Sabyasachi Mukherjee: I think the biggest source of inspiration is empathy. And when I look at India, also a little bit of pride. Besides, I take a lot of inspiration from children’s films. One of my favorite movies is the Disney film “A Bug’s Life." There was one colony of ants and one colony of grasshoppers. The ants were about a million, and the grasshoppers were only about six or seven. The ants used to systematically collect food and take it to their anthill. And the grasshoppers used to come and, by force of intimidation, since they were larger in size, take the food away from the ants. One fine day, one of the baby grasshoppers told his father a little loudly, “Papa, we are so few and the ants are so many. Why is it that we still manage to take their food away?" The father said, “Keep quiet. They still don’t know that they are that many."
The point with India is we have a lot, but – probably because we have been ruled by forces from outside for such a long time – we have lost our spirit to acknowledge what is truly ours.