Mohan Veena

Its just not about music. Its just not about how some people do music so well. Its about everything related to an evening where you are mesmerized enough to start thinking about the highs and the lows. Of music notes predominantly. The Mohan Veena and the accompanying tabla do wonders. The Alaap and the Jugal bandi. The composition that won the Grammy. And then you start smiling, in a somewhat weird manner but may be at the most appropriate time.

Initially you wait. You wait for the music to reach the peaks and the troughs. You wait for the appropriate time to applaud. But after some time, the applause loses meaning. Cause by then, a state called trance overwhelms everything, everybody. Thats when perhaps even the credentials of the artist - Padma Shri, Grammy Award and much more - don't matter.

Thats all that could be told about Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt's concert at IIMK today.

Well done Spic Macay@K!

Photo Credit: Nilangsu (Class of 2008)

H '07!!

Horizons, the Annual Management Conclave of IIMK is here.

well.. its here -
http://horizons.iimk.ac.in

Hosting the Director of Fabindia, who has presented the success story at HBS and the CEOs/Partners/Directors of some of the reputed global and national organizations, Horizons 2007 hopes to cover a wide range of management paradigms (excuse me for that word, please!, had to use it).

IT policy Workshop

Attended a workshop on the Draft IT policy of the Government of Kerala as a part of a delegation from IIMK. The policy measures looked sound enough to start with, and the panel discussions on IT's role in society, governance and industry further improved on them. I was a part of the panel discussion on E-Governance measures and was amazed to see the awareness levels of the officers of the state government particularly with respect to the needs of integration of various software apps across departments and the challenges for FOSS.

Another thing, The Draft IT policy does talk a lot about promoting open-source, even to the extent of visualizing Kerala to be the future hub of FOSS in the country!

Environmental concerns and solutions

The founding fathers of IIM Kozhikode's now famous campus were definitely visionaries. How else can you explain an educational institution that is built on top of two hills and possesses a magnificent rainwater harvesting system. The system is such that the catchment area at the foothills collects almost all the rainwater that falls on the campus through an efficient drainage system and some traditional and efficient construction practices.

I am almost 8 months into the programme here and had caught only a glimpse the system I just told about, until I read this:

IIM Kozhikode runs on rainwater