Heralding a whole new virtual world. There will be people with software, content or service ideas and they will create a completely virtual companies to produce, market, sell and manage. Meetings will be on cloud-conferencing, there will be no brick-and-mortar office and no commuting. The tools required for all activities will be entirely web-based, including […]
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Dear Mr Sorabjee, I truly appreciated the sentiments in your recent article on the SC ruling making the National Anthem and standing for it mandatory. I agree with your feelings. It is a retrograde step and saddens me too. Nationalism itself is questionable. Jingoism is worse.I used to love our National Anthem and stood for
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Expertise is vital, mastery is precious. I would rather have a team of experts working on a problem than a team of generalists. The probability of success rockets with the number of specialists in the team. Polymaths, Renaissance men (or women), the likes of Leonardo, Galileo and Newton are one in billions. For regular people,
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Small cottage with a garden. Sitting outside. Dusk. Clearing on a gentle slope with woods in the distance. One more cottage down the slope. Chimney smoking wisps trailing away to the right. Green grass everywhere. Dusk. Smell of pine trees.
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These are some bumper stickers slogans that flashed in my mind on encountering the animals who pass for drivers on our roads 🙂
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In the garden looking down the valley at the lakeside promenade. Winding roads coming up the steep mountainside and past the house. Flowering shrubs lining the outer edge of the garden.
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There are worlds within our world Great Leaders cannot afford realities. They are either born with the requisite blindness and deafness or they deliberately assume it. For a Great Leader, lack of time, money, resources, technology, space, right conditions and so on are not problems to be solved. They simply don’t exist. Anyone who says
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India, decades ago. First Class carriage. Teen me. Leaning back against the thick windowed steel door ajar at the end of the bogie. Wind in my hair. Sideward hand holding the long vertical handrail. No one around. Train running at a fair clip. Countryside strolling by languidly. Green fields. Curving track. Distant engine between frenetic wheels
Old part of Bombay. Defunct cotton mill, large and cavernous. Car left in a lane. Waiting alone in the mill for someone late. Supine on a wooden cot by the little office, hands behind head. Mill floor filled with silent machinery and looms, some tall, some meek, all dusty. A few sheet-covered hulks, others dark
Emanations of the Philosophy of Life Instinct I am a Hindu, a Brahmin, a vegetarian and all for animal rights. Yet my first and instinctive reaction when I heard about the beef ban in Maharashtra was one of dismay. I wondered where this disquiet arose from. Having examined it for a few days my provisional
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