Digital Divide Decoded @ IIT Kharagpur - A Movie

#this video is created as a solution for movie assignment for IT & Business Applications Lab, Spring Semester, VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur Class of 2014

 

Few video links of assignments of batchmates in which I appear are as follows:
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2. http://bit.ly/140He0i
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4. http://bit.ly/17k0k0f

All about "Purvodaya 2012": Annual business conclave of VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur

When you realize what obstacles really are, you soon realize that you are already empowered enough to get to your dreams, you just have to have an enormous amount of will power. People who make things happen, people who actually make their dreams a reality aren't any better than you, and they just learned how to turn the thoughts and hopes they had into a reality.

It all began with a dream, a vision, which few of the brave hearts of VGSoM had for their college. Days of sweat and storm, opposition from a lot of others still couldn’t undermine their souls and thus was born PURVODAYA. The annual management festival of VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur was incepted this year in November but the seeds of the brilliant idea of having a single business conclave combining the best of “Madison Avenue” and “Saamanjasya” the previous events of VGSoM, were sown much before.

Purvodaya meaning the rise of the East, added another feather in VGSoM’s cap, as the motto of Purvodaya goes Believe, Rise, Achieve. We truly believed, we rose to the occasion and yes we achieved, achievement which goes beyond tangible things but which has lot to do in contributing towards building VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur’s brand as a force to reckon with in the years to come.

Purvodaya comprised of the traditional “Kalaakar Vikas” of VGSoM which had artisans coming from neighboring states to portray their works combined with plethora of events in almost all management domains be it marketing, finance, operations, consulting or entrepreneurship.

Purvodaya began on 2^nd November 2012 with a glistening opening ceremony which had attractions like performance of the Western technology music society. The Director of IIT Kharagpur inaugurated the 2 day affair. After that there was a fun event called Fission for the students in which teams had to multiply Rs.100 to as much as they can in a short span of one hour. The coming two days were packed with events which contributed to the learning and development of not just the participants or organizers but also any person who was even remotely associated with the scheme of things.

In the marketing domain events like Leader’s Challenge which focused on diversification strategy of a product, Beddazled effective use of social media for marketing, Quizzard and Support my school ruled the roost. In finance private equity events Lucri Causa, M&A strategy Synergie and Trading events in form of Bull’s eye were there. Other events Srijan – the B-Plan contest, Goldratts’ cage- operations strategy, Vishleshan-IT Strategy, Ghaasphoos – taking grassroot innovations to a newer level, Shaastharth – Parliamentry debating events were hugely popular. We also had plethora of online events like Wired – promoting a social cause, Shutterbugs – photography contest etc.

In addition to the events there were workshops Anugraha-The entrepreneurship talk, Kaaryashaala– The consulting wokshop and Abhisamaya-The Scope talk.

Purvodaya saw participation from renowned B-Schools of the country like IIMs, IITs, IMT, XIMB and the rest, it was a huge success and reinstated VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur’s image as a leading B-School of the country. Apart from the students, faculties and other people involved in the event a big role for the success of Purvodaya was of the sponsors without whom it could never have reached the scale it did, some of our generous sponsors included State Bank of India, SIDBI, Ministry of Textiles, Tata Steel, Steris, Coca Cola NDTV support my school, Perkins, Rang De, CoolAge, FLIP, The Financial Express and Spykar.

Purvodaya provide the ideal training ground for young managers and future business owners to sharpen their knives, hone their skills and test their wits against their peers before heading out for the actual battle. Apart from the high-intensity clash for supremacy, Purvodaya featured wisdom talks and panel discussions featuring the best from the world of business, eminent academicians and bureaucrats.

The virgin rays of Purvodaya will shine over the eastern skies for times to come and will return next year much bigger and better.

The curious case of BLASTS

The largest and the most populated city in India, 6th most populous city in the world, financial capital of India, home to the rich Industrialists the Tatas, the Birlas and the Ambanis and the factory to the largest film industry in the world stood still once again on 13th July 2011 when it faced its 16th terrorist attack in 18 years.

I was at the famous Bandra Bandstand which is the place where King Khan lives and the The Taj Lands’ End(not to be confused with the TajMahal hotel) is situated. The Irony was such being a curious traveller myself I was clicking pictures of almost every interesting thing that came my way, so I clicked the picture of The Taj when I was summoned by one of the cop sitting there, my heart came in my mouth and almost instantly my mind wandered at all the possibilities that could occur.

1.He would snatch my phone and smash it.
2.He would take me with him to the police station.
3.He would give me a third degree.

Gathering courage, I went to him and almost instantly said “Sorry”, but to my surprise in the politest tone possible he just asked me to delete that picture which I had taken and said that no one is allowed to click pictures of hotels after 26/11 incident when the Tajmahal and the Oberoi were attacked. I deleted the picture in front of him and said sorry once again. The time was around 6.30 P.M and ironically at 6.53 P.M the city faced its first major attack after 26/11. I still wonder that, the cop who called me must have also thought about this incident later that day as much as I did, thinking that he let the major catch of his day to go away even without a proper scolding.

Such is the case that blasts now occur in the dream city as though they have been written in its veins, 16 major terrorist attacks since the 1993 Bombay Blasts stand as a testimony to the same. The government keep changing with false promise of peace each time but blasts keep happening not only in Mumbai but also in other parts of the nation.

The terrorist achieve their aim of disturbing the law and order and claiming lives while the only sufferer is the common poor man who has to travel in the city to earn his livelihood. The home minister completes his duty by giving a speech expressing his inability to control the attacks and ministers paying visits to hospitals to show their solidarity and also increase their vote banks.

Few, organizations like NIA, NSG, CBI, CID etc are deployed to probe these which often results in no result and files of these blasts are closed, people forget about the blast when a new one occurs and the vicious cycle goes on endlessly, the only ones remembering these days are the families of the ones killed in blast who have to face the sorrow all over again on the death anniversaries of their near and dear ones.
Had India learnt something from USA which did not gave up after the Manhattan skyline was ripped of its two most spectacular skyscrapers, America raged a war against not just Osama Bin Laden and Taliban but also against the whole terrorist community, had Indian government shown such resentment after 26/11 happened and not made people like Kasab and Afzal its guest feeding on the taxes of those whose relatives they killed, India would have been free of its problem of terrorism by now and Indian people would have walked on the roads oblivion to the fear that the next step could be their last.