Khan has taken up a new route to engage the world — writing and speaking about global economy
Mansoor Khan
Chennai: What would a director with five Bollywood hit films to his name talk about when invited for a lecture? Oil, physics and the world’s economy. As surprising as that might sound, Mansoor Khan, the man who launched his cousin Aamir Khan in his first film, has taken up a new route to engage the world — writing and speaking about global economy.
Mansoor Khan’s last venture was producing the film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na in 2008 to launch his nephew Imran Khan. But he had already decided to take a break from films after his last directorial venture Josh in 2000. Now living in Coonoor with his wife and children, Khan released a book in 2013 called The Third Curve and is now awaiting the release of his next book.
Speaking to the students of IIT-Madras, Khan threw light on how perpetual economic growth while desirable is not actually feasible in the real world and how without oil almost nothing in the world would function. Quoting Edward Abbey, Khan said that growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. While the world might enjoy peaks of sufficient resources and a healthy economy, it has to realise that an ecological and economic collapse wouldn’t be far in sight.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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