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The last few months leading up to Indian independence - well, this was a highly complicated piece of history.  At the onset, let me tell you a few things - I am a student of history, but I have never managed to "learn" history seriously. That means, I know the episodes, I have studied about them in school and high-school, but due to my science background, I never got an opportunity to zoom into the episodes. For sure, Indian independence movement has fascinated me over all my formative years and it still does. I am of the opinion that no matter how deep we go into this topic - especially the period starting early 1900 to 1947, or even until 1950 - we will never manage to get the insights and details into every incident that took place during that time. With these known limitations on my mind, I started watching the elaborated series " Freedom at Midnight ". The series is based on a book written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre  and is a documentary and drama...

  The seed Abby, my friend and classmate from my business school days, thought of bringing handmade designs from Ghana to Sweden. This was the seed thought. And that was it! A spark it was – spark that slowly took the shape of an initiative and formed into an initiative that could connect. A connection that could touch the life of artisans who come from the “Gold Coast” of Africa. A country that emanates hospitality, creativity and purity. Anyone conversing with Abby can easily get a feeling what purity of talks is all about. The start was not easy, it never is, isn’t it? We always have so many doubts. Had it been an established brand we would not question, would we? But since it was a seed, we had to doubt how the plant will come up. The products, the price, the place and what not! Things got sorted out one by one – a channel for procurement, a network of artisans and craftsmen/craftswomen, a capital to start and a mind full of hope – perhaps, nothing more was needed. After a ...

Back after a while!  Actually, the daily dose of work keeps me glued to my day. On one end the world is talking about 1 billion chat bots to be deployed in the future, perhaps with each having a defined set of work, on the other, there are countless out there who is looking for something substantial to do. Today, I want to talk about this very aspect of life - that is, finding something substantial to do in life. Before jumping to my stories of the day, I want to go back, way back to when I was in school. My father had an uncle and he was a great storyteller. He would come our ancestral house, stay with me, talk to me about his life stories, explain things to me in simple language and would make sure I get glued to my own depiction of imagination. I loved him, I still do. He had once told me a beautiful anecdote of a judge, who happened to be also part of our extended family. It went like this - there was a critical case where the judge had a tough hearing from both sides and there...