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Sumir The Seeker

Been Around The Block, Yet I Seek.

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      • How I Ended up in HSBC
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    • The Virtual Existence Conundrum – Part 1: Shall We Level-set?

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The Joy and Pain of Parenting

March 11, 2017 SumirTheSeeker

I believe that unwittingly we have set them up to deal with a whole lot of things that we haven’t equipped them to deal with. We expected that our values, our beliefs, our culture would somehow be passed on to them without actually taking the trouble to impart any of it.

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