Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Saturday 18 November 2017

#BulletTrain #Hyperloop #TransHourbourLink #ShivajiStatue

Going  Beyond  14  Minutes



Following news reports appeared in yesterday’s papers :







The carrier will be able to carry nuclear warhead at 43,200 kilometres per hour velocity


[ Pune Mirror ]






A 100 km Hyperloop route between Navi Mumbai and Pune will cost Rs 26,000 crores,
but ticket-cost 1 / 10th the cost of airfare , said Maharashtra Government on Thursday


[ Times of India ]




I am reminded of what someone said :


“ It is alright to build Castles in the air – as long as you know how to put foundations underneath those castles , later on “


Let us rise above the “ 14 Minute Syndrome “ and congratulate Shri Devendra Fadnavis – Chief Minister, Maharashtra ,  for “ thinking BIG / dreaming BIG “ , as evident from his following recent decisions :


·         22.5 Km long Trans Harbour Bridge to connect Sewree with New Mumbai


·         A statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ( at 210 M tall , highest in World )


China tried very hard to grab the Mumbai – Ahmedabad bullet train project ( costing Rs 1 lakh*crore ) but lost it to Japan


Rising above all the objections ( some very valid too ), to what opposition parties call “ an expensive toy of doubtful utility “, let us hope that this bullet train brings in to our babu-culture , a “ change of attitude “ exemplified by the following news appearing in today’s Mumbai Mirror :



“ Japan : Train departs 20 seconds early , rail operator apologises “



What would have  the Managing Director of that Japanese Rail Company done, if the train had reached the destination 20 seconds late ?



Read :


BulletTrain and Work Ethics [ 16  Sept  2017  ]





19  Nov  2017



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