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Socher thought that founding a startup would be just a detour on the way to academia.

laboring for French Mauritian and British planters whose greed transformed the island into the worlds biggest sugar factory for a time.because what if it leads to people pointing fingers?INTERVIEWERDoes that have to do with the historical relationship between indentured laborers and formerly enslaved people? After emancipation.

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The father coerces Shankar into cultivating sugarcane on his plot of land despite Shankars hatred of the work and his ambition to go to England to study nursing.Parul Kapur Hinzen is a fiction writer and journalist whose critical writing has appeared in The New Yorker.what did you know about your ancestors who were brought over from India to work in the cane fields?BUSJEETMy parents would talk about them in very general terms.

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What did you intend to express about the family through these various conflicts?BUSJEETI wanted to explore gender roles.My classmates tend to reminisce about the same things over and over again—the experiences we shared.

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That led me to think about Mauritian society and the relationships among the various groups in the fifties.

Was it your intention to soften the harshness of your characters experiences with a sense of whimsy?BUSJEETMaybe it enables you to deal with such darknesswhat then? Jones chooses optimism: we will have to imagine a new world for ourselves.

and as the technology companies like to predict will happen this time.he explores the post-scarcity world.

while the workforce reskills and reconfigures -- as has been the case historically.and the technology that will help businesses adapt.

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