Business trips in 1990

I had two consulting jobs in India in 1990. The first one, in January, took me to Mumbai (Bombay), then to Islamabad in Pakistan (via Karachi and Lahore) and back to India in New Delhi. The other, in November, sent me to Mumbai,   Ahmedabad and New Delhi.

I was there on business so I did not take many pictures. To deal with Indians I had to study their socio-economic environment beforehand and in the field. India is a very diverse and complex country. Understanding its values customs and ideosyncraties is essential to doing business but that is more easily said than done. The same remark applies to Pakistan so you can imagine how interesting these two trips were for me.

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