The "i CANvas" story!

i CANvas, is a B school magazine, which was launched on 1st of Jan 2008. The idea for the magazine came from a very lean and simple chap , we call him Narasimham! Well, the qualities portrayed by the word "Narasimham" are not there in this chap, at least look wise! Each one in our class will remember this guy not only for i CANvas, but also because he is one of the pillars on which our finance universe stands. The other pillar is Prof. VK Gupta! Whenever, we miss out on anything in accounting, we just remind ourselves of Narsimham and Gupta umbrella and things become clear and simple as any thing!The magazine idea came from him and others took over from there. The idea was debated heatedly over and over again for almost a month. Why we need it and what will happen to it after we are gone ? What will be format? etc etc.I do not remember the number of emails exchanged on this topic day and night, and most of them heated in nature! Ultimately, it was decided that we will have a quarterly magazine from the house of EPGP at IIM Indore.Our creative director and born cartoonist from Bangalore, Chandan was chosen as the first editor! This chap spends more time drawing cartoons in class of professors then listening to them! But his cartoons are amazing! The name i CANvas came from him. He gave a long logical story about how "I can" can be transformed into Canvas of the world and so on and so forth, but yes, this name was accepted instantenously! Then started emails to prospective writers and sponsors. Chandan came out to be very thorough professional and he made each one of us work extremely hard for articles and fillers and sponsors and what not.. Myself and Anupam were cursing the day, when we decided to launch this magazine. Chandan was particulary very harsh on both of us.Days and nights went by in the month of December 2007 and ultimately we could see a rough draft of the magazine. It looked awesome, after all it was culmination of our hardwork of last few months and I do not remember keeping awake all the night ,but for this magazine in last 10 years. Director's permission was required for its launch and when we went to see him he was literally filled with awe. I think, he never expected, that we would be coming out with such a magazine, which was not only designed well, but the quality of articles and the theme etc were truly world class! Infact, we were also left speechless! It really came out very well! The launch date was the new year day of 2008! What could we want more! I think the kind of media coverage we had on the launch day was amazing ! Chandan and Narasimham were proud parents of a baby called 'i CANvas". This magazine has received amazing reviews from the readers from the corporate world. We have tried to distribute this magazine to as many corporate leaders in India as possible, through whatever means we could !
The next issue is coming out in April 2008 and I hope its much more exiciting then the inagural issue! And finally its a joint effort of the class which made this possible. There are many who contributed articles, money ,logistics and most important moral support!!Our professors especially Prof Gupta, Prof Ganesh and Prof Rizvi gave us support in form of articles and motivated us to complete this task! A big thanks to them as well!