Neev09 Is War

2010-07-01T12:36:00.000-07:00

Some music plays ...
Some talk Some rememberance,
seven sleepy pair of eyes
seven hungry beings

almost reaching a theme.

1:11 AM. half a year to go. NEEV at work.

Augustus at Neev 2009 - Shortlist

2009-12-04T23:59:00.000-08:00

SHRM India and Neev 09 proudly present the Augustus finalists:

Abhishek Bakshi IIM Shillong
Abhishek Kamle SCMHRD
Abhishek Sharma MDI, Gurgaon
Ankur Jain IMTG
Gyanesh Sinha FMS
Harsimran Singh ICFAI, Hyderabad
Kartik Vyas NITIE
Nidhi Rawal XLRI
Phani Kumar Varma SCMHRD
Ritesh Kochhar Welingkar
Sudharshan IIM Indore
Sumeet Agarwal SCMHRD

General Observation: If you are planning to have a kid any time soon, name him Abhishek.

Note: If any of the above participants are unable to travel to Pune, shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Trident - The Online Quiz

2009-12-03T10:56:00.000-08:00

The Mother of All Acts.

2009-12-02T02:34:00.001-08:00

Augustus Deadline Extension

2009-11-28T01:27:00.000-08:00

Last Date of Entries for Augustus is November 26.

2009-11-23T22:40:00.000-08:00

Mahesh Aney's Message to Augustus Participants

2009-11-21T21:37:00.001-08:00

Remember, last date of entries is 26th November 2009. For more details, visit www.neev-scmhrd.com

Winner of Brasstacks!

2009-11-15T06:57:00.000-08:00

Dear All,

We have a winner. KH Ram, from SCMHRD has won Brasstacks 2009!

In a unique final, held simultaneously across different geographies, KH Ram has scorched through to 7 correct answers before anyone else!

Congratulations KH RAM.

Dear other finalists, thank you so much. Brasstacks would not have been a success without you.

We will be sending the certificates to your address in December. Guys, it would be great if you can share your pics with us over email. We will be putting up a Hall of Fame on the blog, Facebook and our campus during NEEV 2009.

Thank you so much,

Regards,
BRASSTACKS TEAM

| Jagadish Sivasankaran | Nikhil Arvind | NEEV TEAM | www.dare2compete.com

Neev 2009 Unleashes 4 Reasons to go to War!

2009-11-13T05:57:00.000-08:00

Field Marshals- Level 29 and Above

2009-11-12T11:41:00.000-08:00

The pack should now turn to lone wolves.

Remember, in the telephonic round last man standing wins.

Clues close at 2 am.

But considering the brilliance displayed we doubt you guys need any!

Terrific going buddies. See you at NEEV 2009

You Think Brasstacks is Big ??

2009-11-12T07:50:00.000-08:00

2009-11-12T03:10:00.000-08:00

Dare2compete.com and Neev 2009, SCMHRD present BRASSTACKS - The NEEV ONLINE HUNT.

The Manual for BRASSTACKS - The NEEV ONLINE HUNT

Rule 1. Each combatant needs to analyse the clue, and enter the answer in the Text Box Provided
Rule 2: Combatants are allowed to take help of Google, Wikipedia, the NEEV Website, NEEV Facebook Group, or any other resource. The NEEV blog will provide help in your covert search.
Rule 3: Combatants are requested to be alert all the time. Different elements on the Dare2Compete.com page will be your friends, although we suggest you be aware of the possibility of friendly fire too
Rule 4: Questions have been prepared by the natives. They are fierce, street smart, and sometimes illogical. They do not attend quizzes, but they know the answers
Rule 5: The first 20 combatants to complete the 30 round hunt, earn a Mention - In - Dispatch and the right to be the Brasstacks finalist
Rule 6: The first 20 Brasstacks finalist will be called over the telephone by the NEEV team for a quick and dirty 10 round duel. The Winner wins Rs 10,000 along with bragging rights
Rule 7: War is a strange animal. Strange questions are sometimes asked of individuals, and the answer is not always correct. The writ of the Brasstacks team is final
Rule 8: Employees of Dare 2 Compete and members of the NEEV team cannot participate in Brasstacks. Corporate participants from select organizations are allowed by invitation to participate.

Generals - Clues for Level 25 to Level 28

2009-11-12T02:47:00.000-08:00

* Follow this thread to view clues for Level 25 to Level 28.

* Generals and above, kindly do not post spoilers. After all, we are the top brass.

