BRANDS AND DESIGN HAVE AN INCREDIBLE VALUE IF THEY ARE UTILISED WELL IN AN ORGANISATION. THE PROBLEM IS THAT A LOT OF US THINK OF A BRAND AS A LOGO AND SO THE IMPACT OF BRAND IS LIMITED. TODAY I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE POWER OF BRAND TO TRANSFORM AN ORGANISATION AND INDIVIDUALS. Brand...
SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT I HAVE ADDRESSED ROTARY ON HIV A FEW YEARS PREVIOUSLY. THEN, I SHARED THE EXAMPLE OF THE DECLINE OF THE INCA AND AZTEC POPULATIONS AFTER 1520. AT THAT TIME, AZTEC NUMBERS EXCEEDED 24 MILLION WHILE INCAS EXCEEDED 12 MILLION. AND, YET, THE ESPAGNOLE PREVAILED. NOT BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT WITH...
HUMAN SUFFERING IS ONE OF LIFE’S MOST CONFUSING DILEMMAS. WE OFTEN FEEL WHY DOES ONE PERSON GO THROUGH SO MANY PROBLEMS WHILE ANOTHER SEEMS TO SAIL THROUGH? WHY IS ONE PERSON BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON WHILE ANOTHER GOES THROUGH PROBLEMS WITHOUT SEEMING TO DESERVE THEM. FORTUNATELY, FOR US, OUR FOREFATHERS COLLECTED DATA ON...
HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED THE LUXURY TRAVEL INDUSTRY? I don’t think any of us has spent so much time thinking of travel as we have done in the last year. We have had the chance to think about what it means to us, experienced lack of travel, felt what it is like when you...
‘THE WOMEN WHO RULED INDIA’ COMBINES TWO OF MY PASSIONS. ONE, IS HISTORY AND THE OTHER IS WOMEN EMPOWERMENT. AS A PART OF SO MANY ORGANISATIONS WHICH EMPOWER WOMEN, WE LOOK AT FEATURES AND QUALITIES; WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP THEM LEAD A BETTER POSITION IN LIFE AND GIVE THE...
TO EXAMINE THE ROLE THAT SUCH (CULTURAL) INSTITUTIONS PLAY IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT, I WOULD BEGIN BY ATTEMPTING TO DEFINE CULTURE. IF YOU SEARCH THE WEB YOU WILL COME ACROSS ANY NUMBER OF DEFINITIONS. I HAVE CHOSEN THE FOLLOWING, BECAUSE IT ENCOMPASSES A WIDE ENOUGH RANGE. LET ME READ IT TO YOU: Culture is the characteristics and...
GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYBODY, VISIONARY PRESIDENT FRAMROZE MEHTA AND RTN. PTN. ZARINA, TRUSTEE GULAM VAHANVATY AND OF COURSE DGN SANDEEP AGARWALLA AND RTN. PTN. MALINI, SECRETARY SATYAN ISRANI, TREASURER KIRIT KAMDAR, PE SHERNAZ VAKIL, PN VINEET BHATNAGAR, IPP PREETI MEHTA, SERGEANT-ATARMS HOSHANG NAZIR AND THE ENTIRE BOARD. A special mention of the backend office team, Eruch...
I STARTED SINGING WHEN I CAME TO BOMBAY AND WAS INTRODUCED TO A POPULAR MUSIC DIRECTOR IN THOSE DAYS CALLED ANIL BISWAS – I MUST HAVE BEEN 14-15 YEARS OLD. He heard me sing and he gave me my first song in a film called Arzoo. That was the beginning of my film career. Before that,...
I HAVE BEEN GUARDING INDIA’S BORDERS FOR 30 OUT OF MY 40 YEARS OF SERVICE, LOOKING AFTER THE NATION AND TRYING TO BRING PEACE IN A CONTENTIOUS LAND. I wonder how many of you have actually visited the North-East? Most of you may have gone to Shillong, seen the beauty of Meghalaya. How many of have...
MY LAST ASSIGNMENT WAS ABU DHABI AND BEFORE THAT I WAS AN AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT. HAVING LEARNT ARABIC, THAT IS A REGION I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT. A LOT HAS HAPPENED THERE RECENTLY; I AM NOT GOING TO DO A LAUNDRY LIST AND THERE ARE SOME PARTS LIKE LIBYA AND SYRIA THAT I AM GOING TO...
WHAT MEASURES DID YOU TAKE TO PIVOT LAST YEAR? We pioneered a concept of creating the theatre of sales online. We created groups of interesting customers, to talk together, with our partner brands, head designers, people from the market and communications which was a big value add to customers who liked to engage closely with fashion. Imagine...
THERE ARE ABOUT 7 AND HALF BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY; ABOUT ONE-THIRD ARE OBESE OR OVERWEIGHT AND ANOTHER 900 MILLION PEOPLE, APPROXIMATELY, ARE CHRONICALLY HUNGRY. IN THE SENSE THAT THEY DON’T GET EVEN THE MINIMUM CALORIES FOR SURVIVAL. Out of those 900 million people, 200 million lived in India. So, we are the largest...