Penang Kopio in a Tiong Bahru Bakery Mug, in my apartment in Mumbai. Thinking Straits Settlements imaginaries in an Arab Bombay.

At Balwas Restaurant in Marine Lines

Serendipitously met a bunch of Omanis in a south Bombay restaurant. The lovely gentleman spoke Arabic and served me Gahwa. Such an honor.

A young man studied in the same university my father taught. The conversation taught me about how intertwined Bombay and Muscat are.

A good way to mark the 5th Ascension Day of HM The Sultan.

Irrespective of the roll back on DEI and ESG related measures, companies who care for their people will do so, irrespective of the political climate as treating your people who are core to your operations is good for your business.

The wheat from the proverbial chaff is being separated is a good idea. Reporting and impact performance should never be conflated as correlation is not causation.

I have eaten at Anjappar only in the diaspora; Oman and Singapore and it is one of the best exports from Chennai.

Having Anjappar in Bangalore is special as it is near the Tamil Nadu border and a strong Tamil influence on the city.

Airports are really more than ‘non places’ (auge 1995), they are most of the most interesting places where humanity converges. I was fortunate to study airport work for more than a year.

The greatest weakness in the climate/transition finance paradigm is the non-communication of the ‘additionality’ of the social and community value of adaptation. The clear avoidance of local politics does not help as elections in conventional democracies operate on a limited spatiotemporal scale.

Low carbon should not entail energy poverty for the global south. There are parts of Asia and Africa that view the transition as a green tape stifling aspirations.