Wednesday, April 02, 2008

After all the social chit chat over dinner, after asking about the health of second cousins whose names one can’t remember, you talked about your work with the salt-pan workers in rural Kutch, teaching them micro-finance, helping them source loans to buy bicycles with, and streamlining age-old work processes; this is REAL WORK, not sitting on a chair in an air-conditioned office, or so I think.

6 comments:

manuscrypts said...

the other work is real too, but perhaps less meaningful in a larger context...

Baby Island said...

Source loans for bikes? It's hard for me to wrap my head around- I think I have it tough. No, no I don't.

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austere said...

manu- how much does my work matter? not at all. How many lives do I impact? None at all. :)

babyisland- these women save about a dollar a month, grit-poor, they work in the desert and use cycles to go to their salt pan plots or take kids to the next village, to a doctor or bazaar.

AmitL said...

You worked with the salt-pan workers in Kutch?Whew!!

austere said...

Not me- the guest had.