When I meet people from other parts of the world and they ask me where I’m from, I usually tell them I’m from “near Mumbai”. But I’m from Surat, a city that lies on the estuary of the Tapi River some 300 km north of Mumbai. While few people know…

Published first in Wharton International Business Review’s Fall 2018 Issue In 1932, Diego Rivera was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Art to complete a series of murals — the Detroit Industry Murals — to depict the city as a center of industry and to showcase the booming metropolis that…

The right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), which rose to power in India in 2014 believes that “A common spoken language with a vast literary heritage should ameliorate all the problems which beset modern India” (Hastings, 2008). For the BJP and its allied Hindu Nationalist groups, this language is Sanskrit. Not…

Like most Indian kids, I grew up traveling by train. My earliest memories of vacations, visiting family and seeing places other than the city I grew up in are associated with trains. My great grandparents owned a tea stall and my grandfather and dad grew up around trains and the…