Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) celebrated its 57th Foundation Day recently.

On this occasion, the Distinguished Alumnus Awards - the highest award of the institute to honour the alumni who have achieved exemplary success in their fields - were conferred to a number of achievers, an IIM-C release said.

The recipients included author Amish Tripathi, Federal Bank MD and CEO Shyam Srinivasan, Bharti Airtel-India and South Asia MD and CEO Gopal Vittal.

Ajay K Kohli, professor of Marketing, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, was also a recipient of the award.

The awardees shared their journey of success of graduating from the premier institute.

On September 23, IIM-C had conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Ajit Balakrishnan, the Chairman and CEO of Rediff.com, who was also present at the programme.