I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.
We are always larger than life because we come from this mentality that since we are a very poor nation, we need an escapist cinema to take us out of our miseries. And that's where Bollywood comes from.
I am most attracted to characters and stories that I can relate to. The traditional formula of 'larger than life' I never found attractive.
Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone - it is the original collective action problem - it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together.
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.
Gujarat is a pro-business state, where civil society organisations are comfortable with working to make sure that business does not suffer. Large parts of the rest of India, for better or worse, are very different.
Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.
I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.
I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction processing platforms, record-keeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
