What I love about a village
The difference. The difference between two things, places, beings, concepts, and creations is what holds the greatest fascination. The moment you are near an Indian village, you know in your mind that this isn’t a town or a city… and it isn’t just the size or the population that gives this impression. It is the...
Outrage
The year was 1985 and I had been married for a few months. We had gone to Jhansi, my hometown and decided to spend a day in Khajuraho. We boarded the early morning bus from the railway station. I didn’t know that it would be this bus journey that I would remember and not the...
Science is borderless
Innovations are not a by-product of complex issues tackled inside massive laboratories. Nor are they in the exclusive domain of a privileged few. Innovations need people who will look at their own life and say: ‘I think I can do things differently and live better.’ Now this is almost what Harvey Firestone said: ‘Capital isn’t...
