A Review from the EUM Lens Introduction The Shogun Series is a beautifully crafted television series and has been hypnotic at several levels. If the strikingly animated series of the Blue Eye Samurai caught your attention or if you were reasonably touched by the Last Samurai (and despite the irritation of watching Tom Cruise playing […]
Working with Groups: ‘EnActing the Withheld’
Psychodrama, Dramatherapy, Theater of Oppression, and Augusto Boal Introduction This is the fifth 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, […]
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 […]
Race in a Global World: Leadership, Organizations and __________ : My recent experiences
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 […]
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. […]
Working with Groups – Tracing the contours and genealogy of process work
Preamble This is the third blog of a series that I am writing on process work, encounter groups, T-groups, and L-groups, and in this blog, I seek to trace the genealogy or lineage of process work as it is experienced in Sumedhas offerings, methods, and ideologies today. This blog may excite only the oddball who […]
Why so serious?
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 […]
Pilgrimage to Punga
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’ […]
Kohrra – a Netflix Series
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 […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 