The Citizen starts a series on the International Business Fest at IIT Bombay’s Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

Avenues is the International Business festival of IIT Bombay organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. It consists of a potpourri of management events targeted at the budding managers and combines learning with fun. Management students across the globe participate in this extravaganza to outdo and outlast the competition.

Avenues is completely conceptualized, organized and executed by the students. Both juniors and seniors work together to design the event, partner with the industry and ensure that all the events are heavily contested and judged by the best known people from the industry and academia. Students market the entire event amongst the top B-schools across the globe and execute it. Avenues has opened its gates for International business schools as well as corporates for the first time this year.

Alankar - The Global Leadership Summit is organized as a part of Avenues. It presents an opportunity to understand the persistent efforts put in and tribulations endured by eminent leaders who pursued their ambitions to reality. Alankar has an illustrious legacy with eminent personalities from diverse fields delivering thought provoking lectures and sharing their secrets of success. Eminent speakers like Kamal Hassan, Harsha Bogle, Adi Godrej, Rajat Sharma, Lucky Ali and Alyque Padamsee, to name a few, have graced the occasion in the past. Our dignitaries have all shared the stage and shed light on vivid topics ranging from the telecom revolution to the financial turmoil and from the Indian missile defense program to the philosophies of achievement of Nirvana.

Alankar is the biggest and most prestigious leadership event at IIT Bombay in recent times. A host of distinguished leaders, change-makers and speakers have graciously accepted our invitation to interact with the young students. We are excited by the prospect of a rich and fruitful interaction between these eminent personalities and the student audience and are hopeful that their august company will leave an indelible impression on the future leaders of our country.

Dr. Mylsamy Annadurai, Program Director, ISRO Mangalyaan and Chandrayaan Missions has agreed to grace the occasion as one of the speakers for Alankar-2014.

ISRO is probably the most-admired institution in the country today and it has rightly won a lot of acclaim for its frugal innovations in space research in the last few decades. ISRO stands tall on the shoulders of scientists and leaders like Mr. M. Annadurai, who currently serves as the Programme Director for IRS&SSS (Indian Remote Sensing & Small, Science and Student Satellites) that include Chandrayaan-1, Chandrayaan-2, ASTROSAT, Aditya-1, Mars Orbiter Mission and many Indian Remote Sensing missions.

Annadurai joined the organization in 1982 and has risen through the ranks by dint of hard work and undaunted commitment to science and innovation. He has served the nation in multiple capacities, first as Mission Director of the INSAT missions, Assistant Director of the GSAT-3EDUSAT project and as the Project Director for Chandrayaan-1. The latest feather in his cap is the successful Mangalyaan mission, where astonishing cost-innovation was married to scientific precision.

The INSAT satellites transformed the communications landscape of the country and the technological prowess depicted in the Chandrayaan and the Mars Mission will hold the nation in good stead in the years to come. However, making the claim that Mr. Annadurai is a typical brilliant scientist would be doing him an injustice as he is known to dabble in Tamil literature. He has published two books, "Kaiyaruke Nila" and "Ariviyal Kalanjiyam". The Book, “Kaiyaruke Nila“ has won the S. P. Adithanar Literary award for the year 2013.

Dr. Mylsamy Annadurai’s leadership lecture has gathered lot of interest not only amongst the student community but also amongst the faculty of IIT Bombay. “I am really excited to have an opportunity to witness a lecture by Dr. Annadurai, a scientist who played a very prominent role in launching Mangalyaan, India’s first mission to Mars. It would be really inspiring to learn what motivated him to undertake this seemingly impossible task and successfully pulling it off in the very first attempt”, said Deepan, a second year student of SJMSoM, IIT Bombay.

“Taking the legacy of Alankar forward, we have some eminent speakers from across industries lined up for the leadership summit this year. The other speakers who are going to grace the occasion promise to be equally exciting”, said Chinmay one of the Organizing Committee member.

(The writer is a student at SJMSoM, IIT Bombay)

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