“Raichand posted a message in our group over the weekend and told us to be ready for an urgent meeting on Monday morning,” Swami reported to us last evening over coffee. One week into the new year and his holiday season mood seemed gone. “2025 Goals it said,” he said. “But we had no clue … Read more
Swami woke up the following day counting his blessings and realised that the tally did add to something that was not insubstantial by any means. “We have each other for company first,” he told Jigneshbhai and me. “And I have a boss like Raichand who gave me a week of leave on his own,” he … Read more
The one thing Jigneshbhai likes is a quiet life. He is not the kind who gets restless and worked up when there is not much happening. Give Jigneshbhai his daily freedom, his daily work and his daily food, and the company of a few loved ones and friends to talk with, not all the time … Read more
I have been following the 2023 Cricket World Cup very closely (who hasn’t?), partly because it has been held in India, partly because it has been dominated by India, and truly because of being a cricket fan. Surprisingly though (for me, at least), this World Cup has not been as interesting in terms of closeness … Read more
After being forced to cancel the actual reunion during the real silver jubilee year of 2020 despite a year of hectic preparation, the class of 1995 reunion happened (that’s the year I became a computer engineer!), albeit in the 27th year, with renewed enthusiasm on the weekend of 12th to 14th August 2022. It all … Read more
Thinking about writing is not writing. Planning to write is not writing. Going through your writing is not writing. Editing your writing is not writing. Compiling your writing into a book is not writing. Making notes about writing is not writing. Even making an outline about what to write next is not writing. And reading … Read more
The biggest challenge after I left my corporate job a few years back has been to do nothing when there is nothing to do. Not that when I was in a job, I had a lot to do all the time. But there was a constant focus on doing something. A lot of days even … Read more
A friend of mine who was a CEO of a big company told me the other day that he was leaving his job. I thought he must be becoming the CEO of another, bigger company, but he told me that was not why he was leaving it. I asked him why, and he told me … Read more
The other day when we met over coffee, Swami was in a bad mood, which isn’t surprising. But what was surprising is that he was in a bad mood because of me. “You will never write a bestseller,” he said. “You write stories and articles and novels, that’s the problem. No one pays for stories.” … Read more