ENGLISH SPEECH | ANAND MAHINDRA: Purpose in Life (English Subtitles)

if everyone's problems were like laundry hanging out to dry in an open field and you had the opportunity to go out into that field and exchange your laundry your problems in other words with anyone else's you would still choose your own problems I'm I'm not the usual suspect class day speaker for sure I come from

another profession the often undiplomatic world of Commerce I come from halfway the world I'm not an alumnist but when I asked Dean kite she said the reasons for which they invited me were in fact all of the above but I'm not here to try and dispense any unique wisdom as the proverbial school girl wrote Socrates

was a wise Greek philosopher and he went around dispensing gratuitous advice and they poisoned him so I deeply fear that fate so what I will do is to just throw some ideas at you based on my own life experience and my own world that I hope will be relevant to any profession and to every

life now picture if you will the world in 1946 when my fathers stood here the second world war had just ended Independence for India was just around the corner as Rachel mentioned the beginning of the end of colonialism was in sight and details of the full extent of the death and the destruction and the

horrors of the Holocaust of Hiroshima and nagas Sami Nagasaki they were just emerging the problems of Peace were every bit as convoluted as the problems of war and to my father in 1946 the world must have looked hopeful but immensely complicated and yet I wonder what my father would say about the world as we

see it today we are wrestling with climate change pandemics terrorism energy crisis social inequities to name just a few and because of their transborder impact these issues too now fall within the Ambit of diplomacy of international Affairs of international law and what would my father have made of the impact of technology in many cowboy movies the