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GLOBAL ALUMNI MEET –GLAM 2026

12 December 2026 | Register Now  Dear WIMWIans, This December, make it GLAM. For the first time in IIMA’s history, alumni across every batch and programme will come together for the Global…

Management Lessons in Thirukkural: Part 2

(Part 1 appeared in the February 2026 issue) By Subbarayan Srinivasan, PGP 1970 Managing Challenges:  In “Porutpaal” under “Arasiyal” (Administration), Thiruvalluvar envisages the challenges before kings, offering lessons relevant to government and…

The Lineage-Based Origin of the Shudra Varna: An Ethno-Genetic and Scriptural Re-Evaluation

By Ajay Joshi, PGP 1980    The Shudra Varna was established primarily on ancestral lineage and tribal identity rather than occupational division. Scriptural, comparative Zoroastrian, and archaeogenetic data reveal that the barrier separating…

IIMA HEALTHCARE SUMMIT 2026

Advancing AI in Healthcare | 22 August 2026  |  IIM Ahmedabad By Lalit Singla, EEP 2010 The IIMA Healthcare Alumni Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Centre for Management of Health Services…

Celebrating a Faculty Reunion: A “Guru Dakshina” by PGP ’76

The story of the PGP ’76 Golden Reunion in January earlier this year, in which 85-plus of our 130 contactable classmates participated along with more than 70 spouses and family members in…

Reconnecting in Sri Lanka: PGP 1972 Batch Reunion

By P. Ramnath, PGP 1972 It was Southward Ho! for our enthusiastic RU group in 2025 when Subbu decided to get us all down to Mamallapuram for a change from earlier trips…

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Contributions to IIMA by Endowment Fund, IIMA | OCT 2026

Alumni support has long shaped what IIMA can build, and through the IIMA Endowment Fund, that support continues to turn into lasting impact on campus. Building India’s Finance Research Ecosystem: The Mattu…

The Monk and the Machine

By Madhukar Parikh | EDP 2007 Synopsis  The book follows Arjun, an overwhelmed shop floor supervisor struggling with production targets, breakdowns, workplace pressures, and declining peace. His life changes when he meets…

Visakhapatnam: A History of Continuity, Change, and Cosmopolitanism

Co-edited by Nalini Bikkina (FDP 2012) and Abhijit Dasgupta  Synopsis This book offers a social science narrative on the evolution of Andhra Pradesh’s major coastal metropolis. Moving beyond traditional quantitative urban studies,…

Thinking In Categories

By Neetu Barmecha, PGPX 2019 Synopsis Most of the learning in business comes from doing the groundwork and working on real-world problems. Thinking in Categories draws on the author’s experience in category…

Encounters with Infinity: Three Plays on Science History

By Nilanjan P. Choudhury, PGP 1998 Synopsis The book is a trilogy of plays, based on the lives of three pioneering physicists from the Indian subcontinent. The first play, The Square Root of…

The Fascination Station:  Journeys into the Extraordinary Ordinary

By N S VIJAYA KUMAR, PGP 1976 Synopsis This book is a collection of essays drawn from the episodes of the podcast THE-FASCINATION-STATION-WITH-VIJAY and also a few of my pre-podcast adventures. This…