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Inner Voice ( IV) Boon or bane ?

Inner voice(IV) Boon or bane?

A promiscuous yet morbid transient trait of an individual are the conversations within himself, a chain of thoughts continuosly impinging upon every action/inaction, dissecting it with the precision of a double edged sword.

I have always been fascinated by the conversations that I have with myself whether I am at work or at home, nevertheless there is always something to talk about, something to lull over and dissect, a complete silence has been long forgotten in the world of self interrogation.

Why, how ,when , where..are incessantly posed as in a game of squash.
The harder you hit the ball the faster it comes at you. The cleverer you get the wilier is IV(Inner Voice).. I could go on about the voice without taking a stance on whether it has been a boon or bane but reality is the voice itself is urging me to judge itself, a paradox I term it.

As I write I begin to wonder, who am I and who is the voice? Would I be able to draw a line and mark the boundaries between me and himJ. Amazing, I say to myself lauding on the line of thought, coz as I pen down, thoughts wander about the opinionations and the possibility of being justified whilst you judge yourself.

As I begin my day, IV wakes up and says yet another day mate and what’s the plan for today. Then a flashback of the leftovers from FridayJ ah! That xl, this ppt , this go live rattles out at a torrid pace as I grapple for the toothpaste. The map is laid out crystal clear, with not even a glance towards the mirror. Lost in thoughts begins my day, frantic and fanatic, working out the intricacies of the gloom impending. What a day, I wish the night was never over….All this happening in a mere 5 mins as I finish up at the wash.

One would wonder about this silent guy keeping to himself with a snobbish grin with little clue about the debates going on within him sapping his energy day in, day out.
A conversation with a bystander lasts less than a min in borrowing the other newspaper that hez already finished reading but IV inside tries to decide the modus operandi of how to ask for the paper. As options are discussed within suddenly dawns reality. There it is, office has arrived and so you realize ah! I should have just said, can I borrow the newspaper?

Thousands of conversations are enacted in monologue, scenes are visualized and enacted in clinical precision but the truth….it’s meta physical.Most of it is, coz debates go on about what may happen or what may never happen. But yet so realistic is the stance that at the end of it you begin to wonder did it really happen??

Life is getting so complicated, wherein we try and answer questions never asked and question answers never answered all within and wonder.

It would be hard to think of life without IV, but I do fantasize on that all pervading peace
When IV would be on leave visiting his friends leaving me alone with no partner, resigned to my melancholia or to the frenetic pace of my unfathomable dreams.

-- Posted by Avinash Baliga ( Class of 2006-07)

LIFE @ XLRI GMP

"School...college...corporate...school again...oops !!! Sorry marriage in between...the saga continues....."
Yes, probe deeper and that's what I felt like when I made it to this hallowed institute....A wide eyed disbelief and an equally introspective lookback at the ironies in having made it finally but alas within 2 months of marriage.....Life just got better..or should I say it sucks????
And here we got together....ambitous,wide eyed executives turned school goers trying to figure out press reports of GMP @ XLRI amidst the myriad 1 year and much publicized peers..Well the IIMs ,ISBs and SPJainswith their new avatars : PGPX....oh so they mention their "X" as well..cool...then we dont mind being called Exec-PGDGM.... !!!!!
But the nemesis turned out to be LH-3....jacked by suprise quizzes and Syngalisms...all we could manage was count the tests where the positive marks were more than the negatives...Thank God we didnt study psychiatry..else it would have been a repeat lesson for us....And then the God appears and says..Lo Behold !! Who got these 55 jokers together...but dude that was fun, managerial miscommunication at its best...I thought I was good at speeches till I knew I had to give a consolation speech...donkeys just can't console !!!!!! And then the grand dinner..oh the eating etiquttes...I was actually wondering...Spoon on the right and fork on the left..no..I guess it was spoon on the left and fork on the right...forget it..EAT....And then I met a guy who wud not sleep for 3 days together and stay tuned with his financial wizardry .... someone said 60 hrs of effort to finish off 1 assignment...Was that 60 hrs at a stretch ????? The finishing line was funny....it begun with projects.We used to get up at 8:00 and sleep at 5:00, dont ask me AM or PM, zombies don't remember time. Someone would quip everyday "Let's kills the beasts(finish the projects)" and wow, when we thought its all over, here came the God again and said "dudes !!! I think I had forgotten to give you some more beasts and there we were killing more beasts within a week alongwith our exams...oops sorry end term!!! Man...did someone say don't procrastinate...., but well the habit that has been cultivated from nursery just doesn't vanish in a day (We Indians are best under pressure...by the way, how did someone define pressure??)....
And thus happened the trailer to the least outspoken and the one of the most thrashed yet unheard peers of exec-MBA (did I hear someone say executing MBAs?), what with the grades coming in as C pos(sible), B pos(sible) and when even the best keeps waiting for the A pos(sible, is it?).

-- Posted By Sujoy Mitra ( Class of 2006-07)

We Breed CEOs in class !!!!

Xcellence is the essence of an XLer's being and that's what we stand for. We are happy to announce our first Placement - one of our classmates got selected as the CEO of The ABN Foundation! Kudos to Sunil, Kudos to this batch of GMP. We prove yet again that excellence runs in our blood. Probably the quietest entry into the world of 1 yr MBAs in India has arrived on the scene with a bang. To the Jumpers, he is just the first CEO of General Management Programme. The rest are yet to arrive, waiting for the right opportunity to showcase what we mean by "Xcellence".

-- Posted by Dipankar Sengupta ( Class of 2006 -07)