Gearing up for another academic year would probably witness similar
concluding events in the year 2018. So it has been for ages in society as in
nature with repetitions like the seasons that come and go. Yet, the present
moment is always of superior importance and the GIBS students and staff can
very well celebrate the hard labor across the weeks and months that seemed to
never end.
Both the occasions, the Convocation and Student of the Year, did motivate
with the presence of august personalities from a broad spectrum of academics,
industry and corporates. Inspiration is so much in short supply these days with
the media constantly repeating stories of wrongdoing. It becomes so difficult
to uphold values and traditions and convince the world that life is worth
living in such conditions. Perhaps it would be worthy to emulate the lotus that
is intimately tied up with Indian spiritual traditions. The lotus may grow in
muddy water but keeps itself proudly aloft above the water surface in
resplendent beauty.
Enormous
organizational challenges
Those who see only the external manifestations are probably making a
mistake. The difference lies between being the passenger and the driver of a
bus. Putting together events of such magnitude presents a serious challenge not
only in terms of monetary resources, creativity and materials like furniture
but also the logistics and the conception. Can it all be left in the hands of
professional event managers? Partly, yes, but the students need to learn and
experience is always the best teacher.
Starting with the cleaning and the furniture arrangements, the stage
arrangements, the program being drawn up and the formalities observed, it was a
long, long journey of practice and more practice. As management students, it
was all excellent rehearsing for future roles. Feeling involved and dedicated,
participating with feelings and emotions, since the date soon approaches to say
goodbye to pursue individual careers. Keeping in touch has never been easier than
nowadays with all the technology and the social media, but the face to face
companionship in the GIBS campus must now come to an end.
The Convocation
Fulfillment
The graduation moment and ecstasy comes but rarely to most people.
Life does sometimes appear like a race for degrees in the belief that the
higher qualifications would ensure better professional positions, success in
society and dazzling reputations. Yet, too many degrees may only encourage
theoretical thinking and a divorce from the realities of life. Practical
approaches apply more passionately to professional courses like the management
studies at GIBS. Many dreams came true on that Convocation date when the
deserving girls and boys were officially blessed with the degrees that would
usher them through many professional peaks. The world beckons with open arms
and the luckiest ones would reach very far in the management race.
You get to wear that ceremonial convocation dress perhaps only once
but it is a charmed occasion! Those few minutes represent the culmination of
intense dreams built up over the years. Yet, the students have reached nowhere
professionally so far, though they contain enormous potential, like the little
seed that will grow into a towering colossus in good time. Some of them do
possess excellent work experience before they entered the management college
but a fresh start begins with the added feathers after the management degree.
And then came the
Student of the Year grand occasion
An ocean of talent does exist within the GIBS campus! Among the best
minds, probably most of the dedicated brains are concerned with management
careers. Management of money, HR, materials, manufacture and services lies
certainly above every other career. Management is truly universal like the sun
and shines upon every sector and profession, from the teeming cities full of
corporate mega-giants and the remotest areas in forests and deserts. Management
is truly the yardstick by means of which an organization may be judged.
The trophies and the medals, the mementos and the flowers did speak
many intimate languages of grand achievements and promises of splendid futures.
Savor the moment since the togetherness of the last two years is now ending.
Reunions may come later in life but those will be in changed circumstances,
perhaps as managers or sales executives. The innocence of the present moment
may soon be lost amidst the complexities of jobs and life, duties and
responsibility.
The speeches and the dances continue to reverberate in the mind. Recordings do remain in the form of images and videos to
be uploaded to GIBS websites to become a part of the institutional history.
Students particularly would remember the events through many decades. They
would frame the pictures and display them online and even in their home drawing
rooms and office chambers. The atmosphere and the recognitions would remain in
the memory to tell stories of achievement across a lifetime.
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