I am the least qualified to offer tips to aspirants, for my name figured on the waiting list and I could eventually make it only after somebody worthier opted out. But Ritesh ji has been threatening to ex-communicate me from IIMCAA, and hence the meek capitulation.
I think sailing through IIMC is both easy and difficult at the same time. Easy because it does not really require any preparation. And difficult because of the criminal demand-supply gap vis-à-vis seats on offer--35 (during my batch i.e. 2005-06).
If you want to be in the business of communication, you need to figure out what you have to say and say it effectively.
Try to gather information (read) on national and and international issues/controversies and contextualise them, give them a perspective.
Take a stand, howsoever "politically incorrect" it may be, and make sure you have the moral courage and intellectual wherewithal to justify it. For example, if you believe reservation policy is futile, or India was right in voting in favour of a UN resolution against Iran, say so. The idea is to come across as an independent thinker.
Sound knowledge base and an effective use of language as a tool will do the trick.
Please do not fall in love with any question. You may feel tempted to write endlessly on a certain question, but exercise restraint. You have to answer many questions.
Be consistent in terms of content, length and language of your answers.
Some issues worth looking at:
Recent developments in Nepal and Pakistan and the consequent impact on India's bilateral relations with them. For example, Maoists in Nepal have already made their intentions clear by asserting that they would scrap all previous pacts with India and renegotiate them afresh.
I think sailing through IIMC is both easy and difficult at the same time. Easy because it does not really require any preparation. And difficult because of the criminal demand-supply gap vis-à-vis seats on offer--35 (during my batch i.e. 2005-06).
If you want to be in the business of communication, you need to figure out what you have to say and say it effectively.
Try to gather information (read) on national and and international issues/controversies and contextualise them, give them a perspective.
Take a stand, howsoever "politically incorrect" it may be, and make sure you have the moral courage and intellectual wherewithal to justify it. For example, if you believe reservation policy is futile, or India was right in voting in favour of a UN resolution against Iran, say so. The idea is to come across as an independent thinker.
Sound knowledge base and an effective use of language as a tool will do the trick.
Please do not fall in love with any question. You may feel tempted to write endlessly on a certain question, but exercise restraint. You have to answer many questions.
Be consistent in terms of content, length and language of your answers.
Some issues worth looking at:
Recent developments in Nepal and Pakistan and the consequent impact on India's bilateral relations with them. For example, Maoists in Nepal have already made their intentions clear by asserting that they would scrap all previous pacts with India and renegotiate them afresh.
Chinese government's crackdown on pro-independence protests in Lhasa. You can link it with the 1989 pro-democracy students protests on Tiananmen Square, where Chinese military tanks crushed thousands of college-goers.
Bhutan election--an exemplary initiative to shift from monarchy to democracy, peacefully and voluntarily. You can contrast the event with Nepal's former King Gyanendra who doggedly refused to abdicate the thrown before he was upstaged by a pro-democracy movement spearheaded by the Maoists.
A broad overview of the newest version of cricket, that is, T20 (IPL) (Do you think it's "McDonaldisation" of the game?.
Bhutan election--an exemplary initiative to shift from monarchy to democracy, peacefully and voluntarily. You can contrast the event with Nepal's former King Gyanendra who doggedly refused to abdicate the thrown before he was upstaged by a pro-democracy movement spearheaded by the Maoists.
A broad overview of the newest version of cricket, that is, T20 (IPL) (Do you think it's "McDonaldisation" of the game?.
Evaluate other pros and cons and try to bring in the Bhajji-Sreesanth "slap saga", besides the question of desirability of cheerleaders in the game.
Special Economic Zones..Their desirability..land grab or engine of economic growth?
Inflation and global food shortage..reasons..(Yes, us Indians and the Chinese!!..billions of mouths to be fed here, export bans by these nations..leading to a food supply crunch..rising crude oil prices..diversion of food grain (maize) by the US and Europe for bio-fuel production..)
Indo-US nuclear deal (People have whined, talked, written about it ad-nauseum..but it continues to be the most challenging foreign policy decision for India).
Also, try and form an understanding of how TV news media is functioning, its content, presentation and priorities. do you see it trivialising news, and in the process, undermining democracy, dumbing you down? Is it suspending your conscience, your thought process, either by sensationalism, or by upping the glamour quotient? You would also do well to analyse a few TV serials, soap operas and see what values they are propagating...how regressive or progressive they are..
Inflation and global food shortage..reasons..(Yes, us Indians and the Chinese!!..billions of mouths to be fed here, export bans by these nations..leading to a food supply crunch..rising crude oil prices..diversion of food grain (maize) by the US and Europe for bio-fuel production..)
Indo-US nuclear deal (People have whined, talked, written about it ad-nauseum..but it continues to be the most challenging foreign policy decision for India).
Also, try and form an understanding of how TV news media is functioning, its content, presentation and priorities. do you see it trivialising news, and in the process, undermining democracy, dumbing you down? Is it suspending your conscience, your thought process, either by sensationalism, or by upping the glamour quotient? You would also do well to analyse a few TV serials, soap operas and see what values they are propagating...how regressive or progressive they are..
Finally, see if you can read the last few editions of frontline, it's a fortnightly magazine and pratiyogita darpan. And of course, newspaper edits are a must...
A reposeful and inviting IIMC is looking forward to having you as its students!!!
Contributed by:- Shreejay Sinha
A reposeful and inviting IIMC is looking forward to having you as its students!!!
Contributed by:- Shreejay Sinha
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