Notes from the Tycoons journal - P1

Tycoons 2008 was a nation wide leadership hunt. It started off as a hunt for India's youth business leader (which was why I was drawn to participate in it at the first place). However, towards the end, it seemed like the hunt had transformed more for a leader in the public domain (society,politics, welfare and the kinds).

Round 1 was an inter-college round. We had about 50 people participating from NIT Hamirpur. 6 of us were short-listed to go to the City round (the Metro of Hamirpur round). At the city round (which was at the Career Launcher centre in town), only 3 of had turned up from the insti- Neha, Brighu and I. There were 4 others from other colleges nearby. We had a couple of rounds of quizes followed by an extempore (which was a mere formality).


Out of 7, 2 of us (Brighu and I) were selected to represent the City in the Regional round at Chandigarh. This was where the real competition was. Round 1 was a Micro presentation. Every participant was required to make a presentation on an Indian business tycoon to a panel. My tycoon was (and has always been and will be) NRM. We then had a role play. Out of 27 that were at the Regionals, 10 were shortlisted for the next round which was a debate. The topic read as: India is growing but not everyone is benefiting. We drew lots to go for and against (I got against). From this 10 that had made it to the debate, 5 were picked to go to the Nationals. Ketan, Rahul, Zoya, Abhinav and I were the contestants chosen to represent the Chandigarh zone at the finals in Delhi. That night, we partied at Copper Chimney :), courtesy CL.

Since Deccan was one of the chief sponsors, we actually flew to Delhi from C'garh (not bad, eh!). 48 of us from practically every part of the country were there (barring NE). We had an orientation session with Satya and the other facilitators (Aashish, Amit and Krishna). After dinner, we picked up our luggages and filled into 3 buses and headed towards Rishikesh,Uttaranchal for the outbound round.

(to be continued).