I spent close to year and a half in London but never sat behind the wheel of a car. From what I understood of the UK rules, an Indian passport holder could drive in UK (without an international driving license or any permission from any UK authorities) anytime within the first one year of his/her… Read more

I used to work at a nice firm in London. Nice in the sense they paid well. I quit in May 2009. Since then I’ve been trying to chart my own course with www.akosha.com. I want to make money, but entrepreneurship, when risk-adjusted, is not a great way to make money. So there must be… Read more

I was in Mumbai for the TiE summit conference. Had an amazing time, strengthened relationships with some other TiE members. The summit was opened by a discussion by Narayan Murthy and Ratan Tata, chaired by Shekhar Gupta, the Indian Express editor. It was an unusually candid session (quite unexpected from what I had known of… Read more

…keep in mind the following lines from a Rudyard Kipling poem The “Mary Gloster”, They copied all they could follow, but they couldn’t copy my mind, And I left ’em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind. The poem is about the shipping magnate Sir Anthony Gloster on his deathbed narrating his life… Read more

Of late I have been having conversations with the several corporate lawyers. It seems that in India there are just about 3000+ corporate lawyers i.e. lawyers whose primary occupation is to advise, consult, draft agreements for big corporate clients (like BSE 500, really big private (unlisted) companies and MNCs). Like in many other areas in… Read more

I was in Delhi in June 2005, interning with the Businessworld Magazine for a short period, when I heard about the Francois Truffaut festival on at Alliance de Francaise. The good thing about doing a non-law placement is that hours are chill and you can cut from office whenever you want to. The place was… Read more

I was in Bombay in January 2005 to work with a stock broker, an acquaintance of a friend of mine. I had heard and read about Dalal Street in newspapers and there was some kind of aura around it in my head. I thought it would be something special; maybe with lots of people shouting outside the… Read more

I read about Mark Cuban today…He’s this ambitious self-made guy, who’s now the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team apart from doing some other interesting things in life. But what really endeared the man to me was the following statement quoted in Slate magazine (the article asked some important people about the books which changed… Read more

There are various reasons why people start a blog…some like to write, to express themselves…some just want to share their experiences with others…some even write about specific things…some just type some goss for others to read… My reason? I really don’t have one…. In fact, I don’t like the idea of a blog: a diary… Read more