* The blog will be closed for comments from 2 a.m to 7 a.m to allow our elite troops some rest time.

Brigadiers - Level 16 to Level 20

2009-11-12T02:46:00.000-08:00

* Follow this blog to view clues for Level 20 to Level 25.

* Brigadiers and above, kindly do not post spoilers. After all, we are all men and women of honor.

* The blog will be closed for comments from 2 a.m to 7 a.m to allow our elite troops some rest time.

Colonels - Clues for Level 11 to 15

2009-11-12T02:44:00.000-08:00

* Follow this blog to view clues for Level 11 to Level 15.

* Colonels and above, kindly do not post spoilers. After all, we are all men and women of honor.

* The blog will be closed for comments from 2 a.m to 7 a.m to allow our elite troops some rest time.

Majors - Clues for Level 6 to Level 10

2009-11-12T02:41:00.000-08:00

*Follow this thread to view clues for Level 5 to Level 10. Queries can be listed in the comments below this thread. Clues will be inserted by our storm troopers Jagdish, Nikhil and others.

* Majors and above, kindly do not post spoilers. We have been doing this for some time, and we are all men and women of honor.

* The blog will be closed for comments from 2 a.m to 7 a.m to allow our elite troops some rest time.

Lieutenants - Clues for Level 1 to Level 5

2009-11-12T02:32:00.000-08:00

* Follow this thread to view clues for Level 1 to Level 5. Queries can be listed in the comments below this thread. Clues will be inserted by our storm troopers Jagdish, Nikhil and others.

* Lieutenants and above, kindly do not post spoilers. We may be green horns, but we are all men and women of honor.

* The blog will be closed for comments from 2 a.m to 7 a.m to allow our elite troops some rest time.

Brasstacks Being Unleashed Today!

2009-11-11T21:54:00.000-08:00

To play Brasstacks, The NEEV 2009 Online Hunt

1939 Hours 11th November - The NEEV Website Storms the Web

2009-11-11T06:00:00.000-08:00

Visit http://www.neev-scmhrd.com/ now!

What is the significance of 7.39 pm ?

2009-11-11T01:14:00.001-08:00

Why are most events of NEEV being launched at 7:39 pm ?

This competition is open to SCMHRDians only.

Post your answers as comments in this blog post

One prize for the first correct entry

One prize for the most craziest entry about the significance of 7.39. ( For example, see the first comment by Gaurav Parab)

Prizes will be given during NEEV 09 on December 11th.

Shoot!

2009-11-05T01:50:00.000-08:00

Ammunition

2009-10-31T07:56:00.000-07:00

The Flying Machine has come to our rescue.

The War In Your Mind

2009-10-28T23:54:00.000-07:00

What's happening?

2009-10-25T00:17:00.000-07:00

SCMHRD is under the end-semester wave onslaught. Fortunately, there have been two waves: the junior batch was the first target and now, the senior batch is at the front lines.

So, of course, work for NEEV continues. NEEV was thrown open to the entire college yesterday, as special teams were formed for the various verticals that organising the second largest B-School event takes. The entire college is now scrambling to be part of the NEEV bandwagon, what with there being so many activities to take care of: campus decoration, informals, music nights, movie-screenings, the grand victory dinner and of course, the heart of NEEV - the glorious field of war - the games.

At this stage of NEEV, here are a few lines from Longfellow's poem, "A Psalm of Life", that personify the kind of spirit that NEEV is famous for:

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learning to labor and to wait.

Teach for India is Neev 2009 Soul Partner

2009-09-24T00:23:00.000-07:00

Gaurav Parab

Business school and business in general teaches one a lot, including Problem Solving and Time Management. Not as pre-defined courses, but as a common thread running across everything you have to do. Problem Solving is situational analysis, problem definition, and feasible solutions backed with alternatives. Time management is but impatience. If problem cannot be solved quickly, it is perhaps not a problem. It is what strategy solves. And strategy is someone else’s problem. The vision which blurs and gets modified along a timeline. Long term solutions naturally become short term firefights.

In life, doing good no longer remains doing good - it becomes CSR. A responsibility that one has to do, in spurts, with fixed budgets and defined timelines. Don’t do too much good this quarter, since we wrapped up the last quarter with our targeted goodness.

Problem Solving, Time Management, CSR and Strategy diverge while they should have spawned from the same seed. Definitions get blurred, and the approach to solving long term issues, especially social problems has become doing the right things, but doing them fast.

So big money is thrown impatiently at social problems. The resulting smiles unfortunately fade away after short durations. Till someone else comes along, starts from scratch and picks up the baton.

