Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and this week on the

BOF podcast, we have a special talk from Voices 2018. Last year, I had the pleasure of hearing

Vishan Chakorbarti speak on the main stage at TED in Vancouver. I tracked him down because I thought

his talk would really resonate

with our community. Vichon is the founder of the practice for architecture and urbanism,

a New York-based architecture firm. His book, A Country of Cities, argues that a well-designed

urban world would result in more prosperity, sustainability, equity, and joy. Vichon and his team are

designing distinctive architecture projects that reflect and rethink global urban life in the

21st century. Here's Vichan Chakrabarty at Voices 2018.

Shiv, in his extraordinary talk, mentioned the global diaspora for India.

I'm one of those people.

My parents came to the United States in 1968 after President Johnson liberalized the U.S.

immigration laws.

And my parents came with $32, and they came from one of my favorite cities in the world,

Calcutta, to Tucson, Arizona, where my father famously quipped, and they call us a developing

country.

Tucson's now a lovely place, but when you grow up like that, you learn very quickly, and

I'm betting many of you can relate to this. When you grow up like that, you learn very

quickly that neither the United States nor India really accepts you. You're not really at home

in either place. And for a while you think that as a negative. But then you start to realize that,

you know, being one of those, I don't know, what do they call us now, godless globalists,

being one of those people that maybe doesn't think about countries so much, but thinks about

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