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...
THIS SUBJECT IS OF SUCH A WIDE AMPLITUDE THAT I CAN ADJUST A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THAT. The question that should be asked is, why should I NOT pay my taxes? Because, as in the same case of Commissioner of Wealth Tax vs Arvind Narottam Das, the Supreme Court Justice Sabyasachi Mukharji said that people...
Rtn. Dr. Aashish Contractor: Globally, we have crossed a 110 million Covid cases with more than 2.4 million deaths. In India, we have crossed roughly 11 million cases with around 1.5 lakh deaths. So, clearly it has left its toll and it is something that we have not experienced in our lifetime and hopefully with...
What are some of the broad travel trends you predict in the coming months? Domestic tourism is definitely not only looking up, but it is at a place that there is no turning back. There are the expected concerns, though, after the Mumbai local trains have opened up. We have seen the story play out everywhere...
PP SHAILESH HARIBHAKTI: It was very thoughtful of you to have given us the topic of reflections of the Budget because I think we have allowed a sufficient amount of time to be spent in truly doing that. So, I am going to talk to all of you about the 3 hundred-billion-dollar idea which I see...
Covid-19 was an invisible enemy and on May 8th, when the Government of Maharashtra appointed me Municipal Commissioner of the city, I remember I had read an e-newspaper early that morning that there had been a death on a road divider in Dharavi. A dead body had been lying there, a dead body in an...