Author: EconHistorienne
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The Poetry Issue 2023
I was happy to be featured among 40 poets from India in The Punch magazine’s annual Poetry issue in January 2022. They renewed the honour this year by including my work among those of 40 poets from around the world in their annual poetry issue yet again. Deeply honoured, sharing the space with poets whose…
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Two winged fork
I keep creating paths for myself. This time, I have created a fork in that path. A two-winged fork. Whichever deserves me more will get me. I don’t decide here. Fate decides. My choice was in creating the path, then building options. Rest is beyond the pale of my efforts. I will as always go…
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A bit of a fuzzy weekend
Despite all the disappointments life throws, today has been a happy house. 97 percentile in GL exams for the grammar schools and an equivalent score for the AQE in the house today. If nothing, the child is in the house is a rockstar. All within months of arriving in a new country, new city. When…
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Leadership isn’t …
Leadership needs action, empathy and going the extra mile to ensure your team feels supported. It also means recognising individual talents on the team and hone them to deliver their best instead of trying to fit anyone into a mould. Leadership means being proactive and taking ownership of projects, being responsible, and informed about choices…
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From the precipice of death…
This was second coming, not a myth, but I am not sure how long it will last.
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Being Rabindranath Tagore
New post on EconHistorienne @Substack. I keep thinking about the Nobel for Rabindranath Tagore, India’s literary genius who was the first ever Indian to do so for literature and remains the only one so far. How did Tagore get noticed by the Nobel committee? Winning a Nobel requires genius and pathbreaking work, surely. But nominations…
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an old project
Earth Poem is a project for ecology, and our endangered Earth. I had the pleasure of participating in it in 2021 with a Hindi translation of writer Csilla Toldy’s poem in hungarian. 5:46-6:20 – do listen in to the Hindi translation of this award-winning Earth poem, read by yours truly. Know more about the project…
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From Gender Gap to Trust Gap
This is how, even in a callous, tough world, there will be space for women to thrive, fail, thrive, just like men.
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Business history needs investigative rigour of a journalist
I know, many academics might squirm to hear of journalism beacuse while everyone yearns for the reach and influence journalism offers, many are quick to dismiss journalists’ work and the field altogether.
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Deirdre McCloskey
I met a legend in economics who told me to keep doing all that I am doing. Here is a picture of us.
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In the Honest Ulsterman today
‘Puberty’ is out in the @HonestUlsterman today, Northern Ireland’s leading literary mag.
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Bumper Diwali for British Indians
As soon as Rishi Sunak was back in the race to be Britain’s next prime minister after a difficult, arduous season of political scandals and mudslinging, Sunak’s religion and roots were back in focus. While all the other adjectives alluding to his immigrant, brown, South Asian roots are in order, the moniker some sections of the British…
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Glorious, troubled, revived: 5 European cities where history was made
Europe has plenty of it and I start with where I live – Belfast.
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Thank you, Roger Federer
That he would retire someday was inevitable and widely anticipated. Yet, tennis fans all over the world are dismayed, overwhelmed with a sense of loss, frenzied with anxiety over the announcement.
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In defense of diversity
Only speaking from experience, and not generalising for anyone. Firms are increasingly hiring professionals from varied backgrounds, not just for diversity but for breaking down silos and assimilating a diversity of experiences and skills into the organisation to make it better.Law firms for instance. When graduating from the LSE seven years ago, I applied to…
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75 years of Indian business: How we began and how far we have come
I must begin with a clarification: the history of Indian business is not as young as India as an independent nation. It goes back several centuries before India opened up its economy in the 1990s, even before it became an independent country. The 1990s were not the first time the Indian economy was open to…
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Khalil Gibran on rivers
Just want to bookmark this that I found on Sushmita Sen’s Instagram feed and a note to self (I have entered the ocean, but haven’t become the ocean yet). Scroll down for a video I want to bookmark too (and come back to again and again). And here is the video that made me reflect,…
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Indian values are a cornerstone of Rishi Sunak’s bid to be the UK’s next prime minister
The super wealthy politician, now in the running to be leader of the Conservative Party and the UK’s next prime minister, could embrace a few life lessons from father-in-law N.R. Narayana Murthy’s life.
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Reporting on UK politics
This was long in the making but what started the wave was resignations from two Asian ministers in Johnson’s cabinet, Sunak and Javid. Interesting given our shared history (India and Britain).
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Education in the UK: Don’t fret, plan
I wrote on education policy for India’s mainstream newspapers for many years so when I was commissioned to write this, I took it up.
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Meet them all the same..
my poetry earned an honorable mention from the judges at the Paul Muldoon workshop in Kinsella..
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The world owes many debts to Boris Franz Becker
It’s true these are the worst of times for Boris Becker, now visibly condemned by both his country of birth and his country of residence. But will it be all it takes to erase a historic legacy?
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An exhibition in Belfast with its roots in India
Photographer Michael Donald’s exhibition in Belfast captures the Beatles Bungalow in Rishikesh, once home to the iconic British band, before it gives way to the forest. Read the full story here.
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