Last week, I met an author. And a social entrepreneur. And an educator. And social activist. His name is Basu Rai, apparently a name he gave himself while he was growing up on the streets of Kathmandu. I learned several important lessons and this is an account of that interaction with Basu. I was at the Pune Literary Festival, having dropped in to meet Mukul Chand, a Delhi-based entrepreneur and blogger (among other vocations), and Mukul spoke about this speaker, […]

Categories: Learning, People, Society, The Arts • Tags: Basu Rai, education, From The Streets of Kathmandu, India, Mukul Chand, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali