Interview place: Raghab Chattopadhyay’s Room at IIM-C
Interview Date: 15th November 2011
Table of contents:
• Educational background: BSc. in Physics; involvement in Naxalite movement
• Disillusionment and questioning of ability to continue with the movement; first hearing about IIM-C
• Joining IIM-C with dark feelings; IIM-C as an “upbeat place” that provided security
• Calcutta sentiments—taking to social psychology, BS, OB that contained Marxist critiques of capitalism; learning about “Mandarin”
• Barun De & birth of interest in labour as a historical subject; joining as an FP student; history that soothed “failures”
• Revelations from Sailesh Sengupta; fate of Naxalite friends; associations with and first view of Emerald Bower
• Comparisons with and attitudes towards IIM-A: academically and campus-wise
• Reflections on teaching methodologies and faculty attitudes; Barun De as a responsible Marxist teacher; comments about students being sheltered from institutional instability
• Classroom culture and freedom; comments about Organizational Behaviour’s interest in Marxist alienation—attributed to sixties utopia
• Short description of some papers written; summer training with Food Corporation where Dipesh encountered a Kafka enthusiast in a godown
2011-11-15
IIM Calcutta
