Sivasis Dey 
Mentor, Strategic Advisor & Senior Consultant – Oil & Gas Marketing, Former Executive Director / Country Head (Automation), Indian Oil Corporation Limited / Non Executive Director, Indian Oil Mauritius Limited
The Oil and Gas sector plays a crucial role in influencing decision-making for other important sectors of the economy. India’s economic growth is closely related to its energy demand and therefore the need for growth of the petroleum sector, making the sector conducive for investment.
As a professional from the Energy Sector, I feel one of the sectors, which have undergone tremendous transformation in India, during the last couple of decades, is Auto-fuel retailing. From a regime of Administrative Price mechanism (APM) and from a mode of traditional distribution, it has slowly but steadily moved into an era of competition and marketing.
A complaint was received by a senior executive of a well known major Automobile manufacturer.
‘This is the second time I have written to you and I don’t blame you for not answering me because I kind of sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of ice cream for dessert after dinner each night. But the kind of ice cream varied every night, as the whole family voted on which ice cream to have and I drive down to the store to get it.
There is a phrase in Buddhism, “kill the Buddha”, it means that the ideas you have learned to bring you to this point of clarity need to be let go of, if you are to go further and step into your power.
But, why exactly would we want to let go or unlearn?
Does what we already know prevents us from knowing more?
Right from our childhood we are programmed to answer every day at home or school,
What did you learn today?