Kabir and KarunOne of the most wonderful things about traveling for work is the chance it affords to reconnect with old friends. Two of my very favorite people in Mumbai are Kabir and Karun, Vibha Krishnamurthy’s two boys. They wake up ready to roll, full of energy, insight and wit, and they meet me at the door at the end of a long day of meetings and serious business demanding more sardarji jokes and regaling me with their stories, songs and observations about wide-mouth frogs and other important things. Vibha told me she once overheard the boys talking with their cousins about the meaning of their different names. Kabir explained that he had been named after Kabir, “a mystic and a poet”. Karun said very seriously that he had been named after Karuna Vihar!

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