Stories from the grassroots | Thoughts on development
This interview had appeared a few years ago in the Cornell Policy Review, a journal of the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, Cornell University, USA. My views on Micro-finance still remain the same.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to narrate a parable to explain how strong our yearning for God needs to be. He spoke of a disciple who used to repeatedly ask his teacher, “Sir, please tell me how I can see God.” After a few days of being repeatedly pestered by the disciple, the Guru told him, “Come with me, and I shall show you.” He took, the disciple to a lake, and both of them got into the water. Suddenly the teacher pressed the disciple’s head under the water. After a few moments he released him and the disciple raised his head and stood up. The
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I was meeting up with an old friend after several years and we decided to catch up with each other over coffee. This friend had worked as a senior adviser in his Government before moving on to work in the private sector. He was narrating his experience of working with two very different bosses and how similar they were despite their working in different contexts. Both were driven, ambitious and demanding of their colleagues, and would settle for nothing less than perfection in what they did. The similarities did not end here. While both could be labeled as successful leaders