Vrikshamandir
I first visited the ITC e-Choupal in Bhaukhedi, Sehore, in 2004, where I met Sanchalak Shri Gulab Singh. After 32 years with NDDB, I had been working since 2000 with Grow Talent Company Limited (a precursor to the SOIL Institute of Management). My visit to Bhaukhedi was part of a small consulting project with ITC, […]
“सिद्धांतवादी और व्यावहारिक: कनाडा का मार्ग” धन्यवाद, लैरी। मेरे लिए यह बड़ी खुशी की बात है – और एक फर्ज भी – कि मैं कनाडा और दुनिया के लिए इस निर्णायक मोड़ पर आज आपके साथ हूं। आज, मैं विश्व व्यवस्था में फूट, एक अच्छी कहानी के अंत, और एक क्रूर वास्तविकता की शुरुआत के […]
Talent vs. Pay. Deserving vs. Non-Deserving. Achieving vs. Failing. We love to debate these things as if success is a neat formula of hard work plus skill. But a couple of real incidents from my early career still make me laugh — because they showed me that even the greatest leaders know the truth: most […]
In the golden era of India’s White Revolution, a quiet but remarkable man stood tall at the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). His name was PG Gore. He joined NDDB in 1966 as an Apprentice Engineer at a stipend of Rs 300 per month , fresh out of IIT Mumbai, at a time when the […]
Lalatendu Kar is Senior Vice President and Head of Workforce Management and Learning & Development at Reliance Retail. He previously served as HR Head for Mumbai Airport and various Reliance Retail businesses, after his tenure at NDDB.
While in Gurgaon we live in a flat — or what the westerners call an apartment — in a multi-storey middle-class gated community having five towers in Sector 52, Gurgaon, not far from Huda Metro station. Life here is usually peaceful and routine despite the residents, RWA and builder engaging in never-ending disputes. But middle-class […]
Dr. K.V. Raju, from the second batch of IRMA, who also taught at IRMA and later became the first Director of the Development Management Institute, Patna, shared a video on WhatsApp a few days ago. He is a dear friend of mine. I hadn’t opened it until today. Please click on this link to watch […]
Vinita Agrawal is a distinguished Indian poet, editor, and curator. Author of four books of poetry and editor of an anthology on climate change, she was jointly awarded the 2018 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for her collection The Silk of Hunger. She serves on the advisory board of the Tagore Literary Prize and is Poetry […]
यह ब्लॉग वसंतराव कुलकर्णी की जीवन यात्रा का भावुक वर्णन है, जिनका नाम ‘वसंत’ उनके कार्य से मेल खाता था। वे जहां-जहां गए, हरियाली फैलाई—पेड़ लगाए, बगीचे संवारे। लेखक की उनसे पहली मुलाकात 1969 में मुंबई की आरे कॉलोनी में हुई, फिर 1972 में आनंद के एनडीडीबी में, 1984 में मुंबई के डेयरी बोर्ड कैंपस में, 1997 में जलगांव डेयरी में और अंतिम 2006 के बाद बोरीवली के ज्येष्ठ नागरिक संघ में। वसंतराव ने डेयरी संस्थानों को हरा-भरा बनाया, सेवानिवृत्ति के बाद एजेंसी चलाई और चुनौतियां स्वीकारीं। वे लेखक के जीवन में वृक्ष की छाया जैसे रहे—एक अनोखा संयोग और प्रेरणा।
The blog chronicles Dr. Verghese Kurien’s efforts to expand Operation Flood in Maharashtra amid bureaucratic opposition.
PT Jacob My dear friend and former colleague PT Jacob had sent me two anecdotes on 21 May 2020 with a short note on Facebook messenger reading “ “Good afternoon, …I am sending a brief post on Dr. Kurien. You may please consider including it in the series.” I had replied “Thanks. I got it. […]
नेशनल डेयरी डेवलपमेंट बोर्ड (NDDB) के पूर्व कर्मचारियों ने अपना पहला स्नेह मिलन 2015 में आयोजित किया था, दूसरा 2020 में और तीसरा 2023 में। मैं तीनों में शामिल हुआ था। अब वे फिर मिलने वाले हैं—चौथा स्नेह मिलन 7-8 फरवरी 2025 को होने वाला है। कुछ दिन पहले जब मैंने एक पुराने दोस्त से […]