currently in India working in Hybrid Value Chains and the BOP, in the field of affordable housing. On a gap year to explore social enterprise.
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17 JUN 2009
What Do You See?
kaccha house: Pravin-Gupta Nagar Wikipedia: “In social sciences, subjectivity (the property of being a subject) is an effect of relations of power. Similar social configurations create similar perceptions, experiences and interpretations of the world.” To someone from the developed world, a visit to an Indian city can be depressing and unenjoyable. The heat is ovenlike, traffic is crazy, streets reek of garbage and animal feces, and living conditions are lamentable. Empty stares with locals as one passes by often make it worse, as you realize how foreign and incomprehensible the Other might be. Perhaps, like me, you know how it is to leave feeling sweaty, confused, foreign, and thinking “how do people live like this?”, only to leave with no answers. In my first day in the slums, I am the guest of Saath, an NGO that has been working in the slums of Ahmedabad for 20 years. Their founder, Rajendra Joshi, otherwise known affectionately across Ahmedabad as Raju-bai (bai is Hindi for “bro...