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“Troubled times”

I was delighted to read your well worded editorial, "Troubled times” (Parsiana, November 21, 2016), about the Ratan Tata-Cyrus Mistry fallout, the cash crisis as a result of demonetization and the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. I was particularly impressed by the last paragraph: "Already the issue (trouble in the Tata Group) has become a case study for some management schools. What lessons can one draw from the imbroglio? We’ll never know unless the people closely involved tell us the story. Right now it remains a tragic enigma.”
The use of the word "enigma” reminded me of what Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britain said in a radio broadcast on October 1, 1939, just a few days after World War II started on September 13: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
NADIR A. MODI
namodi2008@gmail.com
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