Sustainability needs a rebranding effort as an aspect that is linked to the quotidian rhythms of life and that quality of living and health outcomes at the scale of the human is impacted among various degrees on a spectrum. Sustainability is an operational meta framework to better lives for common people.

Emissions lead to bad air quality first and then global warming ramifications kick in, so the question of scale is critical, at the local and the planetary.

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Rishi Bhai, Kamala Akka and Leo Dada remind me of the power of skilled migration. Rishi Sunak is a poster child of double diaspora Indian Ocean Imperial Circulations, on the lines of Thomas Metcalf’s book. Migration histories are empirical and real.

As the UK gets Ready for Rishi, it takes a couple of generations of diaspora life with the right Oxon PPE and Stanford MBA education to reach the levels where the outlier odds favor him. The challenge for the PM post was ambitious as a brown rich non-Christian man with little political capital.

As a person with a PE background, he ran as an activist investor waiting for the right M&A window. His family story of the double diaspora in Dr Maya Parmar ‘s words from the colonial East Africa to the UK is a testimony to Indian grit riding on the coat tails of Indian Ocean Tarikh.

We had Indian origin leaders in the former girmitya empire grid from Fiji to Trinidad to Guyana. Senior Minister Tharman and Defense Minister Sajjan are recent examples of diaspora successes.

I have always been rejected by gate keepers and have found that the space beyond the gate can be an opportunity to create a new category, disrupt the mainstream and take your own chair to the table when you are not invited to one. I do not take no for an answer 🙂

In a fact which is subliminal or foregrounded that in the knowledge worker space such as digital, consulting, and financial services there is a translation of brain power into products. While there is a low entry barrier to starting up, it is a crowded space and needs intellectual and execution excellence on a different level to sustain and thrive.

A person will always have well-paid work if one is oriented towards solving problems of intractable pain points and is ready to do everything it takes to build. The ability to do multiple Zero to One at every stage, in projects, verticals, scale ups is a superpower.

Industries will be disrupted but problems will be there to be hacked.

Dr Tharoor played a losing game to win. He used the trick which US Presidential candidates in primary season use to get noticed for other public offices like Pete or Akka.

Dr Tharoor is now a mainstream political name in India with a political renewal beyond Trivandrum.

A process of crumbling and remaking is needed for the purpose, potential and promise to eke out of hopelessness. The primary objective of learning through research is to find innovative ideas that flow through an ambient risk. Failing and Learning are derivatives of risk.

A huge plus of learning and knowing is the realization of how we do not yet know, the ethos of which is embedded into each training I design.

Entrepreneurship is problem solving at scale while creating jobs along the way. Valuations are one metric to raise capital and motivate people. Climate Change Adaption and Net Positive Transition is one of the biggest challenges to solve that needs attention and patient capital.

The problem of climate change in a way is a problem of capital allocation. Solutions can be deployed as a collective of actors as each node, the academic, the consultant and the banker have differential incentive architecture. Wicked problems need new ways to solve problems, which can be configured by an entrepreneurial spirit.

Life is a relay

Where the baton is made

Of the residues of attempts

Only to realize

That the baton

Was Life Itself

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Across cities of the Indian Ocean where i have lived namely Singapore, KL, Muscat, Mumbai, and Dubai migrants are a part of the mainstream though there is a concerted mainstream culture to erase the culture that have had built them. The Bhojpuri Bhaiyas in Mumbai to Malabaris in the Gelf to Machas in the Nusantara their lingos dominate archives of the everyday than the state Maktab.

The powerlessness of the dominant majority migrant communities saturates the quotidian. Yet the joy to survive stands out as a counter against the hegemonic one language, and anti-outsider policies.

The food places of the aloo puri or the parotta or the prata stand out.