An Ode to a Life of Grit, Grace, and Friendship   Some friendships are not measured in years alone, but in the quiet certainty that the other person will always be there. My friendship with Anup Singh—better known as Munna Singh—was one such bond. It began in the 1960s in Durgapur and endured, unchanged in spirit, for more than five decades. We became neighbours when my family moved to Mirabai Road in Durgapur. Munna lived barely a hundred metres away, on Vivekananda Road—par

The Table Mountain   Seven years ago, I made the decision to travel to Cape Town, South Africa. The main reason for this trip was my daughter Shraddha's marriage to Karan who worked and lived in the vibrant city. However, shortly after her move, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, disrupting our plans and putting a hold on our visit to Cape Town until life returned to normal. Being a wild life enthusiast with a visit to Masai Mara in 2013, visiting Kruger National Park was an added at

(The ‘behind-the-scene’ story of D A V Model School, Durgapur) The D A V Model School as it exists today The year was 1975 and all the...

When I started working in 1981, Indian organisations were evolving. The evolution was largely by trial and error though companies had...

In 1979, I secured admission to XLRI, Jamshedpur, a prestigious management institute founded in 1949 by the Jesuits. Father Enright was...

So, there we were, living together in the A. N. Jha Hostel in Allahabad (now known as Prayagraj), navigating the labyrinth of adulthood...

Durgapur had some very good schools but unlike a city, did not have any college for undergraduate studies except for one Government...