On a B School website, I certainly won’t talk about castes, neither am I trying to praise Gujaratis for their great Business Sense. Rather, I have just tried to draw an analogy between two great revolutionaries of our country, and both of them incidentally happen to be Gujaratis.

Today after budget everyone from Tea maker to TATA will be doing Budget Analysis from various angles, from various perspectives, so in this article I have taken least effort to do the same. The article is more about middle class definition of budget and its importance.

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“As time goes on without them and days turn into years,

Mr. Shashaank Pathak, PUMBA alumnus from the 1988 batch, visited PUMBA campus on 19th Dec to deliver a guest lecture on retail sector and operations.

Already a known name in the Indian retail industry, Mr Pathak spoke on length explaining very basic to complicated operational intricacies of sales calculations, their targets per week and their preparations for the upcoming festive season. Keeping in mind "the Christmas connection", students gained a deeper insight on how retail scenario can change during such times.

Mr Pathak's insight into the practical aspects of retail and category management impressed one and all. Broad agenda -

May the festival of lights be the harbinger of joy and prosperity. As the holy occasion of Diwali is here and the atmosphere is filled with the spirit of mirth and love, here's hoping this festival of beauty brings your way, bright sparkles of contentment, that stay with you through the days ahead.

Bande Main tha dum (that guy was really something)….Vande Matram….

This is not movie review, neither is it a story of new Munnabhai…But its something which touched, moved and inspired me….its something which I often thought of, but never tried and expressed…

 “Exchanging a rupee leaves us with one rupee each, but exchanging a good thought leaves us with two good thoughts.” This is the philosophy which inspires us to accumulate wisdom under one roof…and that’s our very own…

I am writing this while doing Equity Research on few companies in a highly volatile market. The question which came in my mind is “IS Fundamental Research helping this demand Supply DEMON?”

I am writing this after watching a documentary on natural disaster hit people.... I was touched by grieved eyes of a mother who lost her kid, crying farmer who knows, now his land is no more fertile atleast for next three years, and many children who lost their parents…. The question, which came into my mind, may be cliched, but has logic in it.... “Are natural disasters really natural?”