To paint a house beautiful, throw a lot of paint at it. As and when it arrives.

And so was the trend.

Enter Teach for India, an organization that is applying the correct method of problem solving correctly to the correct problem.

Education, the root of every brilliant fruit. Education, the missing branch responsible for everything rotten. Situational analysis and problem solving at its most accurate best.

Based on the hugely successful Teach For America program, TFI believes that to achieve educational equity for all children, a movement of committed leaders is required with the will to work. To paint a house beautiful, scrap the surface and ask the right painter to paint.

The proven model is brilliant in its simplicity. TFI believes that the reason behind India’s criminal school drop-out rate is the fact that most public schools are not worth attending in the first place. If they are lucky enough to have the acceptable number of teachers, the teachers lack the motivation to teach. If the teachers have the motivation to teach, they follow outdated teaching methodologies. Children have no reason to be attending school. They have no reason to remain children. School is no longer school.

Now, the easy way to solve this problem of missing students would be to throw a whole lot of money at developing quality schools for the underprivileged in select locations. While any investment in education is good, the problem with such an approach is the limited reach and the fact that attitudes remain unchanged. A good school is but a beautiful song lost in the noise of deeper problems. To find missing melodies, you need more singers. Not more songs.

India already has an extensive number of public and private schools. A network which is unfortunately made up of schools with crumbling infrastructure, manpower shortage and disinterested guardians. TFI aims to upgrade this obsolete hardware, by arming it with brilliant software. Young professionals and graduates from leading educational institutes like SCMHRD are trained as fellows to dedicate two years of their lives to being agents of change in under resourced educational institutes. The fellows go to understaffed public and private schools, engage students through exciting learning sessions, and change lives. But this is not where their contribution stops. After completing their fellowships, these young leaders are assisted in joining leading companies, the government and other organizations to become the voice of education for all of society to hear. Singers who sing that song for the rest of their lives. Talk about back- up plans in a HBS case study being implemented in sync with the main solution.

The young teachers learn too. Exposed to the real world, these youngsters are given the benefit of analyzing, designing, and implementing real time solutions for their students. Whoever said that leadership cannot be taught in school should see how brilliant leaders have been bred by the now well established Teach for America program.

We at NEEV 2009 remain in awe of what the well organized TFI team is doing to change the face of the country. As the fellows of TFI apply lessons of problem solving, time management and long term strategy to teach young minds, we can’t help but believe that this initiative in some years will do what it has set out to and beyond. Not just impart education, but impart excellent education.

Every year we collaborate with leading multi- national companies to organize NEEV, an event for the most brilliant young minds to showcase their abilities. This year at NEEV 2009, we are privileged to work with TFI as our all important Soul Partners. We hope an event of NEEVs scale will help TFI reach out to future leaders from across the country.

TFI welcome to NEEV 2009. It is our absolute privilege to have you as our Soul Partners.

The War Where Everyone Wins

2009-09-23T02:37:00.001-07:00

Augustus at Neev 2009

2009-09-17T02:33:00.000-07:00

India's Future

2009-09-08T23:41:00.000-07:00

Augustus Co-ordinators

2009-09-08T04:31:00.001-07:00

Neev Team is proud to announce the co-ordinators for this years Augustus - India's largest B School Competition: 1. Akash P, aka Gujju Foodinator 2. Meera V , aka South ki Siren 3. Sankalp D, aka Simply Sankalp We are certain that they are going to make Augustus even bigger than last year.

Do view a promotional video about last year's NEEV

Letter to a Comedian

2009-09-06T08:56:00.000-07:00

At NEEV, we are approached by leading lights of the business world and beyond to share their experiences with us.

Then there are some people we approach. One such individual is Russel Peters, the Indo-Canadian comic and actor. Every youngster ( please note that the NEEV team still thinks of themselves as youngsters) who has a computer and an internet connection, or a computer and a hard-drive full of pirated downloads adores Russel Peters.

So we wrote to him. The dates did not work out, so Mr Russel Peters will not be at NEEV, but we thought we will share the email that we sent out to him.

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Dear Mr Peters,

Greetings from Symbiosis, one of India’s most respected universities.

Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) is Symbiosis flagship management education Institute. SCMHRD organizes “Neev”, India’s second largest Business School Event every year. At Neev, participants from South Asia’s premier Business schools compete over 3 days of excitement, learning, innovation, goats, mom’s pickles and other random B school jargon.

