Khana Sutra - FOOD FOR LOVE

THERE’S NOTHING like sex to beat the recession blues. So here’s something that goes straight to the heart (rather groin) of the matter — Khana Sutra: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook by chef-turnedcookbook author Zubin D’Souza — through the gut. Collecting recipes from ayurveds, doctors, housewives, palace cooks, even sleazy street-side hakims, the book is peppered with sexual innuendos and ways of ‘making love, and not war’. For instance, the banana. Zubin says this potassium and vitamin-B-rich fruit is absolutely necessary for producing sexual hormones. Or, the pedestrian mustard seeds that spice up bedroom capers. Among the exotic stuff, there’s tomato-pineapple rasam, a double aphrodisiac as both tomato and pineapple possess ‘performance’ enhancing properties, and ghanne ka murgh (sugarcane, it seems, rejuvenates and energizes) to ‘mend a parched love life’. So indulge your hormones this weekend. Plan a repast to ‘solve all problems’ — bharwan gucchi for starters, murgh badaami kali mirch and dhoodhwala biryani for the main course, and ending with beriyon ka thal. How about that for some Saturday night lovin’?

Bill Gates-Live & Exclusive

“The biggest change for me – and it’s a major change – will be to think about how to improve the lives of the poorest people on the planet, whether they need education, to increase their harvest, or to find better medical treatment...”

On June 27, Bill Gates relinquished his full-time responsibilities at Microsoft, the US software company he co-founded with Paul Allen in 1975, to help guide the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that focuses on global health and education issues. In this most recent interview, Gates, 52, discusses his years at Microsoft, his new part-time role at the company and what he hopes to accomplish in the world of philanthropy.

Q: When you look back on the last 30 or so years, how do you assess your accomplishments?

A: What’s happened seems a little magical to me. We dreamed of an industry for software and tools that would give people more power. The personal computer has become that. Today we have a giant software industry that didn’t exist 30 years ago. We have 1 billion people who use a PC regularly and the variety of uses is phenomenal.

Q: When people talk about PCs, they think especially about productivity.

A: Maybe, but I think about the blind who used to have to wait for texts to be printed in Braille, and who can now surf the Internet for the most recent information. In schools, children are learning more easily, thanks to the computer. At work, designing a document is no longer a chore, but a service for the customer. We’re seeing products produced digitally, and the cost and production time are totally different now. And Microsoft is at the centre of this revolution that’s seen software installed in PCs and now in cell phones, televisions and cars. Microsoft has helped tens of thousands of companies in this industry grow on the platform we created.

Q: And you don’t regret anything?

A: Of course I can look back and think about some people I recruited, about certain times I acted naive, about acquisitions we made, or about things we could have launched sooner. But I wouldn’t change anything, because it’s a dream come true to have been able to play such an important role. We learned as we went along, including from our mistakes, because we were the first company to believe in the personal computer. The entire industry has expanded around our Basic operating system, then MS-DOS and, finally, Windows. ..Continue

Media marauders

The newsmakers are the news

Frequent assaults on scribes covering the Sri Lanka-LTTE conflict have triggered outrage among both local and international media rights groups. On March 14 morning a miscreant, wielding an iron club, ambushed Anurasiri Hettige as he waited for a bus in a Colombo suburb. Hettige became the fifth employee of the state television corporation Rupavahini to be attacked or threatened in the last three months.

Media rights groups say the attacks are linked to the December 27 incident that saw government minister Mervyn Silva storming into Rupavahini and abusing senior staff. Silva, who was upset by a news programme, had then allegedly been assaulted and daubed in paint by angry Rupavahini employees....Continue

