Jul 09
Today was the busiest day of the week . It was a laid back week that we saw. We also had our monthly work anniversary on the 8th of this month. It seems unbelievable that we have already finished a month on the course. It only seems like yesterday that we had arrived at hyderabad to attend a business management course at Administrative Staff College of India. A month back Prof Bagchi and Prof Mahadik came and told us that in order to keep track of our classes we should start a blog about our doings in ASCI. This -let me assure you proved to be a boon in disguise - to give vent to our creative abilities to express ourselves over a medium where we were allowed to write all the occurances in the College.
I remember , when in 1987 one of my cousins from alembic came to do a course in management and had invited me to to visit him. The ambience of ASCI has not dimmed since then. It was ambient now as it was in 1987. I happened to meet a lot of people at that time who were serious and dedicated to learning about various things. Little did I realise that I would myself doing a course here in the future.In '87 we were callow youngsters who had little thought about the future. I met so many people that I forgot who they were as soon as the introduction was over. Now in the fag end of our service to the Nation in uniform we were back here as students. Life has gone a full circle. While the instructors were more relaxed now, the teaching has not changed much. Newer research and better techniques presented a more polished method of teaching- in short marketing , economics finance and organisational behaviour were further evolved and were better understood now than in 1987. All for the better. Another thing which struck me was that there were definitely more lady instructors now than in 1987. I can vouch for this because a case in example was our own class where we had Professors Paramita Dasgupta , Shahaida ,Mubeen Rafat, Sutanuka Dev Roy, Malini, Dimple Grover Ashita Allamraju, Subhashini, Padmashree and a whole lot of others. Of course Professors Chandra Sekhar Vishwanatham and others also equally contributed to our learning. Visiting CEOs also contributed to our understanding the need to mutate into the civillian garb. Though Dr Ramu the PRO did not provide us insights into handling the press so far, his presence across the corridor toiling away at the next bellavistan magazine constantly kept him on our radar.
We , a bunch of strangers before 8th jun , became a close knit group of services officers, sharing our experiences in our disparate fields. Some of us also contributed to the blog in a constructive fashion and all contributions were avidly read by the students and the staff alike. If I were to classify my coursemates I would say that they are a bunch of serious and happy go lucky lot at the same time.
Incidentally the blog in the past month has quickly gained repute and has - I am happy to say - Crossed the 1000 (1015) mark in readership with readers from across the world. A lot of officers on the threshold of retirement have instituted enquiries as to what this course was all about. Congratulations to all the participants in making this endeavour a success .
I am sure that we will continue to scintillate the readers with brilliant insights in future.
Today we were into economics and organisation behaviour where we learnt about Man watching ( Remember Desmond Morris?) And if anyone did see our body language today the first thought that would come to their mind would be that here is a bunch of people who are upbeat about every thing!
Today was the busiest day of the week . It was a laid back week that we saw. We also had our monthly work anniversary on the 8th of this month. It seems unbelievable that we have already finished a month on the course. It only seems like yesterday that we had arrived at hyderabad to attend a business management course at Administrative Staff College of India. A month back Prof Bagchi and Prof Mahadik came and told us that in order to keep track of our classes we should start a blog about our doings in ASCI. This -let me assure you proved to be a boon in disguise - to give vent to our creative abilities to express ourselves over a medium where we were allowed to write all the occurances in the College.
I remember , when in 1987 one of my cousins from alembic came to do a course in management and had invited me to to visit him. The ambience of ASCI has not dimmed since then. It was ambient now as it was in 1987. I happened to meet a lot of people at that time who were serious and dedicated to learning about various things. Little did I realise that I would myself doing a course here in the future.In '87 we were callow youngsters who had little thought about the future. I met so many people that I forgot who they were as soon as the introduction was over. Now in the fag end of our service to the Nation in uniform we were back here as students. Life has gone a full circle. While the instructors were more relaxed now, the teaching has not changed much. Newer research and better techniques presented a more polished method of teaching- in short marketing , economics finance and organisational behaviour were further evolved and were better understood now than in 1987. All for the better. Another thing which struck me was that there were definitely more lady instructors now than in 1987. I can vouch for this because a case in example was our own class where we had Professors Paramita Dasgupta , Shahaida ,Mubeen Rafat, Sutanuka Dev Roy, Malini, Dimple Grover Ashita Allamraju, Subhashini, Padmashree and a whole lot of others. Of course Professors Chandra Sekhar Vishwanatham and others also equally contributed to our learning. Visiting CEOs also contributed to our understanding the need to mutate into the civillian garb. Though Dr Ramu the PRO did not provide us insights into handling the press so far, his presence across the corridor toiling away at the next bellavistan magazine constantly kept him on our radar.
We , a bunch of strangers before 8th jun , became a close knit group of services officers, sharing our experiences in our disparate fields. Some of us also contributed to the blog in a constructive fashion and all contributions were avidly read by the students and the staff alike. If I were to classify my coursemates I would say that they are a bunch of serious and happy go lucky lot at the same time.
Incidentally the blog in the past month has quickly gained repute and has - I am happy to say - Crossed the 1000 (1015) mark in readership with readers from across the world. A lot of officers on the threshold of retirement have instituted enquiries as to what this course was all about. Congratulations to all the participants in making this endeavour a success .
I am sure that we will continue to scintillate the readers with brilliant insights in future.
Today we were into economics and organisation behaviour where we learnt about Man watching ( Remember Desmond Morris?) And if anyone did see our body language today the first thought that would come to their mind would be that here is a bunch of people who are upbeat about every thing!
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