Alliance Memoirs - Faculties

With bagful of dreams, a tinge of fear and arrays of expectations I, along with many others entered Alliance Business Academy (only to be disappointed later of course!). Since I intend to write about the faculty members, I restrict to that subject alone.

             In the first interactions with the faculty members, I was pleasantly surprised. Most of them were courteous, receptive to courtesy, friendly with students. Though a few of our faculty members were like that in graduation, the number was very few. So it was a good beginning in Alliance. In the first semester, it was bi-modular approach for us i.e. at any given day, only we needed to listen to the lectures of two faculties. Usually they would finish their quotas for the semester in about 15 days. This method, like any other method had its own advantages as well as disadvantages. This was a novelty for us then. But we got accustomed to it soon. As far as teachers are concerned, most of them had the quality and competence to deliver and some were downright comedians with their own trademark antics. I enjoyed listening to most of them and resented a very few. Some memorable ones…

Nandita chaterjee & Navodita misra: The very beginning of the first semester happened with these two faculties. They knew what they were teaching (This seems like an ordinary statement but if you have seen myriads of teachers and their competence level, you would understand the immensity of it!). They had the standards required for any premiere institutes. They would have been good ambassadors of Alliance if Alliance stood for what it proclaimed.

Kameswaran: I don’t remember listening to his lectures except for the first very few classes and he did not have any complaints about it. He was busy with his business and we were busy with ours. We were more enchanted to his English accent than to his accounts lecture perhaps! He had a bovine kind of character and never scolded anyone.

Smitha: Most of us pitied her because she was given more responsibility than she could ever handle. She was helpful for most of us during our internships or during dissertations. A teacher should exert some control over the class no matter what. Most of us felt she lacked it. Apart from that, she was good

Sivanandam: Took operations research for us. Most of the time went for his earlier experiences in voting machine and BPL rather than for OR. He taught us overheads. Most of the things he taught us were over our heads. Very few people understood what he taught.

Havaldar: A thorough gentleman,an alumni of IIMA. He was a near perfectionist, the only person like him was Dr.Rajesh. He did everything professionally, even when he scolded us. He had a  very good knowledge of what he taught us but i felt the only lacking point was his sense of humor.

Rudramurthy: A quarter of humor, a quarter of arrogance and the rest for knowledge: that’s Rudramurthy. His subject knowledge and his ability to deliver were unquestionable. Very few people who possess knowledge can inspire students to go for a quest for knowledge. This person was capable of that. The way he inspired people in the field of finance especially stock markets was simply amazing. One of the lecturers I truly admired. 

Jatinder: Though seemed very promising at the beginning, he failed to carry that drive. May be all of us failed him. In the end it felt like over promise, under delivery.

Rajesh: A true taskmaster, he knew how to extract work no matter which way it was. He did possess good knowledge and expected a great deal from students which sometimes seemed unrealistic. But he did it with good intentions obviously. One of the few lecturers I really respected and feared! 

All in all though I have my resentment towards Alliance in some issues, in the issues of faculties I have very less complaints.