From thereon, Indians toiled and struggled. Over sixty years of striving for excellence has set the stage for us to realise our aspirations. From the farmer toiling in the hot sun for a prosperous future to the entrepreneur fighting against the odds to establish himself; from the service industry striving to make India the knowledge processing hub of the world to the Indian conglomerates trying to grab a slice of the global market - ever Indian is aspiring to take on the world.

To realize these aspirations, we need to address issues like power, infrastructure, education and healthcare to make the transition from the developing to the developed. This would require a collective effort of the entire nation and synergy between government, industry and the aspiring Indian. We require platforms where this synergy can take place, and this is exactly what Avenues aspires to create - the platform for business congress.

Avenues 08 is the ensemble of business and management events to be held over two days with the primary objective of bringing on the confuence of the management students and the industry. Avenues 08 will try to achieve this objective by hosting a series of distinguished lectures, competitions, games, panel discussions and workshops. It will have participants from the best management schools across the globe. Corporates, entrepreneurs, B-schools aspirants and engineers with business ideas up their sleeves - all will be participating in this potpourri of business events. The events and contests will be presided and judged by some of the best known people from industry and academia.