And for a Friday in Mumbai…. Trivandrum vacation cut short…. pleasant Emergency…. birth of our first Granddaughter…. Moving from God’s Own Country to Aamchi Mumbai is so seamless…. and December is Celebrations Month…. Christmas, New Year, Weddings, what Fun!!! Weddings these days, in middle class India, is fast getting multicultural, Secular and truly Indian Bride…
And for a Friday…. travelling from home…. to home….. to home. Mumbai-Bangalore-Trivandrum….. some nostalgia…. some thoughts…. Travelling in the sixties from Mumbai was, a Train from VT to Madras Central, Surface to Madras Egmore, meter gauge to Trivandrum…. all of six days with coal flakes all over the “Hold-all” and body. Hardships and difficulties made…
And for a Friday in Demonetised Mumbai…. some thoughts…. PROCESS is very important. Let’s recollect Winston Churchill, Feb 1931, “The loss of India would be Final and fatal to us. It could be a PROCESS that would reduce us to the scab of a Minor Power”. Brexit ensures the Final nail in the PROCESS. Brexit,…
And for a hectic Friday… from the SICC Annual Conference at the Taj Bangalore…. to…. The Raffles in Dubai….. some thoughts…. Switzerland and GCC have about the same population, 8 milllion but the Gulf is 51{aff5a224634bf574f692c8c7d068a0713fecca4ea38a30d3005107227dbb12e7} South Asians of whom 50{aff5a224634bf574f692c8c7d068a0713fecca4ea38a30d3005107227dbb12e7} are Mallus. SICC – (Swiss India Chamber of Commerce) has more than 250 member…
And for a Friday…. a sudden trip to Chennai and after the funeral of a very dear relative….. some reflections of Then and Now. Those of us born after Independence in the 50s have retired or are retiring and as good a time to reflect on our Nation. How much we have really changed for…