The book is born out of Namita Thapar's experiences of running the pharma company Emcure, being on several boards, investing in start-ups and mentoring many budding women leaders in corporate India. The book expounds on the concepts of the age-old aggressor leader role - the shark - and the more empathetic style of leadership which is represented by the dolphin. A lot of her talks are centered around balancing the shark and the dolphin within you. The book is divided into fifteen chapters, which focus on perfecting your pitch, planning your investment, role of mentors and networking among other subjects. She has also added interviews with pioneers like Sanjeev Bikhchandani to add value to the entrepreneurship lessons.
In memory of my loving mother, Shashi Prabha Thapar, my elementary school English project has now become a reality, three decades later. I also want to dedicate this book to my beautiful nieces, Siara (youngest) and Suriya and Surina (the twins). And a special thanks to my number one fan, my stepdaughter, who inspired me to get this little story edited, illustrated and printed and persuaded me to share this book with young kids all around the world. I hope you will enjoy this story as much as I did writing it when I was a little girl.
Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice. In this ambitious book, Namita Goswami draws on continental philosophy, postcolonial criticism, critical race theory, and African American and postcolonial feminisms to offer postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice. Moving among and between texts, traditions, and frameworks, including the work of Gayatri Spivak, Theodor Adorno, Barbara Christian, Paul Gilroy, Neil Lazarus, and Hortense Spillers, among others, she charts a journey that takes us beyond Eurocentrism by understanding postcoloniality as the pursuit of heterogeneity, that is, of a non-antagonistic understanding of difference. Recognizing that philosophy, feminism, and postcolonial theory share a common concern with the concept of heterogeneity, Goswami shows how postcoloniality empowers us to engage more productively the relationships between these disciplines. Subjects That Matter confronts the ways Eurocentrism, an identity politics that considers difference as inherently oppositional, relegates minority traditions to a diagnostic and/or corrective standpoint to prevent their general implications from playing a critical and transformative role in how we understand subjectivity and agency. Through unexpected, often surprising, and thought-provoking analytic connections and continuities, this book’s interdisciplinary approach reveals a postcolonial pluralism that expands philosophical resources, confounds and limits our habitual disciplinary lexicons, and opens up new areas of inquiry. “This is a groundbreaking contribution to a number of distinct but intersecting fields.” — Amy Allen, author of The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
The book is born out of Namita Thapar's experiences of running the pharma company Emcure, being on several boards, investing in start-ups and mentoring many budding women leaders in corporate India. The book expounds on the concepts of the age-old aggressor leader role - the shark - and the more empathetic style of leadership which is represented by the dolphin. A lot of her talks are centered around balancing the shark and the dolphin within you. The book is divided into fifteen chapters, which focus on perfecting your pitch, planning your investment, role of mentors and networking among other subjects. She has also added interviews with pioneers like Sanjeev Bikhchandani to add value to the entrepreneurship lessons.
In memory of my loving mother, Shashi Prabha Thapar, my elementary school English project has now become a reality, three decades later. I also want to dedicate this book to my beautiful nieces, Siara (youngest) and Suriya and Surina (the twins). And a special thanks to my number one fan, my stepdaughter, who inspired me to get this little story edited, illustrated and printed and persuaded me to share this book with young kids all around the world. I hope you will enjoy this story as much as I did writing it when I was a little girl.
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