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OUTLOOK-DRSHTI SURVEY

C-Section Of The A-List Of B-Schools

Economic uncertainty reflects in business school environs. The top tier endures, shakeout in bottom rungs.

Oct 07, 2013

| Arindam Mukherjee Sunit Arora
- Suit Up To B-Town
the mba

Degree Of Decline

With job placements no more a guarantee, the MBA’s lure dims

Oct 07, 2013

| Lola Nayar
essay

Inner Most Allies

Alumni cults have been there as long as there have been alumni. It’s a members only club, and it looks out for its own.

Oct 07, 2013

| Sandipan Deb
Opinion

Our Key Collaborations

Some connections are much closer than others. This is one such.

Oct 07, 2013

| Shashi Tharoor
WORKING THE NETWORK

The Matrix Advantage

The degrees of separation shrink, the parlaying of contacts expands

Oct 07, 2013

| Pragya Singh
- You Are Where You’ve Been
interview

‘In US, No One’s Untouchable. Neither Was Rajat Gupta.’

The author of The Billionaire’s Apprentice on the subject of her book and more

Oct 07, 2013

| Sunit Arora
at home abroad

R’mber The Backseat Guy?

There’s no community like the one provided by your extended alumni in a foreign land

Oct 07, 2013

| Ashish Kumar Sen
arts faculty, jadavpur university

The Lobbying Artists

Flowerpots from a dishevelled lawn, all set out in an exalted row

Oct 07, 2013

| Arunava Sinha
hbs alumni

Harvard March

We cadets at the ‘West Point of Capitalism’ forged ties that endure

Oct 07, 2013

| Subrata N. Chakravarty
- The Boston Brahmins Of Business
The outsiders

The Desi Avatars

Slowly but surely, the heartland alumni clubs are also getting there

Oct 07, 2013

| Uttam Sengupta
once at stephen’s

Not Only About Saints

When we were callow young Stephanians during the Emergency

Oct 07, 2013

| Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Dalit network

Just Say The Word

This apolitical Dalit front had to swim against all kinds of politics

Oct 07, 2013

| Anuradha Raman
US ALUMNI

Wharton And All

In America, using alumni connections is never considered a sin

Oct 07, 2013

| M.V. Rajeev Gowda
French ties

A Chanson For Our Anciens

French institutions are growing in influence in India through their alumni networks

Oct 07, 2013

| Debarshi Dasgupta
talks & reads

B Drive

So much of inspiration is what you hear or what you read. Young B-schoolers need look no further than this Outlook list.

Oct 07, 2013

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interview

‘Each Of Us Is A Unique Brand; That’s LinkedIn’

The site has been adding almost a million users every month just in India, says its country manager

Oct 07, 2013

| Pragya Singh
south point

Point Is In Numbers

An alumni event of Calcutta’s mighty South Point is a crush of thousands

Oct 07, 2013

| Shovon Chowdhury

Controversy: V.K. Singh

Loosening His Cannon

The former army chief seems to find ways of keeping himself busy and simmering

Oct 07, 2013

| Uttam Sengupta
- ‘TSD Is About Human Intelligence’
- Date Of Rebirth?
Politics: AP

Come, Dither

Jagan’s release shakes up political scenery

Oct 07, 2013

| Madhavi Tata

Opinion

A Spreading Smear

Al Shabaab has bloody hands, but its attack brought Kenya together

Oct 07, 2013

| Rasna Warah

Mind your body

With Cashew, Coconut, Copper

Really, there is no reason for any cholesterol scare

Oct 07, 2013

| Rujuta Diwekar

Controversy: film

Where Is The Road?

India’s Oscar entry film again in a soup

Oct 07, 2013

| Namrata Joshi

10 Questions

Prashant Panjiar

The photographer and creative director of the Delhi Photo Festival on why he wants a city carnival where photography transcends genre

Oct 07, 2013

| Priyadarshini Sen
Last Page

Delhi Diary

Can a communal riot have a silver lining? Or is the idea absurd?

Oct 07, 2013

| Vinod Mehta
Review

Brothers In Calcutta ’71

Jhumpa Lahiri balances two worlds—the US and a Calcutta torn by Naxalism—in a tale of the political and the personal

Oct 07, 2013

| Anjana Basu
Review

Mount Road Montage

An affectionate biography of the city now known as Chennai that the author likes to call Madras

Oct 07, 2013

| Geeta Doctor
Review

In Mandodari’s Boudoir

Nudging the reader out of habit and complacency, the author constantly tests the barriers of the possible and probable.

Oct 07, 2013

| Namita Gokhale
The Secret Diary of a

Censor Board Member

I angry. Why not? How can Leelaji Samson say 90% board members “uneducated” and “embarrassment”?

Oct 07, 2013

| V. Gangadhar
Movie Review

Prisoners

Just the right thriller, one that grips you by the collar, takes and keeps you to the edge of the seat till the end

Oct 07, 2013

| Namrata Joshi
Movie Review

Local Kung Fu (Assamese)

Just another home video? Nah, it opens up an entirely new, young window to the Northeast

Oct 07, 2013

| Namrata Joshi
Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news