From Bombay

Came to Bombay today morning. Had a wonderful journey. Managed to utilize most of the time by doing masala, sleep and dinner. It was my first time in AC class of trains. Had good fun exploiting the facilities. Somehow managed to lug my baggage out of central station in the morning. Damn, it sure is […]

1/2 and how?

Just 20 hours ago i have completed one year at this wonderful place. It feels good and damn it, it feels fast. I am leaving the campus in another 3 hours. Packing madhu. Will be missing the 24 hour internet and night canteens and all the fun for 2 months. But again, summers should be […]

LWD, 360, 4Ps, 5Ms, 3Cs and other not-so boring stuff…

Dont be scared by the title of the post. It was meant to be like that. So lets get it started 🙂 LWD: Ah, the sweet sound of LWD – the Last Working Day. The first year classes are over yesterday. We had a really wonderful MHR class to close the year. The prof is […]

Who has the bigger one? You or me?

Welcome to the bad bad world of marketing surveys and questionnaires. We have a marketing project due in the next couple of days and all of us need to do a customer survey as part of the project. The aim is to suggest marketing strategies for MNCs and multi crore Indian companies based on a […]

Freebees… No please!

I went to a near by villagesque town called Rau today for some retailer survey. The survey is about a major cough/cold relief product and how their distribution network functions. So there I was along with Anoop trying to interview a medical shop owner on the SKUs, commisions etc. etc. I was attracted by a […]

Presented Propaganda and Other Stories

One after another, they all came just after us. When Anoop (my groupmate) told me to wear formals to the class since we have a presentation to make, little did I imagined what the situation would be. After first two presentations it became clear that staying awake throughout 19 presentations each of them lasting for […]

My Hindi Sucks

Travails of being a southie doesn’t start with a long name or end with an engineering degree. Till I came here my only worry is my long and historical sounding name. Ok, Lets talk about the name first. My name is (provided you dont disclose this valuable information to others), Duggirala Raja Raja Surya Chandra […]