The Tossed Salad

December 19th 2008, Sahil and me landed in Bombay for the annual IIT-Bombay fest Mood Indigo. Reaching Bombay was one hectic thing we had to go through as there was a confusion regarding the bus timings due to which we had to miss the first two buses and then board the third one finally.

On reaching the Powai campus and on completing the registrations and other formalities, we headed towards the accomodation and right after dumping our bags at respective places, we went on a campus tour just to get a feeling of what was actually awaiting us.

Mood Indigo seemed dead this year although it was the 50th year for IIT-B. The crowd was depressing and the organizers themselves were in a maze. Mismanagement of events and cancellation of many more put the crowd off. Unlike the yesteryears, the campus wasn’t brimming with life.

When the general feeling of the crowd was conveyed to them, the feelings of the organizers seemed juvenile and vulnerable as they could not take in criticism in a positive way but literally misbehaved with us. I understand that our magazine is not as big a name as TOI or The Indian Express and that we are just five months old but that doesn’t mean that one has the right to misbehave with anybody by telling us “you are black mailing us in the name of Press”.

It is surprising how the misconcepted biggest brains in the country behave when it comes to handling practical situations like these. Any sensible person would have actually taken the criticism and made use of it to improve themselves but it seems that IITians think no end of themselves hence they claim that they are mature enough and do not need to prove it to anyone else.

with single digit number employees, trying to get pageviews in one day what we are currently getting in one month, seems difficult to us. especially when there is no one on strategy, marketing. we’re only writers at the moment.
looking for people who would be interested to experiment in online marketing, etc.
just asked one mba student to join us. and he is interested. let’s see what gain out from him.
people have mentioned that we have quality content. what do you guys think?
any ideas that we might have from you. do let us know. cheers.