CHENNAI: Who makes a success of one’s life? Not one who merely relies on his/her academic knowledge but someone who takes the plunge with her/his head, heart and innate abilities into an endeavour, was the take-away from the session ‘Is academics the only way to develop skills’.

The panel, which included JJ Valaya, top fashion designer; Manju Bhatia, Managing Director of Vasuli, a loan recovery firm; Nikhil Nagpal, Executive Chef of ITC hotels and Shvetha Jaishankar, an entrepreneur and a former model, said that in their experience, skills learned by experience would take one further than knowledge learned academically.......click for more

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