Blogs
- Know about ICF before I tell you about Train 18Flip-flop governance!
13 june 2021 - Ghalib goes for vaccination after Shakespeare is vaccinated!
May 10, 2021 - Shakespeare for laymen and Ghalib today (Part Two of both)
May 6, 2021 - I didn’t tell you so…but you ought to have known
April 20, 2021 - Ghalib today
April 9, 2021 - Private Trains: Dilemmas of a prospective PTO
March 19, 2021 - Shakespeare for laymen like me
March 5, 2021 - Management Lessons from Poet Uncles (part three)
February 26, 2021 - Quo Vadis, Private Train? Don’t let this train derail!
February 11, 2021 - Management Lessons from Poet Uncles (part two)
January 29, 2021 - Bandit Territory, America?
January 14, 2021 - Remembering Ghalib on his birth anniversary
December 29, 2020 - HBD, Forsooth!
December 16, 2020 - Management Lessons from Poet Uncles
November 28, 2020 - Train 18: Public Leadership and Design Thinking
November 14, 2020 - Privatization of trains: Indian Railways chasing its own tail?
November 8, 2020 - The success of Train 18
October 30, 2020 - Rip away the random reckless RIP routine!
October 14, 2020 - Unveiling of Train 18
October 8, 2020 - Corporatization of Railway Manufacturing
September 26, 2020 - Train 18 hype as the day of the unveiling drew close
September 19, 2020 - Train 18 hype as the day of the unveiling drew close
September 19, 2020 - Make in India to Atmanirbhar
August 27, 2020 - Privatization of trains: Chop and change?
August 6, 2020 - Dash and the last mile dash(before the turn out of Train 18)
July 16, 2020 - Chinese banished, but are Indian apps coming?
July 5, 2020 - Veer Biharis! And why this border clash is different
June 27, 2020 - How self-reliant is Atmanirbhar? Part 2
June 20, 2020 - Train 18…Virtue out of a necessity
June 15, 2020 - How self-reliant is Atmanirbhar? Part 1
June 13, 2020 - Our labour laws. Have we thrown the baby with the bathwater?
May 30, 2020 - Livelihood and dignity of labour
May 20, 2020 - Make in India to Self-reliance: beyond the semantics
May 14, 202 - Sisters of Train 18 and RDSO
May 12, 2020 - Transparency and Delivery, the twain must meet!
April 29, 2020 - Corona Virus and the labyrinth of statistics!
April 27, 2020 - Excerpts from my book on Train 18
April 26, 2020 - Some more musings on ICF and our path to manufacture of Train 18
April 21, 2020 - Start manufacture of Train 18 guys, pronto!
April 17, 2020 - Excerpts from Train 18 memoirs, Everyone aboard! & Approval Processes
April 16, 2020 - Witajcie drodzy konsultanci! (Welcome dear consultants!)
April 15, 2020 - Train 18 memoirs: The wise doth know he is foolish and vendors as partners in a public procurement regime?
April 13, 2020 - Train 18 memoirs: Our doubts are traitors
April 11, 2020 - Train 18 memoirs: Never let your dream die
April 9, 2020 - Train 18 memoirs: ICF starts breaking new grounds
April 7, 2020 - Train 18 memoirs: Getting into the soul of ICF
April 4, 2020 - What can engineers do to alleviate the Covid-19 misery?
April 2, 2020 - My first week in ICF
March 31, 2020 - No romance in more of the same
March 29, 2020 - Disconnected Corona Musings
March 27, 2020 - Visual Arts and I…musings of a rookie curator (part 2)
December 22, 2019 - Visual Arts and I…musings of a rookie curator (part 1)
November 6, 2019 - Train 18 series 28…leadership for a metamorphosis
April 19, 2019 - Train 18 series 27…the day of unveiling draws close
April 4, 2019 - Train 18 series 26..there is nothing better than winning over your staff!
April 1, 2019 - Train 18 series 25…Why is ToT not always such a good word?
March 29, 2019 - Train 18 series 23… our HR magician was going strong
March 22, 2019 - Train 18 series 22..bogies, the heart of the project
March 18, 2019 - Train 18 series 21…virtue out of a necessity
March 14, 2019 - Train 18 series 20…some more on design and train’s progress
March 5, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 19…Transparency and Delivery, the twain must meet!
March 3, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 18…hitches and glitches
February 26, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 17…more about design and manufacture
February 23, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 16…cultural transformation and its sustainability
February 17, 2019 - rain 18 series, part 15…participation of staff
February 12, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 14…manufacture starts!
February 10, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 13…are the designs ready to start manufacture?
February 7, 2019 - Train 18 series part 12…..industrial relations
February 5, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 11…preparation of key drawings and keeping the team intact
January 29, 2019 - Train 18 series, part 10…Approval processes
January 27, 2019 - Train 18 series, part IX…Cultural transformation of ICF
January 26, 2019 - Train 18 series, part VIII..Public Procurement Policy is certainly not a disabler!!
January 24, 2019 - Train 18 series, part VII..welcome dear consultants!!
January 23, 2019 - Train 18 series, part VI..everyone aboard!
January 19, 2019 - Train 18 series, part V..our vendors, our partners
January 17, 2019 - Train 18 series: Where were we?
January 15, 2019 - Train 18 series part three
January 13, 2019 - Know about ICF before I tell you about Train 18
January 12, 201 - Train 18 ..The concept
January 10, 2019 - Creativity is contageous!
October 16, 2016 - Oye Lucknow second!
July 31, 2016 - Some Artworks from “Reinventing the wheel’, the Art camp at Rail Wheel factory
July 30, 2016 - Oye Lucknow first!
April 30, 2016 - Bite and kill!
April 28, 2016 - Reinventing the wheel!
April 24, 2016 - Is the answer blowin’ in the wind?
April 17, 2016 - Firaq ke watan mein Urdu! Aur Iqbal?
April 17, 2016 - Some more on “Hindi hain hum…..”
April 16, 2016 - Railways and Art: Wheels within wheels now!
March 29, 2016 - Hindi hain hum, watan hai Hindostan hamara
March 28, 2016 - Hindi or Urdu
March 27, 2016