Saturday, March 24, 2012

Of Social Capital

Last night I was lucky to spend a couple of hours with the electric personality on campus. Loved by all, our dearest BABA. This conversation sparked quite a few thoughts in my mind about this place, the way the culture moulds itself, the way it is passed on from one generation to the other and the way it has impacted me and to some extent changed me.

'Third term is a social term'- a brilliant person once told me. And that did turn out to be very true. In second term, the concept of groups did not exist. People felt free to talk to each other. Didn't matter what kind of MBA are neither was there any sort of faction-ism. Large number of people talked to each other, the birthday hooshings were much more crowded and there was togetherness. So what exactly did happen that changed the social dynamics entirely?

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