IIM-C interview experience

So I have had my IIM-C interview too.
Venue: IIMB
Date: 16th March
Time: 9:30 am
Reach place before time and find that my name is 10th in the 3rd panel(but it turns out that i am 11th as another gets added to the panel)
We go into the room filled with smoke and sound emanating from a stuck cd. So we are told the pattern where we have the GD topic, 3minutes to think, 12 minutes for discussion and each person called in random order for a 1-minute speech on the topic.
The topic for GD was : 'Poor countries cannot afford to protect the environment'
I think I did ok. It was a bit of a fish market for some periods of time but decent overall.
By the time I went in for PI, it was 12:45 and I was absolutely famished.So I go into the room with all my thoughts on food.The interview for previous people had a few questions on acads, so I go in expecting the worst
I get asked to tell about my self.The second line, I mention books and get asked about the last book I read.I say fiction : Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe and Non-ficiton: Globalisation and its discontents(I mentioned it as discontents of globalisation)And currently reading the 'End of Poverty'
Then one prof says the name of the book is 'Globalisation and its discontents' and I say maybe he is right but I remembered the title in that way. Then asked about author, Joseph Stitglitz
Then a little gyaan about the book. I talk about IMF and how it has proposed single solution for all countries and so on.. All top people from Europe and US and so on.
Then we talked about the places that I stayed.The common problems of AP and Maharastra.Farmers and Separate State.Inbetween they asked me stuff about my job which I mucked up and then made a statement in between which said 'I am not particularly attached to machines'
Then one prof asks about some techonology which I hadn't come across and I say there wasn't the need for me and he talks about the curiousity and I smile.
Then one prof realised that my parents did their Bachelor of Divinity digree and wanted to know about the Theological university in West Bengal. Serampore(I wanted to talk more but then they talked within themselves)
Towards the end we talked about small states pros and cons.And then about making Nagpur the capital of India. I say that other than employment generation it would be too costly now.
end of interview.

My IIM-A GD-Interview Experience

I just returned home from the interview and before it gets any later let me post!I think I knew almost everyone in my panel before we started. The order from the 2nd person to me (6th) was the same as in the Lucknow panel
Oh the details are:
Date : 1st March
Time: 9 AM
Venue: IIMB
We are called inside for the GD a few minutes(2-3) before 9 and instructions were given.
We had a case which was about a woman in a software firm who complains to her superior about assault! and so on so forth.
It was not all that long but in my opinion a little bit of a bore(not very much to talk about)I came in a 3 times and sat quietly the rest of the time.So my assesment of my performance in the GD : Not bad but then it wasn't good. so lets say it was average(good part being i didn't make any mistakes because i didn't talk much)

Now for the PI. After hearing all those stories about how acad heavy the interviews for A are I just went in like a lamb to be slaughtered!
Oh and there were 3 members on the panel.
The Left(L), Centre(C), Right(R) and me (M)
C: So you are Sanjeev?
M & R: No it is Sajeev
C: so tell us about yourself?
M: blah blah about reading and football (2-3 sentences and i get stopped i think)
C: so you are working?
M: yes
So 2 minutes about company and the work I do(which isn't much)
Then C asks me a question in maths(geometry and coordinate goemetry): I answer a bit but then the most critical calculation i say i cna't do it now!
R: Violence in its various forms is a result of religion
We have a discussion for the next 10 to 12 minutes which goes from Ireland to Bosnia to Spain to Latin America to Middle East to Phillipines.In which I try to say it isn't necessarily religion but also race an other things and religion is used to provide justification.
R: What is the theory which uses religion called?
M: i first say ' Clash of cultures' and then a few seconds recollect and say 'Clash of Civilizations' but can't remember the author's name
They kept trying to make me reverse my stand but I said that if some of the other problems were solved then the voilence would abate.
Then finally I say towards the end:
"It does seem that mankind does not like to live in peace and it can be attributed to religion. However if we look at what happened in Germany after unification one of the first things that the parliament did was to apologize to Israel for what happened during the World War II. So the very fact that Germany and Israel have diplomatic relations today ....(a little pause) can be put down in some people's perspective down to religion."
They look at each other and nod and say thanks:Take a toffee.Again there are thanks all round and C says : All the best!!
And my A interview was over!