3 reasons why I am grateful that I didn’t run the race to IIM-A!
Having spent 50 hours at the campus of IIM-A, thanks to my amazing cousin brother – I really learnt a lot about one of the best educational institutions in the country and education mindset in general. I am grateful to him and his friends and so many people there, to have let me be part of their lives even as I come from a place of constructive critique of the system. I write the following as my perspective and in no way undermine the potential of the people there. Control over Creativity In a magical alignment, I got a chance to visit a landfill in Ahmedabad with 4 students from IIM-A including my brother. It was part of their assignment under a course - Socio-Economic Environmental Impacts of Businesses – required them to submit videos of the stakeholders bringing out the story of the problem. I invited them to first focus on what experience at the level of their own self – ‘ What do I feel/experience when I am at the landfill? ’ It wasn’t understood in i...