An Inquiry into the Fragility of the Bhartiya Ego A few days ago, Mamta and I excitedly drive down to Mumbai to be a part of the Trevor Noah show. Trevor Noah is a part of the triumvirate or the troika that has brought many a smile to me over the past 8 years or so, including uplifting me…

A micro narrative celebrating love and barakat Introduction With my father turning 84, my brother and I joined him in his annual pilgrimage to a ‘dargah’ or a shrine near the Punga village this year. While the glibly articulated reasons by us to make this trip along with Dad was ranged from ‘an anthropological enquiry’ to ‘the two…

Exploring the world of men in love and in hate It was Stephen King that wrote — “the soil of a man’s heart of a man is stonier … (as opposed to the ‘richer garden’ in a woman’s heart). Kohrra as a detective series on Netflix, is an ode to the inner and stonier world of men — earthier, cruder…

Preamble Deng Xiaoping once said that managing the economy was like “Crossing the river by feeling the stones” — working with individuals and groups in process work settings, resonates with this metaphor — except that there can be multiple rivers and many of the stones get increasingly unfathomable as the…

Preamble The real-life story of serial killer Mohan Kumar, also known as Cyanide Mohan, who is imprisoned for raping and killing 20 women in Karnataka, is repulsive at best. As a serial killer — his pattern is boringly repetitive. Mohan Kumar would approach single women from impoverished backgrounds, women who are…

Preamble As my son travels to Udaipur for the Sumedhas Summer program — a great place to learn and grow using process work in groups, I am overwhelmed with nostalgia and some anxiety as a parent. I am also in the process of apprehending dilemmas that have stayed with me…

3 Triggers that cannot be wished away by the Adani Group Introduction I am not an active investor and have no stock market mega-wins to speak of. In many ways, I would be seen as an extremely conservative investor, who has grudgingly been investing small sums of money in index…

Preamble Some recent events… On January 28th, 2023, the iconic and beautiful Mughal Gardens of the presidential abode or palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan) at New Delhi were renamed as ‘Amrit Udayan’, with the BJP (the ruling party in democratic India) proclaiming that India, today, sheds another symbol of ‘colonialism’. …

It was K S Narendran who spoke about the book first and i thank him for not just pointing to this gem but also lending it to me to read across a short trip to Ahmedabad. …