The Magical Orbs of IIMA

New Campus, IIMA

From Inside One of The Corridors, Main Campus

The New Campus

RJMCEI, Main Campus

Simple, aesthetic, thought-provoking, enigmatic...... these are a few words that crop up in my mind when I look at these huge circles carved out of brick in IIMA. It's difficult to decide upon the best description for them, but then I make up my mind - magical they are!

Be it the Main Campus or the New Campus, they beckon you from every facade. They make you pause and ponder. Each time I see them, I can't help admiring them. At times, I just stop in my tracks to take in the interesting sight. Views through these orbs are ever changing.The majestic circular apertures at each end of the CR complex in Main Campus, the twin orbs of RJMCEI, the smaller concrete ones of the New Campus, they all speak to you in a vocabulary of light and shade. In nights, do these circles represent black holes of ignorance, suggesting the infinite sea of gyaan, waiting for students once they are inside the institute? The early morning shafts of soft sunlight pouring through these orbs surely beckon students to the portals of learning. As the day progresses, they turn to solid beacons of light.

How do you interpret these circles? What would have inspired Kahn to design them? A circle is a never ending collection of infinite points. The institute serves the never ending quest for excellence.

I wonder if someone has ever counted the number of circles in both the campuses. Do let me know if you have!

The Blog

This blog was born sometime in the UK and then I had forgotten all about it. Luckily (for me, of course!) it was reborn after blogging caught my fancy again. I recently started blogging to keep family and friends updated on my stay at the campus. It was more to serve the purpose of bulk mail and the first post was a copy-paste of the mail I had written to family.The blog wasn't ready for wider circulation - yet. So I was taken by surprise when one fine morning, a mail announced my blog's inclusion in pgpx-blogosphere. Parag asked me if I minded being added to the blogger's club. No blogger worth her salt would say no to being read! I assented but at the same time, got a bit uncomfortable. A friend hit the nail when she asked if I would be 'sanitizing' my blogs as these might be read by the IIM community. It was a tricky choice and being indecisive, I just stopped writing! Is this what they call a Catch -22 situation? I couldn't say 'no' because I wanted to be read but couldn't write because I might be read :)