Arun BansalJinxedMy parents lived in Dehra Dun post retirement, in a little cottage inherited by my mother. But in 2000, shortly after my father’s second…5 min read·Feb 11, 2024----
Arun BansalMy 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…15 min read·Sep 3, 2023----
Arun BansalInnocents 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…4 min read·Feb 8, 2023----
Arun BansalFrauds 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…7 min read·Feb 8, 2023----
Arun BansalA 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…4 min read·Feb 8, 2023----
Arun BansalA Guest Too ManyIn 1980, soon after I started working in a multinational company, the company celebrated a hundred years of operations in India…4 min read·Feb 8, 2023----
Arun BansalTurning 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…16 min read·Sep 5, 2021--2--2
Arun BansalThe Peter PrincipleMy arrival in Delhi in the monsoon season of 1986 coincided with a conjunctivitis epidemic there. Being prone to infections and viruses…12 min read·May 22, 2021--1--1
Arun BansalLife and cricketI wrote my first Board exam in Hyderabad in 1971, at the conclusion of class X. I was expecting to get the usual 70–75% aggregate marks…10 min read·Mar 8, 2021--3--3
Arun BansalThe Professor of PhoneticsMy father was born in Rohtak, a small town in present day Haryana, India. But in 1920 when he was born, it was part of the undivided…9 min read·Nov 23, 2020--2--2