Exploring the murkiness of Envy that lurks beneath … Introduction Last night, I watched an old friend – Deepa Sahasrabuddhe, adapt, direct, and act in a brilliant play – Broken Images, (Odakalu Bimba in Kannada written by Girish Karnad) in a packed theater in Kothrud, Pune. The play originally was written as a one-character, one-act monologue, but Deepa brilliantly […]
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A new low in public discourse
A new low in public discourse Thousands of miles away, the MAGA universe is showing signs of splintering over Trump’s attack on Iran. The rising tension within the MAGA universe – that has been united thus far and of course accused of groupthink or hive mentality by its opponents, could have been a great opportunity […]
Reviewing Kohrra 2
A bleak yet poignant glimpse into the world of women trapped in feudal patriarchy Introduction The Netflix series titled Kohrra in its first season was a brilliantly written and directed narrative exploring the world of men and their angst when it comes to the themes of love, sexuality, class conflict, rage, and violence. Embedded in […]
Reviewing Why Nations Fail, exploring the Civilizational Erasure Narrative, and implications for us in India
Introduction This blog begins by reviewing a classic – Why Nations Fail – the Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daren Acemoglu and James A Robinson, and then moves on to more contemporary themes around how ‘civilization erasure’ as a construct is being deployed to bring in authoritarian regimes that would impact prosperity and […]
Working with Groups: Tandem Leadership, Splitting, and Mirroring
Preamble This becomes the seventh blog in the series of “Working with Groups”, where in the earlier six blogs, I have explored the impact of western thought on group dynamics, group therapy, and change management teams. If you like this blog, I would love to hear your views on how I have mapped the historical […]
Adolescence, Boy Psychology / Immature Masculinity, and the EUM Lens
Gagandeep Singh 21 min read · Just now Introduction This note is written as I prepare to join Kartik Shah for our EUM based podcast in the month of May. While the blog presents my initial thoughts were around the Netflix serial — titled Adolescence, and the theme of ‘immature masculinity’ — which often gets […]
Trump Tariff Economics – What lies beneath?
Introduction Thirty-four years ago, I was enrolled in a master’s degree in economics, and found myself comfortably numb, and of course leaning to the left as any wannabe intellectual – quoting Marx and then something happened… On 24th July 1991, the finance minister – Dr. Manmohan Singh (who later became a brilliant prime minister of India […]
Three Anecdotes on Gender Identity & Identity Politics
Background This blog is devoted to Pushpendra Singh Tiwari of Jeevika Bihar (Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotions Society), as I witnessed him anchor an institution building meet at a grassroot level in Vaishali district with a cohort of 50 women in the first week of April. Jeevika is India’s largest organization with a membership north of […]
Working with Groups: History at Northfield & Celebrating the work of Dr. Sigmund Foulkes
Introduction This is the fourth blog devoted to “working with groups” as a part of a six-blog series. Given my experience across nearly two and a half decades of group dynamics, group relations, and process consulting in the form of behavioral labs, t-groups, and change management teams, I have been exploring and tracing the genealogy […]
Gender Dynamics & Bias — Fissures between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm and a EUM Perspective
Preamble I am not a very big fan of the macrocosm and microcosm analogy — a philosophical cum spiritual lens that posits a structural similarity and resonance between the microcosm, i.e., the small order or the small universe and the cosmos as a whole or the macrocosm, i.e., the great order or the great universe. […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 