Finally, in October 2017, one of my often-postponed travels happened. I spent 3 days following the path of one of the most daring failed operations of World War II – Operation Market Garden which was immortalised in a book by
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Remembering – the Nijmegen Way!
Sources of my “liberalism”
About a year ago, my good friend Sunil “Tiger” Gulati and I met for dinner in Mumbai. After the irrigatory preliminaries of tasting and ordering our beers, we went on to chat about what’s next in our lives (Tiger having
Read moreIndians just don’t get Conflict of Interest!
A few months ago, Ram Guha’s quit the Committee of Administrators of the Board for Control for Cricket in India – the BCCI. His reasons brought back that term that Indians just don’t seem to understand – Conflict of Interest!
Read moreThe boringly same development narrative
I spent parts of September and October 2016 going through a “conference phase”. Instead of avoiding them like the plague, I found myself attending 3 of them in reasonable quick succession. One was the release of the report CSR in
Read moreEducation Exaggerated!
How often have you heard someone shake his head at the atrocious behaviour of another saying, “I can’t believe how an educated person can do this”? I have heard it on planes when someone is in an unseemly hurry to
Read moreThe death of art in sport
The news of the death of an artist called Mohammad Shahid was tragic. He was not a painter or a sculptor. He didn’t write poetry. He didn’t sing or act in a play. But he played a game called hockey
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