Many moons ago, Dr. Patrick Jean Pierre invited me to join him on a journey to explore race relations and collective humanity, within a global and virtual group relations conference – he stated this opportunity to work on race in an email as a ‘divine intervention’, as he painstakingly persevered to build a staff comprising […]
Category: On Communities
Dahaad – A Review
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 burdened by dowry demands, […]
Turn The Bus – A Gig, A Holarchy, or a Holacracy?
This blog explores alternative organization designs such as holarchies and holacracies that promise new types of organizations – that are perhaps more aligned to their contexts, innovative to the boot, and that create value for their stakeholders. My experience with Turn The Bus has offered visceral encounters that enrich my understanding of the theory and […]
Squid Game: 5 compelling reasons to watch it
The Squid Game is a dark complex narrative, at times to too violent and horrifying to watch, but compels the viewer at several levels to remain glued and addicted to how this gory narrative unfolds. While many if not all characters are destined to die, and die horribly, the series has its twists and turns, […]
The Tang Ping Movement: Relevance & Resonances in India
Introduction: The Overwhelming 996 Culture In 2018, I had the opportunity of working with the management of a carbon manufacturing company in quite literally, the middle of China. My colleague and I were there – anchoring a global intervention – focused on the themes of self-reflexivity, meaningfulness, and well-being. We were working with a team […]
Nomadland: A meandering but healing journey within that frees Self from the compulsivity of becoming …
his blog reviews a beautiful film written and directed by Chloe Zhao, and based on a recent non-fiction book – Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder.
The Mad Mad Mad World of Market Capitalism: Integrating Luc Boltanski’s Polities with Ashok Malhotra’s EUM
This blog looks at the works of Boltanski and Ashok Malhotra as one grapples with the near impossibility of taking political stances in today’s world
The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas
The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas Is Democracy being reduced to meaningless hyperreality – a simulacrum for the monkey mind of the common man entrapped within a world that is increasingly virtual, untrustworthy, unsafe, lonely, and ambivalent? The Context & the Divide This blog leverages textual analyses of two speeches given by […]
The Microcosm of RWAs in Gated Communities – Middle class angst, schadenfreude, and narcissism
This blog explores the microcosm of gated communities of privileged elite in India and offers an understanding of dysfunctional processes as well as opportunities for transformation within.
The Two Popes, CAA and the Divided Collective
Part 1 The Film Last night, I watched the Netflix film – the Two Popes – a biographical gem adapted from a play, starring Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Price as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who later on succeeded Pope Benedict as Pope Francis. The narrative is very evocative, comprising a series […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 