IIM Ranchi

IIM RANCHI Parable

FEBRUARY 2016

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 4

Farewell has a sweet

sound of reluctance. Goodby is short and final, a word
with teeth sharp to bite
through the string that ties
past to the future.

their life. But it is inevitable, and it leaves you with a

sense of responsibility, a
need to take on the reins
and carry forward the good
work they began.

John Steinbeck

At the same time, you

arent left in the dark to
navigate unchartered territory because you have been
well prepared and groomed
to face whatever may come.

It is difficult when your

friends and mentors leave
to take on new challenges
and start new chapters in

The farewell ceremony for

the 2014 16 batch, Radix
2016, and more in this edition of Parable.

Special points of
interest:
Radix 2016
Farewell Ceremony
Lohri & Moonlight
Serenade

Radix 2016

Inside this issue:

The second edition of Radix, the management conclave of IIM Ranchi was
held on the 20th and 21st of
February, 2016. Radix was
launched with the idea of
incorporating right values
in young minds, imparting
education relevant for a
world that is ever connected, and to encourage
healthy competition and
collaboration. Through the
management conclave, the
students looked forward to
supplement the classroom
learning experience with
necessary industry exposure by interacting with
industry stalwarts, entrepreneurs and academic
gurus.

Radix 2016 saw some big

names who are experts at
what they do. The speakers
were Mr. Awdhesh
Krisha (MD, Global Head
of HR, Wholesale Operations, NOMURA), Mr. Sanjeev Kumar (Deputy General Manager, Corporate
Planning, MECON), Mr.
Sandeep Chatterjee
(Associate Director,
KPMG), Mr. Amit Ranjan
Dasgupta (General Manager, CET, SAIL), Mr. Amit
Choudhary (Senior Vice
President, Corporate Finance, Snapdeal), Mr. Vivek Mehta (Independent
Consultant), Mr. Saran-

deep Singh (Leadership

and Startup Consultant),
and Mr. Meesum Kazmi
(Director, Analytics Advisory, PwC).
Day 1
Day 1 of Radix 2016 started
off with an inaugural
speech by Prof. Gaurav
Marathe. His encouraging
and gracious welcome
speech touched upon some
interesting and less
thought about aspects of
business education such as
a student being exposed to
about 1500 ideas during
the course of business education.

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Farewell Ceremony 3
Lohri & Moonlight 3
Serenade
Editorial

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Radix 2016
He also talked about the 3
barriers to implementing ideas: the barrier to buy in, the
barrier to break in, and the
barrier to build. The speech
was followed with the lighting
of the lamp before the first
speaker took the stage.

years Radix.

The first speaker for the day

was Mr. Awdhesh Krisha, who
said "What matters is not
competence, but character,
not success, but significance".
He concluded saying "the
name Radix is apt, it's about
building strong roots, at the
right time and all the more
important because it's easy to
rise to the top, but difficult to
stay there."

Raghavendra Singh
Mahiyaria, Secretary, Student
Council concluded Day 1 of
Radix with a vote of thanks.

HR Neeti, the first annual HR

magazine by HiRe, the HR
Club of IIM Ranchi, based on
the theme 'Big Data and HR
Analytics' was launched at the
event.
Mr. Sandeep Chaterjee took
the stage next, and talked
about strategy, and emphasized on the importance of
implementation. He also
stressed on why you shouldn't
decouple strategy and execution.
Mr. Amit Ranjan Dasgupta
pointed out that IIM, apart
from Indian Institute of Management, also stands for
'I'deas to 'IM'plementation,
which was the theme of this

The next speaker, Mr. Sanjeev

Kumar, stressed on the importance of carrying out risk
assessment in the journey
'From Ideas to Implementation'.

Day 2
Prof. Rohit Kumar, in his welcome speech, emphasized the
importance of putting students in the center of all activities and mentioned that IIM
Ranchi is a student centric
institute.
Mr. Amit Choudhary, the first
speaker for the day mentioned
"A good idea is 10% the job
done, and hard work and execution is the remaining 90%."
Our next speaker, Mr. Vivek
Mehta, started off by saying
"I ignite business ideas, fertilize, and then incubate
them." He urged students to
never say no to an idea and to
listen to and synthesize every
idea that they come across. He
also mentioned that the quality that breeds success is positive attitude and that even the
smallest idea becomes implementable then. He concluded
by saying Marketing today

has to fulfil the emotional and

rational needs of the consumer from day 1. It is not just
about making noise anymore."
The next speaker,
Mr. Sarandeep Singh, was
absolutely amazing and he got
the conclave brimming with
energy, laughs, and excitement! He got everyone thinking about their strengths and
weaknesses, and requested
everyone to focus on strengths
and to set aside weaknesses!
He also got everyone to discuss their ideas with their idea
-partners and the ideapartners to suggest ways to get
it off the ground and get them
implemented.
Mr. Meesum Kazmi kicked off
the post lunch session by demystifying the journey from
strategy to execution for the
students of IIM Ranchi.
The interactions were followed by a panel discussion on
the theme Baby Steps or Big
Leap. The two days of interactions and exchange of ideas
were not only enlightening,
but also exciting. With the
ideas, and the strategies and
tactics to implement those
ideas recorded safely in the
minds of students, the second
edition of Radix, the management conclave of IIM Ranchi
drew the curtains.

