San Francisco, is unmistakably one of my favourite cities in America. The chill from the bay, the magnificent view of the Golden Gate, the crooked Lombard, all reminded me of the July 4th weekend of 2004. The city was as beautiful as ever. My MBA cohort that had embarked on the SE (Social Entrepreneurship) trek [...]

This past year has been so intense, demanding and packed, that it is only in recent weeks in the comfort of my room, when my Outlook calendars are not full, can I grapple with the thought on how productive life was. There is no ‘typical’ day for an MBA student. Yet, there are features of [...]

The following post was due since Spring. I began writing this piece, flying over the Atlantic on a sunny Spring morning. It was last in November 2004 that I had made my journey from America back home to India. John Kerry had conceded to George W. Bush in the US presidential election. I had sensed [...]

This past summer, I spent two months based out of Jerusalem, for our Strategic Consulting Project (SCP), but travelling widely in Israel and Palestine (West Bank). These two months, were one of the most transformative and enriching periods in my life and one of the best ways to complete my MBA at Oxford. The seeds [...]

This past Spring saw a group of us MBA students embark on a business trek to Geneva. This beautiful city with Lake Geneva at its heart is widely acknowledged as the worldwide centre for international cooperation and diplomacy. Geneva, for most of us is synonymous with the United Nations, but it has so much more [...]