India, April 28 -- Bombay Shaving Company CEO Shantanu Deshpande has claimed that IIM Calcutta has brought its traditional 25-year reunion forward by a decade for a sobering reason. In a post shared on LinkedIn, Deshpande said he was speaking to a friend - a graduate of IIM Calcutta - who revealed that the top B-school was now holding reunions after 15 years instead of the conventional 25 years.

Deshpande said there were two reasons for the shift, and one of these reasons scared him to no end. He claimed that IIM Calcutta realised that many of its graduates were not alive to attend the 25th year reunion, and hence moved it forward by a decade.

"A friend I was talking to had just gone to his 15 year reunion at IIM Calcutta. He (and a few...