Over the sumptuous dinner at one of the great regional cuisines of India amongst colleagues and ex colleagues, the talk started as usual. Catching up with the old times, people who we all knew in common etc. But there was a difference, mood was sombre. A little too quickly, talk moved to the two most common heard out issues that I thought may not come up. Mumbai attacks and cost cutting by organisations. Former was in a corner of the table where talk was all about the attacks and who all someone in the group knew and their versions. One of the most elaborate one was from the interview conducted by National editor of Forbes, Bob Lenzner, with the survivors Michael and Anjali Pollack. Well worth going through. Video link http://video.forbes.com/fvn/topstory/bl_pollack120408 Quote Mine is a story so improbable that if it were made into a movie, no one would believe it. It begins innocuously enough with a dinner reservation with another couple (Shiv and Reshma) at a leading restaurant in ...
Moving on from the core theme of only consumers to a broader Indian complexity. An amazing country that can be challenging to understand due to its diversity - economically, socially, linguistically, racially and what not. Enjoy the THALI as they say....