ONE YEAR FULL-TIME GLOBAL PROGRAMME

PROGRAMME DETAILS

Widely acknowledged as the leader in providing global exposure to students, the 2008 ZEE Business survey of India’s Best B-Schools ranked
IIPM as the 7th Best B-School in India and ranked it the No.1 B-School in India in Global Exposure. At the first ever 2008 Best B-School
Awards in India organised by Deccan Herald, IIPM was awarded ‘India’s Most Innovative B-School Award for Its Unique Course Contents
and Global Exposure’.
In its endeavour to break new grounds in education in India, IIPM is proud to announce its first Global Executive Programme in Planning and
Entrepreneurship. The programme participants will undergo a unique programme spread over 1,400 contact hours in the space of twelve
months, making it the most rigorous and superior Executive Programme taught anywhere. The programme will have a phenomenal focus
on Economics, Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Personality Development, along with a compulsory specialisation in Marketing. A unique
combination of major electives in Finance and HR coupled with super specialisations in Investment Banking, International Marketing, Supply
Chain Management, MIS and IT etc. make up for the rest of the programme.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMME AT CHICAGO GSB

THE WORLD’S No.1 RANKED B-SCHOOL

What makes the programme perhaps most unique and distinct from any other similar programme in India is the compulsory International
Residency Programme on Advanced Global Management that the students will undergo at The Graduate School of Business, University
of Chicago. Chicago GSB is currently ranked as the No. 1 B-School in the world by Business Week as well as the Economist. It is the only
business school in the world to have as many as six Nobel prize winners from its faculty - two of whom are currently teaching as well. At
the end of the programme, all the students will be eligible for a certificate in Advanced Global Management from Chicago GSB.
Inclusive of the programme at Chicago GSB, students undertaking this programme will be spending four weeks in the US. THE ENTIRE
COST OF TRAVEL, BOARDING, LODGING AND TEACHING IS A PART OF THE PROGRAMME FEES. In India, the programme participants
will be taught by a mix of IIPM’s world-class faculty and faculty from leading global B-Schools. All students will go through a special course
on Strategic Marketing imparted by faculty from the Haas School of Business. The super specialisation on Investment Banking is conducted
along with faculty from NUS.
GLOBAL CERTIFICATION: Thus apart from IIPM’s certification and becoming eligible for an MBA degree from IMI, Brussels, students
doing this programme will get a certificate in Advanced Global Management from Chicago GSB, the World’s No. 1 Ranked B-School, and
a certificate in Strategic Marketing from Haas School of Business, the World’s No. 6 Ranked B-School. Additionally, the students who get
selected for the Investment Banking elective will get an additional Professional Certificate in Investment Banking from NUS, Singapore.
ADMISSIONS: The programme will be delivered only at the New Delhi campus of IIPM and commences in January ‘09. Admissions will
be based upon a written test cum group discussion and personal interview. The candidate’s current experience will be of crucial importance
since the programme requires high levels of the understanding of how global businesses work. Over and above that, a high emphasis will
be given on the personality of the student and his emotional quotient. THE NUMBER OF SEATS IN THE PROGRAMME IS STRICTLY LIMITED
TO 80 ONLY.

ALL SELECTED STUDENTS CAN AVAIL BANK LOANS FROM IIPM’S BANKING PARTNERS

COLLECT YOUR FREE PROSPECTUS (IN PERSON OR BY POST) FROM IIPM OFFICE TODAY ITSELF
ADMISSIONS OFFICE: IIPM, NBCC Plaza, Sector 5, Pushpa Vihar, SAKET, New Delhi-110017
IIPM Campus, Satbari, Chattarpur Road, New Delhi-110074; E-mail : info@iipm.edu

“Wow!!!”, isn’t she?!?!

Rangita pritish NANDY... is a dexterous go-getter, with no ‘side-effects’ whatsoever!

As Creative Director, Pritish Nandy Communications, Rangita has received rave reviews for some of her acclaimed films like Jhankaar beats, Chameli, Shabd and Pyaar Ke Side Effects. Speaking to 4Ps B&M, Pritish Nandy fondly enumerated his daughter’s contribution to the company. “Rangita was barely in her teens when she joined us, but she brought a new generation perspective to the company. She has changed the way we run our business and has strengthened the youth element in our corporate structure, made it more vibrant. This is vital for a company like ours.”

And with 9 years of experience under her belt, what is her mantra for success today? “Rangita is creatively sound, so she has the ability to discover new ideas. Besides, she is excellent at team-building and management, which are very important,” says Pritish. With such allround qualities, how could one go wrong?!