Scenario, Afterthoughts & Prompts

We as a world are habituated of structured hierarchical education system and that’s how we earn our certificates and degrees. When education has to be at the humongous level for this kind of population, there has to be a structured format and standardization. But at the same time, every individual is different in terms of attitude, aptitude and cognition level. So, ‘one shoe fit all’ is bound to not yield best of results for the people.  It gave birth of more open and distributive kind of education system and according to its behavior, it is known as ‘Distributive Education System’. As this issue of burgeoning population may look like as a problem, it also serves as huge resource and potential for a country and who can understand this thing better than we Indians. I won’t delve in its detail; otherwise it will put me off track from the main issue. Coming back to the distributive system of education, which was looked down upon some twenty year back, has gained huge importance. A...

Your first teacher always happens to be your parents. While mother takes the route of inspirational stories and soft techniques, father goes the real life experience way and we all know that those lessons set the direction and speed of our life. Every child is unique and unique are their characteristics and behaviors. So, a benchmark or comparison does not help much; rather it hurts the prospects more. I am not a parent, so, I am definitely not the right person to dole out any advice on parenting, but there are lots of things which I learnt from my father, which proved to be very useful in my professional life; though those were not meant to be a professional advice from my father. Since I was an talkative, arrogant kind of child who use to be more busy in doing multiple things in one go rather than focusing on one and was very short on one thing, which is ‘attention’, my father had his tough task cut out for him. Though never realized then, but any other person would have changed th...

I was listening to panel discussion consisting panel members like Rajdeep Sardesai and Arnab Goswami on YouTube other day and it left me amused (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w9bgAdFYXM). These people were discussing about the role of media in creating a wave in favor of Shri Narendra Modi, who is Prime Minister of the country now. Why I was amused listening to them because, in this discussion, journalist brigade were smacking with certain kind arrogance about their status. They seems to be still living in the elitist era where level of education in the country was low and flow of information was restricted in the country. They seems not to acknowledge the fact that India’s literacy rate has increased over a period and this is same country, which boasts more than 900 million mobile connections, more than 150 million board band connections, more than 100 million Facebook users and many thing more. What remains intriguing that their eyes are fixed on some 27% of the population of th...

In my course of “Entrepreneurship through the lens of Venture Capital” by Stanford University, I was listening to  by Mr. Howard Hartenbaum, Partner, August Capital on “Funding Your Startup” and on one of the question on whom do they fund or not fund, he answered that he try not to fund a business run by couple(man-wife, live-in partners etc.). Reason he gave for doing so was the uncertainty in personal relationship may adversely affect the business relationship. I automatically connected to this assumption when I heard the Preity Zinta-Ness Wadia conflict story and Preity Zinta had to come out saying that she will not sell her stake in their joint business venture “Kings XI Punjab” IPL team.  During last six years when I started harboring the dream of quitting my job and becoming an entrepreneur and last four year, since actually quit the job and became one, I have met various people, I have seen various people becoming business partners and ending up sooner than later with...