After joining the school in the std III in 1973, I got selected for the IES Eng Med. school cricket team in std.VII. With this, I managed to get special concessions – such as leaving school a couple of classes earlier everyday for net practice at Matunga Gymkhana and leeway to bunk school during matchContinue reading “IES Class of 1982 Part #2/2 – School Friends are for Life!”
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What’s in a name?
Just wait till you read this..! While we all know Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, what we miss out on, is the deep rooted tradition in India while christening at birth or even when aContinue reading “What’s in a name?”
You too can Blog!
Until the end of last year, the only time I had written was either to give a test or for some business communication. However, my wife always has had tremendous confidence in my capabilities – be it cricket or writing skills. Having heard stories of people like Amish Tripathi (Sr Executive in Insurance)-one of myContinue reading “You too can Blog!”
My MBA Tales # 3/3 – From Overhead Projector to WFH days!
Over the years, after passing out, our JBIM 1992 batch kept in touch with at least the Mumbaites trying to catch up once a year at the annual alumni dinner – Nostalgia. A few years back in 2017, our batch decided to celebrate our pass out silver jubilee at Goa. The idea was to timeContinue reading “My MBA Tales # 3/3 – From Overhead Projector to WFH days!”
My MBA Tales # 2/3 – Dhandey Mein Dosti Nahin, Bhidoo !
After our college got going, as the initial euphoria and excitement of being at an hallowed institution like JBIMS (Bajaj) mellowed, we realised that we had to deal with some limitations due to Bajaj being categorised as a Department of the Mumbai University. Unlike the IIMs and some of the other institutes which have theContinue reading “My MBA Tales # 2/3 – Dhandey Mein Dosti Nahin, Bhidoo !”
My MBA Tales # 1/3- Bajaj the CEO Factory!
An MBA curriculum focuses on exposure to an entire gamut of management subjects starting from Finance, Marketing , Sales, Economics, Commercial Law , Production, Operations Research (OR) , Cost accounting, Statistics, Personnel/ HR, Bookkeeping along with sub streams like banking and insurance, digital marketing etc being further added as the commercial world keeps on evolving.Continue reading “My MBA Tales # 1/3- Bajaj the CEO Factory!”
My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 2 – “Barefoot in the Park” Days at Grindlays !
Grindlays having introduced Merchant Banking in India way back in 1967, was always in the forefront in making pioneering moves on the Indian banking scene. So when in the late 1980 and early 1990s, technology revolution in banking had just started to roll in with ATMs (HSBC introduced first ATMs in 1987) and computerisation wasContinue reading “My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 2 – “Barefoot in the Park” Days at Grindlays !”
My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 1 – Grindlays a nationalised Bank?
After my graduation from Podar College in 1987, I was offered a job with IDBI Ltd when Late Shri S S Nadkarni was the CMD. Then IDBI was one of the top 3 Development Financial Institutions (DFI) , the other 2 being IFCI and ICICI. IDBI used to promote cricket and it was happy toContinue reading “My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 1 – Grindlays a nationalised Bank?”
Life in Covid Times #4 Day 18- Benefits of community living
As the much awaited 14th April date drew nearer, quite a few theories, such as limited lifting of travel restrictions to allow those stranded to reach back home or delegating lifting of lockdown to the respective state governments to assess, started doing rounds. However, an extension of total lockdown upto 4th May was announced. Frankly,Continue reading “Life in Covid Times #4 Day 18- Benefits of community living”
The Leap of Faith
After nearly 3 decades in a formal corporate career, I recently took a leap of faith to join a Fintech start up. Some of the things that made me take the plunge were the light hearted banter from my kids, after my golden birthday, about getting old and loosing sync with the current generation. AfterContinue reading “The Leap of Faith”
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