Candidly Speaking

2022-04-30T23:26:00.002+05:30

Electric Cars And Our Hopes Of Zooming Past The Climate Crisis"Mainstream EVs will transform the automotive industry and help decarbonize the planet" read the headline of a insights piece by a prominent management consulting firm while another newspaper reported "we are at a critical crossroads where electric vehicles and the decisions taken by key players will shape the future of

The Shame That Beckons Us Every New Year

2017-01-04T19:46:00.000+05:30

2016, a year that sent us into a vertigo with its sphere of "Surprises", ironically ended in a "Predictable" whimper - At least for most Indians. Predictably, like every year, men and women of all hues gathered at a famous landmark, reveling like there's no tomorrow, in a famous cosmopolitan city, to conjure a new beginning. And quite predictably the new-beginning that these revelers had

Tale of Two Books

2015-06-27T21:43:00.001+05:30

Recently, I concluded reading two books – The Lives Of Others and The Lowland – the former written by Neel Mukherjee, an Indian based out of England and the latter written by Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian-American. Both these books are a simulacrum of Charles Dickens’ famous composition – The Tale Of Two Cities and can best be captured in Dickens’ own words - "It was the best of times, it was

Purveyors of the Foreign Fear and the Neglected Cattle Class

2012-12-18T13:08:00.001+05:30

Finally, after the hurly burly at the Indian parliament regarding FDI that tended to almost disrupt another of the “Brief” working sessions, the juggernaut finally came to an end in the Winter Session – 2012. Leaders from both the Ruling & Seemingly in coalition government as well as the Seemingly divided opposition had been having a carnival of sorts for an extended period

Let's all be a part of a better India !

2012-09-25T22:58:00.000+05:30

We all come to this world carrying nothing with us and we all go back from this world carrying nothing with us. But in each of these activities where we step into the world and leave it away we bring a lot of pain and tears. Then why not recompense for the pains caused by us by bringing in a lot of happiness during the time we spend on the Earth? While each of us should share a lot of love

HIATUS

2012-09-02T12:11:00.000+05:30

Finally after ages got the HEART to somehow get back to inditing my thoughts.. Completely lost it for a long time somewhere... But once in LOVE Always in LOVE.. isn't it.?? and Writing .. Well !!!! Isn't it MY LOVE that I can claim to never loose !! What better way to start with these words of LOVE only !!! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Prisoners of Life

2012-06-11T20:03:00.001+05:30

Death scares a person who wants to live. But for someone who isn’t fearful of death, life exists, but, without any sensation and feeling and this makes it difficult to differentiate life from death. Even the news of the active, living and dying world outside his own has a certain dream like unreality for him. The inner objective time ceases to be, only the outer subjective sense remains. As the

Insurance Policy

2012-05-06T14:54:00.001+05:30

The INDIA Narrative "The Reserve Bank has taken a proactive role in the development of financial markets, particularly over the past decade and a half of overall economic policy reforms" - Rakesh Mohan, RBI, 2007 "India insurance is a flourishing industry, with several national and international players competing and growing at rapid rates. Thanks to reforms and the easing of policy

Subject to Alternate Paradigms

2012-04-30T03:47:00.002+05:30

Everyone is in a HURRY these days!! The Society is in a hurry to claim the world's biggest GDP, Organisations in the society are in a hurry to claim every pound from this GDP and may be add some fat to it, Someone in that organisation is in a hurry to become the next CEO, the CEO is in a hurry to launch the next Product before the competition did, the Product manager is in a hurry to

Inscriptions on a Blank Sheet

2012-03-31T12:24:00.000+05:30

Please let me live the life I want; I have got my acts together || It’s okay I dint get that game for me; Not all games are to be won |||| Through your wonderla’s silhouettes; I saw pieces of broken dreams || And if you fly through these corridors; I won’t trace your paths |||| ---- I won’t ever do, won’t ever do, won’t ever---- While my life lists with a broken mast; I

Shit Happens !!

2011-09-06T01:12:00.002+05:30

The government fought tooth and nail against the “I am Anna” motion and in the process turned it into a commotion. I say MMS (beloved Man Mohan Singh) could have instead asked his cabinet colleagues to come out and sing “I am Anna” and wear the “Anna topi” in unison with the rest of the country. MMS can be pardoned for not being able to wear the “Anna topi” for technical reasons beyond his

What a coinincidence !!

2011-08-31T23:51:00.001+05:30

Sometime in early 2005 while I was working with Infosys in Bangalore, I had an interesting conversation with an auto-rickshaw driver. After the conversation got over I realised the august "company" I was with. Talk of inclusive growth these days ? Infosys had cracked the code much before Dan Brown decoded Monalisa's enigma !! Here is a snippet of the conversation I had had (recaptured as

Rethinking Our Democracy !!

2011-08-11T00:37:00.005+05:30

Debates around what form of governance is best suited for the peoples have been in existence since eons and still present enough fodder for contention as the world’s two biggest countries (economically) represent absolutely divergent forms of governance. The United States remains the oldest democracy in the world and China remains the only major functioning authoritarian communist state.

Catharsis of Cognition !!

2011-07-13T04:31:00.005+05:30

Recently, I had an interesting debate / discussion with a friend of mine. The discussion started after she described an incident that she noticed while returning from office which seemingly had stirred her up from within. The incident was something that many of us would have heard of or may have even experienced firsthand. “A thief while trying to break into a car was caught red handed.

Doorstep to ....

2011-05-15T16:28:00.001+05:30

This traces back to those days when I was just another teenager and didn’t understand elections. I was still in school, away from home, in a hostel in the capital of Uttar Pradesh - the city of Lucknow. The hostel was located at the colligation of three major dailies of the state: The Times of India, Dainik Jagaran and Economic Times. For all the kids in the hostel though, the proximity to those

Simple Pleasures of Life

2011-04-30T09:14:00.000+05:30