Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Saturday, May 15, 2021

He was one of a kind

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The last time I saw Dharmam would have been about fifty years ago. I don’t think we ever exchanged a single word in conversation. And yet, t...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

A tribute to a truly extraordinary person

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Dr Nandlal Tolani would have been 94 years old today if he had not breathed his last on 14 August 2017. He was one of the most extraordinar...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Legacies of Partition

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The herbal remedies manuscript What do people carry with them when they are leaving beloved homes and know them may never return? Ever s...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The secular Sanghi

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On this day in 1997, Vishnu Shahani died. His widow, Rita Shahani, would write: He had not been ill. There was no warning. No intimation....
Friday, May 6, 2016

The Shikarpur boy who built a Rs10K empire

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Yesterday, Pune lost one of its stalwarts of industry, PP Chabria. Founder and Chairman of the Finolex Group, Mr Chhabria died at 86 after ...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Quintessential entrepreneur

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When Satpal Malhotra breathed his last on 23 July 2013, it was the end of a beautiful journey, notable in many ways. His life had spikes of...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

How Shah Rukh Khan made himself

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Shah Rukh Khan became famous through masala flicks. But he is also busy making a fortune off luxury branding. What is it about him that app...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Tools, mining, materials – and fika

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In August 2008, Sandvik Asia commissioned me to write a corporate biography, a wonderful assignment that kept me warm and well-fed right th...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

True confessions of a ghost writer

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The awful thing about being in a profession where visibility is a key criterion of success is that regardless of the quality of your work, ...
Sunday, March 17, 1991

The abandoned

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One day I came home from work and discovered that my refrigerator had left me. There was a horrible empty space in the kitchen, right where...