Chandra Shekhar Chitrala

I think it was around 20 years back that a distant relative of ours from Andhra Pradesh paid us a visit in the hope of securing a job in Bhubaneswar. He had secured a decent 70 per cent…

One of the first things that B-School students in India learn is about the importance of the  CAS - Career Advisory Services, or the Placement Committee as it is otherwise known. This is…

One of the items that has been hogging business headlines the past few days is the Zomato IPO. And it should, in terms of what it implies, not just for those who invest in the stock markets…

It was a visit to the Tribal Museum that rekindled memories of that night. In order to preserve and promote skills as well as the tradition of their unique wall paintings, the museum had…

Over the last couple of weeks, I noticed a number of friends on Facebook applying a frame to their profile photograph saying they were proud to have studied in a government school. I do…

One of the happiest memories of my younger days was watching M*A*S*H on TV. The show was based on the experiences of the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the…

Even as the second wave of Covid-19 ebbs in India, our spirits are being battered almost every day with news of deaths - there seems to be no saying as to who emerges victorious and who…

It was a WhatsApp message from another young alumnus of my alma mater XIMB that brought Nikita’s request to my attention. Nikita and her husband Manoj were both recent alumni, and I was not…

It was on the intervening night of the 6th and 7th of May 2021 that our pup Bruno decided he would sleep with us on our bed. It was as he and I struggled to find equitable space on the bed…

It was on Mother’s Day that Prasad lost his mother to COVID-19. And this was but one of the tsunami of tragedies that hit our nation as the pandemic reared its head again after a lull.…