This week, I read a powerful essay written by the Man Booker prize-winning author, Arundhati Roy, called “Pandemic Is a Portal,” from her forthcoming book Azadi. You may have read her famous book, The God of Small Things which was published back in 1997. She is a longtime activist for antiglobalization movements and an outspoken critic. Her thoughts on the current pandemic are really insightful and thought provoking. She says, “Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could….Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.” It will be interesting to see which path the human race chooses to take.
Have yourself an inspired entrepreneurial day! — Melanie