I envisage our minds as flint stones which have the capability to kindle a fire when ignited. They say that a good education adds on to this fire. The flame then glimmers in the mind and stays with ones core forever…However, I am not sure…am yet to experience it!
The intent of this write up is not to promote anything. This is a candid forthright attempt to paint a myriad picture at Flame.
If you fall into the addiction of seeing the glass half full, then you are sure to be positive about learning at Flame. If you are the kind of person who loves to taste an innovative cuisine at the inauguration of a new restaurant and then weighing it in your mind machine to appreciate and criticize it on different parameters to then tell your friends and relatives about it, Flame is for you. It’s an experience that you may be reluctant to dive in, but it will sure be something to cherish about once you have come here.
You may miss the city, but countryside has its own fascination… And that too, a hi-tech countryside where you sit your machine coffee at the water cascade with your lappy…! You may feel claustrophobic at times, when you want to get out of here and go to the city. It’s the time you die for weekends. One can actually feel the joy of witnessing cars and crowd, roads and restaurants!
What may sure magnetize you to come here is the top view of the beautiful green golf course while you traverse through the unmade roads towards the campus! There may be times when you just want to jump from the roads onto that green patch of land. It almost feels like your treasure lies just beneath and yet you hardly get there!
There are mixed reviews about the food that feeds us in flame. But the half glass full theory works here as well! You will have no qualms about the food here if you have already had the experience of being away from your family deprived of “maa ke haath ka khana”, only to eat in a typical mess where a ‘roti’ can be used as an eraser! You will feel blessed with the food Sodexho provides you at Flame. There are days when they let you indulge in sinful bliss with hot chocolate and brownie and there are days when you may just wish to consume as much buttermilk as you can!
Multi tasking and time management skills will get honed to their best. From yoga to sports to developmental activities to attending classes, doing assignments, participating in events, squeezing in time to eat lunch, running for lectures, not being allowed in accounts classes at 9.01 am, watching late night movies of course under ‘movie club’, learning not to rely on only one alarm and much more!…
Flame will sure train you to be the superman and the superwoman of the 21st century!
Pankti Vora
Flame School of Communication
Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, Pune
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Pareen, you were not the only one
So what if you are the thinnest in the college, so what if its your birthday, so what if you have most of the students in the college in your friend's list, what has to be done, has to be done. And you were not the only one.
Confused? Well I am talking about the birthday bash of our very good friend Pareen Lathia who was ornamented with infinite kicks on his rear side and decorated with cream (in all possible locations accessible to male friends on his body). This is the B - Ware Block style of making your birthday memorable and you certainly did walk away with a smile when you were heading to your room for a shower.
B Block - the haven for goodliness, the adobe of the Hyderabadi and Rajasthani folk, the place in the thick and thin of all action on the campus, the place where we initially didn't want to shift to and the place where we would hate to shift out of at present.
The three bungalows located at more than the outer end of the outskirts of the extended campus is where around twenty of the most weird (spell lively) people reside. What you will find here is a guitarist, cartoonist, drummer, disk jockey, event manager, cricketers, stock traders, bullies, cuties, teddies, geeks, women enchanters and a puppy which gives you company all the way each time anyone heads on the long journey to the class room.
There are several firsts when it comes to B Block. The first cricket pitch in the campus was the walkway between the two blocks with the lush green lawns forming cushions for daredevil stunts of the fielders. The first jamming sessions were organized here before they got recognized and moved on to the process of forming the college Rock Band. The first impromptu public speaking sessions were organized in the courtyard area providing hands on experience in polishing many skills along with stage fright, were among the few of the events which frequent the lives of all its residents.
B Block, though farthest from Pit Stop has now become the paradise within Flame for me and most of my friends out here. There is a gradual code developing and a process of living emerging out of this place which has started to infest the rest of the campus as well. With time, I hope, all the students on the campus would begin to appreciate and also 'live' life in the true fashion of how students ought to live away from home in the middle of nowhere.
Happy Birthday Pareen. Hope it remains a fond memory. If not, we are ready to celebrate again tonight. Same time, same place. God Bless.
Dipayan Kundu
FLAME School of Business
Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, Pune
Confused? Well I am talking about the birthday bash of our very good friend Pareen Lathia who was ornamented with infinite kicks on his rear side and decorated with cream (in all possible locations accessible to male friends on his body). This is the B - Ware Block style of making your birthday memorable and you certainly did walk away with a smile when you were heading to your room for a shower.
B Block - the haven for goodliness, the adobe of the Hyderabadi and Rajasthani folk, the place in the thick and thin of all action on the campus, the place where we initially didn't want to shift to and the place where we would hate to shift out of at present.
The three bungalows located at more than the outer end of the outskirts of the extended campus is where around twenty of the most weird (spell lively) people reside. What you will find here is a guitarist, cartoonist, drummer, disk jockey, event manager, cricketers, stock traders, bullies, cuties, teddies, geeks, women enchanters and a puppy which gives you company all the way each time anyone heads on the long journey to the class room.
