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Bricolage, Jugaad, and Indianness Part 1

Exploring Indianness through the lens of bricolage

Introduction

My blog on “The Bricoleur versus Big Data”, written a few months ago, received encouraging responses from many readers. One of the several invitations was to explore how Bricolage as conceived by Claude Levi Levi-Strauss and when worked with as a metaphor deeply resonates with the Indian psyche that has evolved over thousands of years.

This particular blog across two parts, attempts…

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From Victimisation to Warrior-hood: Working with 10 Cloverfield Lane

From Victimisation to Warrior-hood: Working with 10 Cloverfield Lane

Context

  10 Cloverfield Lane is a psychlogical thriller embedded in a science fiction context that follows the narrative of a young woman trapped in an underground bomb-shelter with two men who subscribe to the possibility of Earth attacked by aliens and that it has now become inhospitable for life on the surface.

The narrative begins with Michelle – a young woman, who angrily and tearfully…

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Process Work Spaces – Triggering the Magic Within …

Process Work Spaces – Triggering the Magic Within …

My Journey

In late 1993, I participated in my first behavioral lab at IIM Ahmedabad. Titled ERI, in ways more than one, this lab marked my life both for the good and the ‘not-so-good’. Suffice it to say, that the lab ended up reinforcing my deep ambivalence to success, capitalism, and the world of becoming, and I emerged as what was perhaps true at that time, and yet I was blind to it – a…

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A look at the Second of the Four Princes and Donald Trump – Reinforcing the Identity of the Warrior Prince and new Possibilities

A look at the Second of the Four Princes and Donald Trump – Reinforcing the Identity of the Warrior Prince and new Possibilities

Preamble

For those readers who are familiar with Pulin Garg’s narrative on the Four Princes, and his fascinating and deep deconstruction of each of the four princes while looking at Identity and Role-taking, this blog may only strengthen his acute insights of the Second Prince archetype.

For those who are not familiar with the Gargian construct of Identity or with Raghu Ananthanarayanan’s latest…

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The losing cause of Masculinity vis-a-vis rampant Authoritarianism

Context

  It was in a recent conversation with a very dear friend – Antoine Legrand, who is a key member of IFSI – Paris and a co-traveller in many ways, and where we were lamenting our collective verdict that ‘masculinity’ today is being possessed and monopolized by bullies and rogues; such as Donald Trump for example, when the theme and processes of Authoritarianism first occurred to me.

  Ser…

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Behold “Mastani & Rau” – A contemporary tale of love, passion, and heroic wisdom - for the post-industrial woman … and man! Part 1

Behold “Mastani & Rau” – A contemporary tale of love, passion, and heroic wisdom – for the post-industrial woman … and man! Part 1

Preamble

English language translates the word ‘Mastani’ as “intoxicated passion”.

The translation does little justice to the warrior heroine – Mastani, a smoldering beautiful Muslim princess, borne into the kingly home of a Rajput and his Afghan consort, a brave and passionate woman, skilled in art, dance, horse-riding and warfare, who while trying to save her father’s kingdom in early 1700s,…

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The Bricoleur versus BIG Data, AI, and other looming Giants …

The Bricoleur versus BIG Data, AI, and other looming Giants …

Background & Context

  Almost a decade ago, a friend of mine, Atul Sapre, invited me read Karl Weick’s brilliant work on ‘Sense Making in Organizations’, as we sat down to design elements of a course on Organization Development. One of the pivotal themes that Weick directed my attention to was of – “Bricolage” – he borrows the word from Claude Levi-Strauss’s work on cultural anthropology, and…

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An Ode to the Women and the Magical Gifts they offer …

An Ode to the Women and the Magical Gifts they offer …

This note is triggered by having recently encountering my Shadow

There are times when I cannot run away from a part of my shadow – that of the misogynist within – albeit disguised and hidden very creatively in my multiple narratives and perhaps even fantasies of victimhood, of castration, of rejection, of mistrust, of possession, and of helplessness. The frequent discovery of the misogynist…

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Disneyland, Selfies, and Simulacra: Remembering Jean Baudrillar

Disneyland, Selfies, and Simulacra: Remembering Jean Baudrillar

It was in the last week of December 2015, I took my young kids to visit Disneyland – we spent a whole day in the park, amidst fun and frolic, taking in the rides, the theme-shows, the carnival, the Christmas celebrations, the beckoning stores, and the overall cloyingly sweet ambiance around us.

  The kids had great fun of course … they were more than willing to walk miles and patiently wait in…

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Star Wars – The Force Awakens: Beware the relentless and mechanistic deployment of the Mono-myth template

Star Wars – The Force Awakens: Beware the relentless and mechanistic deployment of the Mono-myth template

Let me begin by confessing that I have been a Star Wars fan for a significant portion of my life. It is not my intent to berate the latest film. I do hope to be compassionate in this note for my adolescence and early adulthood were deeply impacted by the first three movies. Like any other fan in 1990s, I would dream of being a Jedi warrior, thirsting to meet my shadow of Darth Vader, on the…

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