Beyond the bricks: IIMA’s progression through decades
One of the country’s top-ranking B-School, The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which is into its 63rd year, has seen marked changes over decades, including its operating style, profile of faculty, and students… and some would say even thinking. RITU SHARMA reports Located in Vastrapur — which was once a suburb of Ahmedabad in the 1960s, and is now an upscale locality of the city— the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has grabbed headlines multiple times for a diverse set of reasons in the past couple of years. Be it the discussion to bring down the buildings designed by famous American architect Louis Kahn, which are now dilapidated, or to tweak the logo that takes after the stone lattice work from a city mosque, the enrolment of actor Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda in its Blended Post Graduate Programme and lately, the alleged suicide of 24-year-old student Akshit Bhukya on the campus — the institute continues to be in the public eye. The institute has been topping the National Institutional Ranking Framework …
