Will Lalu Express chug into IIMB?

GEETHA RAO / TNN / Mar 5, 2007, 21:24 IST

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Looks like minister for railways, Lalu Prasad Yadav, has taken a shine to academia.

Looks like minister for railways, Lalu Prasad Yadav, has taken a shine to academia. After delivering a lecture at IIMA, on the amazing turnaround of Indian Railways, he went on to become a global guru of sorts, when he met students from Harvard and Wharton in Delhi, to whom he spoke once again about the Railways. And now, it seems, Lalu may be coming down to IIM, Bangalore, soon. Maybe this month.
In September last year the minister not only talked to about 90 students at IIMA about how he got the railways back on track, but also announced a permanent chair there to study the railways. Prior to that, IIMA Prof G Raghuram had done a case study of the turnaround of the railways, which has now become a part of the curriculum for Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives.
Lalu's visit is also remembered for his having trotted out one of his 'cowisms' in his usual rustic bombast at this lecture: "Railways is like a cow that must be optimally milked, lest it turn sick."
Last December, when the minster spoke to about 100 students of the Harvard and Wharton business schools, about his success stor, he is said to have quipped in his inimitable style that finance minister Chidambaram may have gone to Harvard to study, but Harvard is now coming to him, Lalu. Lalu is said to have even grabbed the attention of General Electric, following his miracle with the Indian Railways. And now there's news that he will be coming to Bangalore to IIMB. Will he turn on the charm here too? When BT contacted him in Patna on Saturday for confirmation, we were told he was busy with a Holi event.

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