Aparna Subramanian

@san_x_m Most companies favor the management or senior person over the complainant.

Yesterday the Chairman of Tata Sons spoke. N Chandrasekaran said the allegations from TCS Nashik are gravely concerning and anguishing. He said the Tata Group has a zero tolerance policy for coercion and misconduct. He said TCS COO Aarthi Subramanian will personally lead the investigation. Seven people have been arrested. A female HR manager is among them. Her custody was extended until April 15. The NITES union has written to the Union Labour Minister demanding a time bound audit of all TCS offices across India to check if Internal Complaints Committees are actually functioning. Here is what this case exposed. Eight women employees were harassed inside a TCS office for years. When one reported it to HR she was told to stay cool. That some gestures are common in MNCs. Police had to send seven undercover women officers into the office. They collected evidence for 42 days before making arrests. A zero tolerance policy means nothing if HR tells victims to stay cool. Every company in India must have a functioning Internal Complaints Committee under the POSH Act. Not just on paper. If yours does not you can report it directly to the District Officer. No lawyer needed. Follow for stories the corporate world hopes you never read.

Thanks to my school friend serving in Indian Air Force, I had the opportunity to witness an informal celebration marking completion of basic solo flying training by a batch of cadets, that also had few foreign cadets who did an advanced course in solo flying. Grateful experience!

His name was Manjunath Shanmugam. He was an IIM Lucknow graduate. He got a job with Indian Oil Corporation as a sales officer. His territory was Uttar Pradesh. He found that petrol pump dealers were adulterating fuel and cheating customers. He reported it. He sealed the pumps. On November 19 2005 a petrol pump owner shot him dead outside his office. He was 27 years old. The killers were convicted. Sentenced to life imprisonment. His parents did not get compensation for 15 years. His college created the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust in his name to fight corruption. Some men die because they refused to look the other way. India forgets them too quickly.

If your parents are 65 and above, please listen. They are not going to tell you they are running out of time. That is not how they were built. They will wave you off, say they are fine, tell you not to worry, because they spent a lifetime protecting you from hard truths and they are still doing it now. But time is not asking their permission. Look closely the next time you see them, really look. The hands that once seemed so capable, the voice that used to fill a room, the eyes that still light up the moment you walk in, because you walking in is still, after all these years, one of the best parts of their day. You are so busy becoming while they are quietly diminishing, and both things are happening at the same time and nobody talks about it. The repeated stories are not a malfunction. They are what mattered most to them, they are trying to pass something to you before they go, so receive it. One day you will be mid-sentence and suddenly remember the exact way they laughed, and it will stop you cold, and you would trade almost anything to hear it one more time in real time, not just in memory. That day is coming, you do not know when. So call, not when you have time, because you do not have time, nobody does, but call anyway, visit anyway, sit in the quiet with them and let it mean something. Give them your presence while they can still feel it, not later. Now.

As per imd rain thunderstorm to hit pune and several areas of maharashtra from 30 March- 2 April. #punerains Respite from heat ahead

@ICICIBank_Care what is the procedure to close a bank account with Icici?

@ICICIBank_Care hi - how to reach a human being talk on your customer care 1800 1080 ?

Kaveri is a sentiment echoed through my maternal family, who have modest roots in a village of Karur District, close to the banks of Amravati (tributary of Kaveri). My grandfather passed away 48 yrs ago - but the villagers still talk about him and tell me stories of the old days.

He wanted to become the best cobbler in the world. So he sold his sole to the Devil.

@IndiGo6E No amount of emails or messages is enough to get a response to the problem. How are people supposed to login?

@lifelikeitis Hi, you may write to us at customer.experience@goindigo.in in this regard. Our BluChip team will connect with you directly to assist you with this. ~Shreya

@IndiGo6E how does one login to bluchip account when the OTP is valid for 5 minutes and the email with OTP arrives later than this 5 minutes??

13 years. RIP my darling boy.

A rare Tamil classic Ratha Kanneer (1954), directed by Krishnan-Panju & starring theatre legend M.R. Radha, has been added to the National Film Archive of India. Aparna Subramaniam, Film Research Officer at @FTIIOfficial donated 8 jumbo reels (35mm) to @nfdcindia Managing Director Prakash Magdum in Pune, ensuring preservation of this culturally significant film. 📔pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…

Storage is not preservation @dpc_chat Hope more people understood it !

So I receive a #HappyDeepavali message and I respond saying, Thanks, wish you the same. I get a reply - Sorry, who is this?

@spk_esy @FTIIOfficial @Synoptique Thank you!

@FTIIOfficial @lifelikeitis @Synoptique An excellent article. Benefitted a lot from this. Opened me to many new things.

FTII Film Research Officer Aparna Subramanian @lifelikeitis has co-authored a peer-reviewed article in Synoptique 11. @Synoptique, an international journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, on the theme “Teaching Media Archives 2025.”

Narkasur in Goa 🕉️

Heal, so you recognize people pleasing is far more detrimental than you think.