The Aam Aadmi Surgeon

Neighbours are your real relatives. The flat opposite our’s has always been owned by the Pandits. But it was only when they decided to shut down their hospital in Devlali and shift to their Pune house that our relationship started. Dr Pandit’s dad had started the hospital in the 1960s – and though Subodh ji … Read more

Parks, not Parking

253 words Then there are the colossal tracts of sheer space, the oceans of real estate —a precious commodity in cities especially—that cars have taken from us. Most automobiles are parked 95 percent of the time, just sitting, immobile and unused, doing nothing except hogging up space. From an economic perspective, this is absurd. The … Read more

Embodied Energy

591 words Humanity’s insatiable appetite for energy created the climate-change crisis. The same appetite is now impelling us into an energy transition which carries its own tremendous costs. Switching from fossil fuels to renewables is an improvement, but it’s not nearly enough. It’s necessary, but not sufficient as a solution. To create a truly sustainable … Read more

Durability in Relationships

The foundation of cooperation is not really trust, but the durability of the relationship. It is readily evident that firms which have grown through mergers and lateral (senior-level) hires always have less internal cooperation than those that have grown from within. As obvious as this may seem, this observation casts significant doubt on those firms … Read more