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I love my soulmate Patricia, but she can be exasperating sometimes. She wants to camp in Tokyo waiting for the Olympics. She is desperate to get away from tempestuous leaders, deteriorating economies and an intolerant world. I told her, “I can muster money for just three days.” Since then, I have been in the doghouse.Meanwhile, all the star-performers on the global stage, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Xi Jinping, Shinzo Abe, Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi, etc., will spend sleepless nights in a turbulent 2020. Many of these world leaders have long innings ahead. Sadly, many of them are mercurial and manage by expediency. There is a vacuum of visionary leaders like Lincoln, Churchill, Kennedy, Gorbachev or Gandhi, who provided a rudder and an agenda. The world is now a scrambled egg,...
December 25, 2019
2020: A rudderless and agenda-less world!
December 18, 2019
Suppliers of local content have new opportunities
December 04, 2019
Doing your best means setting and achieving ambitious goals
November 24, 2019
Why is the Indian economy in free fall?
November 10, 2019
Students’ viewpoints
November 06, 2019
The great offers in my inbox
A salesman in a garments shop in a shopping mall in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia asked me, “You are from India. Do you know Mr. Amitabh Bachchan?” “How do you know Mr. Bachchan,” I queried back. “Oh! We see all his pictures. He is a great actor.” Another time, at Lagos airport in Nigeria, after seeing my Indian passport, the Immigration officer announced to me, “You are from the land of Amitabh Bachchan!”Later, I was working the grocery retail outlets in Dakar in Senegal. I noticed an African shopkeeper watching the movie “Deewar” with French subtitles. I could not help asking him how and why he was watching an Indian movie made thousands of miles away. “I love Amitabh Bachchan, I watch all his movies,” he told me. I was amazed at the fan following of Amitabh Bachchan...
October 15, 2019
A Man and a Star
May 28, 2019
Woman on the road
Food is history. Food is culture. But food is also political, sociological, psychological, philosophical and probably many other things as well. And with the Ramadan season upon us, it seems like now is a good time to revisit our relationship with food, which is one of the oldest relationships in the history of humankind.There is no doubt that food brings people together and facilitates conversation. After all, its value is not only nutritious but extents to building a community, or any bond for that matter, because it is what people have in common. To eat is to be open to the other person and the blessings of the world. That is why food constitutes an important element in any travel experience because to experience a culture, it is important that one experiences its food as well, to be...
May 15, 2019
Food for thought
May 01, 2019
Nature’s demise
