A philosophical banker by cast of mind (something of a homo universalis), Mufaddal carries to the counting-house an abiding devotion to the fine arts, to history, and to philosophy, a humanism that leavens the exacting rigour of finance with amplitude of spirit.
Essays
Writings on Hindustani classical music, philosophy, and the shape of the modern world.
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A thousand years of peace!
The world that we have bequeathed from nature has now come to war with it! As humans attempt to overpower and rein in the primordial force of nature that created the universe, we are slowly but surely becoming more and more arrogant. With great power…
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A not so Accommodating World
An epoch is in the making as we move ahead with technological advancement and are faced with the choice of plenty to deal with. At the same time we have to face the increasing instance of monopolies that could rule our lives. We are consciously…
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A Brave New World!
Money has remained the primary medium of exchange allowing us to monetize goods and services in to a common denomination. So in other words, currency has been the great leveler. It has allowed us to ascribe a value for all our manufacturing output, human services,…
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An Irony of Authority
Our lives are full of blemishes and contradictions. They galore in every action of ours, yet we have developed a fine art of suffusing them with explanations that support them. One such area is the corporate world. In our personal lives and those of the…
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To be Equal or not to be Equal
We love to be unequal and to justify this boastful slander; we say that’s the only way to reward genetic differences, enterprise and risk. Of course as we stand today in our evolutionary stage, we are restrained by our dwarfed intellect to support this logic. …
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To Think or Not To Think
To Think or Not to Think Imagination, the domain of every living species, yet dominated by one species, man. It is precisely this virtue of humans that has made them superior to other living species. What ignites our imagination is the very essence of what…
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To Eat or not to Eat
Exploring human food habits and reasoning with brevity.