Robert Chang was a second generation American. He was born and brought up in the United States of America. His parents had migrated from China when they were young. Robert had an interest in Palaeontology, but his parents wanted him to become an electronics engineer. He was good in mathematics also. So he didn’t mind. […]
Category: Journals
The Great Food conspiracy
The sales figures of a leading toothpaste manufacturer were falling steadily. The three top executives in the sales division were summoned by the CEO. “Do something. Each of you has to come up with a plan. It should increase the sales. Otherwise I don’t have to tell you what is on the line.” With their […]
Work- and Happiness.
Sailesh was a colleague of my cousin’s. He was a software professional employed in the same company for the last twenty years. He was good at the particular domain in which he was working. He had become a specialist in that particular branch of work. By his early forties he was drawing a fivelakh salary. […]
Notes and Receipts- and the serrated edge of the Coin -A brief history of money
After an hour of standing in the queue, I got it. A coloured slip of paper. Mahatma Gandhi grinned purplishly from it. The Rupee symbol and the number ‘2000’ featured prominently. This was one of those things which people would die for. If not for one, many might, for a stack of them. On Gandhi’s […]
Money and Happiness- Issues Black, White and Grey:
It was 2002. I was in Trivandrum after I had just passed my MS and become a qualified Surgeon. Trivandrum was a place crawling with specialists of all disciplines. I got a job as junior surgeon in one of the private hospitals. They gave me ten thousand rupees a month. I went to a conference […]