #3 Abhishek 2006-12-30 01:33

Shashi and Lavanya: Thanks for letting us know what you felt!!! Yeah, the mood was a bit light, but as u said, we don???t want to be feather light! We did research a bit, but, may have tackled the issue in a jovial manner coz the topic of B School rankings here in India is a boring one. Every second mag. comes out with it and the B Schools advertise the same in their prospectus!

Indicast episode # 28 coming soon. Stay tuned.

Quote

0 #4 Anandita 2006-12-30 01:34

u guys were really silly but it was fun to listen to u???ll anyways.. u said u would cover a NGO in ever episode of urs.i hear of none off late pls correct me if i m wrong.

Quote

0 #5 Sonal 2006-12-30 01:34

hi
this is the first episode i heard of you guys, i kind of prefer the casul and light mood of the show cause people can realate to it, it similar to many radio programs here in uk. very different to the taditional approch of the reglar indian programs, i think you guys are doin a good job ??. but have to say b scool ranking a boring topic not at all fun?? i am trying to download therevious eisodes that might be more intresting but cant dont have a clue why not i am using i tunes .. any clue u guys???

Quote

0 #6 Abhishek 2006-12-30 01:34

Anandita: Yeah, we have the NGO topic in mind. Blame it on our time management skills. More often than not, we consume all our time talking about issues over the week and since we do not have a script in hand, we argue and reason with each other and lose track of time. But, we have that in mind.

Sonal: I hope Aditya has solved your problem by now! And he tells me that you are working on the Indicast T Shirt! Good Luck!

Quote

Refresh comments list
RSS feed for comments to this post.