This is a line from Hamilton, the musical. Thanks to Mihika, our daughter, we had to hear the soundtrack a million times. And these are the words that I recall the…
Socrates did not write anything. He opposed the new concept of writing because he believed that writing would adversely impact our memory and distort the way we dealt with each…
After my dad passed away a couple of years back one of his friends wrote to us saying, “One of your father’s great strengths was that he was critical, but…
A few years back I read an article where the author asked the question, “Why do cars have brakes?” And I, being the smart one, said to myself, “To help…
Over the past two years I have lost both parents and a father-in-law. This was the first time I have come so close to losing an immediate family member. I’ve…
There’s a chapter in Tamal Bandyopadhyay’s book, A Bank for the Buck, titled “There’s a Baby on the Trading Floor!” That baby was our daughter, Mihika, and Tamal wrote about how…
It’s the beginning of a new year! As we ended 2018, I talked to a lot of young and old people in Mumbai to test their view of the world….
Many, many years back I was gifted a copy of What Do You Care What Other People Think? It is a collection of stories about Richard Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize…
Summer of ’89. I had just finished my MBA at Chicago and was in DC on my way home to Mumbai. I spent a lovely evening at the home of…
Our mother, Vilma Miranda, passed away recently in Bengaluru. Friends and family surrounded us as we said our good byes. They were also sad and at mum’s funeral, most of…