An inspiring experiment by two young men is finding resonance among youth today. Mathew Cherian and Tushar Vashisht, both 26 years old, are trying to experience the constraints of living on India’s average monthly income by subsisting on just Rs. 100 ($ 2.00) a day for a month.

Every day when we wake up, we can be certain that the world as we knew it yesterday will have changed a little. Change is an accepted part of our lives today. Fast and furious change - be it technological, economic, political, or cultural - making yesterday’s world obsolete.

I was brought up by my mother to believe that women had a unique power to change the world. She taught me to treat women at par w+ith men, if not higher. For a young boy, whose biggest hero has been a woman, the issue of gender diversity has always been very close to my heart.

There are some people who lead the path. And then there are others who go where there is no path and leave a trail.

A few years ago at a private symposium in the US, I had the privilege of hearing Steve Jobs speak. The word is definitely 'privilege' as he is one of the few handful men on the planet who have influenced modern life in unimaginable ways.