Of quotas and bureaucratsAs the 20th century was drawing to a close, textile industry production was rapidly shifting away from Europe and the US, towards the low…Jan 233Jan 233
Recruitment for LifeToday it sounds absurd that any company would recruit young trainees in a managerial position with the intention that they work with the…Jul 21, 20242Jul 21, 20242
JinxedMy parents lived in Dehra Dun post retirement, in a little cottage inherited by my mother. But in 2000, shortly after my father’s second…Feb 11, 2024Feb 11, 2024
My adventures with the Indian textile industryMy introduction to the textile industry was through popular Bollywood movies of the 1960s and 70s. These depicted mill owners as rich, and…Sep 3, 2023Sep 3, 2023
Innocents AbroadMy first business trip abroad was to attend a trade fair in Frankfurt in 1992. There was a biannual textile fair held there, and my company…Feb 8, 2023Feb 8, 2023
Frauds and FraudstersIn my nearly four decades of work life, mostly in the pre digital era, I was the potential victim of a few attempts at fraud, but…Feb 8, 2023Feb 8, 2023
A Narrow EscapeEarly in my career, I took over the sales operations of Bihar and adjoining Nepal, based in Patna. I was invited for dinner by our office…Feb 8, 2023Feb 8, 2023
A Guest Too ManyIn 1980, soon after I started working in a multinational company, the company celebrated a hundred years of operations in India…Feb 8, 2023Feb 8, 2023
Turning around a business — twiceI had adopted a passive approach to career planning all my life. I relied on my employer to be fair to me, and it always seemed to work. I…Sep 5, 20212Sep 5, 20212
The Peter PrincipleMy arrival in Delhi in the monsoon season of 1986 coincided with a conjunctivitis epidemic there. Being prone to infections and viruses…May 22, 20211May 22, 20211