Yes, and we also have a celebrity night at Neev. Leading Indian acts like The Indian Ocean, Euphoria, and KK have performed at Neev over the last few years. We tried to get Paris Hilton last year, but she thought India was a club with a funny spelling.

Mr Peters, we reach that part of the email when the natives invite you to be a part of their little event!

We know it’s a long shot, but we are convinced that you are the sort of chap who will be attracted to an event of this scale and prestige. And yes, the organizing team also has a couple of hot numbers called Sonia and Evita.

SCMHRD is located in Pune, which is a large cantonment town close to Bombay. Pune has India’s highest number of drunk college kids, and they (we are not making this up) absolutely swear by you. There is hardly any notebook in Pune, where an illegal copy of your shows is not downloaded. Russel Peters, if you thought you were a celebrity in Canada, wait till you come to Pune.

If you were to consider performing at Neev, which incidentally had 20,000 visitors last year, your show will be sold out within a minute. We might even be able to sell 5 copies of your latest DVD during the show.

We have heard from our friends at MIT about your fantastic performance there. We believe that the scale and magnitude of Neev presents a fantastic opportunity for you to connect with your Indian fans. Again, we realize that this is a long shot. But then we are MBAs. We did Lehman Brothers.

We hope to hear from you, or your agent soon. And we promise a kid with a better education will write the next email and co-ordinate with your team.

Warm Regards,

The Neev Team

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Augustus

2009-08-26T01:30:00.000-07:00

We Will Always Be Boys

2009-08-04T02:12:00.001-07:00

By Gaurav Parab

As my mind moves through those memories

Of climbing and falling through sepia toned trees

Of fighting over books, and someone else’s toys

My brother whispering, we will always be boys

As I turn over Kodak colored photographs

Of the tears in my eyes, and his throaty laughs

Visiting gambling houses on tip-toes, without any noise

My brother taking my hand, we will always be boys

As I stare at the shadows formed by the light

Of him falling in love with Mia at first sight

Of him holding an angel’s tears and her joys

My brother winking with a gleam, we will always be boys

As I stare at the medal hanging by the bedside

Of him going to war, when I chose to hide

Of asking him, Why be a part of something that destroys?

My brother whispering back, we will always be boys

Glimpses of Neev 08

2009-07-31T03:24:00.000-07:00

Do check out this article on Neev 08.

http://thetossedsalad.com/2008/12/neev-08/

Met War Today

2009-07-25T10:19:00.000-07:00

By Sankalp Dutt

I ran into war today

I kept my distance though

It had a black cascade

It said it had a lots to do

Till in the dead of the night so

I ran into war today

A shade of gray

I stepped forward

I asked her for the way

It said it had something better too

Yes, I ran into war today

I could definitely say that it wore an ivory garb

now it was as close as ever,

And I could feel the exuberance and grace

With full fervor

Its quickening and will be here soon

To take all of us on a ride to the moon

The Hot Neev 09 Team

2009-07-14T13:06:00.000-07:00

We have been claiming that the senior Neev team is irresistible (if you ignore the big fat bengali co-ordinator) One talented Neev aspirant writes in with a poem to ask the oldest man at Neev out for a fresher's date. Post cardiac arrest, as he was being rushed to the nearest medical facility, the old man reportedly said, "Can she do HLOOKUP in Excel ?"

Here is the poem, which a talented reader sent out to Neev's Gaurav Parab

Here I am

Here I am, this is my story

Of how I sauntered through those imposing gates, unsuspecting yet weary.

To call it academic boot-camp was my first thought

A serious case of hyper-tension was what I had caught.

But things looked up, life began to change

So much did I get accustomed to my new life, the old me felt strange.

Not so often, did I think it possible to be

An act of embarrassment found doubled with glee.

It being called ‘Senior-junior interaction’ was the first devious step

To what soon appeared to be a rather healthy prospect.

With silent promises of memories to come

Seniors today, soon to be fast friends to some.

To join in with tradition, I walked the whole nine yards

I went up to him and caught him off guard.

My awkward question branded me a novice

Laced with shyness/stupidity, I did not feel wise.

He interviewed me once when I signed up for war

In that I was defeated, but in this one I won’t, I’m sure.

He struck me as a nice guy but nothing more,

I still don’t know what made me ask him, with all the embarrassment galore.

But time passed by and soon I was sure, this guy’s going to be fun

Making me think, Thank god I jumped the gun.

But you see merely asking isn’t enough, that’s not how men get wooed

I had to do something to appeal to him, his writing was rather good.

