I learned about Vistadome coaches on trains in India just a few months ago. The ignorance resulted from not having travelled by train for a long time. I watched with fascination the videos posted on You Tube of journeys in Vistadome coaches. These coaches have fully rotatable plush push back chairs, large glass windows, and
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This article memorializes Professor Suresh Chandra Kuchhal. While teaching us nuances of Corporate Finance in 1976-77, he regaled us with pithy observations the import of which we only vaguely understood as students. It is only much later in life as we progressed in our careers, we started appreciating the wisdom the earthy aphorisms contained. Below
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The initial weeks were challenging. Tito would pee and poop anywhere he pleased. Our impassioned yells, followed by desperate attempts to pick him up in the middle of his act and rush him to the garden, terrified him. I realized that our anxiety was proving counterproductive. I’d read about the use of newspapers to toilet-train
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We gave in to our son Dumpy’s insistence on getting a pet in the summer of 1999 and requested my friend Ramesh in Nagpur to search for a purebred black Labrador puppy. We soon found out from him that a Labrador mother had given birth to a litter of six puppies in a well-known kennel
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The Wild Boars football team of twelve boys aged 11-17 and their 25-year-old coach (Exhibit 1 contains their names and brief profiles) went missing on June 23, 2018. As their bicycles, shoes, and other football gear were found at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave entrance, it was believed that they were trapped inside the
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I met Deepak over lunch in Dubai in 2008 after a hiatus of over three decades. We had not kept in touch. After the initial hesitancy from the absence of contact for a long period, we went back to the easy conversations we would have had when we were students and new in our work
Premchand Roychand Jain is a name that will not ring a bell with most readers. Born in 1832, he was the son of a merchant from Surat. He was the first stockbroker in India who could read, write, and speak English. He was one of the first stockbrokers who started trading in stocks and shares
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Deepak and I studied engineering together. Though staying in the hostel was compulsory for students, the new institute struggled to find adequate hostel rooms for all students as hostel buildings were still being constructed. Both of us were therefore (gladly) permitted by the authorities to be day scholars as our families lived in the same
It was 1975. After finishing my Master’s in engineering, I was working with a large engineering company in Bombay. I shared a 2-bedroom flat with 3 other college friends, one of whom worked in a chemical company and the other two were with an IT company. The flat was on the third floor of a
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I have been a student of cricket ever since I learned to play the game at a very early age. I also played the game up to a level to pick up the nuances of the game on the playing field. As the ODI World Cup 2023 is to be played in India I have
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