Ancient Chinese believed “an invisible (red) thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.” Ancient Chinese clearly knew about quantum entanglement. Even if Chinese president Xi Jinping rebuffed India by not attending the G20 summit held in New Delhi, I firmly believe that India and China are deeply connected culturally and spiritually — even if we disagree on geopolitics and compete in the global economy.

Cela fait exactement 20 ans que je consulte et donne des conférences pour des entreprises françaises Durant ces 2 dernières décennies, j’ai vu une évolution considérable — globalement positive — dans l’attitude (mentalité) des décideurs français vis-a-vis des économies émergentes — surtout l’Inde et l’Afrique En 2023, quand j’explique que…

Congrats to Anup Paikaray, a frugal innovator from the Indian state of Odisha, who just won GITAM SmartIDEAthon 2023 for his clean-burning cook-stove for rural India. Organized by GITAM Deemed University in partnership with Startup India and Northeastern University, Boston, GITAM SmartIDEAthon is a competition that recognizes & award innovators…

It makes sense to name ShivShakti (abbrev. for “Shiva + Shakti”) the landing spot of India’s chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon. Ardhanarishvara — the integrated (or rather “integral”) form of Shiva and Shakti — perfectly embodies the non-dual consciousness that Indian spiritual traditions are known for. “Embodied non-dual consciousness” is…

Les médias occidentaux paranoïaques doivent arrêter de percevoir et inscrire l’essor des BRICS (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine, Afrique du Sud) dans une dynamique “ANTI” (anti-occidentale) La montée des BRICS s’inscrit plutôt dans une dynamique “MULTI” et “POLY” A l’aube du 21eme siècle et du 3ème millénaire, nous assistons à la…

Biomimicry is a set of techniques that enable companies to draw inspiration from Nature to increase their performance, i.e. their “know-how” Afro-mimicry goes further: it is about drawing inspiration from Africa to raise our consciousness and improve our “savoir-être” (way of being in the world) In an excellent article (in…

Le biomimétisme permet aux entreprises de s’inspirer de la Nature pour augmenter leur performance, c.-à-d. leur « savoir-faire » L’afro-mimétisme va plus loin : il s’agit de s’inspirer de l’Afrique pour élever notre conscience et améliorer notre « savoir-être » Dans un excellent article publié dans Afrimag, Soha Benchekroun —…

Dear India: Happy 77th Independence Day ! May you be independent of uniformity and freely express your diversity While 1.4 billion people altogether call you Motherland, they speak over 19,500 diverse languages or dialects as mother tongues While you gave birth to Hinduism, from your womb was also born Buddhism…

Leading to India’s 77th independence day on August 15, 2023, I will publish several posts on how India can become not only a developed economy by 2047, but also build an inclusive and sustainable society You can read my first post here. In this second post, I want to highlight…