The Healthy Cities Wealthy Cities team has been collaborating with Professor Suresh, an economist from IIM-Bangalore, to explore the social capital of small and micro-entrepreneurs in Mumbai. The questions for this collaboration were prepared by the team and the Professor jointly. The team conducted fifty life story interviews of various entrepreneurs, keeping the balance of areas of businesses (leather, food, textile etc), religion, location and language. After reading the interviews, Professor Suresh sent the following feedback to the team:
“Thank you very much, Nilesh, Bali and Nizam. I will try to visit Mumbai in Oct to meet all of you and thank you personally for these insightful interviews that are so sensitively and respectfully done.”