Anish's Blogs

While taking a stroll through our neighborhood mall last week, we realized that one of the anchor stores, Sears, is closed down. Oh yeah! It’s one of the 1500 Sears stores closed since 2013! A retail giant, Amazon of the 20th century is on death bed. A company which at one point enjoyed a revenue equivalent to 1% of US GDP, which pioneered services like the mail-order catalog has lost its luster in the wake of the new online shopping spree! A stark reminder of the fact that businesses not only need strength and stamina but they equally need flexibility. Microsoft on the other hand was faltering in the early part of this decade, but under Satya Nadella’s leadership, they showed the flexibility to invest in the Cloud Business and are now seeing its fruition.  Startups on the other side are very flexible, but without core product strength and the stamina to showcase quarter over quarter growth, many of them don’t see the IPO light. The trio, strength, stamina and fle...

You will get varied answers ranging from “Of course, I am a vegan” to “I am an eggetarian” to “I don’t eat red meat”, all the way up to “I love animals, they taste really good” and “I can eat anything that moves or once moved”. Where the person is in this huge spectrum depends on a lot of factors, broadly categorized into a handful of buckets. Religion A vast majority of folks refrain from meat or at least some types of meats because of their religious beliefs. Muslims, for example won’t eat pork while Hindus typically don’t eat beef. It doesn’t stop there. Some Hindus are supposed to not eat any type of meat, whereas others abstain from meat during a portion of the year, which typically coincides with the rainy season in India. This is not surprising as the digestive capacity of humans during those days may not be the best. Indian diaspora also follows this practice during the same time period although the weather during those months in that part of the World they are living may...

To Eat or Not to Eat    In the World with so many different attributes attached to the food; low fat, trans fat, refined, antioxidants, organic etc.; no wonder it causes a lot of confusion for any person as to what is safe to eat and what is not. Studies after studies show how previous studies are faulty! How long should we wait to have the perfect study which is not invalidated by a future study? How can we guarantee that all studies related to food are over and it’s safe to eat the food prescribed by that infallible study? Not only are the researchers clueless, but so are the doctors! One of my friends’ doctor suggested that he should consume more protein and start eating beef. My friend is a Hindu Brahmin and his ancestors have not eaten beef for centuries (or maybe ever)! Speaking of ancestors; whether you praise or curse your lineage, the fact is you have just inherited their genes. Your body is geared towards eating the same type of food your ancestors have been ...