As I read of the handing over of Air India to the Tata Group, a sweet homecoming after 69 years I noticed this comment about how Tata group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran took his first flight on Air India. I think that as a marketing strategy if the Tata Group were to invite peop...
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There is a famous comment by a Wodehouse character who says – “Never confuse the impossible with the unusual”. What the security breach of the Prime Minister’s cavalcade showed is that it is not impossible for such a cavalcade to be “stopped” but the event itself is ...
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As one follows the developments across the globe regarding administration of vaccines and the response of people, we notice 4 sections of people. A minority who oppose the vaccine & can be called Anti-VaxxersA significant section who have genuine fears given the speed o...
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Looking at South Africa (SA) which has seen the biggest outbreak of Omicron: cases are starting to peak (at highest ever levels) while hospitalizations are much lower than previous Delta wave and deaths are at a very low level. United Kingdom (UK) news cases have...
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The country on 8th December 2021 as the day progressed heard the horrifying news of a air crash on which the first and serving Chief of Defence Staff, a four star General Bipin Rawat and his Wife and other senior colleagues had died. In any country the death in an accident such ...
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In the meantime work meant we met various people in uniform and everybody spoke of the same thing. But a few meetings were more than normal. One officer Maj Unnikrishnan had been martyred in the operation along with another commando. Meeting a Brigadier responsible for trai...
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To come back to that fateful day. I was driving back home rather late in the evening and had no inkling of what was happening. Somewhere enroute I got a call from home saying that some terrorists had killed 3 senior cops. Then came more chilling news that something big was hap...
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Every year, since long 2 life changing and world eyeball attention grabbing events are remembered. One is the 9/11 terrorist attack in USA and the other 26/11 terrorist attack in India. People write various memories of that day and owing to a concatenation of circumstances I had...
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Way back in the early 2000's a Pharma industry newsletter asked me to write a article for them and I had written about "Outsourcing" which was published. Sadly I never saved a copy or even if I did, have lost it. But cleaning up a old computer I stumbled upon the soft copy of wh...
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We all remember that old story of Archimedes and the Eureka moment. However not all Eureka moments need be about the water rising in the bath tub and the flash bulb in your brain going off. It can also be that moment when you hear the final gurgle of the water going down the dr...
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