16th May, 2024. I have been deeply upset all day today. There is no rational basis for my being upset. The source of my angst is seeing this image of this lady Carla Sanchez with her one year old son. Carla has traveled from Honduras – She and her one year old son had crossed …
Merry Christmas to all my connections and all our clients and client teams. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year break with family and friends. If you are travelling, hope you manage to avoid the travel disruptions at this time of the year and outrageous air fares and manage to preserve your travel sanity …
Reflections on the obsession about AI and Chat GPT vis-à-vis the problems and challenges humanity faces. The UN predicts that by 2030, up to 700 million people could be displaced by water scarcity, while the World Economic Forum has identified the global water crisis as the top risk to global stability. 300 million live in …
Certain events eventuated fortuitously that significantly impacted the outcome of World War 2. One such event or sequence of events was the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939 which could have spelt doom for Britain and the Allies. Fortunately for the free world, Hitler broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1941 which ultimately decided the …
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Thoughts on this sombre one year anniversary of the brutal war on Ukraine. Could not help thinking about past history of appeasement of Hitler and comparisons to the current day situation in Ukraine. Hitler did not have a nuclear bomb fortunately and yet the Allies and the West appeased him and Nazi Germany from 1935 …
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On a cold winter morning on 10th Dec, 1941 Winston Churchill got on the warship HMS Duke of York to embark on a perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean. After 10 days of voyage through a U-Boat laden Atlantic, the Duke of York moored at Hamptons Road, Virginia on Dec 22, 1941. Churchill then flew …
2022 was another tough year. The third tough year to be exact. From March 2019 onwards one daresay no year has been not tough. What is tough means different for everyone, for every organisation, and every country. What is tough is variable at a macro and micro level also. So we had undeclared Covid, more …
The mid-term congressional elections is on Tuesday, 8th November 2022. It is no exaggeration to say that democracy in the USA hangs in the balance in this election. Democracy in a two-party system works when both parties are willing to commit to the peaceful transfer of power. Democracy cannot survive if the election reality for …