A few weeks back I was in Delhi for the graduation ceremony of the second batch of the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM). ISDM, in its short life, has…
You do not need to do major acts to change people’s lives. Often it is the small acts that can mean so much to others. I recently saw a video…
My dad passed away two and half years back. This is what I should have written to him when he was alive… Thanks, dad, for suggesting (ok, insisting!) to study accounting…
The Five Yearly Great Election Show in India is winding up and families and friends have been actively discussing with each other who to vote for. Sometimes these discussions have…
I recently attended the Annual Lunch of Indian Association of Secretaries and Administration Professionals (IASAP). This is a gathering of people, mainly women, who work behind the scenes to ensure…
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…
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…