IIM Ranchi

IIM RANCHI Parable

DECEMBER 2014

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2

Shikshit Bharat, Saksham Bharat Panel Discussion at IIM Ranchi

Special points of
interest:
Shikshit Bharat Saksham
BharatA Panel Discussion
Winter Sports at IIMR
Ad Mad Competition by
Marquess
IIM Ranchi organized
Panel Discussions on the
topic Shikshit Bharat,
Saksham Bharat
Quality Education for
all as a part of the
Shikshit Bharat,
Saksham Bharat initiative taken by the HRD
Ministry through which
the Ministry is inviting
ideas and recommendations from the students
of premier educational
institutions for evolving a
new educational policy.
This was launched on
International Students
Day and will help the
Ministry frame the educational system better in
terms of the quality of
education.
The Panel Discussions
consisted of a good mix
of students from both the
Junior and Senior batches of the PGDM and
PGDHRM programme as
well as the FPM programme students. This
resulted in a diverse and
fruitful discussion covering various aspects of the
Indian education system.
Mr. Santosh Kumar,Mr.
Nitin Ningaiah, Miss
Sumeha Kaushal, Mr.
Parijat Gaur, Miss Pragya

Joshi, Mr. Sayan Kar, Mr.

Kaustav Pal, Mr. Krishna
Chaitanya Behara and
Mr. Nitin Verma were
some of the participants
of the discussion.
All the students brought
in useful and creative
insights into the discussion. Important points
such as stress on quality
education since early
school life, reducing burden and exam pressure
and making studies more
activity-based were suggested. The flaws in the
current system were discussed. They also insisted
on languagedevelopment, personality
building and better prospects for pursuing career in non-engineering
and non-medical fields.
The students went on to
suggest reforms in fields
of medicine, arts and
literature as well as for
education at postgraduate level,. They
discussed at length on
ways to improve education at rural level and
also the need for stress
on sports and arts education and adult education.
The discussion was loaded with facts and figures

to prove the same. Useful

inputs were incorporated
by the moderator, who
assessed the students
overall performance and
gave them individual
reviews at the end of the
discussion.
The entire discussion was
video recorded and a
report of this discussion
was sent to the HRD
ministry, and selected
ideas may be included in
the new educational policy. Among all the students across all educational institutes that contribute in this campaign,
the winner may get a
chance to be a part of the
parliamentary session
when the agenda of Shikshit Bharat is raised in
the House. The best
speakers across India will
get a chance to meet our
HRD minister Mrs. Smriti Irani. IIM Ranchi
hopes to contribute to
National Education policies though the Shikshit
Bharat Saksham Bharat
Panel Discussion.

Intra-College Quiz Competition at IIMR

Christmas Celebrations

Inside this issue:

Panel Discussion

Badminton League

Sab Bikta Hai Contest 3

Optimus by Opropedia

Launch of Finathlon

Christmas at IIMR

Editors Message

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Page 2

Intra-college Badminton League Lights up the Nights at IIMR

The students of IIM Ranchi

have been swarming the newly
constructed badminton court
at its Khelgaon hostel premises. The Sports Committee of
IIM Ranchi took an initiative
to turn the students enthusiasm into a successful event in
the form of a badminton
league.
It was a week-long sports fies-

ta culminated in a finale on
Saturday, December 13th. The
event consisted of games
played across five categories
Mixed Doubles, Mens doubles, Womens doubles, Mens
singles and Womens singles.
Sudeep Godara and Ashita
Dhir clinched the winning title
in Mixed doubles category
while Srikanth Bizza and

Dilleswar Rao teamed up to

win mens doubles and it was
Ankita Singh and Akanksha
Gupta who formed the winning team in womens doubles. Srikanth Bizza and Shri
Sabari Kp won the mens and
womens singles events respectively. All the winners
were awarded with cash prizes
and certificates.
The students displayed great
interest and zeal throughout
the tournament. Not only the
players, but others also took
time out from their busy
schedules to cheer for the
players and have a muchneeded recreation. The Sports
Committee of IIM Ranchi
thanked all the participants
and the audience for making
the event a grand success. It
promised on organizing many
such exciting events in near
future.

