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Mumbai, June 18
Online communities in India have in the past year come of age and begun creating real world differences in people’s lives by sharing knowledge and networks. Participants in online communities have started warming up to meeting each other in real life and replicating their online experiences in an offline environment.
In the first national-level event of its kind in India, forty four people including students of top Business Schools such as the Indian Institutes of Management, XLRI-Jamshedpur, FMS-Delhi and The Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania and MBA hopefuls from across the country, all members of PaGaLGuY.com - India’s largest community-based online portal for MBA preparation – left their online cocoons to spend a day with each other and share gyaan about cracking the top MBA colleges in India and abroad.
The meeting, called the ‘All India Pagalguy Meet 2007’(AIPGM), was held at a beach resort near Alibaugh, Maharashtra on June 2 and 3, 2007 and was sponsored by IMS Learning Resources, India’s leading coaching institute for MBA entrance exams. This enabled Pagalguy.com to sponsor air-tickets for all who wanted to be part of the meet and take care of accommodation and other expenses.
Participants at the meet got an opportunity to interact directly with students and alumni from top Indian b-schools working at top companies such as McKinsey & Co, TCS, IBM, Infosys and more and know their success stories of cracking the top B-schools while exploring the beautiful seaside surroundings of Alibaugh.
All these users normally know each other through their online personas on the Pagalguy.com discussion boards, where over 1 lakh people enroll for free to discuss tips and tricks about cracking the CAT, XAT, SNAP, GMAT, CET and other key MBA entrance exams.
Founder and CEO of PaGaLGuY.com, Allwin Agnel says, “PaGaLGuY.com will continue to get the sharpest and brightest talent of the country in the MBA together to inspire, educate and help each other in informal environments, thus making preparation for MBA a fun activity.
“Being a part of the AIPGM not only reminded me of my days of CAT preparation but also gave me a wonderful chance to reunite with my old PG friends as well as make new ones. There is always an element of strangeness attached when you talk to people online thus a meet like this gives us all an opportunity to meet and know each other offline as well,” states Suhas Anand an IIM Ahmedabad graduate who currently works in McKinsey & Co.
“The AIPGM was an exquisite experience. Most of us met each other personally for the first time, but the underlying bond that was built on the online discussion boards was so strong that it seemed as though we had known each other for ages. The amity and trust amongst the lot was self-evident. It was awesome, the way we lay under the moonlit night, having informal chats and discourses on cracking MBA exams and everything under the sun,” says meet participant Rajat Mishra, an IIM Ahmedabad first year student who also got through ISB Hyderabad with a GMAT score of 740.
“Three striking aspects at the meet included the diversity of people - from B-school aspirants to IIM-Ahmedabad veterans, from 20-year old ‘newbies’ to 30-year old ‘pros’. The camaraderie - everyone was meeting the other for possibly the first time yet there were hugs that we reserve only for long-lost friends. The joviality - when you let your hair down (figuratively and literally).”
“The most unique thing about this year’s meet was the location. Alibaugh is a beautiful place and having so many Pagalguy members together made things even better. I have been to several Pagalguy city meets in Delhi and Hyderabad but this was different because one could share their experiences with the MBA degree from people across the country!” Juhi Khanna, who had come all the way from the Delhi School of Economics said.
For further information, please contact
Rohit Awasthi
Tel no: 9323463074
Address: PaGaLGuY.com
Inzane Labs
53/55, Modi Street
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Mumbai 400 001
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