BDG Blogs

Is Dubai your base location ?

For the last 11 months,we are living in Dubai.Came here to spend leisure time on my son,Romit's request,and have been postponing going back to Kolkata,for one reason or the other with Covid being as the major one.Disruptive flights are a major concern,first for going,then,for coming back.In the process,we started looking at Dubai more closely,and some interesting obse... Learn More

ARE ALL ASPIRATIONS MEANT TO BE FULFILLED ?

The definition of a Family,has undergone a change in the modern world.Some group of people are still bonded together,and calling themselves FAMILY the old way,but over years,this has taken a different meaning.In fact,it is continuously making different meaning over time.On top of this,if the Family happens to be in business,in these transition times,then all the more ... Learn More

CREATE, DEVELOP, INSTITUTIONALISE, DISAPPEAR ……

Yesterday was the 17th.Convocation of our 19 year old Globsyn Business School,(GBS)completely virtual,and completely global.India,China,Dubai,being touched at the sametime.I was sitting at my home in Dubai watching the event with my family,on my laptop,and was thinking of the day,when in 2001-2002,when I was deep in financial distress,mainly because ... Learn More

NEED NEW GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

In this ever changing,dynamic world,where there is no base,and every stage of your life is a base of sorts,as all infrastructural and environmental needs tends to be virtual in everything we wish to do,we must stop and wonder,will this give us what we wanted to do in life,or, are we changing to this new times,without thinking whether we will like this adaptation of ou... Learn More

Is Governance all about winning elections & control ?

I am a Senior Citizen.Having said that,I have been following the political and governance activities very closely over the last few months/year. It beats me to see that the entire administrative and political machinery is converted into a single vote getting mechanism,both ways of the elections.That means,it is no longer that life becomes election instrument before th... Learn More

JUST THINK ABOUT YOURSELF. PERIOD.

Never ever in our lives before,the need to think about only yourself,was greater than today.Thanks to Covid. We really can't help thinking about anyone,as we cannot do or act anything to anyone,anymore.Everyone is left to themselves today. Your direct small nucleus of direct family,is perhaps the only others whom you can atleast see,feel,think about.But that is also ... Learn More

How different is DIFFERENT ?

In business, changes happen every 7/10 years and can be termed as incremental. But when in a family business, a patriarch takes a backseat and allows his sons to run the business he has started from scratch, exactly the same way as he did, he must be living in a fool’s paradise. So, it will change. A few things get most affected, as changes appear, one of them is Pe... Learn More