Deep Impressions

 Mar jaate hain aashiq, zinda reh jaati hai yaad...! Also published in moveitalkies.com  and  in The Print   Most people would have experienced Dilip Kumar through personal interactions during the last century and through documents and publications in the current century. However, my memories of the institution called Dilip Kumar are exactly the reverse. I have experienced his philosophies, his emotions and his humaneness through the documentation and communications that he had with Sterling Investment Corp Pvt Ltd during 1950s and 1960s and during a series of personal interactions with him and Saira ji at time of release of Mughal-e-Azam ( colour ) in 2004 and thereafter.   By mid 50s, Dilip Saheb was an established star and he was about to take the next leap in his career as a producer. He wanted to make a film with outdoor shoot and in colour. In those days, producers would avoid outdoor shoots due to the high costs involved. Also colour films had just arrived so was an expensive af

    Urban Realty : From Crowd to Cloud     Also published in  moneycontrol.com   Idea in brief : Agriculture economy lasted millenniums, industrial economy for centuries, and within decades of service economy dominance, we have the cloud economy.  The birth of cloud economy has interesting implications for all those connected with real estate sector        ---------------- ---------------- ----------------     ---------------- ---------------- ----------------     One hectare land :   …..When used by Agriculture employs 10 people    ……When used by Industries, employs 100 people   ……When used by Service economy, employs 1000 people     With migration of jobs across sectors, the workplace has secularly been getting densely crowded. However, the new movements called WFH ( Work From Home) and WFA ( Work From Anywhere) have suddenly turned the workplace from    ‘Crowd’ to ‘Cloud’. And this disruption has bought about several interesting nuances :    ·        Agriculture sector remained dom

    Medicine, Money  & Morality : A Contrary View       There are two vociferous demand these days :   ·        a loud cry against the high prices of medicines and health essentials  ·        an appeal to make covid vaccines off-patent      The former complains against lawlessness ; the latter demands a temporary lawlessness.  The former is creating waves domestically and the latter internationally.  Strangely, the both have a common unanswered question.     Yes, we all agree that one should not be greedy, one should not be insensitive and one should not be adamant in these times. And therefore, there is a strong case for the covid vaccines to go off-patent. However, there is also a counter argument. It says that before giving the waiver, one should also consider the implications for the next pandemic.    Will during the next pandemic, investors put billions of dollars in inventing vaccine if they know that the vaccine they would fund could go off-patent within a year of invention