Wit Wisdom and Whoop

I stumbled upon this video https://youtu.be/lOAeMW3uNhE   in a online by Ms. Debjani Biswas & hope she will not mind if I share a few old memories. For those who don't know her, Debjani is Founder of a Executive Coaching organisation in USA. She has been a Author, TEDx Speaker, has held Directorial and senior positions in some globally renowned companies and an alumni of IIT and IIM from India.  In 1981/82 I was yet another confused kid & wanting to do what seemed popular - join a B School. Totally incompetent I joined a small group of folks who were being trained by a org called TETCOS. Debjani was one of the instructors & *gasp* just a 2nd year student at IIM. An extremely lovely & gorgeous girl it took 1 minute to "fall in love" & all of 2 minutes to "unfall in love" as you realised she was tougher than nails. She tore you apart & then put you back together in class. The "love" 3 minutes later was undying adulation like one a...

Talking of travels an online friend suggested that I must share some of my more memorable visits globally and so here is the first one in this series of Travelogues. This is from Vietnam and the visit was in June 2013. For most who have had a sense of history, especially American, the Vietnam war was the most famous. A giant of a country like USA had attacked a small puny country Vietnam to save the country from communism. The war stretched for around 10 years, and finally public outcry in USA forced the USA to pull out. The enduring image of that war was this. The popular opinion was that the USA had been brutal, excessively violent, and the Vietcong in spite of this had survived and prevailed, in an unjust war. This piece is not to debate the war or who was right but to share what I saw when I got a chance to visit the jungle area museum – called Cu Chi Tunnels - where even today Vietnam has honestly displayed the horrors of the war. This is just that – sharing images of the horror...

There are days when a bunch of thoughts come flooding in and they are disconnected subjects. This blog is more a random collection on some issues than a single subject matter. The Rural doctor: Way back in the 80’s a popular joke was that the cows of Gujarat had far better access to healthcare facilities than humans. I still recall the doyen of Gujarat Mr. Tribhuvandas Patel attempted to improve this situation though I have no idea what the latest situation is. 40 years later, little has changed. We are still debating that the rural populace lacks healthcare facilities and a primary reason for that is the reluctance of doctors to go serve in these areas. They neither see career progression, economic development, lifestyle improvement and invariably the open dirty secret is that they use every trick including bribery and influence to avoid such stints. They start their life with compromise and then on it’s a downhill ride. When one reads books of the earlier times or our own younger day...