I am really appalled by the cliche emanating from so many quarters in response to the placement at IIMA. I am passing out MBA and I have been going through all those articles describing the ‘desh-ki-dharti’ feeling. For God sake, does somebody know whats happening here in our country?
Last year, when an IIMA grad decided to give up an MNC job and start a school, that was a time we should have all stood up and applauded him for doing something differently. But painting the choice of one student who gave up Bain & Co job in Singapore to take up BCG job in Mumbai, as an act of patriotism would invite snickers from the fairly informed junta. The point here is not Singapore and Mumbai, chances are that one at each of these jobs may end up spending more time in the other’s location. The point is both are MNCs and both these places are emerging markets, the latter more attractive. So perhaps a student in Europe given a choice between these 2 jobs, would happily take up the Mumbai job simply because India is an emerging market with huge growth potential, the salary in PPP terms is lot better than the Singapore job…God! please keep the patriotism out of it.
Even an unpatriotic person would have taken the job merely because of his market sense. Gone or the days of ‘quality-of-life’ issues. Mumbai roads may not be as good as the NY roads, but you get the same Chevrolet, Mercedes, Saturns here on the road. There were time ‘quality-of-life’ argument held water because we were a closed economy. We are no more now.
Please stop glamourising the ‘India-choices’ of the B-School grads. The decisions are more based on green than the tricolour.
