As published on Sheroes, March 19, 2019 I’ve always shied away from the word ‘Feminist’ till I realized that it only meant asking for equal rights – for inclusion, for pay and for employment. But it also means asking for equal opportunity and herein lies the conundrum. According to the UN, women are oft engaged […]
As published on Your Story on 14th March 2018 Newspapers scream stories of rape victims, stats build up on dowry cases. Hollywood uproars against the “casting couch” and social media campaigns #MeToo. The income disparity remains prevalent and men continue to dominate top positions in Industry. The most powerful country in the world rejects a female […]
Imagine a place spanning miles and miles of the ocean, flanked by rolling green hills, spotted with wooden cottages disguised behind the foliage, through which rivers green and spotless flow. This forms a wide estuary with small islands in the middle overrun by the sea when in high tide. Fisherman, whose faces are lined less […]
When I became an entrepreneur – fresh budding idealistic entrepreneur, I wondered how startups function in a policy vacuum. For the role of a startup is to disrupt the industry and if it does so, policies that govern them do not exist yet. So it must be a given that startups need government intervention. Which […]
The hare and the tortoise The fables say that when the hare and tortoise raced together the tortoise won. He won because he was consistent – and the hare lost because he was arrogant and had taken a nap. So who do you want to be? The hare or the tortoise? I’d still pick the […]
Big is not beautiful. As humans, we are driven by the concept of ‘Scale’. We believe that scale provides economies (of scale) and these are attractive to investors. And businesses are able to attract large money to build that scale. But we fail to notice the astonishingly negative impact that scale brings to the environment. […]
The man who wins is an average man Not built on any peculiar plan Not blessed with any peculiar luck Just steady and Ernest and full of pluck When asked a question he does not guess He knows and answers No or Yes When set a task that the rest can’t do He buckles down […]
As quoted by India Today on 5th November 2016 When I started travelling alone, I believed I would learn a lot. About life, about people, culture, local experiences etcetera. I did learn a lot. Only about myself. For solo travel isn’t about soul searching like the romantics have you believe – its about pushing your […]
As quoted on yourstory.com on 23rd September The word ‘leadership’ evokes thoughts of the likes of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and even Hitler! Those of us running companies associate leadership with the likes of Jack Welch, Jeff Bezos, and Jack Ma, and rightly so, for they have led revolutions and taken companies to […]
My Comments on attending the Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network as part of the 200 most powerful women entrepreneurs in the world in South Africa in 2016. As quoted in Entreprenur.com dated 13/09/16 I am not a feminist – I feel women need not be conformed to these terms influenced by certain social movements and ideologies. I […]
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