Every challenge is an opportunity | Mohit Kumar
It's only fitting that the second person I interviewed for the Mentor Series is Mohit Kumar. Mohit and I met while he was Director of Engineering Projects at Dr Reddy's Labs when we were working on DRL's Oncology project at...
On Women’s Day
Sardars are foolish people. South Indian people are smart, and dark. Every second person in Dubai speaks Malayalam. Women are lousy drivers. Every Gujarati is an excellent trader. Kashmiri food is sweet. Women are delicate and sensitive. Bengalis say A...
How to win at life | Santsaran Advani
I only started blogging in late 2017 - you could call me a blogger-come-lately. Though I have been blogging for just a year, I realised very quickly how powerful sharing experiences can be. It is human to chase success and...
Requiem for a year gone by
Isn't it amazing - another new year is upon us? Calendar years have always fascinated me because of how they allow us to punctuate life with our experiences. "1999 was the year I started Fabtech." "My little girl was born...
Harmony through Operations Management – Getting the Flow Right
This is the third in my series of posts about project and operations management. You can also read the first, Fabtech’s Perspective on Operations and Project Management for Profitability and the second A Life Engineer’s guide to reimagining Project Management...
The dark age of Cancer
The dark. Illness. Hunger. Famine. Floods. Droughts. The plague. War. Strangers. Genghis Khan. Clowns. Spiders. AIDS. Rock 'n' roll. The Cold War. Throughout the history of human evolution, there have always been phenomena humans have been afraid of. Often for...
Quality by design
Quality by design or in its well known form QbD is a concept adopted by the Pharma Industry and written into its guidelines by regulatory authorities as recently as 2009. It is not a new concept and in fact the...
The Changing Nature of Disease
Across India we have at least three distinct seasons, not counting the arid west or the tundra-like north. The most distinct is the monsoon followed by post-monsoon and summer with a month or two of winter! With each of these...