DIGITAL DIVIDE

In the late 1970s, equipped with the jazzy management degrees, when a couple of us twenty something joined service, the seniors were awed into silence by our wunderkind management jargons, unheard of by them. They’d feel subdued and make a fizzing sound. But then they’d...

DEATH OF NECKTIE

In an age where some people show up for job interviews in flip-flops, the imminent death of the tie seems plausible. Men have been wrapping and winding pieces of cloth around their necks for hundreds of years. It's clear that the tie, once the very symbol of the male...

Best Of Luck, ‘MFN’

   MFN (Most Favoured Nation) status only suggests that member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are obliged to extend MFN status to each other for trade purposes and that member country won’t be discriminated with other member countries. The euphoric...

CRAZY FOR MBA

CRAZY FOR MBA In the dismal and distant summers of 1981 when I visited my cousin she gave me to understand that her dear hubby wanted to see me urgently before I left for Delhi. She did not however divulge the reason for the rendezvous. I was urged to wait for them next...

HONEST FELLOWS THAT CHEAT!

People carrying the tag of honesty may falsely report a meal with friend in restaurant as business expense. They may arrange fake certificates to qualify for tax deduction. If they are reminded of morality at the moment, may be some of them won’t cheat. Going unworldly,...

bureaucratic jaggurnaut

Life is about pragmatism and realism, not utopianism. Look at that cluster of individuals who are our administrators, office holders, politicians and rulers. Even when we live in the global world of internet and e-governance, the huge unwieldy mainframe beasts hold all the...

DRIVING ECONOMICS

Beverly Hills syndrome is a highly contagious ailment that travels faster than the speed of sound and makes you feel that what you own is what you are. People are crazy about cars. They give them mobility, utility, status and a sense of independence. Car is a personalized...

FLYING THE COOP

When children were born, we imagined what they will be like when they grow up. What we didn't imagine was what we would be like when they do. Both my children have flown the coop in search of their own lives. I know it's good for them, but make no bones to admit that I didn't...

STEALING SHOES

For anyone who goes to masjid and knows about leaving his shoes in the little wooden cubby-holes, this is enough to strike fear into the heart. As & when I visit masjid, believe me, the hangover of shoe-being-stolen would annoy me all through my nimaz. Although I should...

bereaved husbands

For fiftysomething ‘me’ with two kids, visions of living life without wife would always give me shudders. A living example of the nightmarish kind of situation, for my eightysomething father the loss of spouse has been one of the hardest things that he has ever been...

My story of the grand feast

Much has been and shall continue to be talked about the extravaganza of ‘wazwaan’. Historically the ruinous expenditure incurred on all the razzamatazz of its showbiz would all along be criticized for causing affliction and sufferings to the common man. In future too,...

POPO, THE PISSED ON AND PISSED OVER

    POPO, THE PISSED ON AND PISSED OVER     Mr. POPO could be any one---may be ‘poor me’. The hapless guy quite often gets on with the job and leaves politics to others in the mistaken belief that talent and ability will carry the day....