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
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God’s Own Country for sure – Kozhikode and around!!
I spent a couple of days in early December 2017 in Kozhikode (the original and formal name for Calicut) in Kerala. For a Dilliwala, at this time of year, any place other than sadda Dilli is a good place to
Read moreLong-but-not-lost friends – 50 years and counting!!
Just the other day, someone asked me which city I consider home. It really set me thinking about all the cities where I spent some time of significance – Delhi of course but also Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. But Delhi
Read moreRemembering – the Nijmegen Way!
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
Read moreSources 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!
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