everyone for having me here. My name is Rasan and uh there are a lot of guiding principles that uh that guide my life and uh the first principle of course is uh that there's a very famous Sufi couplet that I often use and that says You know what it means. It means that it's just by luck and by chance that you have arrived at your destination.There was no role that you had to play in being born in a city as rich as ours. There was nothing that you did in order to be born to the parents that you were born to. ...

But today the theme is roots to wings. And when I first heard of it, I was like, what's better to talk about than Icarus and Greek mythology because that's so cool and everyone will love it. So I named my talk the conundrum of becoming Icarus. And I use two of my favorite words, conundrum and becoming.I seem to use it all the time. I don't know why. I'm just fascinated.But basically, what does roots do to wings even mean. So, I wrote this a while ago and I wrote it after watching a video on Osamu Desai's bo ...