The Semal tree very close to our house has flowered again.

I haven’t written in a while. That’s a fact.

In these three years that have passed since the last time I remember being a writer of any mentionable regularity, not much, however, has changed for me.

A lecture on leadership, delivered by Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw at various venues has recently been chanced upon by me in the form of a a YouTube video. This lecture is a lot of things, but most of all, it is extremely relevant, still, to our times. Its relevance lends it a degree of watchability and…