Month: December 2020

I happened to read the news today, Wall Street is all set to trade consumable water, which means that water is officially joining gold, oil, and other commodities that are traded. If this happens, it will enable water users to create a balance between supply and demand. According to a United Nations report, about 5…

The month December is always a phenomenal juncture, it gives way to the new year about to come in, the ending of the year dissolving the past forever! December brings happiness and sadness together, it has the pain of leaving the old behind, it has the excitement that invites and embraces the new… December is…

I think any millennial born and brought up in India Café Coffee Day was their kind of trend set in their teenage. It was given as the very first experience of chilling out somewhere, drinking coffee and casually spending lot of time . A lot of discussions, friendships, romance and and memories, as they say,…

A friend of mine is an entrepreneur, we often catch up and discuss a lot of things, we have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours together, we have travelled, explored restaurants, spent a lot of time together. He uses the phrase “let’s see” often, and I am sure that after many years of engagement with…

A couple of years back there was a program in Fort Mumbai at the Bombay Stock Exchange building, it was a national level gathering of a fintech companies (FinTech Startups of India) and CAT was the official media partner of that program. On the culmination day, we had dinner at the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace…

A friend of mine had been in Italy since the pandemic, he came back to India only after about 8-9 months. This evening we went on a drive and I took him to some restaurants in Kochi, there was a light rain and we enjoyed the drive. We discussed a lot of things, especially how…

I was fortunate enough to use computers much earlier than my peers since my father was a computer programmer. I had access to computers in the early 90s, I love computers and I used computers on MS-DOS. Those days we did everything with commands, the most popular one was the DIR command to get the…

I am sensitive to food, the quality of food, and ingredients in food. If something goes even slightly wrong my body responds to it terribly. I immediately have a sensation of nausea followed by a terribly painful migraine-type headache and I end up with no choice other than lying in bed for hours. I once…

Recently I happened to watch one of the older interviews of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. At the end, the interviewer asked Kalam, “When you look back ,what was the most contented, happiest, satisfactory moment you ever had in your entire life?” He also gave Dr Kalam four options – the launch of PSLV in the…

This happened when I was in the second standard, there were a couple of gangs in my class, I belonged to one gang and had a fistfight with the leader of the other gang. I wanted to bring peace and send an emissary to negotiate with him but he was not willing to do that….