Reflections Of Life

Assignments and the Artist in Residence

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Did I think that Logistics and Supply Chain course is my easiest of the courses this term… With four other finance courses, I didn’t think I was wrong… until, 10 am today morning when I started working on the first case… New groups have been formed for each of the elective courses and we have the liberty to make our own groups… Only after we started working today, did we realize that 5 of the 6 in the LSCM group are from Infy :-) and that leaves the diversity candidate to do all the work! We were all comfortable with each other as we were in the same section for the past 4 terms and we worked enthusiastically until 3 am… seems like a long time since I worked on a case for this long a time, but I think the report is damn good. Have an 8 am class tomorrow (all classes pre-poned by 30 mins to accommodate a 6.15 to 8.15 pm session at the end of the day! And I have that session too, making it another 6 hour day starting at 8 am and ending at 8.30 pm!

Planned to do some reading for the Fixed Income course today… but no plans saw light! Got my CF grades (which term did I write this paper?.... third term! Actually the second term grades have not yet been released, so I should not be complaining about third term)… managed to make the grade which I haven’t made before in ISB… before any guesses are made, it’s above my usual standards :-)

Today when I was working in the Atrium with my group, someone called me for a photo session with the Artist in Residence – Sanjay Bhattacharyya, celebrated realist painter. He is known for his human forms, the streets, old architectural compositions and landscapes of rural Bengal in oil and water color. I have earlier never bothered to even notice who is the artist in the campus but when I looked at his paintings and interacted with him today, I was amazed at the talent. He was explaining minute details and answering all our CPs as I got to know that Water painting needs to be done in one stretch as the shades are different when it is wet and dry. In contrast, the oil painting can be done at one’s own pace. His longest stint is a 17 hour water painting. Also, oil painting needs to be started from the darker areas and completed with the shades in the lighter areas. The water paintings are started with the lighter shades and gradually completed with the darker shades… This brings out more light from the water paintings… That was definitely a lot of learning for someone who doesn’t even know to differentiate a water and oil painting!!

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