Manipal Jinx

This is the place where patients from all over India come in hoards everyday to get the best in class treatment at Kasturba Medical Hospital. The Pharma market in Manipal is very large with an average monthly sale of around Rs 2.5 crores which is what prompted us to study the sales pattern of the medicines in this land of doctors, engineering , medical & MBA students. We could get hold of 2009 medicine sales data from the popular medical store here to carry out a secondary research of a sort and here are few of the findings :

• Amongst the drug manufacturers , Cipla shows a significantly higher sales. Perhaps a collusion with the local drug stores.
• There is a high sale of Varaday used for treatment from HIV 1 infection.The maximum sold drugs being: Antibiotics, HIV Drugs and Insulin.
• The sales of Anti Depressant is highest in the month of November, December and July. These are the months in which students here have their examinations.
• The top over the counter drug is iPill tab.
• The medicine sales is not dependent on the discount offered on it.
• Sales of Immunoglobulin drugs increases in winter season. It is protein enhancer and it shows that people tend to work out more in the winter season.
• There was a co-relation found between the high sales during the month of December and January of the protein supplements and the medicines treating Plasma Volume Expansion caused due to the intense strenuous exercise. Yes, the guys seem to try to look best before the forthcoming valentine day

Expected this? Does it alarm a ring as to why parents hesitate to send their children to Manipal? Do you still have doubt over this? Read the full report here. This is the image the students passing out from here at some point or the other struggle to break.

To be honest, there is much more than Love, Sex and Dhoka here. The engineers, doctors and MBA grads from here will vouch for the quality of education imparted here. And many of them have done and are doing exceptionally well in their fields. You get what you are promised. Not like those other prominent colleges - say one in top 10 claims a WiFi campus but still takes monthly charges from their students who opt to use this widely advertised service; From Microsoft to Google to Oracle to Samsung , you name any big shot company and it visits the MIT campus. Ask any MBA guy or a CAT aspirant , where lies the most disciplined and rigorous B-School in India?

And yes yes, you need to get your general knowledge fixed if you still think that Manipal lies somewhere in distant north-east corner of India. As a recruiter sitting in any of the big cities in India, if you still claim it's 'far' then check how much time to and from the airport you spent in a Bangalore or a Mumbai or a Delhi where you would prefer a visit anytime anyday stuck in heavy traffic (like it?)- you will take less of the time from the Mangalore Airport with a scenic view to die for. And the railway station is Udupi - Yes the same land of Krishna Temple where your parents would want to drop by anytime you can plan for them. And the same place for whose food you pay a premium to eat in your comfortable cushy zone (Did i say noisy, polluted?). Come here and see the new gen free India whose part you always want to become but cannot as it's not available anywhere else.