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 funds and mutual funds. While […]
Category: Reflexivity
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 […]
Inaari.org, social entrepreneurism, and the hegemony of capitalism
A few weeks ago, I had a breakfast meeting with Rashmi Putcha, who has been a dear friend for several years since we first met at an INSEAD program. Rashmi has recently founded a new enterprise known as Inaari – and listening to her was extremely fascinating and deeply insightful, as she spoke of how […]
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.
Hope for the Gig Economy: Unleash the Prostitute Within!
This blog is about one of the four survival archetypes – the Prostitute and its energies that are relevant in the Gig pandemic world today
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 […]
Stress, Workplace Violence and Work From Home (WFH): Safeguarding Well-being and Meaningfulness
This is a blog exploring stress and workplace violence in the context of WFH – exploring role of policies, strategies and practices that can attenuate stress
Conscientiousness, Prudence, or URB: Leveraging Symbolic Interaction & EUM
Introduction This blog is a critique on how trait theories including Five Factor Model (FFM) and the Hogan framework, are being used by modern firms as a predictor of human performance. The personality testing industry across the globe was stated to be worth USD 7.5 billion dollars by March 2020 before the Coronavirus impacted us. […]
Love and Work in the Times of Coronavirus
Here is one more blog, on what you and I can do, as our world gets fragmented and perhaps even claustrophobic with more clampdowns. Each of us faces an opportunity to withdraw from the relentless world of gregarious consumption, from the extraverted pursuits of travel, entertainment, and style, and of course from the toil […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 