By Shalini Passi, artist and entrepreneur
For an instant I could see myself from above: wading through heaps of rusting metal, plastic bags and the remnants of former lives people had discarded. As I picked up the piston of an engine, imagining the beautiful silhouette it would create if transformed into a candle holder, I thought how funny it would be if people knew that here, in a pile of garbage, my business sense was born.