MBA Entrance Exams in India; Confusions Cleared!

By: Thejas on 9:10 PM

If you ever were or (currently are) trying to pursue a degree of MBA in India , I'm pretty Sure you are bewildered by the list of entrance exams and are trying to make sense of the acronyms that look almost similar.
So, as a victim of this confusion, I'm taking the responsibility of simplifying the chaos a bit. 

 The top B-Schools either affiliate themselves to a common national level entrance test or take their own aptitude test to select candidates.

Various common national level tests to get into the finest B-Schools of India are:

1. CAT: All IIMs' and 100+ more institutes.
2. XAT: XLRI Jamshedpur, XIM Bhubaneshwar, S. P. Jain, GIM etc.
3. SNAP: Institutes affiliated with Symbiosis University
4. JMET: IITs' and NITs' Management Program
5. MH-CET: Colleges in Maharashtra
6. CMAT: All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)

Various individual tests of some other finest B-Schools of India are:

1. IBSAT: ICFAI Business Schools
2. IRMA: Institute of Rural Management, Anand
3. NMAT: NarseeMonjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
4. MICA: Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
5. IIFT: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata

 National Level :

Courtsey:tcyonline.com

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My Review: North 24 Kaatham is just too Slow!

By: Thejas on 10:03 PM

Cast : Fahadh Fasil, Nedumudi Venu, Swati Reddy,Srinath Bhasi
Director : Anil Radhakrishnan Menon

This is  indeed the golden era for Malayalam cinema. With the star worship declining exponentially and movies with only their story as back-bone rising, it is an era of new generation movies. But its not all movies that get it right on target. This is one such miss.

Fahad plays Hari , an IT professional with a  serious Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He is a cleanliness monster and is hated by everybody at his office due to his arrogant, shrewd and short tempered personality The story begins when hari is stuck with social worker Narayani , played by Swati and an ex-Marxist Gopalettan played by Nedumudi Venu , on a Harthal day.The Story progresses on how they manage to travel the lengths of Kerala on the day of curfew  and how the protagonist manages to break his shell of inhibitions.

The premise here is good. But the screen-play and script is dragging making the entire movie snail paced. There are moments of dramatic pauses and cinematic silence which adds up to the drag.Also there is no real full-hearted humor making the movie leave no real mark on the viewer.  What makes the movie watchable is the solid performances of its actors. Swati and Nedumudi venu does their parts existingly well and leaves no traces of remorse. Srinath Bhasi, although only a cameo  role, is quite simply one of the best features of the movie, easing into the skin of Hari's brother and playing it to optimum realism. But the movie belongs to none other than Fahadh Fasil, who plays the irritated introvert to perfection. He has once again proved his worth and showed why he is the king of subtleties. With  twitches of unsatisfaction and shouts of  arrogance he really makes the viewers hate him on all levels. At the end, as a changed man he plays the lead with a slight charm that only a few can master.

So Overall, its a mediocre movie. Watch if you have Nothing better to do. You might find it enjoyable. 

Rating : 2.75/5

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My List Of Top 10 TV series You Must Watch!

By: Thejas on 8:51 PM

10.How I Met Your Mother.

9.MisFits

8.Numb3rs

7.Mentalist

6.Two and A Half Men

5.Dexter

4.The Big bang Theory

3.Sherlock / House MD

2. F.RI.E.N.D.S

1.Game Of Thrones

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The Picture Perfect Nostalgia!

By: Thejas Krishnan on 1:17 PM

Everything changes with time. Everything. We change. Our friends and relatives change. Buildings and Land change. Continent and countries change . So inevitably our celebrations have to change and Onam is no anomaly.

This Harvest  Festival of Kerala has long-lost its zeal and honestly resides only in the money minded advertisements of Silk Saris and Jewelries . I really wish the actual Onam was as grandeur as the "husky Mohanlal Voice-over" wants us to believe . But all those who have nothing to sell remain silent amidst all the hyped celebrations. The only two customs of Onam that have stood the test of time is the Traditional Dressing and the Food, that too because of the onam celebration in offices, schools and colleges, that one day when people get to wear their glistening Kerala Saris/Dhothis and eat a 18 course Sadhya complete with two Payasams. You could argue that the Flower carpet is yet another strong survivor but then since all the flowers are imported from either Tamil Nadu or Karnataka, as opposed to plucking your local fragrances, it celebrates the harvest of the neighboring states.
But with the exponential increase in Nuclear Families this drift was apparent and unavoidable. All the customs are so altered to fit the whims and ease of people that they are just a distorted reflection of what existed in the past.
The ideal Onam exists only in the mind. A picture perfect Nostalgia. 

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