Navrang

Managerial Way to Solve Navrang Cube

A couple of weeks back, on one fine Monday evening, Dr. Prasad walked into the class, as usual with his bag. Oh yes! I am talking about the same magician, Prof. Mandi. He has marketed his brand so efficiently that it has become his identity. Nonetheless, after exchange of few pleasantries, he opened his magic bag and took out a Navrang Cube.

He also added a twist  to it and disassembled the cube. Actually it was a Navrang Cube made out of different 27 cubes of 9 colors. While many were already engrossed in making an effective strategy to solve the puzzle, Prof. Mandi added another twist by putting up a condition that it has to arranged in such a manner that there is no repetition of any color on each face of the cube. Precisely, each face of the cube should contain all the 9 colors and absolutely no repetition of colors.

With a challenge in hand, few of us volunteered to solve it in front of the class, but no one succeeded. Dr. Prasad today was actually critical and ridiculed us for being unorganized and having no logical approach for the task in hand, one of the major flaw in today's beggar generation. Then he went on to teach us the importance of being organized and having a strategy to solve any task. he took the opportunity of solving the challenge himself demonstrating the power of being organized.

He gave us a structured approach of forming teams of 2 where 1 person was guiding while the other person was forming the cube. He gave us a logical approach and the entire exercise was repeated by 3 different teams in 3 different languages. It was indeed a great learning experience for us all