Most of the friends and relatives and those I meet around the world ask me the question ‘How did you enter into United Nations’? Frankly, they should ask me more important question: ‘how come I stayed there so long?’ . I am certainly not a very diplomatic person. Nor I had any background of working in the government system. Then how come?
Crossing the boundaries, raising the bars, making the meetings gusty, intense sharing of the ideas to make the dreams come true are my passions. I strongly believe that nothing can stop, not even the powerful missile shield in the world, the implementation of ideas whose time has come. Many call such time as ‘tipping point’.
Action is the core of all the intensions, all the discussions, all the writing and all the speeches that I made. My first job in Tata Chemicals involved making chemicals from the sea water. In the book titled “The Creation of Wealth” by R.M Lala who wrote about passionate and committed CEO , Mr. Darbari Seth, under whom I workd during my first job after graduating from IIT-Mumbai. . He built one of the ‘modern temples’ of India i.e. chemical complex in a desolate, barren and ‘no entrepreneur-dare-put-up-manufacturing-facility’ type of place where nothing was right to set up such complex. But he had one motto: we can do it!
My last job is in UN. My programme is called ‘OzonAction’. I am so happy that the programme did more walk than talk. In a place where bingos take precedence over meaningful actions, I performed.
