Last week I recounted the infamous escapade(s) of ‘Kabangala Asassude’ and how his guile and cunning enabled him to pull one over Mr. Patel. This kind of one-upmanship tends to make us take a short term view of the idea…
Continue readingIn the African setting, the fireplace served as a center for learning and education, and for sharing wisdom and the ways of the world. One sat and listened with rapt attention to the elders (philosopher-sociologists) regale the family with conquests…
Continue readingLast week’s column on the above subject seems to have touched a code with readers of this column. Most noteworthy was the fact that a lot of feedback was about the issue of luck with everyone seeming to think luck…
Continue readingThe role of risk and luck in our lives seems to be underrated. This observation was prompted by a discussion about the development paths taken by different nations. We had observed (and were wondering) why nations with distinctly similar geographies…
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