A trophy
carries dust.
Memories last
forever.
Mary Lou
Retton

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Page 3

Marquess Organizes Advertising Competition

You see things;

and you say,
Why? But I
dream things
that never were;
and I say, Why
not?
George
Bernard Shaw

Marquess, The Marketing

Club of IIM Ranchi organized
Sab Bikta Hai an innovative
competition to liven up life at
IIM Ranchi. The competition
tested the marketing skills of
IIM Ranchi students by forcing them to think out of the
box. Sab Bikta Hai was organized as an Ad Mad competition where the participants
were given products for which
they had to create and enact a
1 minute advertisement. The
products given were amusing
and almost impossible to sell.
The IIM Ranchi students used
their creativity and intelligence to make these strange
and unique products attractive
to consumers. They enacted
skits, composed jingles, created taglines and left the audience spellbound with their
incredible antics, all in under 1
minute. The advertisements
were so entertaining and
memorable that KFCs Vaishno (Vegetarian) Dhaba

seemed like a perfectly natural

place to visit for a meal.
Many teams competed for the
grand prize. But only one
team took home the winning
title. Team Nirmal Baba
consisting of Chakshu Kalra,
Parijat Gaur and Guneet Kaur
won the competition for their
outstanding performance.
Their conceptualization of the
advertisement was interesting
and unique. They used contemporary characters and
symbolism to catch and hold
the audiences attention. They

also employed tag lines and

entertaining story plots to add
a colour to their commercial.
But most importantly, their
advertisement spoke about the
product and its utility and
created a unique impression
in the minds of the target consumer. Thus IIM Ranchi continues to nurture a culture of
innovative participative learning that takes us beyond the
class room and into the heart
of real life applications.

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Sankriya Hosts Optimus at IIM Ranchi:

IIM Ranchis Operations Club
organized an intra college quiz
competition. The online quiz
contest consisted of questions
from different aspects of Operations Management. It also
tested the participants general awareness about current
happenings in the field of Operations Management. Many
teams competed for the grand
prize but few could make the
cut. The Joint winners were
team Mini Cynosure consisting of Namita Kapaley and
Oindrila and team
Simplifiers consisting of
Ankita Singh, Apoorva Reddy
and Inu Kumari. The Joint 3rd
position was obtained by team

The Rational
Indians consisting of Kaustav
Pal, Avnit Pal
Singh and Sayan
Kar and team
Silent Assassins
consisting of
Sriharsha
Baliboyana,
Rohit reddy
Masupatri,
Lukalapu Raja
Sekhar.

The secret of
joy in work is
contained in one
word excellence. To
know how to do
something well
is to enjoy it.

Finance Club Launches Finathlon at IIM Ranchi:

This month, the Finance Club
of IIM Ranchi launched
Finathlon, a series of intra
college financial competitions
that aims to identify the true
Finance Gurus of IIM Ranchi.
The competition will involve
multiple events and a cumula-

tive point scoring system at

the end of which the Finance
enthusiasts with maximum
number of points will be declared the Fin Gurus of the
batch. Finesse, the first
event of the series was an
online quiz competition which

saw huge participation from

the student body. The quiz
tested the participants on
their knowledge of economics,
financial markets, stock markets and latest developments
in the business world. Ultimately, Mohammed Ismail,
Azfer Sajjad and Avinash Das
from team Jo Jeeta Wohi
Sikandar aptly won the competition. Team Cabbage to
Baggage consisting of
Maruthappan S and Behara
Krishna Chaitanya and team
Silent Assassins consisting
of Sroharsha Baliboyana, Rohit Masupatri and Lukalapu
Raja Sekhar came jointly in
second place. The Finance
Club of IIM Ranchi hopes to
keep the batch engaged with
further events of Finathlon.

