Ferdinand: A Manna of Hope and Love today … The Context Last night, I saw the 4-D version of Ferdinand – an animated film adaption of a classic story that refuses to die down in a world that is besotted with achievement, success, greed and masculinity. On one hand, there have been a series […]
Identity: In Search for a Narrative
This long read explores identity as a process by linking it with emergent narratives as well as mythologies.
An Ethical Dilemma: The Homo Reciprocan in the modern corporation today …
This case is based on our research of how the Indian Manager today struggles to hold the civilizational coding of Indianness that stresses on Kinship & Reciprocity and the demands of market capitalism and Homo Economicus
The Case of ‘Sibling Rivalry’ versus ‘Competitiveness’
The Quintessential Indian Manager – A EUMian Perspective Bed Time Story # 11 Part 1 The Story … Ravi pushed his chair back on a hot May afternoon in western India and sighed … The antiquated AC, crookedly nestled on one top left corner in a large cabin, wheezed and grunted as it […]
The Simulacrum of Meritocracy
The Trigger… A few weeks ago, I was teaching ‘Managing Change’ at a premier business school in India – a batch of fifty odd young consultants from one of the big 5 global consulting firms, to my shock and dismay indulged in rampant cheating, colluding, and copying from each other in every assessment process – be […]
Self Help & Actualization Movement (SHAM): Uneasy Speculations!
The Trigger A distant relative has recently decided to attend one of those “Self Help” seminars in New York, an event anchored and designed by a ‘self-help guru’ known as Tony Robbins, who is white, male, extremely rich, charismatic, successful, and appears to have many celebrities as parts of his clientele or so his website […]
5 Reasons why should Men attend the Gender & Identity Lab?
For more than a decade, the Sumedhas offering of ‘Gender & Identity Lab’ (G&I) has been a pioneering series of experiential learning spaces that focus on the notion of ‘gender’, and its deep linkages with identity processes, sexuality, relatedness and systems thinking. Over the years, this annual offering in the shape of a behavioral lab […]
