I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
“I want to be very wealthy when I grow up” Dad looked up, bemused and asked, “But why, ‘mole’?” (daughter, in Malayalam) Wealth, according to my middle class, government salaried parents meant that it was most probably acquired by dubious means. And as a culture, aspiration was meant for life’s higher ideals, not baser, material …
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I have an extremely visceral reaction to food that is wasted. My grandmother was widowed at a very young age with around 9 kids between 23 to 2 With a meagre monthly pension to support her, she indexed on making sure her kids were educated. She was deeply intelligent and ensured that every resource at …
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Why do fresh produce at source cost 1/10 the prices we pay in cities? We spend our summer vacations at our uncle’s farm in a rural village in the South of India. A lot of farmers worked the lands, for what seemed to me, like meagre returns. Their teenage girls, as young as myself at …
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Turning discarded temple flowers into incense and vegan leather, whilst providing hundreds of jobs for local women My grand mom was quite a religious woman. On days like Diwali or Krishna Janmastami, her house came alive in colors. With orange and yellow marigolds at every door and jasmine in threads in everyones’ hair. But then, …
UNICEF estimated 44,000 Indian women die annually due to preventable childbirth-related causes. I had an extremely high risk pregnancy. Weeks ahead of my due date, I woke up with a splitting headache and the blood pressure monitor threw up an error. My husband insisted on visiting the hospital before going to work. So I did …
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I have been researching Startups in Tech driving Social Impact Potentially backed by Women in Tech It brings together all that I am passionate about – Live your potential, no matter where you are – And Leveraging Tech for Good to Drive Social Impact My hope is, at some point in the future, to start …
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How much do you focus on existing product performance vs future big bets? And what folks like your or I can do differently within our organisations? In a classic, Geoffrey Moore’s Stanford video talks about how companies build the escape velocity to move beyond the successes and pull from the past? We all have read …
What happens when we have DALL-E like images generated, for free? Generative AI may no longer be just a novel idea But as a tool available across If the frameworks are open sourced as it is expected to be While it is quite exciting to cross into unknown territory, it can also be a potential …
‘Can we build moral machines’? In an experiment, Alan Winfield showed “how a blue robot saved a red robot from walking into a “danger zone” by (gently) colliding with it. In another, two red robots were heading for danger zones and the blue robot can only save one—an ethical dilemma that endearingly caused it to …
Have you read Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot? It references Earth’s appearance from space taken by Voyager in 1990 “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate …