Apparently, Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” My last six weeks have been a turbulent one. I am one for celebrating life rather than grieving about death. On September 3rd, 2021, my mother, who was married at 18 and widowed at 45, departed from this world from […]Read More
Change beyond comprehension The level of suffering is incomprehensible. The last 18 months have been challenging times for the world. Covid 19 (reported data) has infected about 186 million people globally. About 4 million people have lost their lives. The stretched Health Services cannot take the pressure anymore. About 40% of infections and deaths have […]Read More
Fidel V Ramos, the 12th president of the Philippines, has a dry sense of humour that can get one thinking for a long time. He was one of those few career military officers who rose through the ranks to reach the rank of five-star general/admiral and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He was a person who was […]Read More
The world economy’s operating system is being rewritten. In this exclusive excerpt from the new book No Ordinary Disruption, its authors explain the trends reshaping the world and why leaders must adjust to a new reality. In the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, one new force changed everything. Today our world is […]Read More
Malaysia has imposed a nationwide lockdown beginning June 1st to 14th. We have to thank the decision makers for this decision, fully understanding that no decision is going to be perfectly correct in a changing and fluid situation like the current one. There is no need to panic buy ahead of the lock down. The […]Read More
I was stunned to watch this video of Dr. Devi Shetty from Brut media. I have heard of his charitable and pioneering work in cardio thoracic surgery but was amazed with the thoughts he expressed in this video. The need to remove elitism in medicine and get specialists to the rural areas was an important […]Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — The government finally announced yesterday the members of the Special Independent Emergency Committee 2021 (SIEC) that will advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong when it would be feasible to lift the Emergency ahead of its scheduled end on August 1. The members are an eclectic group spanning aspects of Malaysian life such […]Read More
I had the honour of being invited to speak at two international conferences in Chicago and Baltimore in June 2019. Long haul flights to the US are always tiring and the one-stop is always helpful to rest your legs. I stopped over in Tokyo, Japan to break the monotonous journey. It has been a long […]Read More
This was a crazy busy week. To relax, I moved away from my usual entertainment menu: Hollywood (English) and Indian (Tamil and Hindi movies) to a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language action-drama thriller film written and directed by Sachy. A carefully written script with an interesting characterisation of two individuals with huge egos makes the film realistic. […]Read More
My research assistant has been nudging me to write as I had not written anything for the last two months. The goal to write at least one post every fortnight was becoming increasingly difficult given how challenging the economic front has been: in particular, the time has been in short supply. For me, the trigger […]Read More
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