The barber today was from Amritsar and an embodiment of Punjabi hustle. A barber from the age of fifteen and a dropout from grade 10, this smart looking hair kalakaar, has worked in Amritsar, Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia for the past four years. The only Punjabi in a Tamizh Barber Chain across Bangsar and Brickfields, the Little India in Kuala Lumpur. His journey is inspirational as he has worked in Ras Al Khaimah in a barber shop before the pandemic, upon which he had to head back home. Upon a failed attempt to make it to Malta, well he jokes that half of Punjab is overseas as in Kanedda- he made it to KL for work, and paid a massive recruitment cost to make it here. After four years of back breaking hustle, he has renovated his home in Punjab, which is small but he says something profound that a home should have sukoon, or peace. Always inspired by fellow migrants who have made moves to secure futures for families.

The future of AI is not in AI, but in the hands of skilled workers who toil across the world, send remittances in the paucity of quality opportunities.