part of the students learning experiences says morganat the sp jain center of management in singapore and dubai dean debashis chatterjee uses unusual methods such as smilo or self mastery in life and organisation learning he believes happens not so much through lectures but through total immersion in the learning process so smilo encourages students to work on projects such as nurturing a plant for six months or making a drab busstop in singapore look interestingchatterjee who offers seminar courses at harvard and massachusetts institute of technology mit on wisdom leadership has also developed a course in singapore based on two war classics the gita and chinas ancient military treatise the art of war at the singapore institute of management and tamasek polytechnic students take pushcarts on rent source items like wallets handbags and music albums and sell them at a profit this helps them to learn sourcing display supply customer service costing and general business senseat singapore polytechnic professors guide students to create robots that play soccer cashing in on the appeal of sport to youngsters through this they learn about movements of the human body and artificial intelligencetrilochan sastry professor iim bangalore speaks of the independent activities period at mit which is a week devoted to things outside the curriculum when students do crazy stuff once they hoisted a car on top of a dome on campus while this may seem bizarre it tests their ability to balance the car on such a surface which is an engineering feat enthuses sastry an innovative method sastry has observed at mit is team teaching he explains two experts in different areas like marketing and production teach the same class so students can gain a multidisciplinary perspectivecloser to home at womens institute for studies in development oriented management wisdom rajasthan students were given an openended poem by subhash sharma of indian business academy to which they added their lines this became the wisdom college song sharma explains poetry develops the right brain and unfolds creativity i use poetry to expand the students mental horizons because management goes beyond technical knowhowsharma has penned another corporate rhyme called churning of the ocean by the quantum rope and set it to a tune which students sing he believes it gets students charged up goals that earlier appeared tough now seem easy the group chanting energises them and fights negative emotions reveals sharma in another instance ramnath narayanswamy professor iim bangalore uses epics like the mahabharatha and interprets the roles by the pandavas and kauravas in lieu of todays managers according to this exercise yuddhishtira is a mentor bhima an executor manager nakul an enabler sahadeva the visionary without action arjuna is the manager in search of his meaning in life and karna is loyalty personified the manager whod probably buy vegetables for his boss while krishna is the ceonarayanswamy uses culture in his classes for iim students where he exposes them to craftsmen and artists students understand what makes them tick how they cope