Interviewed by: Indira Chowdhury
Interview place: IIM Calcutta, Joka
Interview Date: 15th November 2011

Table of contents:
• Origins of the name “Ambi”; educational background prior to IIM; the Emergency period; context of joining IIM-C.
• Political environment in the late ‘70s; lifting of emergency; power cuts; “self-contained economy”; Gemini Twins (Boating); floods; core subjects and comparisons with IIM-A.
• Academic culture of IIM-A versus IIM-C; interactions with the city; cultural events with other B-Schools [XLRI].
• Teaching and teachers; lack of computers; summer internship at Rediffusion.
• Women at IIM-C; Recruitment.
• Joining a company where other IIM-graduates are working; professionalizing family’s management; response to joining IIM.
• Description of the culture of IIM-C; the lake at IIM-C.
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     IIM Calcutta

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