A large part of my professional career in corporate India has revolved around bringing about organisational change, different organisations gave it different titles, some fancier than the others, stacked initiatives differently within the organisational maze but the expectation has more or less remained unchanged in last 16 years – simply put, ‘make it better’. The…
Do choices help?
Life can be described as an act of making ‘choices’, at its unitary level. No matter what we do or do not do – we choose, so much so that not making a choice is also making a choice. Agree? Good! Given how crucial ‘decision making’ is to life, good or otherwise. Shouldn’t ‘how to…
Hindu Vs Hinduism!
“मैं सबसे अच्छा हिंदू हूँ “, asserted a man who was buying earthen pots and diyas (traditional lamps) to decorate his home on the evening of Ram Janambhumi temple bhumi pujan from a poor seller toiling hard to make the ends meet for his family, under a tree on a dusty city road, rattled…
Idea of India!
‘Self-rule’ & ‘liberty’ are things that my generation has not had to struggle to earn – we were the fortunate ones, we were born free. Our forefathers paid the price for the freedom that we enjoy so dearly all the time (also abuse, on occasions). So in that sense, it is rather hard for…
Nepotism- we’ve all benefited from it!
When the unfortunate news of rising cine star from my home town Sushant Singh Rajput allegedly committing suicide broke, it eclipsed everything else that was going on in the country. The tragic development affected us all in unimaginable ways. Predicated on our value system and level of awareness, we took to it differently. The news…
Digital Minimalism, a must!
Schools – Online. Work – Online. Socialisation – Online. Retail – Online. Entertainment – Online. You get the drift, I hope? Digital has suddenly expanded itself to fill physical spaces of our lives- both at work and at home. Don’t you agree? Our lives have got intertwined inextricably. Physical and digital spaces overlap now like…
Transplant, life is what you make of it!
Dealing with the news The initial shock of the news was reverberating, I was any other 32 years old back then who believed that “I am too young and too healthy to have anything on health to worry about”, much less an organ failure and yet it happened. I was in Aurangabad (MH) on…
Service in Pandemic!
9623 comments on the last article: Thank you indeed. Yes, I am guilty of not having responded to all of them (yet) but there is no way I am going to leave them unattended indefinitely. Revealing a little routine to you, I have budgeted around 2 hours every Sunday afternoon, which is between 4…
Bets on the Future!
As of 20th June 2020, reported and recognised COVID19 figures by the GOI, are 4,11,773 infections, 13,281 fatalities. To put things in perspective, we’re adding on an average over 13K cases, every day, for past few days, we’re 3rd largest in daily caseload increase, 4th largest in the overall volume of cases in the world…
Method to the madness!
Prudential algebra, the Benjamin Franklin way of plotting ‘pros and cons’? Or the ancient Persian way of ‘deciding twice’: once when sober and once when drunk? Or ‘decision science’ is where you get your juice from, as the New Yorker points out that it is Barack H. Obama’s decision method – a research field at…