Managing mega projects is a Herculean task, a task riddled with real possibilities of cash-burns and heartburns. But, manage you must. Must, not just for your success, for your survival too. As markets go global, as national boundaries melt away, as competition gets murderous, global corporations, their CEOs and project managers need to ensure their projects satisfy the global norms of scale and size. As you get down to translate your mega project dreams, you are sure to run over countless landmines and booby-traps. Where could you go wrong? What errors could you commit? Where could you fail? What could be your misses?Mega Projects Mega Realities is a compact handbook that will offer you live-wire mega project lessons. The seven unforgettable mega project lessons presented between the covers here have been immortalised through real-life corporate anecdotes. A must-read for CEOs. project managers, B-school academics, MBA students and corporate investors - in fact, for everyone who has a stake in the success of mega projects and their implementing corporations.

Mega Projects Mega Realities

This short story, naughtily titled as Winking in Wunderland, is a caustic satire that mocks at the duplicitous wink-and-nudge goings-on in the world of media and mass communication, banking and business. Understandably, Winking in Wunderland jabbingly alludes to the politics of winking and goes out audaciously to link winking to the business of media, particularly of print publications and television. As you read this short satire, you can feel the plot taking a potshot at the unmistakable pretensions people by lifting the curtain of winking. This short story, you will be surprised to appreciate, lifts the veil on how mediamen wink their way to construct their winky 'stories' for broadcasting and publishing. This satirical short story happens in Wunderland, a wink-wrapped dystopian state, where winking is business as usual. If you say this short caricature is all about 'winky' journalism and 'winky' movies, you would not be far from being right.

Winking in Wunderland

For the 150 million-plus LGBTs in India, Jatin Johar proves to be a nightmare. Thanks to this new-found bugbear, LGBTs in India find themselves suddenly maligned. They all stand marked out as potential criminals in the eyes of an asinine law. Did Jatin Johar realise the gravity of the injustice he had perpetrated? Did he finally muster the moral courage to accept that he was responsible for making the apex court an antithesis of justice? Why did his justice wife tear into him for his verdict? What did she know which Jatin Johar didn't? When did he realise his folly? Finally, what made him confess and cry within himself?This explosive suspense-filled work is former Justice Jatin Johar's story as much it is the story of all those much maligned millions. Classified as a factionette, Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow? is a novelette, a fictional work couched in 7, 800 words deftly spun around a few facts that occurred in India. Though the novelette-factionette is dedicated to the 150 million-plus persecuted LGBTs in India, this timeless story is equally relevant to LGBTs elsewhere. Particularly more so to all those LGBTs languishing in those 77 homophobic regions on this earth. The novellete is dedicated to them as well. This novelette is sure to melt your hearts and move you to tears. When that happens, you are sure to see no one takes the orange from the rainbow. This is Harish Kumar's debut novelette.

Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow?

Can you describe temptingly low-hanging fruits as tantalising? Are all doomsayers Cassandras? Which is right, squaring the circle or circling the square? Why is the vegetative metaphor in a vegetative state today?When does the arithmetic metaphor become a good metaphor arithmetic? Is botany a metaphor for all hand-me-down knowledge? Can negative words become resonant? Why is Eureka moment fast turning into a weasel metaphor?Yeast and dough - which is the spreading metaphor and which is the accommodating metaphor? Why shouldn't veneer be used as a respectable metaphor? Is wilderness a metaphor for the down and out? Are all harsh and severe laws draconian?Many more metaphor questions..... Many more answers...... And many more metaphor stories. Much More Metaphoric Madness is all about metaphor sanity.

Much More Metaphoric Madness - Metaphoric Madness, #3

Is googly a metaphor for surprises of all sorts? Can hat tricks turn contrarian to transform into a metaphor for successive defeats? Where do you use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? As you sprint towards the finish line, as the start line becomes a mere blur in the circuit of life, which metaphor should be your focus on?Why is your finish line only as good as your start line? How are these two metaphors connected? Is sprint a metaphor for any short and speedy spell of running? When are you likely to short circuit the circuit metaphor? Can stymie be a metaphor for frustrating your initiatives totally, stem and root? When does your food turn into a mulligan stew?How did the common defence strategy of sandbagging turn into a billiards metaphor? Marathon and steeplechase, which is a metaphor for endurance and which is a metaphor for perseverance? Is volley a metaphor for a hail of compliments? Should salvo surprise and sear to be a metaphor? When do you turn gambit into a weasel metaphor?Why should chequered be a metaphor for our basic life philosophy? Which pawn metaphor is extremely negative? When do you run the risk of stalemating the stalemate metaphor? When does stalemate on ground become a diplomatic checkmate?All metaphoric googlies! Springing nasty surprises and visiting you unannounced! Do not get caught off guard!! With Not the End of Metaphoric Madness, you need not feel checkmated. This Book 4 is sure to help you out of your metaphoric dilemmas. It will also assist you in upholding metaphoric propriety and ensure you do not commit a serious metaphoric faux pas.

Not The End of Metaphoric Madness - Metaphoric Madness, #4

Wherever he goes, colours chase him and hound him. They dog him to no end. He is a committed chromophobe, a victim of a strange condition called chronic malachromia. His aversion to colours and the deep hatred he nurses for them is not a new phenomenon. He developed them right when he was a teenager. Later as a journalist, he finds himself victimised by colours, whichever publication he worked for. Disgusted, he quits active journalism in the quest of colour-free vocations such as e-publishing and teaching. Sadly, he discovers to his dismay the entire knowledge sector is awash in duplicitous colours. That pushes him to turn to non-profits. And later to electoral politics, which survives solely on double-timing colours. Seeing no escape from colour conspiracies, the committed chromophobe turns into a colours-chasing chromophiliac. Nevertheless, colours continue to conspire against him. Felled by fatal colour conspiracies again and again, he relapses into chromophobia. There on, his life story takes a tragic turn. What happens to him finally? What are colours doing in his life now? Where do colours finally take him? Do the diabolical conspiracies of colours, integral parts of every human life, succeed in getting him finally?Conspiracies of Colours is not just the story of a chromophobe. It is the story that reflects on the colour-dilemmas everyone of us face and the shocking story of the duplicitous lives most of us lead today. Packed and peppered with colour aphorisms, colour wisecracks and colour anecdotes, this edge-of-the-seat thriller is a must-read for everyone. Simply because this is everyone's story as we all continue to be victims of colours sometime or other.

Conspiracies of Colours

Birth, dream, fruits, mother, street, ........well, .......... Do not shrug your shoulders dismissively. Do not wave all these words away as plainly pedestrian. Many more Simple Simons such as these straddle across the English linguistic landscape as powerful and potent metaphors. Only that you should know when, where, and how to use them all as pictorial metaphors. Metaphoric Madness will precisely help you gain that rare expertise. Using simple words as sexy metaphors for a variety of emotions, conditions and circumstances is actually multiplying your word power manifold. And discovering artful metaphors in mundane words is actually mastering quality in communication. Ideally, treat this book as the first leg in your new metaphor journey. You are sure to find Metaphoric Madness absorbing and addictive. That addiction is certain to prove creative and constructive. In more ways than one.

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