I recently had the pleasure to interact with Professor Muhammad Yunus once again, at a lunch organised by the India Leaders for social sector. It was a heady two days,…
Recently 23 people were killed when they got crushed in a stampede on a railway bridge in Mumbai. Students sweat for months in tuition classes to prepare for entrance examinations…
This blog is about cats. Recently, I caught up with a friend, Marita Nazareth, after a long time, and we went for a walk at Bandra Bandstand. She told me…
My wife Fiona and I just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Initially, I didn’t think much about it but over the months I realised that the marriages of a lot…
“Why do Fiona and you work in the Northeast and Ladakh?” My wife and I are often asked this question because of our involvement with Sunbird Trust and 17000 Ft…
“What is normal?” my wife Fiona asked me this question when I was discussing this blog with her. One of the organisations I am involved with is Youth4Jobs, an NGO…
On a recent flight in the USA I saw The Founder. It is a fascinating movie about the early days of McDonald’s Corporation, the world’s largest sellers of hamburgers. Besides being…
There’s a lot of talk on impact investing these days and I’ve been involved in my fair share of these discussions. Impact investing has excited a lot of people. But…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a huge victory in 2014 on the slogan, “Less Government, More Governance,” a heartening way of functioning by the country’s central government. However, unlike the…
Our family recently spent ten days in Cuba. It was a very interesting holiday—time warps, the best and worst of socialism, initial days of entrepreneurship, corruption, racism and simplicity. We…