So here I am, trying hard to oh-so-casually lay my bait

Asking Gaurav Parab, would you be my fresher’s date?

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Touched by this request, like one is touched during Hepatitis B vaccination - Gaurav Parab has responded with a poem called "Here you go back".

Here you go back

Dear Sender of emails, I give you ten out of ten

For showing flawless taste in men

But you have to understand this soon

You get a blank, since you reached for the moon

I am not as nice as it appears

The coming true of all your fears

If you thought I was easy game

Perhaps you should google my name

You have to be special to have my time

I am not falling for words that rhyme

Even if it is for a few hours in a stupid event

With me, you have to do better than what you sent

My arrogance stems from the remarkable women I have known

You are but a nice unremarkable girl unknown

Now, if you thought that I was fun

You are right, you jumped the gun

You will not find a nastier guy than me

Some hearts will gladly agree

So, if you want to be Gaurav Parab’s date

Don’t write poems, start with a clean slate

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Yeah, Neev 09 is war.

State of War

2009-07-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

By Gaurav Parab
I declare a state of War!
On everything I hate, everything I adore
War on comfortable disease
On uncomfortable peace
War on fake applause
On every unjust cause
War on the dead in everything alive
On everything alive that cannot survive

War on the fear inside
On the strength I cannot hide
War on everything that challenges me
On Invisible threats that I see
War on my enemy’s last breath
On my undefeatable death

I declare a state of war
On everything after, everything before
War on love’s enduring brutality
The oneness in duality
On everything against, everything for
I declare a state of war on war

War is Born

2009-07-08T00:32:00.000-07:00

By Sowmya N and Gaurav Parab

On a cold dreary day, in a dingy little room (which has now been refurbished into a colder dingier room), there met a band of eclectic individuals, who had no idea what eclectic means.

They met to start a new mission, to embark on a new journey - NEEV 09, one of India’s largest B school events. The meeting starting with a brisk agenda setting session.

Senior Neev Member # 1: I set the agenda.

Senior Neev Member #2: You are ugly.

Senior Neev Member #3: I second that motion.

Junior Neev Member #1: Should I be taking the minutes of this meeting? I really want to impress you guys.

The team then decided to brainstorm on the theme for NEEV 09. There were many creative suggestions for the theme, including recession, taking on recession, recession of our times, recession no more and we will talk about recession till recession throws up .

"Advaita" (a word that means singularity, as opposed to duality that was the theme last year) was a favorite of the pseudo intellectual Bengali co-ordinator.

“I think it is Indian sounding and abstract enough at the same time. I can so imagine the Maidan going wild”

The senior team then came up a lot of culturally-correct, delicious-sounding Hindi names, like Chakravyu and Wada Pav.

Pop-psychology appeared with ideas like "Noise". We acknowledged how delusional MBA is through "Maya". Philosophy then raised its doped out head with the idea of embarking on a "Journey" - be it the journey of life, of experience, of a dream, or of a Neeta Volvo from Pune to Mumbai.

We looked back at the history of Neev, and acknowledged that the astounding success of the past few editions, which peaked with Neev becoming the second largest B school event last year has a lot to do with our director’s contribution. We then flirted with the idea of calling it Subbu’s Child, or Subbu ki aaulad.

But the one theme, that kept recurring throughout the session in numerous forms, be it "Yudh" or "Rann Niti" or "Sangram", was an idea that we could all very easily identify with; that we launch into, in our own little ways, every single day. It is something that scares us silly and at the same time, fascinates us with its innate power. It is something completely elemental - implanted in our soul. The theme that we kept coming back to was the idea of WAR.

War is a concept that is primitive enough that we can all connect with it instantly. War has a vitality that echoes with a healthy state of mind. War has the energy to power nations. War has the brutality to maim thousands. It is war against circumstance when a child battles all odds to reach a school twenty kilometers away from home. It is war against mediocrity when a corporate executive reworks a presentation for the nth time, because it seemed "just-not-good-enough". It is war against the mind when science wrestles with blind faith. It is war against shortcuts when a conscientious government employee refuses to yield to bribes. It is war against indecision, when we decide to follow our intuition and "Just Do It". It is war against indifference when a nation decides to endow the most effective people with the mandate to rule. It is war against nature, when an ugly Neev team senior tries to hit on the hottest junior in the batch.

Yeah, and War that features good looking Israeli women soldiers is visually appealing.

It is war that we launch into, every single day, every hour, every minute.
And so we decided, that war it will be, on all fronts. NEEV 09 was born. Born to go to War.