Today, January 26th, is Republic Day in India. It's a federal holiday celebrating the ratification of the Indian Constitution in 1950... India declared its independence from Great Britain in 1947. Because it's a federal holiday, we don't have class and everything is closed - it's also a dry holiday.
To celebrate Republic Day, most students are sleeping off the alcohol from last night's school-wide party. Yesterday, the Financial Times named ISB the twelfth "best" graduate business school in the world. Naturally, one would expect the campus to be pleased. The students and administration went over the top. Classes were moved back an hour to accommodate a celebratory lunch and the administration threw a big party last night, complete with food, booze, music and hookahs.
While I'm glad that the rankings benefited the school, they definitely made too big of a deal about it, especially given the arbitrary nature of the rankings. Also, I see a bit of a disconnect. In class the other day (and this has happened a few times), the professor went around the room to see who did the homework. Of the entire class, only three people completed the assignment - the three exchange students.
Just think if they'd have made the top 10!
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