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One of the biggest take aways and advantages of being at Jamnalal Bajaj is getting to listen to The Smoking Godfather and The Czar of The Bazaar. If you are lucky enough, you will be able to witness them in their pristine glory. If you are luckier still, you will have the good fortune of being reviled and vilified by them. And if you go a step further, you will pick up some invaluable lessons from them that will stay with you through your life.

While they purportedly teach 'Operations Management' and 'Financial Management' respectively, their interactions with us are more like sessions on Philosophy and Art of Living. Both The Smoking Godfather and The Czar of The Bazaar are among the classiest men that anyone can ever know. They command respect by the sheer dint of their persona. When they enter the room, people are awestruck; When they talk, people listen without the blink of an eye; When they teach, we not only learn, we get curious and delve deep in the subject.

The Smoking Godfather is flamboyance personified. He is tough, but he is also deeply caring and warm. If someone wants to learn the nuances of oratory, he is the man to learn from. While his stories are wonderful to hear, he never looses focus of the big picture. Cutting the cycle time is always topmost on his agenda. Operations Management is a pleasurable subject because of him. He always makes an offer that you cannot refuse. Getting up at 5 and attending his 7 o' clock  lecture is something that I always look forward to. The photograph that you see attached with my profile is one of my most cherished ones.

The Czar of the Bazaar is one of the top five individual investors in the country. If this was not enough, he refuses to take any credit for it. He is always asking us to look within to find our answers, asking us to find better ways of getting frustrated than commiting stupidity. And while he teaches us Financial Management, his biggest contributions to my life have been teaching me the significance of Grace of God and the Principle of the Marginal.

Prof. Moradian and Prof. Mankekar play a big role in making Jamnalal Bajaj what it is, be it being there for the students in distress, or be it carrying forward the legacy of the institute.

I'm too small a person, a non entity, and am transgressing my brief by writing about them. Both of them are Gods in their own rights. I'm a mere mortal fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time.