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IIM Bangalore celebrates 50 glorious years with the launch of the Institute’s song

Music Director Navneeth Sundar, alumni and student representatives launch the song with IIMB Director Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan

9 October, 2023, Bengaluru: As Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year, one of the projects envisaged to mark the milestone is a song on the institute. The ‘IIMB Song’ has been written by the institute’s alumni and rendered by faculty, students, staff and alumni – all talented artistes in their own right. 

The audio track of the song, with a rousing chorus that celebrates the IIMB motto, was released by Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore; a team from Kavithalaya Productions represented by their Creative Producer Professor Kandaswamy Bharathan (online) and Music Director Navneeth Sundar (in person); member of the winning team of lyricists Davella Pashupati, and Presidents of the Student Affairs Councils (SAC) of all four degree-granting programmes at IIMB – Abhishek Bhattacharjee from the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme, Saurav Kumar from the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM), Govinda Raju M from the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), and Harsav Bessariya from the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP).

Prof. Rajendra K Bandi, Dean, Administration and faculty of the Information Systems area of IIMB, several faculty members, students, alumni and staff of IIM Bangalore were present at the launch. The audio release was followed by the launch of the music video, both of which are available on all social media platforms of IIMB.

The song has been created by in-house talent. It has been penned by IIMB alumni Davella Pashupati (author and entrepreneur), Satyajit Sengupta (Chief Corporate Sales and Marketing Officer, DB Corp Ltd.) and Sonal Thohan (Head - Strategy, Transformation and Program Management, Amazon), all students of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), Class of 1998. While Sonal is based in USA, Satyajit is in Mumbai and Pashupati in Bangalore. Faculty, alumni, students and staff have sung the song set to music by well-known music director Navneeth Sundar and Kavithalayaa Films led by its Creative Producer Professor Kandaswamy Bharathan.

The singers include Prof. Srivardhini K Jha, Chairperson, NSRCEL and faculty of the Entrepreneurship area of IIMB; Prof. Aditya Shrinivas of the Economics area of IIMB; Manasi Prasad, IIMB alumna and well known artiste; Aju John Varghese; Anuska Baidya Roy; Usha Ganesan; Mitalee Kulkarni; Chinmay Deshmukh; P. V. Abhilash and Ishan Bagul. The guitarists are students Vatsal Mankodi, Jayant R Yadav and Neelam Topno. The jury members include Prof. M S Sriram of the Public Policy area of IIMB, Prof. Gaurav Jakhu of the Economics area of IIMB, and Srinivas Vijayaraghavan, IIMB alumnus.

Participating in the event virtually, Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, Member of the Golden Jubilee Committee of IIMB, said that the IIMB Song resonates with the spirit of celebration of IIMB and also reflects the amount of talent that exists within the IIMB community. “It is with a spirit of celebration and joy that we witness this historic moment for IIMB,” she added.

Thanking everyone who contributed to making of the song, Prof. R T Krishnan said: “It would add to our Golden Jubilee Foundation Week celebrations when the Hon’ble President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu formally releases the song during her visit to the campus on 26th October.”

Member of the winning team of lyricists Davella Pashupati was present in person at the launch. On behalf of the two other lyricists, he said: “When IIMB first announced the song contest, we viewed it as an opportunity to collaborate creatively to voice our deep connection and gratitude for our alma mater. We owe much of our management knowledge, professional values and accomplishments to IIMB. Our learning and experiences at the institute gave us the skills to deal with the rigours of our professional journeys. So, what we penned came straight from our hearts…we mean every word of it. We were especially keen to highlight the institute’s mission, values and impact across the world.”

Professor Kandaswamy Bharathan shared that the thought behind putting the song together was to make it a signature song.

Golden Jubilee Song Committee members Komala Devi and Utanka Sarma compered the event and delivered the vote of thanks, respectively.

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