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First Dot – This is for my Teacher
In memory of R. A. Shah, 1931–2026 In the corner cabin of an old building at Fort, I once watched…
Read MoreWas There No Quieter Door?
Forty years in the house, ten in the chair — and a departure conducted in the newspapers. Wednesday morning, 12…
Read MoreEight Pages to Six
Edition Eight — learn to draft before you let a machine draft for you It happens at every session. I…
Read MoreThe Kitchen Table
A Startup in every alternate house at the bottom. Edition Five — on the one barrier no technology can remove…
Read MoreThe Bravest Thing a Young Law Lawyer said to me this Year
In a world racing to look impressive, one student chose to be honest. This edition is about what that honesty…
Read MoreTalent was never the problem in India
Edition Four — on where India's next big ideas are really coming from In a school in West Bengal, a…
Read MoreGrey Breads
Ford brought back around 350 seasoned engineers — the ones it calls, internally, the "gray beards" — to fix what…
Read MoreThe Conviction No Algorithm Can Give You
Edition Two — a joint venture of passion and conviction, and what Titan still teaches every Indian building something Picture…
Read MoreThe day a daughter is born we promise her everything. Ask her what she actually got?
Some years ago I sat through a signing. The promoter introduced his daughter-in-law to the other side in one line…
Read MoreA Change of Character
No advanced economy compels a solvent private company to sell shares to the public. India is about to – and…
Read MoreThe Drawer
Everyone has one. A plan, paid for and put away. And we have learnt to call the not-starting prudence. Some…
Read MoreTr. Teachers
Two letters, a hundred years late, given to the one profession that never asked for anything The Karnataka government says…
Read MoreThe RBI Rule That Arrived After The Tata Sons Application
Tata Sons applied in March 2024. The regulation that defeated it was written in 2026. Either the answer was always…
Read MoreDo What India Needs — The Tata Rule
On 11 September the RBI ordered Tata Sons to list. Before that argument goes any further, there is a prior…
Read MoreSettle it at Bombay House, not at the Bombay High Court
Without the vote its own Articles require, the Tata Sons board has set India's most respected group on a path…
Read MoreAre Founders Safe with Affirmative Votes in the Articles?
A veto the SC upheld can be set aside in an afternoon — ease of doing business was never meant…
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