Connect With Confidence - with Kerrie Phipps
Oct 6, 2026 · 15 min · 8 segments
When I first met **Mithul Krishna Kumar Ramachandran**, he was a teenager in Coimbatore. When we reconnected more recently, he was much taller, well-travelled, educated connected - and more curious…
Kerrie PhippsHost
So what do you think are the key benefits in studying in such a diverse environment?
So basically, uh, I believe in this thing called borderless capitalism.
So I think studying in an international university like that and going abroad is the first step towards that.
So I, I don't need to go all the way to China to, to get something done.
So that is the kind of, um, uh, environment in which we'll be operating in a few years.
But considering that, uh, I, I am in, in the first stage of that.
India itself is an, is a continent when it comes to linguistic difference.
Second, uh, culture, which, uh, I mean, being more, um, uh, sensible towards their culture, understanding it better was one thing.
And then, uh, I think there are techniques, like you learn a lot of things from each, uh, uh, student's technique.
Be it studying techniques, cooking, uh, business, the way they handle.
When you see Chinese are more hardworking, uh, Indians are more, uh, you know, uh, they give their best.
And Britishers, they're very, uh, they multitask very well.

So what do you think are the key benefits in studying in such a diverse environment?
So basically, uh, I believe in this thing called borderless capitalism.
So I think studying in an international university like that and going abroad is the first step towards that.
So I, I don't need to go all the way to China to, to get something done.
So that is the kind of, um, uh, environment in which we'll be operating in a few years.
But considering that, uh, I, I am in, in the first stage of that.
India itself is an, is a continent when it comes to linguistic difference.
Second, uh, culture, which, uh, I mean, being more, um, uh, sensible towards their culture, understanding it better was one thing.
And then, uh, I think there are techniques, like you learn a lot of things from each, uh, uh, student's technique.
Be it studying techniques, cooking, uh, business, the way they handle.
When you see Chinese are more hardworking, uh, Indians are more, uh, you know, uh, they give their best.
And Britishers, they're very, uh, they multitask very well.
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