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It was an exhilarating moment for me to be part of the NASSCOM Diversity and Inclusivity summit.   I was there to receive the award for ‘Best Emerging Company’ on behalf of my company at the Summit.     We soaked in all the attention from other companies and the press. That we had worked hard for the last three years with a humble ,slow & sluggish start to reach where we are today made it truly special.   To me, encouraging  women to get into corporate worklife was a personal mission. I could relate to it being a girl raised in the 80’s and 90’s from a conservative Tambram, Indian   middle class family. Thanks to a lot of my clan and gender flocking to corporate careers, it is easy today for a city bred 20 something to start earning her own money and be economically independent.   But there are so many women out there who are just as capable but were born at the wrong time at the wrong places. And i am not even talking Afgh...

Life of Pi  (The book as well as the movie) probably rates in my view as one of the classic pieces of creation. Like most classics it is very profound, inspriring and is like a kaldeiscope. Everytime you read and re- read the book or watch the movie it leaves you with a different and a deeper perspective and a connect to our own souls and the lives we lead. Even when  you dismiss it as a bizarre piece of fiction, it leaves a profound impact if you choose to ponder over the subtle messages that it conveys. This time around when I watched the movie, it is the relationship with Richard Parker that left me awestruck. There is a Richard Parker in probably all our lives. A character that we fear, loathe, want to avenge and may be even kill if we had that one licence to kill. In the dense urban jungles that we live  the danger of Richard Parker is more to our soul ...