"I know quite

certainly that I
myself have no
special talent;
curiosity,
obsession and
dogged
endurance,
combined with
self-criticism,
have brought
me to my ideas"
Albert
Einstein

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Farewell Ceremony

"As it
somehow
always
manages
before the
winter
The traditional farewell ceremony for the batch of 2014
16 was held at the Ranchi
Gymkhana Club on the 18th of
February, 2016. The already
colourful venue became even
more so, as the students
walked in dressed in their
best, and settled down in
groups around tables. Soon
the discussions, jokes and
laughs brought alive the place
as more and more people
poured in. The junior batch
had some fun events planned,

which started off with a short

video that captured 2014 16
batchs two years at IIM Ranchi.
As the music started, everyone
got to their feet, dancing to the
tunes, and taking occasional
breaks to chat. It was fun
watching students either moving or getting dragged along
from one group to the other
and changing the dance steps
to sync with that of the group.

As the evening wore on, dancing continued, but the thought

started to weigh heavily on
everyone that soon the batch
of 2014 16 would be leaving
the campus and starting off on
a new journey.
At the end of the night, the
junior batch wished the senior
batch the best of luck for their
new lives, hoping that they
would cherish the memories
of their friends and the bonds
built from IIM Ranchi for the

The celebrations kicked off

with the event Moonlight Serenade, in which the students
recited poems around the
warmth of the bonfire. Sharon
recited one of her own compositions, enchanting everyone

present at the gathering.

The DJ, with the selection of
upbeat songs, got the crowd
moving around the roaring
fire. The dance, with students
forming several small circles
around the fire was delightful
to watch with the flames dancing along and the shadows
trying to keep up. Traditional
sweets made of till were distributed and the students con-

never after,
the early
darkness was
cheerful and
promising,
even for
those who

Lohri and Moonlight Serenade

The Cultural Committee and
The Literary Club of IIM Ranchi joined hands to bid farewell to Winter Solstice and
welcome the harvest festival
by celebrating Lohri.

solstice, but

tinued dancing around the

fire, taking occasional breaks
to have more sweets and to
throw peanuts into the fire.

had nothing"

The music, dance and conversations went on till the fire

burned down. All in all, it was
an evening filled with laughs,
dance, and plenty of snacks to
munch on.

Helprin

Mark

IIM Ranchi, Literary Club

mail us: literaryclub@iimranchi.ac.in

IIM Ranchi

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, RANCHI

Indian Institute of Management

Ranchi
Suchana Bhawan,
5th Floor, Audrey House
Campus,
Meurs Road, Ranchi 834 008

The ninth Indian Institute of Management was established at Ranchi in 2010. This was made possible
with the extensive support of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and the Government of Jharkhand, working under the guidance of the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
We started at a time when competition and aggression were prevalent in management education. Understanding the need to incorporate right values in young minds, IIMR was started to incorporate right values
in young minds and impart education for the information age that encourages networking and collaborative
advantage.
IIM Ranchi currently offers a two year PGDM in General management and another two year fulltime
programme in Human Resources Management (PGDHRM), Fellow Program in Management and 18
month part time Diploma in Management (PGEXP).
Our programs are different and we are an institute with a difference.

Letter from the Editor

First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win

leave from this institution, we

wish to remind them of this.
The best of journeys begins with
the softest of admissions. It will
never be a simple, peaceful way,
Oft misattributed to the Father but then, no one ever promised
of our Nation, Mahatma Ganyou that. There is a song by
dhi, the true author of these
Semisonic called Closing
words is unknown. What is un- Time, which says Every new
deniable, however, is the power beginning comes from some
and truth behind these words.
other beginnings end. And this
The paths to greatness are rarely new beginning will take you to
ever paved with sandstone and
shores unknown, destinations
marble, or lined with shady
undreamt of, and thoughts and
trees. It is invariably, a journey. ideas never even imagined beOne that begins as a soft dream, fore.
a whisper that slowly bewitches
Possessing what we still were
the mind, ensnares the senses
unpossessed by,
till one chooses to chase that
dream. It is a journey filled with Possessed by what we now no
more possessed,
questions, doubts and often
outright ridicule. But the prom- Something we were withholding
made us weak,
ise of the fruit, the light at the
end of the tunnel is what makes Until we found out that it was
one choose the road not taken. ourselves,
We were withholding from our
And as the class of IIM Ranchi,
land of living,
2014-16 prepares to take its
And forthwith found salvation

in surrender,
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
Robert Frost
The dream will never be yours
unless you give it to yourself, but
this institution has imparted you
with the tools of knowledge to
now gift yourselves outright the
dream you have chased for
years. We look forward to seeing
you again, and wish you the best
on this journey. As they say,
Hold on tight, its gonna be a
wild ride.

Apoorv Ashutosh
On behalf of
the Literary Club