Audio: Interview with Geeta Athreya (March 2012)

Interviewed by: Indira Chowdhury
Interview Place:
Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi
Interview date:
12th March 2012

Table 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

     2012-03-12

     IIM Calcutta

Imported Thumbnail

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/puHgRcZb21s/default.jpg
...