Pearl S. Buck

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Christmas Celebrations at IIM Ranchi

For last year's

words belong to
last year's
language
And next year's
words await
another voice.
And to make an
end is to make a
beginning.
T. S. Eliot

IIM Ranchi students celebrated Christmas with lots of

pomp and grandeur. They
truly demonstrated that what
makes Christmas special is the
fact that it was never about
faith or religion in the first
place. Christmas has always
been about celebrating the
spirit of togetherness and the
upcoming holiday season with
family and friends. The second
year students at IIM
Ranchi showed
great Christmas
spirit and fervour
this time around.
The common room
of IIM Ranchi was
magnificently decorated to celebrate
the festival; the centre piece was the
Christmas tree shining in all its glory;
the room was lit
with bright and colourful lights.
The week of Christmas celebrations at
IIM Ranchi saw
students carolling
their hearts out. A
week before Christmas, the senior students got together

and went from block to block,

every night, singing Christmas
carols and encouraging all and
sundry to come together and
be a part of the nightly carolling. It was a different destination for Santa and his companions, every night. Their
presence spread euphoria in
each block of the Hostel premises as students got out of
their rooms when Santa came
to greet them along with his

companions. It was great to

see one of the most cheerful
seniors around, in Santas
avatar. With Santa in the
block, students cheerfully sang
carols together in chorus at
top of their voices, every night.
The Christmas celebrations
culminated in an all studentfraternity gathering in the
common room for High Tea.
Students sang carols with
great gusto and enjoyed their
mouth-watering share of
Christmas cake with some
simmering hot coffee. It was a
welcome break from the
drudgery of regular academic
activity. All credits for such a
wonderful event goes to the
great festive spirit shown by
the seniors who collaborated
together to organize the celebrations. IIM Ranchi closed
the year with a tender heart
and warm spirit.

IIM Ranchi, Media and Public Relations Cell

mail us: mediaprcell_studentcouncil@iimranchi.ac.in

IIM Ranchi, Literary Club

mail us: literarycommittee@iimranchi.ac.in

IIM Ranchi

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, RANCHI

Indian Institute of Management

Ranchi
Suchana Bhawan,
5th Floor, Audrey House
Campus,
Meurs Road, Ranchi 834 008

The ninth Indian Institute of Management was established at Ranchi in 2010. This was made possible
with the extensive support of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and the Government of Jharkhand, working under the guidance of Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
We started at a time when competition and aggression was prevalent in management education. Understanding the need to incorporate right values in young minds, IIMR was started to incorporate right values in
young minds and impart education for the information age that encourages networking and collaborative
advantage.
IIM Ranchi currently offers a two year PGDM in General management and another two year fulltime
programme on Human Resources Management (PGDHRM), Fellow Program in Management and 18
month part time Diploma in Management (PGEXP). We have also launched a certified Barefoot Manger
program to promote entrepreneurship and to impart livelihood skills among the school drop outs and illiterates.

Letter from the Editor

I hope that in this year to
come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new
things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself,
changing yourself, changing
your world. You're doing things
you've never done before, and
more importantly, you're Doing
Something.
So that's my wish for you, and
all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make
glorious, amazing mistakes.
Make mistakes nobody's ever
made before. Don't freeze, don't
stop, don't worry that it isn't
good enough, or it isn't perfect,
whatever it is: art, or love, or
work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of
doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Neil Gaiman
January is usually a favorite month
for us as we have the luxury of a
whole new year stretching out
before us. It is that time of the year
when we all take the usual clichd

resolutions. Exercise every day of

the year, save a lot of money or
read at least one book every
monthto name a few. Lets try
something different this year, shall
we?
Lets all promise to make mistakes!
The only thing that holds us back
from doing things we want to do is
the nagging fear of doing it wrong
and making an embarrassment of
ourselves. So this year, lets all vow
to make mistakes everyday so that
we get the courage to fail many
times. Let us dare ourselves to
reach higher peaks, create something exotic, widen our horizons to
unchartered waters and live life to
the fullest knowing that we are
doing things we have never done
before. Let us set our sights so high
that even failure will have in it an
echo of glory.
Even Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO
of Facebook, admitted that the
secret of his success is in making a
lot of mistakes. In a recent town
hall meeting at the companys
headquarters in Menlo Park, Mr.
Zuckerberg said that successful
people not only learn from their
mistakes but spend most of their
time making mistakes.If youre

successful, most of the things youve done

were wrong, he said. What ends up
mattering is the stuff you get right. If you
get a few big things right, you can make
some pretty important changes in the
world.
So, lets make a promise to have a
big list of mistakes by the time
2015 runs its course and continue
doing the same knowing that we
are, more often not, just one mistake away from achieving something really special!
- Adarsh K A M
On Behalf of
Literary Club
IIM Ranchi