Blinded by Awesomeness!
You can’t look at the Sun or a bulb or a very bright star directly. It will burn you eyes for sure. An almost similar thing happened last night. The stars of Indian Politics and Industry lined up together at the LSE for the launch of the book, “Not by Reason Alone” by Nand Kishore Singh and their collective brilliance was enough to blind my vision and overwhelm my senses.
In attendance were Dr Montek Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Government of India; Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries; Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson and Editorial Director, the Hindustan Times group; Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor Emeritus of Economics, LSE; Barkha Dutt; Group Editor-English News, NDTV; Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express; Ed Luce, Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times; Lord Patten, Chancellor, University of Oxford; Nand Kishore Singh, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; Professor Lord Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics, LSE; Nita Ambani, Chairman, Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation; Naresh Goyal, Chairman, Jet Airways; Praful Patel, Minister of Aviation, Government of India and many more.
I guess, this is the indirect advantage of studying at a very prestigious university, you get to see and experience this for free. Next month, Amartya Sen in conversation with Vikram Seth. Kill me… this is unbearable.
