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The Journey Begins

It was raining for past few days, and it was same on 18th morning. I was in a hurry to finish the breakfast and head for the first lecture. After waiting for few minutes Dr. Prasad popularly known as Dr. Mandi came and sat on stage. He asked us to come closer, for a while the whole class was in confusion what he meant by that. I was astonished when he asked why we are sitting on chairs(phirangi way hai), this is not the way students were taught in Ancient India( desi tareka). We all went near the board and sat down just like in gurukuls.

Dr. Prasad opened his bag(was expecting some case study) and surprisingly toys came out. One was a stress ball with globe on surface with which one can study and play at same time.

Then came Newton's cradle

He tested our physics knowledge by asking few questions, some were answered. But he expected us to do better as we all have engineering background.He was trying to address the basic problem, that students have good marks in physics, but still not able to answer basic questions.Which is because we have theoretical knowledge apart from practical one.Later on he explained that these toys were made and used by production engineering students to earn while they were learning.

His main motto was to make us aware of the idea of earn while you learn.It's really thought provoking that we are spending so much in a B school in these 2 years without productivity.This can be changed when we learn to earn the expenses of our education.With the advancement of technology, now its easier. If we look around Napster, Google, Facebook all started in college.The funda is to do Dhanda (business).Everything comes down to one thing and that is money.

Then he told us about Mandi, event in which students go on the street sell toys and learn from this experience concepts of sales,marketing,economics etc.Video of 2010 Mandi:

The session was interactive and it made me realize that if I am spending some amount in a day then I should strive to earn the same.