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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….

I had been interacting with the relationship manager of my bank for 2-3 years, and he was a nice guy. When he moved to another bank he called me and asked, “Sir, will you open an account in the new bank?” I said, “Bro, I already have many accounts in many banks and it’s too…

Yesterday I was having a discussion with a friend of mine who is quite senior to me; he was the head of a department in a private college. He’d been working with that particular college for over a decade, and all of a sudden he quit the job. He contributed 100 percent of his ability…

Yesterday marked one year since the demise of Sri. George Paul, Vice Chairman and former Managing Director of Synthite Industries. This gentleman played an incomparable role in the journey of CAT. His death last year came as a shock, my partner Chachu and I attended the funeral, and today I was thinking of him… CAT…

The number 8 is significant in many cultures. In Western culture, especially, the number 8 is known as the angel number. It is the symbol of infinity, and represents the constant flow of energy and power. Western tradition says that if a person often sees the number 8 in different places it means that abundance…