Whats happening

A tumultuous week and a half it has been, since the term break started. India barely escaped with a draw in the first test. Dr.Hanif's case reached a crescendo but finally he has been released and is flying back home. The Tatas are leading in the race to buy Jaguar. Danone and Wipro are trying to buy Bisleri. The sensex is experiencing major corrections. Prathiba Patil has been elected to become India's next president. Looks like Najma Heptulla will make it two women at the top and the Harry Potter series had yet another round of success with both the book and movie doing really well so far.
And things have not remained so far behind at ISB. Two leadership development sessions, one on people skills and another on presentation skills happened and Term-3 kicked off last Monday with loads of pre-reads and an assignment to complete before the day-break on day 1 of the term. Prof. Bhagwan Chowdhry from UCLA is teaching Corporate Finance for us and his classes are really awesome. Prof. Atul Nerkar teaches the Entrepreneurship course and has really charmed the whole batch. The very first class included a case analysis of a worldwide private equity venture and our section debated the case in and out with Atul. When we had 15 minutes left finally, Atul introduces Jay Dehejia, one of the partners in the venture and one who we read about in the case. The whole class roared into a thunderous applause and we were all spellbound to see a person from the case come up and talk to us. Even though most of term-2 results are out and assignments & AIKYA(A hyderbadi family is adopting my study group) beckon ISB students this weekend, we didn't forget to party. I'm just back after the 'Pirates' party and it was sheer fun. The enthusiasm was electric and the booze was really free flowing.