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It all begins in the month of November as lacs of enthusiastic students with a common goal of seeking entry into the most prestigious of all B-schools, the Indian Institutes of management (a brand name that needs no mention) appear for the most intimidating of all entrance tests, the CAT usually held on the second or the third Sunday of the month every year. One of the toughest exams to crack, the CAT year after year continues to bewilder one and all with its unpredictable nature. With 2000 seats available at these leading institutes (IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Shillong) and approximately 3 lac students (a number that keeps on increasing every year and frightfully so) in the fray, gaining entry into the IIM is certainly not a child’s play. It certainly requires a great acumen, tremendous mental fortitude and a little bit of luck to crack the CAT (in fact it’s true of almost all the entrance exams in India), your first step towards a g

Slumdog millionaire loosely based on Vikas Swarup’s Q & A and directed by Englishman Danny Boyle managed to create a lot of hype after its release last month here in India. The movie is about a boy from the Indian slums who ends up becoming a millionaire as he answers all the questions put forth to him during a quiz-show (The Indian version of ‘who wants to be a millionaire?’). And what a coincidence that all these questions are somehow related to his past life which takes the movie into flashback intermittently. Even if we consider this absurd coincidence as a cinematic liberty, I’m still unsure if the movie really deserved all the kudos that it received from around the world. So imagine my surprise when this movie has now ended up bagging the supposedly prestigious Oscars in more than one category (eight to be precise). Apart from the fact that the movie is based in India and has an Indian cast at the helm, there is another Indian tinge to it. A.R.Rehman one of the most revered I