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I started writing in earnest more than four years ago. Faced with prospect of imminent demise, I embarked on my long delayed memoire. Here then is a collection of my best columns over the course of these past four years. As the readers will see the prime focus of these columns has been on relationships, the problems of aging, the promise of technology and random musings on a diverse range of subjects from the lure of marmite to the new type of books in the future I do not know what the future holds in the limited span left for me, but this I do know, there is a bliss to be found in our lives...

On November 26, 2008 the author and his wife were taken hostage by terrorists in a hotel in Mumbai. Over the next few days, they faced the possibility of death by the terrorists%u2019 bullets or by fire. They were rescued a few days later but, as the author put it, "he thought of dying on the morrow helps wonderfully to concentrate your mind on things that you have left undone and the little time that you may have left in the world.After their successful rescue, he was urged by his family and friends to write about their experiences. And that is where this book begins. It ranges over a wide...

India has made major advances in science and technology in the last five decades -- from nuclear plants to the software revolution-- which have provided the foundation of its economic development. One of these advances was in offshore oil technology. This book provides an exciting account of how India obtained and mastered offshore oil technology.It gives an insider's account of the discovery and development of India's biggest offshore oil field, Bombay High, and of the strategies and efforts that made it possible to increase the country's oil self-sufficiency from 30 % to 70 % in a short...