Who decides – by the way! Let us make it simple! Throughout every day in our life we are constantly face choices. The choice we make is sometimes influenced by instant demand and other times by a sense of responsibility. Many a times it looks like...
The first statement that I would like to make is that it is not sermonizing and neither a panacea for the busy people all around, as there are millions of paragraphs written on it. It is a brush with surrealist state that all of us...
WHAT GREAT MEN FELT Swami Vivekananda once said " The difference between an ordinary and extraordinary person is his level of concentration"; he himself had the ability to concentrate with immense focus. Modern positive psychology has studied that the quality of your life depends on how much...
Three things that are forcing me to write the blog are: A statement by a Vice Chancellor of a University of repute that no students are bad – it is the faculty that are useless. Though he spoke this in a...
Few things can be as remarkably as refreshing as a catnap in a society dominated by rat race. The murderous tensions eat up our vitality. We look forward to newer and newer medicines, tranquillisers without side effects and meditation camps. But a little search round...
Apparently to take away the sting out of the movie “Cheat India” – the censors demanded that the creators of the film should attach the term “Why” before its title as the original title sounded something like an invite to people to “cheat India”. This...
Ports are no longer just about holding ships – either for cargo work, lay-up or for repairs. The port is defined as “network coordinator” Stakeholders across the entire port ecosystem now work together in much more integrated and newer data-driven ways. When we think of...
If I am raising such an issue in a community of shipping and ports – the first reaction would be that this guy has lost his balance – being under a lockdown for long!...
I have come across many forecasts on international trade, shipping and ports. Some are very optimistic and some makes you utterly depressed. This blog is not a forecast from an expert but a commentary on the status of port planning (and execution) today. I am...