Hand Him the Andon Cord

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-09-28

When I was managing director of English Indian Clays in Trivandrum, we mined kaolin from our own pits, washed it out of the earth and calcined it into a white pigment that paint makers use to stretch titanium dioxide, the expensive ingredient that makes paint opaque. Washing the clay leaves sand, and the sand sat in heaps, mountains of it. I saw it as effluent, a removal burden with no way out. I was new to India. So I let people haul it away for free. My production manager stopped me. I’ll call him Menon; that is...