My father passed away when I was fifteen years old, and I did not have the chance to ask him all the questions I wanted to, as I was finding my way through Life. Add to that, the fact that both my parents migrated from pre-partition India when they were just children, meant that there …
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Ladder of Uncertainty
A friend called seeking some career advice. He was being considered for a senior role in a large, diversified group, and wanted to know my views on whether switching to it (role and brand) was a good idea. Knowing what he does now (functional head), I used the opportunity to make him aware of what …
Lucknow
For more than a decade, I have wanted to visit Lucknow to experience the magic of its food and its rich history. Perhaps, it also had something to do with the fact that my father had spent many years living there in his youth. In February of 2022, I finally made it! Lucknow is well-connected …
Moving to iPhone: Top 10 Learnings
Mobile phones are an essential part of today’s Life, and choosing one is a tricky affair for many of us. After spending more than 10 years as a power-user on the Android platform, I made the (very) hard decision of moving to an iPhone, about five months ago. Surprisingly, after months of using the iPhone …
Future of Work
Circa early 2020, Covid19 caught the world by surprise, to say the least. The last couple of years have been crazy in many ways. Organizations, big and small, went from a status quo that was essentially unchanged for decades, to work-from-home (WFH), to work-from-anywhere (WFA). New buzzwords like ‘blursday’ entered our lexicon, the common man …