This screenshot speaks of the deep civilisational ties between Masqat and New Delhi, via Mandvi. Sheikh Pankaj Khimji, the influential Bania businessman greets the Indian President on His Majesty’s state visit to India.

Mr. Khimji is an Advisor to the Sultan of Oman and a top honcho of the Asian Cricket Council. I was there four years back in Muscat when Modiji visited Muscat and spoke to the diaspora at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Stadium in Bousher, next to my then office next to the Royal Hospital. I was the only analyst who had blogged on his visit.

I had presented on this connection in my Middle East Institute NUS talk in 2018 and had co written a paper too.

Oman is India’s maritime neighbor with an influential merchant diaspora from Kutch, who are Hindus and are custodians of the temples in Muscat. Oman was an invitee to India’s G20 Presidency as well.

Yallah!

As an ESG consultant, policy think tank researcher and writer from a hard engineering background, we have to think with methods all the time- sources, analysis, writing styles in presenting our deliverables.

This is the third methods class in the social sciences at the graduate level I am studying across three top universities in ASEAN, and each class refreshes the lens.

Most consultants who are from engineering and MBA epistemic background have not read any qualitative methods class or writing courses prior to entering consulting, where they are expected to research and write. And this is an uphill battle, and impacts productivity.