It has been an old game of Colonists – to divide and rule. It took a handful of crafty colonists to create a rift between various people to serve their own ends. The colonists are no more but this game is sadly still being played. Labelling people under religion, caste, etc to gain political mileage is rampant, we don’t realise that we are creating disharmony for ourselves. A similar thing had happened in Germany, not so long ago and we all know what was the outcome. Do we learn from history or choose to ignore the inconvenient truths, is upto us.
To my mind, to achieve social harmony, the only lesson to learn from the entire collective history of mankind is to dissolve the narrow basis of identification on the basis of geography, religion, caste, etc and to acknowledge that all of us are humans first and last, and that we all eventually die. COVID in a sense was a great teacher & leveller that reminded us of this basic fact – immaterial of nationality, religion, caste, etc we are all humans first and last. We have (hopefully)managed to contain COVID but how do we contain the virus of this narrow identification/mind which is even deadlier than COVID?
Explorer, Philanthropist, Mentor:
Exploring and researching on practices of Self Realisation
Philanthropist: engaged in projects with social and environmental impact
Mentor: guiding people crystallise and achieve their material and spiritual goals
Background:
Former CEO of Mahindra Integrated Business Solutions- an Advisory and Business Process Management Arm of the Diversified US$ 17 Billion Mahindra Group. Ajit was responsible for transforming a Shared Services Centre of the Mahindra Group into a full-fledged Advisory and Business Process Management Company with products/services spanning Strategy & Enterprise Risk Management Advisory to Digitization and Transactional Outsourcing.
He has over 23 years of experience in the industry as an Entrepreneur. He has built businesses in Music Publishing, Media (Compact Discs/DVD’s) Manufacturing, Logistics and Financial Services and is currently nurturing his own initiative called FREE (Forests, Renewable Energy and Environment) & associated with NPO Trusts/ Organizations and mentoring select people and a few start-ups in his personal capacity.
A Chartered Accountant by Qualification with extensive continuing education in Executive Management Programs @ Harvard Business School, Michigan- Ross Business School, IIM-A
He has pursued spiritual interests since an early age exploring inner facets of self through Vipassana, Isha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, other yogic approaches / meditation techniques An Avid Marathoner, trekker/mountaineer, scuba diver, writer and motorbike traveller, is passionate about exploring the outer world as much as the inner.
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