Category: India Meets Bharat

One of the great gifts of retirement – after your kids are off the payroll – is that it allows you to spend more time getting in touch with reality. Spending time with NGOs and communities living on the edge

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

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

The drive from Raipur to Nuapada was idyllic. The sun was out but the breeze was still quite cool. The loping hills of western Orissa were at their magnificent best – green and well forested. The fields too were all