Showing posts with label Retiring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retiring. Show all posts

'World Leaders Retiring

 Mostly, they don't. Retire, I mean. But strangely, in the last year or two, we had two who did.

Jacinda Ardern, who was New Zealand's zealous Prime Minster, and saw the country though a mass shooting, and then, COVID, with all its anxieties. She withstood all that, but said goodbye a few months later, saying she needed to move on, unable to take it any more.

More recently, Sanna Marin of Finland stepped out of politics completely, and said she wants to do social work.

I have not really heard of an Indian politician voluntarily stepping down, or a minister resigning. Mostly, this happens when they lose an election. Perhaps it happened in the good old says, but mostly, the clamour is for being made a minister, at any cost.



Friend Retires

 We joined IIM Lucknow as marketing faculty in 2001. I left in 2003 for Kozhikode, and a few years later, he migrated to IIM Bangalore. He now retires after many years of teaching there. I have re-entered Bangalore recently for a new stint at NMIMS. So we met up for a tete-a-tete with our wives, as we are now family friends. Some pics.

Avinash and Medha, and us..Bagpiper nahi hai, bas..




In a World of OTPs and KYCs

 And digital menus.. imagine these.. If you want to enter Heaven, you need to prove your credentials.. first, a KYC to prove your identity.....

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