Shankar Dhanasekaran

Understanding money and the role it plays in our lives has been an interesting area of self-discovery for me since my childhood. When I was 6yrs old, my mom used to give me 1 Rupee everyday for buying sugar candies on my way back home from my school. I realised that while I had that money to buy 5 candies every day costing 20 paise each, not all my friends were able to afford it every day. 

Understanding why mom was able to give me that 1 Rupee, why she will only give it for me and not for my friends every day, why their moms were not give the same money everyday to them, learning to exhibit the appropriate behaviour and trying to be sensitive to the limitations of my friends were some of the early life lessons that I had in my life.

As I grew, my interest in life spanned over  # karma-yoga hashtag_lookup:#karma-yoga  # gift-economy hashtag_lookup:#gift-economy and I see running a business is a highly meaningful and a responsible job in a society.