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Love affair with the razor!
Ajay Gautam, a two year senior, BioTech, Kharagpur said long back, "Ladka apne baap ko dekh kar dadhi banana seekhta hai." A boy learns shaving, watching his dad. It stuck. Not because it was extraordinarily profound. But somethings just stick. And I had seen my dad...
The power(!) of education
Another of the granddad's stories. In a small town there lived a rich merchant. He had two employees - one, a highly educated one and the other uneducated, perhaps even illiterate. However, the ding was that the uneducated one drew a much higher salary than the...
The stories we tell ourselves
This is a story my maternal granddad told me years ago, and it was repeated to me quite a few times by mom as well, once, when as a little boy, I asked her if ghosts are real. The story goes like this. A man was building a thatched roof for his house. Now, thatched...
Dad, dogs and lesson number 2
1983. Me in class 2. Dad and me. Off to meet mom. Three legs to the journey - Shahjahanpur to Lucknow, Lucknow to Gonda and Gonda to Siddharthanagar (then called Naugarh). We in the middle, Gonda station (or was it Lucknow?). At a puri sabzi stall on the platform....
Why did the dog die?
Circa 1983. Me and Dad. Me in class 2. Shahjahanpur. DM Colony. Quarter no.81. He would get up early everyday and go out running. He would take me along, a kilometer away was a college ground where he would complete a couple of rounds and then we would walk around the...
Can you explain strategy simpler than this?
Strategy - one word that fascinates everyone ranging from Chanakya to Amit Shah to McKinsey suits to everyone with a full belly and enough intellectual pretensions. Confession - I too have been much enamoured by it, but have always struggled at articulating what...
Would India’s metoo end slut shaming?
So, metoo hit India. Powerful men in media and entertainment called out on predatory behaviour. Will it end male privilege and predatory behaviour? Tough to say. Also, yet to be seen is what course metoo takes, still early days. But one interesting trend is indeed...
Why have all religions been bad to women?
Yes, despite all that, "yatra naryasto pujyante, ramante tatra devtah" or "our god gives women full rights to a fulfilling life, (of course, in accordance with his rules)" - all religions have treated women badly. Some less, some more. Sometimes violently vicious,...
Why don’t epics have father son stories?
Mahabharata has always appeared to me as the mother of all literature - any story that can ever exist has already been done in Mahabharata. Revenge, love, envy, friendship, lust, greed, valour, cowardice, conflict, conspiracy, family dispute, friends, lovers, illicit...
Why should IIMs test candidates for English?
Global business? World level corporate leadership? Lingua franca of international business? Fair enough. Only, a much higher percentage of IIT grads go abroad, do Masters and PhDs in foreign Universities, work internationally but still you can take IIT JEE in Bangla,...
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