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As today is gurupurnima, thread on teachers from whom I have learnt much over the years.
School? Khandubhai who taught me by telling me stories at Montessori; Yashodhara Mehta and Pushpa Joshi, for teaching us what Gandhi meant; Dinesh Buch, for making me believe in myself; 1/n
School? Khandubhai who taught me by telling me stories at Montessori; Yashodhara Mehta and Pushpa Joshi, for teaching us what Gandhi meant; Dinesh Buch, for making me believe in myself; 1/n
Pareen Lalkaka, for inspiring the love for English; Ramesh Joshi, for helping me understand Gujarati poetry. College? Haridas Patel, for teaching me about the wider world, and not only accounting; Usha Hemmadi, for exposing me to literature I wouldn't have read; 2/n
Ambika Sirkar, for taking me to films I wouldn't have seen; Sam Variava, for unpacking the mysteries of law; Vasudha Deshpande, for making statistics understandable, and Zebunissa Kazi, for getting me to read classics. 3/n
At graduate school in the US - John W Hennessey, for stressing the importance of ethics in business; Bob Aliber, for making international economics so accessible; Susan Ashford, for helping me understand biases; 4/n
and later, at work, I learned from Nihal Singh's wisdom, Shobhaa De's curiosity and wit, M Rahman's meticulousness, and too many colleagues at Far Eastern Economic Review, on how to explore and investigate. 5/n
And in the world of human rights, there was David Petrasek - intelligence, scholarship, compassion, humour, and optimism. I thank them all, and others who have influenced me. 6/6
