Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Context of joining IIMC
• General environment at IIMC
• Changes after liberalisation; pressures to professionalise management education
• Pressures of accreditation and accountability of the Institute
• Student recruitment; quota and Murli Manohar Joshi
• Two decades at IIMC; notions about IIMC
• Administration; relationship between faculty and administration
• Life on campus
• First day at IIMC; other professors at the time
• Interview for the position at IIMC; the Board of Directors
• Campus culture; extra-curricular activities
• Entrance exams
• Retirement of other colleagues; Chairman of PGP; Decision
• Journal, publications and editing
• Inter-disciplinary courses; government support for business; role of social sciences in management education
• Curriculum change
• Life and learning at IIMC
• Commonality of academic language and life
• Adjusting to Calcutta and the Institute; local politics; government support
• Political culture, student councils in business schools versus universities

Interviewed by: Indira ChowdhuryInterview Place: Chittaranjan Park, New DelhiInterview date: 12th March 2012Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Family; Early education
• Bachelors; Masters; and getting into IIMC
• Getting to Calcutta
• Earliest memories of Emerald Bower and girls’ hostel at ISI
• Syllabus and teachers at IIMC
• MIT orientation of the Institute; Gender ratio
• Term papers; Naxalism; Social life outside
• Classmates at IIMC
• Senior-junior relations; Cosmopolitanism at IIMC
• Men’s perception of female students; female faculty members
• T. Chandy; Gouranga Chattopadhyay
• Gouranga Chattopadhyay’s family and train incident
• Meeting Mrityunjay Athreya at IIMC
• Working at Citibank, Glaxo and Farex
• Paper for EPW; Flat mates in Bombay
• Impact of IIMC on jobs; enduring images of the Institute
• Brothers and children – profession
• Love for art, travelling; Conclusion