Indian Left at its Moment of Truth
Political Commentary by Ravikumar Pillai File Photo of Sita Ram Yechury at CPIM Party Congress The Indian Left, a loose term for the...
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360° Perspectives
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- Sep 10
- 2 min
India’s Nari Shakti Is Just a Slogan - Who Cares?
Ravikumar Pillai Female Workforce Participation is Key to Progress For a long time, I have been thinking about the deep-rooted hypocrisy...
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- Sep 9
- 4 min
Can India Crack the Jobs Drought?
Too Many People Chasing Too Few Jobs - The Long Wait Gets on the Nerve Despite clocking one of the highest economic growth in today’s...
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- Sep 5
- 7 min
Living the Semi-Colon Moments
Short Story by Ravikumar Pillai Lakshmi got up as usual at five in the morning. Over the past few years, she had grown comfortable with...
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- Sep 3
- 6 min
My Foray into Franchising: The Entry
Part 22 of My Career Story - Ravikumar Pillai There is much to learn in the Art of Selling My search for a potential business domain...
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- Aug 29
- 8 min
Face-to-Face with Mega Project Realities
Career Memoirs: Part 21 Ravikumar Pillai Down the Memory Lane For most developing nations, whether in Asia, Africa or Latin...
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- Aug 27
- 6 min
On the Go
short story by Ravikumar Pillai Ganesh checked in to the five-star hotel in Grosvenor Place, Central London on a Sunday evening. It was...
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- Aug 21
- 7 min
Navigating the corporate terrains: my early days in MRPL
The Author with the Late Aditya Birla at MRPL site in the early days of construction Changing to a new employer and getting acclimatized...
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- Aug 16
- 2 min
Can Kamala Trump Don?
With two and a half months to go for the 2024 Polls in the United States, these are still early days to size up the campaign and...
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- Aug 13
- 8 min
My Days at MRPL - Baptism by Fire: Mumbai Blasts, 1993
My Career Story - Part 19 A view of Mangalore Refinery (MRPL) In early 1993, Mangaluru was still a quiet and sleepy city. India was on...
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- Aug 7
- 6 min
The Career Transition Saga
Career Memoirs Trail by Ravikumar Pillai - part 18 The interval between career shifts is an unusually cool and detached experience. A...
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- Aug 7
- 2 min
The Hard Lessons Bangladesh Teaches India
political analysis by Ravikumar Pillai Mohammed Younis on the cusp of making history Bangladesh's ongoing chaos, mayhem and brutalities...
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- Aug 1
- 8 min
To Be or Not to Be
a short story by Ravikumar Pillai Bengaluru Airport's Terminal 2 lifted her mood every time she flew in or out. Bamboo and cane frames,...
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- Jul 27
- 8 min
My Career Move to Private Sector
Daring to tread the unknown path is key to the career cycle maturity curve After completing the training in London and visiting the...
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- Jul 21
- 2 min
Whom shall we credit for the remaking of RaGa?
The first Budget Session of the Eighteenth Lok Sabha begins on Monday, 22 July. It is a new beginning, an unexpected one because the mood...
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- Jul 20
- 8 min
My Date with London
Piccadilly Circus, the heart of the City of London The last few weeks of the year is a special time. As Christmas and New Year are around...
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- Jul 19
- 7 min
The mysterious teardrop
A Short Story by Ravikumar Pillai Most friendships are tenuous, though we pretend they are forever. We acquire and nurture relationships...
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- Jul 12
- 7 min
My First Tryst with Corporate Transformation
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new – Socrates In the second half of the...
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- Jul 11
- 6 min
The Interval
Short Story by Ravikumar Pillai Sunday mornings are special for Alice. It is a hectic time, and she doesn’t mind. Jacob needs his early...
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- Jul 10
- 2 min
Reinventing Indian Federal Democratic Nuances
For the past ten years from 2014 to 2024, Indian democracy was in a limbo of sorts. Democracy by name and autocracy by choice. Never...
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