There are several firsts when it comes to B Block. The first cricket pitch in the campus was the walkway between the two blocks with the lush green lawns forming cushions for daredevil stunts of the fielders. The first jamming sessions were organized here before they got recognized and moved on to the process of forming the college Rock Band. The first impromptu public speaking sessions were organized in the courtyard area providing hands on experience in polishing many skills along with stage fright, were among the few of the events which frequent the lives of all its residents.
B Block, though farthest from Pit Stop has now become the paradise within Flame for me and most of my friends out here. There is a gradual code developing and a process of living emerging out of this place which has started to infest the rest of the campus as well. With time, I hope, all the students on the campus would begin to appreciate and also 'live' life in the true fashion of how students ought to live away from home in the middle of nowhere.
Happy Birthday Pareen. Hope it remains a fond memory. If not, we are ready to celebrate again tonight. Same time, same place. God Bless.
Dipayan Kundu
FLAME School of Business
Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, Pune
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Idea A Day
Coffee can do wonders and when it is free of cost, you can’t ask for a better treat. This article is dedicated to those two cups which I wasn’t asked to pay for at the inauguration of “The” Pit Stop yesterday evening, which motivated me to take up this book, which in turn inspired me to scribble these lines.
When Mr. Neeraj Swaroop was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank, India, one of his earliest introduction, was the creation of two email addresses: ihaveanidea@in.standardchartered.com and ihaveanissue@in.standardchartered.com both of which would be directly managed by him and any of the 5000+ employee force in India could write to him. Both of these formed his strongest tools in looking at innovative solutions to business problems and also getting a chance to remove issues at all levels which could otherwise remain unreported, under-reported or incorrectly reported. The improved performance of the bank and higher satisfaction levels in the employees can also be attributed to the above to a certain extent.
Similar to the above is this book called ‘The Big Idea Book’ edited out from the online website ‘idea-a-day.com’, which is an online archive of ideas on varied subjects as thought by the authors and submitted by the readers. This book and the website has ideas collected and visualized by the authors and presented in a copyright and payment free mode for the benefit of anyone and everyone who might be interested in it. While some of the ideas are funny and far stretched from any practical relevance, there are many, which could be converted into viable propositions. The idea behind the project though is not to find out as to how many of their published ideas are actually converted into full scale projects.
This brings me back to one of those things which I purposely avoided this new years eve: resolutions. If there is one that I now wish to make now, it is to generate ideas, insane or relevant they might be, but the process will not be useless ever. This also makes me feel that if this thought is absorbed and worked out by the management, we might be able to see several innovative solutions and great ideas on the campus. I would love to see anything at all being initiated in this direction.
For the moment, I will just leave with the idea which is posted on www.idea-a-day.com today.
“Award honors (like New Year Honors in Australia and the UK) only to individuals voted for by the wider population. The public would be encouraged to submit nominations and, subsequently, to cast a vote for the nominees they would like their nation to reward in this way. A combination of voting methods, including online and phone options, would maximize democratic participation and media interest.
Day 2694 2 January 2008 by Steve Evans”
The archives on the website and the book 'The Big Idea Book', a copy is available with the library are a must read.
I have an idea as well. There should be some free coffee coupons awarded for any good idea submitted to the management.
When Mr. Neeraj Swaroop was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank, India, one of his earliest introduction, was the creation of two email addresses: ihaveanidea@in.standardchartered.com and ihaveanissue@in.standardchartered.com both of which would be directly managed by him and any of the 5000+ employee force in India could write to him. Both of these formed his strongest tools in looking at innovative solutions to business problems and also getting a chance to remove issues at all levels which could otherwise remain unreported, under-reported or incorrectly reported. The improved performance of the bank and higher satisfaction levels in the employees can also be attributed to the above to a certain extent.
Similar to the above is this book called ‘The Big Idea Book’ edited out from the online website ‘idea-a-day.com’, which is an online archive of ideas on varied subjects as thought by the authors and submitted by the readers. This book and the website has ideas collected and visualized by the authors and presented in a copyright and payment free mode for the benefit of anyone and everyone who might be interested in it. While some of the ideas are funny and far stretched from any practical relevance, there are many, which could be converted into viable propositions. The idea behind the project though is not to find out as to how many of their published ideas are actually converted into full scale projects.
This brings me back to one of those things which I purposely avoided this new years eve: resolutions. If there is one that I now wish to make now, it is to generate ideas, insane or relevant they might be, but the process will not be useless ever. This also makes me feel that if this thought is absorbed and worked out by the management, we might be able to see several innovative solutions and great ideas on the campus. I would love to see anything at all being initiated in this direction.
For the moment, I will just leave with the idea which is posted on www.idea-a-day.com today.
“Award honors (like New Year Honors in Australia and the UK) only to individuals voted for by the wider population. The public would be encouraged to submit nominations and, subsequently, to cast a vote for the nominees they would like their nation to reward in this way. A combination of voting methods, including online and phone options, would maximize democratic participation and media interest.
Day 2694 2 January 2008 by Steve Evans”
The archives on the website and the book 'The Big Idea Book', a copy is available with the library are a must read.
I have an idea as well. There should be some free coffee coupons awarded for any good idea submitted to the management.
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