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 [...]

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 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 [...]

The next morning, we flew a couple hours south to the beautiful coastal city of Cape Town. The image of Table Rock framed in the airplane window as we descended is one I’ll never forget.
We were greeted on arrival by our friend Julia Jansch, who lives in Cape Town and graciously served as our tour [...]

After an overnight flight from Lagos, we arrived in Johannesburg. The city is laid out in gentle rolling hills and valleys, though interspersed throughout are much smaller, higher hills, the color of sand and grass.
“What are those hills?” I asked our driver as we traveled into the city from the airport. I wondered if they [...]