Last weekend, I joined my wife and mother-in-law in Delhi for the Golden Jubilee Bogra Day celebrations, commemorating one of the fiercest battles of the 1971 War with Pakistan and,…
We are in a crisis that most of us have never seen before. Covid-19 has wreaked havoc in many lives. Friends and family members have died, jobs have been lost and…
Last week, Dr Narottam Puri, a dear friend, sent me a message about the Peltzman Effect and why many people have become infected with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated. This…
I first got to know Aditya Puri around 1989, when I joined Citibank at the bottom of the ladder. Aditya was at the top, heading Corporate Banking for India. He…
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…
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…
Nearly every day there are reports in the media about kids being depressed or ending their lives, or being killed in India. Last week, one of the headlines in The Times…
Let’s start with a disclaimer. Yes, we are Manchester United fans. Yes, it is blasphemous to write a blog on Manchester City. And, yes, it is heresy to write a…
It has been board meeting season recently and I have just finished a bunch of them in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Most of these organsiations have done a great…
This blog has been a challenging one to write because of the emotions attached to the topic. It is not necessarily about the #MeToo movement. It is about convicted sex…