A Story To Tell
Our life is a story. Each one of us has a story to tell. Over the course of our life, we have many stories on which is built our personality. In some of these stories, we play only a
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Leadership Lessons from The Balasore Train Accident
Recently, India experienced a tragic railway accident where we lost almost 300 lives in a three-train collision in Balasore, Odisha. As the Economist emphatically mentioned “Notwithstanding this disaster, rail travel is not especially dangerous in India, where some 20 million
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A Dearth of Role Models
We live in a social media driven world where reels and trolls are given top billing and more undivided attention than anything else. We are at the cusp of a stage where AI- artificial intelligence if used deceptively and
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The Real Juggernaut of Odisha
My first visit to Bhubaneshwar was in early February this year and that maiden trip was a pleasant revelation to me as reflected in my blog https://nudgesports.in/odisha-the-soul-of-sports-in-india/ Odisha as we all know is famous for its temples – namely
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Five Days As A Team Owner
The last time I wrote a blog on playing cricket beyond fifty years of age was in December 2021. That was when I played my first tournament as a fifty-one-year-old at the lush green Omtex ICWC cricket ground. Last
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The Importance of Multiskilling in Today’s World
Recently, one of the physiotherapists working on a project with me, was tasked with developing videos of the sessions that she had conducted. These were not just ordinary videos that most of us take from our capable smartphone, but
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Odisha: The Soul of Sports in India
Odisha and specifically Bhubaneshwar had been on my travel plan for many years. Even during my days as an executive in the corporate world, this was one of those cities that I never ended up visiting. I had always
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The Gladiators of Test Cricket
Imagine a Test match team that has Virendra Sehwag and Mathew Hayden opening the innings, followed by Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar, then supported by AB de Villiers and Ben Stokes at numbers five and six. And we are
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Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid
It was sometime in late 2004 when I read the Wharton professor C K Prahlad’s inspiring book “The Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid”. The core principle of this book revolves around offering products and services to consumers
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