Dinshaw Avari- Trying my Hand at Blogging!

(photo credit- https://grabcad.com/library/golden-spoon?locale=es ) June 24, 2019 About 50 people have over 26 years of service with our family just at Beach Luxury Hotel (not counting our other hotels) – NINE of whom have been with us for over 40 years! Why would someone choose to work for 50% of his or her LIFE with one family !? Our family’s CORE philosophy stems from my grandfather’s, late Dinshaw B Avari, life & upbringing.   Born in 1902, studied in the Petit Orphanage in Bombay, gave tuitions to support his & his siblings educations, my grandfather was truly a self-made man. He always taught my parents & us – “ Your father was born with a Silver spoon in his mouth; and you’ll are born with a ‘golden’ spoon!   Never forget your roots – never forget what it took to give you your current lifestyle & education ”.   That has always been front & center of our upbringing and in our childr...

(Photo credit- https://www.redbubble.com/people/galaxysalvo/works/16066035-big-brother-is-watching-you?p=poster ) June 17, 2019 In a recent set of Tweets ( https://twitter.com/aamirkazi60/status/1139408694653800448 ), our GM Aamir Kazi, @aamirkazi60, raises some very interesting & pertinent questions on the use of Social Media by employees of companies (for brevity I am only reproducing an extract of some of the questions he poses) - Quote In a recent row of […] the question is- does any organization has the right to spy on any employee’s private life? •Check on our thinking? •Do their employees represent organisations on their social media? What should be the criteria or standard operating procedure while on job? •Does any organisation has any contract letter saying “your social media accounts & personal emails will be checked for foul language and inappropriate content and if found guilty, disciplinary action will be taken against you”- you may lose ...

(Photo credit- “ https://www.anovos.com/products/star-trek-starfleet-insignia-patch ”) June 14, 2019 According to “ https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-government-definition-role-functions.html#transcriptHeader ”, “ Government , …, is the authority that sets rules for a society, helps its members relate to one another and to others, and keeps it running smoothly, securely, and peacefully ”. I, alongwith 6 billion others, will have 6 billion & 1 reasons on what a government’s role is in society. … But, why do we exist?   Why are we living?   Why did “societies” and “cultures” crop up? It is for the promotion of general welfare of those societies & cultures.   That’s what should be the purpose of any government and NOT a 20, 30, 40-page manifesto of the “ideal” society!!!   How much of these manifestos actually materialize in your country? There is NO perfect society or government by a long shot.   H...

(Image source- https://www.wired.com/story/giving-open-source-projects-life-after-a-developers-death/ ) June 6, 2019 People say there are only two finite things in this World- however, I believe there’s only one … DEATH.   Many of you may not agree but I do believe DEATH is the only certainty in the whole world.   Everything else is your destiny … and what you make of your life. William Somerset Maugham’s last play, “Sheppey”, tells the story of Sheppey, an hairdresser, who believes he is a lucky man.   Maugham ends the play with an old Arabic Fable, where “DEATH” visits Sheppey; and in reply to Sheppey, tells the story of a merchant in Baghdad trying to escape death   ( source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppey_(play) ) .   Jeffrey Archer’s very first chapter, titled “Death Speaks” in his book “To Cut a Long Story Short”, requotes this very Fable. Whatever our life and however good or evil we’ve lived it, in the end we just cannot esc...