A few days ago, I was reading an article in a leading publication on “Disruptive Forces” that are changing the Financial Services industry. A quick Google search revealed that almost all the leading “Consulting” experts are using more or less the same wordage, cautioning providers of financial services that they must adapt to, and adopt …
Photographic memory
There was a time when shopping for a product we would “Let our fingers do the walking”, as popularized in this famous British Telecom advertisement for Yellow Pages from the 1980s. The process of searching for a product, the visits to different retailers for inspecting the quality of goods before selecting and eventually buying an …
Canada 150 … landed here!
Presenting to the House of Commons on October 20, 2011, Canada's Minister of Immigration said, “..last year Ipsos Reid did a global poll, from which they estimated that at least two billion people around the world would like to emigrate to Canada right now....” We were in that queue once and having arrived in March 1996, …
Prized possessions
“Mera kuchh saamaan tumhaare pas padaa hai Saavan ke kuchh bhige bhige din rakhe hain Aur mere ik khat mai liptee raat padee hai Woh rat bujhaa do, mera woh saamaan lautaa do” – Sampooran Singh “Gulzar” [Some of my baggage remains with you A few moist monsoon days left lying (with you) And the …