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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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
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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Goa is a popular tourist destination known for its beautiful beaches, delicious seafood, centuries-old churches, temples, ruins of forts, casinos, and of course the lively nightlife. However, there’s much more to this smallest of the Indian states than meets the eye, that does not find a mention in the bucket list of tourists. I recently
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On the outside, there is nothing remarkable about Gurukrupa Tea Stall. Located near the end of the arterial road of Azad Society, a sprawling human settlement in Ahmedabad, the stall is no different from the scores of small tea stalls all over the city. What had caught my attention however was that there was always
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I wrote the book to test my ability to write something other than cases, papers, and articles on management. I had been experimenting with such writing during the COVID lockdown, with short pieces on a range of themes. I finally decided to organize my thoughts on just one theme – Tito. Narrated in the beautiful
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We were neighbors residing in adjacent houses on campus, with the front and the backyards, separated by a hedge. As I shut my eyes and remember Madhavan, memories flood my mind. We were contemporaries at D16, the dormitory that housed the doctoral students at IIMA. We belonged to the same area, known those days as
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