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Interview with Chandran Nair, International Institute awaken Tomorrow
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Chandran Nair (1944-2023)
CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
Written by Samuel Lee
Dated 4 Nov 2015
Chandran Nair attributes his father, Malayam writer V.R. Gopala Pillai, as an early influence on his decision to pick up literary writing. Besides the exposure to his father’s own writing and wide circle of literary friends, Nair was also active in theatre and the literary arts in secondary school and university. His first experiments with poetry were published in school magazine The Rafflesian in 1963, and he also worked extensively with the theatre practices in both his secondary school and university. In 1972, for example, he directed a staging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years prior. It was during this extended period of deep involvement with the literary arts that he wrote the poems that would later comprise his first collection, Once the Horsemen and Other Poems (University Education Press, 1972). In response to positive reviews of the first collection, and after his win at the New Nation Singapore Short Story Writing Contest in 1973, he published his second poetry collection After the hard hours, this rain (Woodrose Publications, 1975). In the same year, he worked with Malcolm Koh Ho Pin
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He is the author of Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World , The Sustainable State : The Future of Government, Economy, and Society and Consumptionomics: Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet and the creator of The Other Hundred, a non-profit global photo journalism initiative to present a counterpoint to media consensus on some of today's most important issues.
Chandran was chairman of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Asia Pacific until 2004, establishing the company as Asia’s leading environmental consultancy.
Chandran is a member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability and Experts Forum. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome, the world’s premier scientific think tank, and is a Senior Fellow of CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI), as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also an Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia on development issues.
Chandran has served as Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and is a former Advisor to ORIX Corporation and a former member of the Stakeholder Advisory Council for BASF, the world’s largest chemical company.