AvantGarde

Editorial (Sept’12)

“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
- Gaston Bachelard
With its September issue, Team AG happily introduces the Junior AG team to its readers. It’s a moment of great pleasure for us to pass on the legacy with a belief [...]

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The Tech-Ila-Sizzlers sizzles at Super Techies show

World resigns when IIT Kanpur MBA students contest!!

Success of an educational institute is exhibited by its alumni when they distinguish themselves through different endeavours around the world. Over the last many years, alumni of MBA IIT Kanpur have shown their presence across the occupations. They have conquered every opportunity in different territories winning accolades to [...]

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Diffusing Aroma of Jaggery: A curious case of Gur mandi, Jalandhar

Abstract
With the FDI in retail knocking at the doors of the major Indian cities, here is a study on how already the organized sector has impacted the way shopping is done in India. With the long history of clustered selling of products, known as traditional bazaar, the historical depiction of India has been through its [...]

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Dr. Verghese Kurien and his contribution to the nation (Part 1)

Inception of Amul
About some 100 kms from Ahmedabad lies a small city named Anand. The city is known as the Milk Capital of India due to presence of the famous Amul Dairy there. Amul – one of the most famous Dairy brands of our country came into existence in 1946. During that time there [...]

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Independence or Inter-Dependence : Illegal Immigrants and the Assam Exodus

Independence Day was celebrated in IIT Kanpur campus with much vigor and color and with the cultural program being performed by students. Here we have a mixture of students coming from all over the country and we in a true sense represent the fundamentals of the country that is “Unity in Diversity”. But have we [...]

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Internship Experience at BEHR India (Anand Group)

First year at IIT Kanpur (MBA) concluded with an internship opportunity at Anand Group in Supply Chain Domain.
First day was great at BEHR India, Pune (Anand Group Company). It all started with an interaction with the HR manager. She discussed about the company, expectations from me as an intern etc. Later, I met my reporting [...]

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Quizomania-1

1) Dr. Varghese Kurien Known as a Milkman of India Died on 09th September 2012 started his Career with AMUL. What is the full form of AMUL?
2) What does word cherry Picking means in terms of bargaining?
3) Which Smartphone operating system is also known as ‘ ice cream sandwich”
4) Hub and spoke distribution strategy is [...]

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Answers (Quizomania-1)

1 – Anand Milk Union Limited
2 – Bargaining by going from store to store to get the best deal
3 – Android – 4.0
4 – Tata Nano
5 – Carrefour is one of the biggest European retailers, and it’s also French for crossroads. The logo symbolizes this word via two opposite arrows. They also added the first [...]

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