MG George Muthoot, the chairman of the Muthoot Group since 1993, passed away recently. Aged just above 70, he helmed around 20 businesses. As per Forbes Asia , he was the richest from Kerala and the 26th richest Indian family in 2020. He was a trustee of the Malankara Orthodox Church was a member of the national executive committee of FICCI. A towering figure in Kerala, the news was covered widely by the national and regional media. But the print media handled the news differently. There was an intentional suppression of the reason for his death in the regional media. Regional media lazily conveyed that he had a fall in his house in Delhi and was brought dead to the hospital. National media was more specific. The Hindu wrote this , M.G. George, 72, died on Friday evening after he allegedly fell from the fourth floor of his house in southeast Delhi’s East of Kailash. A senior police officer said a crime team visited the spot where the incident happened. They have scanned all CCTVs in th

We have always been told by our parents to choose friends wisely. Friends determine our destiny! A friend from 10th class, an average student, had scored excellent marks in the final exam. He shared recently that the turnaround was when he became friends with class toppers. He went on to excel in his life and career beyond his imagination then. Such is the impact of friends! Friends can impact our thinking too. What we think is what we are! Hence our friends determine who we are as an individual. Let us do a counting exercise. How many friends do you have who are atleast 20 years older or younger than you? How many friends do you have from other gender? How many friends do you have from other religion? How many friends do you have from other castes of your religion? How many friends do you have from other states of India? How many friends do you have from other nations? How many friends do you have who call themselves atheists? How many friends do you have who are politicians, lawyers,

What is truth beyond facts? Aren’t truth and facts one and the same? Facts are facts. We do not argue over them. Facts can be checked and verified. When many of us concur to a fact, we find the truth. Truth requires facts to substantiate. Imagine we have two groups of people arriving at some truth from some facts. Both have truths substantiated by facts. But, what if one group’s truth is in conflict with the other? Whose truth is the better truth?! We have a disagreement. The easiest example is those who believe in God and those who do not. In the movie Twenty:20, there is a court sequence with Mohanlal as the murder accused, Suresh Gopi as the policeman and Mammootty as the lawyer. The court was presented with the fact that the policeman saw the accused with a knife in one hand and the victim on the other hand. The fact was not disputed. But the lawyer asked the policeman, whether the accused was seen stabbing the victim or pulling the knife out? The truth was under conflict and the a

When it is time for elections there is always a call for technocrats to contest. Most of us want them to win an election and run public offices of the highest order. These technocrats have excelled in their professional life and positively impacted many lives. We expect them to be successful in politics as well and bring the much-wanted change in our life. Does that happen? Technocrats operate in a microcosm of society. It can be an organisation or institution. The organisation is a collection of individuals who have agreed to work together for a common purpose or goal. Exemplary technocrats, with their ability, regularly achieve much larger goals from the individuals around them. They are good at working with people, delivering greater results for the organisation. They make life better for everyone around them. It is not just their colleagues, they make life better for the extended stakeholders of the organisation. The beneficiary can be the supplier, the investor, the customer and s