Events

Mr.Jasper Reid is the founder of International Market Management that has brought Wendy’s and Jamie Oliver restaurant chains to India. He studied English Literature at Oxford and has worked in airlines, consulting and investment banking. A keen cook and gardener, he lives in New Delhi with his wife Megan and twin daughters.Here’s a snippet of an interview with him! Aanya – Are you treated differently because of their race/ethnicity/nationality? Mr Reid – Yes but 95% of the time with great courtesy and hospitality and sometimes curiosity. We travel widely in India and in many places foreigners are not common. Even…

I recently got a chance to interview a young girl from Darjeeling, Assam. Seema, works in a beauty parlour in the capital and aspires to open her own beauty parlour back in her village. A little hesitant at first when asked about her experiences with racism, she eventually opened up about the matter as we got talking. “It’s the way people look at me, like we don’t belong here”, she said. Seema feels that she isn’t treated like any other Indian, she and her community are made to feel isolated, inferior. People often ask her whether she’s from China, Nepal,…