Purple cloud-shaped speech bubble with black outline reading 'TOO MUCH' in bold letters

TOO MUCH!

Too Much – Knowledge is not what you know; but where to find it. But these days, you do not have to search as to where does that knowledge is to be found. Two decades ago, I used to sit in the library, leafing over the books, in search of some desired information. This process […]

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National Insurance Academy campus in Pune

DAY 1 PUNE, 21ST MAY 2000, 9.30AM, SUNDAY WELCOME TO NIA

Reached Pune Railway station in one piece, after having spent a dreadful night in utter terror with those two specimens in the train. It is generally said that one could smell the rat from a mile away. I could smell the rotten stink of figures and their positive and negative variations from a berth away. […]

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Campus view of the National Insurance Academy with a fountain in the center

SECRET DIARY OF A YOUNG EXECUTIVE – THE BEGINNING, SATURDAY, 20™ MAY 2000, 8.15PM

During my employment at the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, way back in the year 2000, I was nominated and sent for a three-week training course at the National Insurance Academy (NIA) Pune. From 22-05-2000 to 10-06-2000 (both days inclusive). I do not know what came over me, but I wrote a detailed account […]

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