This tendency to carry a NoT Invented Here (NIH) syndrome is not unknown to many who have experience in large MNCs.



Meditation, esoteric cultural experiences and limited culinary exposures from the East ( remember it was Far East) are living room conversations, however ideas & lessons in better life cannot be found beyond a certain longitude!



Legacies ( colonial) and dominant ‘superior’ narratives anchored by capitalist narcissism have contributed to this state of affairs.

It is time we realise, human ability, aspirations and opportunity are not GPS coordinated; societies and systems can flourish differently.



Ofcourse, dogma and ignorance can cloud.



But in the connected world of today knowledge can protect and enhance all of us. The flow multi-directional. Do we need a pandemic to bring home this truth?