A wishlist … of the small but significant things we should have been taught alongside business. How to be happy and make people happy, that it’s no less to know less, celebrating failures and caring for your health and that of the planet.
While I have been fortunate to study business management at IIM Ahmedabad, the acronym MBA (Master of Business Administration) for me, most accurately expands to “Manager by Accident”. Smitten by architect Louis Kahn’s insightful design, the translucent arched corridors and structured brick walls punctuated by imposing arches casting poetic shadows, I was obsessed with the idea of belonging to IIMA by studying “something” they taught. A little pluck and lots of luck later, I found myself with admissions to both—the doctoral Fellows Programme (PhD) and the two-year PGP (MBA).
I opted for the latter. While an MBA from IIMA was a gateway to the “corporate world” for many of my friends who came from the IITs, RECs, SRCCs, and Stephen’s, for me, an architect, it was the heaven I sought in terms of the sheer design sensibility—monumental modernism. That IIMA also was a sought-after institution in terms of career was pure serendipity for me.
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Trump, Up And Charging
'Many countries are nervous about Donald Trump returning to power, but India is not one of them'
Post and Past the Oil in Azerbaijan
As the UN climate conference takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan traces the history of the hydrocarbon industry through the lens of postage stamps
Bhutto's Nehru Story
Nehru's principle of \"compromise and argument\" remains the only workable formula for South Asian leaders
Breathless on Bachchan
Cédric Dupire's documentary The Real Superstar is an irreverent, experimental archive of Amitabh Bachchan's life and his stardom
The Anaphora to Zeugma of the Queen's English
Shashi Tharoor's book is a logophile's candy shop, full of fun, surprises and insights
The Wind Knocked
THE wind knocked on the door. Hesitantly. Wanting to be let in. It had heard the murmuring of the flames. And knew that there was a fire. The wind sought shelter.
The Way Home
“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
The War Artist
Cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco is in search of the truths distorted by conventional narratives
Mining Adivasi Votes
If the BJP manages to win Jharkhand, it will be the third mineral-rich state after Odisha and Chhattisgarh that will fall into the party's kitty
Unequal Republic
Political parties make promises of equal represention to women, but patriarchy continues to dominate electoral democracy