“Hello” Lulu, my parrot called. He hopped on to my study table as I nodded and acknowledged. “What’s the matter? I called you twice, you…
At the outset many thanks for inviting me to address this seminar. The subject is ‘Challenges to the Trade Unions due to Growing Precarious Work…
I published the story of Rajendra Vighe. It was captioned ‘The Contracts of Exploitation.’ In this post I take the story further to explain how…
AAK Kamani P Ltd has recently given 234 contract workers in permanent job. This is an unusual agreement! This agreement comes at a time when…
The weight of experience is not easy to shrug off. Actually it is just impossible to do it. We learn this again and yet again….
[My speech at Uni Apro SAARC Sub Regional Seminar at Kathmandu, Nepal on May 21, 2016] I was invited to participate in SAARC Sub-Regional…
[This is the second part of this travelogue series. The first part can be read here.] “What was that pic about? Hanging shoes on a…
You don’t see many factories in Mumbai. Many factories have pulled down shutter or have been shifted elsewhere. But the situation is exactly otherwise in…
Address delivered at HR Meet of Mahindra & Mahindra on Dec 18, 2013 [This is the Second part of my speech “Making our Workplace Competitive, Fair…
The trouble with studying in good management institutes is that the students very often do not understand what it means to work in industry. They…