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Or Alexandria is like Cannes with acne. Thanks to Michael Palin I knew what to expect. Alexandria was the French Riviera with tones of Bombay thrown in. After all, Egypt WAS India, wasn't it? "Ah, so you are going to Alex!", my teammate said. I was
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"Cairo is like Bombay", I decided the moment I walked out of the aircraft. The air had the same spicy tang that greets you in India, the heat was like a warm blanket- just uncomfortable enough to want you to take a bath, like, immediately. The airhostess had
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The Inner Voice A new realisation- you know that inner voice that sounds out all the words you read in daily life? Lately, mine has a French accent. Especially with words like passage (puh-sahge), orange (or-hange) and message (meh-sahge). Comment allez-vous, ma cherie? (Koh-month ah-lleh woo, mah sherry?) "Bring
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Yes, I know there's no use of me posting my IIMB experience... because, well, IIMB PIs are over. Nevertheless, for all those who follow in our footsteps and wondered "Hmm, wonder how IIMB PI treated Shrutz?" (Hoping there will be some!), here's my misadventure
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To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep
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11th March, 4:00pm There are reasons why flights don't land at the Bangalore HAL airport. One reason could be that a Deccan Airways ATR is sitting smack in the middle of the runway. And I have to write IIM-C's Aptitude Test for Mathematics on 12th
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Dear reader, I am about to commit an inequity most heinous, To your sanity it might prove to be quite ruinous, Yet, for the love of my blog, sweet reader, you must dare. My IIM-Indore GD/PI experience will be verse for the wear. The fourth of March, the day
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Aka What Not To Do In Your IIM-L Interview 22nd February dawned fair and bright. "Shruti. Wake up, it's 7:00." I crawled deeper into the covers and decided to give the umpteenth wake up call a miss. "Five minutes please." I am usually
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Thoughts, Musing and Random Factoids You NEVER Wanted to Know About My IIM-K GD/PI Process! Okay, so here she was. Shrutz in the Big Insti. I plonked my bags into a room on the IIMB campus a day early and went around asking seniors for gyaan on filling the