New Year Resolution

Hey  Folks

I am officially declaring my resolutions  for the coming year

1) I will perform atleast two certifications.

2) I will prepare for management entrance examinations .

3) I will ensure my regularity to my gym.

4) I will ensure that i will write blog on motivation, complexities, critics  and logically explainable topics but not based on my personal life.

5) I will ensure that i will buy a car by the end of coming year .

6) I will ensure that i will go for a good holiday outside my country atleast once this year.

7) I will ensure that i will become a bit of selfish  and i'll keep my priority above than others

8) I will no longer be a Gyan Guru or a  problem this coming year.

9 ) I will buy good clothes for me in every three months .

10 ) i will perform an investment of atleast two lakhs as  pure saving the coming year, apart from all these specified  resolutions.

Regards

Rishi Dutt Sharma

Gyan Guru is an idiot hence closed !!!

< although this blog is published , but its extremely personal  and I am sure nobody’s  gonna  like it , so if you expecting to meet my past established standards for writing , I feel sorry for you in advance>

Its been a while since I wrote on my favorite zoner , relationships and philosophy , probably the engineer inside me started  pushing me to the extremes   but only till the time I am controlled and composed . This was me , scripting emotions with expressions on paper , walking tall with no regrets over my personal life , have enough courage to accept that right now I am in Love and I am Sad , I am sad courtesy my love.

It s true that I am different version of Devdas , who is still far away from alcohol , yet addicted to this blue emotion , still feel alone in the presence of  billion .I was watching Spiderman -3 , I was able to feel the plight of being peter parker and his repressed feeling for Mary Jane(M.J.)  , well I had one lady M in my life and my feelings for are still in repressed form, when the pressure of emotions gets out of control, the extra one falls out with exaggerated form to the people around me.

I feel bad about me so what I am successful, I am courteous, I am dedicated, I am all one could ever imagine, but I am still a lesser the man she ever can be with, even I am all that everything she could imagine in man she wanted to be with, still she don’t want me, she want similar kind of personality but not me.

She had an amazing time with me, I had some best moments of my life with her , but all in vain though I am still not able to figure out the reasons  for our separation, so what I am gyan guru, I know the logic behind break ups, I know the logic behind link ups, I know how to control other people and their life , but don’t have control on mine.

So what , if I am a very good speaker , so what if I can make other feel bad  or good about themselves, so what if I am very good motivator , but all in vain  If I feel  depressed about myself, even after good one and a half year.

To be very honest with myself, I was in love with her that realization came in consideration post my break up, I tried all stupid activities one can imagine, I went a mile too far, I did everything a crazy in love can do or can ever imagine, I can console myself that I gave my best to get her back.

But I think  this is not my problem , my problem is I am not able to accept a rejection, I think it’s my ego that’s pushing me hard to get her back  or it’s my ego who wants her back , it simply reflects that I am selfish or probably I am not satisfied from what I have!!!

Now the question is what exactly I have ?

I have everything a normal or typical Indian contemporary male can imagine at an age of 25 , I have good education , a good salary package , more than basic luxuries and amenities  in life, bunch of awesomestic friends in life , a girl friend  and a nice supportive family, I  mean I cannot ask for better, I mean I cannot think bigger than this and even after all this I am in state of dilemma or have question marks on my face that I have rethink ,  re- evaluate the things I have, I cannot be in such state for any anonymous reason , if this is not Lady M than who and what the hell it is??????????????????

So many question marks in an individual’s life  to be answered , so lets get back to questions and lets just see what exactly I have , being gyan guru is a nice thing to be , you solve almost every problem  of other, you get indulged ,suggest people , help them  unconditionally , irrationally  in an unselfish way sometime you feel good about your self , sometime you feel bad about it , sometime you become a hero and sometime you become a villain  and sometime its really painful when you speak the truth and the other side start crying ,big time.

So being gyan guru is like spiderman , you feel good about your powers though you can show them publicly , you have to wear a mask (in case of spiderman its superficial i.e his mask) , but in real life you can’t wear a mask, you have to  help others wearing a transparent  mask , you may project a wrong reflection of yours , by doing so you are not cheating with yourself , probably to others , but till its beneficial for him/her its OK, but the problem arises when repressed feelings of gyan guru collectively creates an invisible pressure  and exaggerated  feelings comes out that’s when  gyan guru becomes selfish , he wants everything , he wants everything right now, he demands from himself to be focused on himself , he start questioning himself  , this actually creates battle of conscience  , this is as big as king kong is fighting with Godzilla , the rishi fights with the gyan guru inside him .

Gyan Guru starts questioning ,Rishi  starts replying , gyan guru counters, shoots offensive maneuvers  and tries to convince Rishi that’s when  rishi feel bad about the things he have and  feels sad about thing he don’t have.

But this “antardwand” or “inner  conflict” can happen to anybody that’s what makes  gyan guru   a human , but what if  somebody wants a closure on these conflict . So let me go ahead and reiterate the question in response the inner conflict.

Question what exactly I have?

 Rishi Said “ a good education” . I am an engineer , because I have a degree of Bachelor of Technology  in Computer science and engineering  and I can go anywhere with a tag  of an “Engineer “ over my head.

Gyan guru replied  “ yes you are a engineer , you have btech degree  from a  state level  university  in an interclty level college , you prepared for  medical entrance exam and did engineering  that too  in Computer science because in class second you scored good marks in computer and you played some games on computer in past.

At the name of education , you read  in exams , prepared for CTs  40 subjects  , 40 exams , 42 in  your case , 120 CTS that makes  200 odd days  served for the name of completion of  degree named  B.Tech .

You attended a more than average college, secured average marks, and considering that as education.

Rishi  said  “a good salary “ , because I am  working efficiently, getting regular appraisals and salary hikes

Gyan Guru  replies :-  you have good salary because you are performing among bunch of some real idiots, or some real failure , everybody  working around you is a loser one way or other , you are getting appraisals , because you are working in a small but growing company , but even after all this you are not the best , you are more than average but not the best. And  considering that you are fetching good salary, its good relatively to the people working around you but still not the best , also what you are doing, that can be done without  having extraordinary skills or education. If you were that much satisified with good salary you must not be planning for your skill upgrade , you must not be thinking to leave the job.

Rishi Said “more than basic luxuries and amenities “, because I have things that I can use whenever I need them.

Gyan guru  replied :- having washing machine , computer , Owen , vehicle , joining fitness club and not using it  appropriately is a wastage or its good for nothing, every luxury doesn’t not make sense if somebody is not making correct use of it  . Anyone can do that every day without spending a penny. You know it  that you are not happy with what you have, you still want thing to be upgraded one way or other.

Rishi  said “ a nice Girlfriend” , because she loves me unconditionally  and loves me more than anything in this world , even after knowing my past and lady M and have no embarrassment in accepting the truth.

Gyan Guru:- A girlfriend , who loves you  and you  trying to convince yourself that you love her also just because  you want some one in your life as a replacement to Lady M, by doing so not only you cheating her , you also cheating yourself , you are doing no good to anybody, you will pay for your sins one day .

You use to love somebody else , she don’t fits in the criteria’s you actually wants to be in your girlfriend , lover or may be in life partner, you are trying to groom her , you are to improvise her  by changing her own personality , tailioring for your own requirements, conditioning her as a substitute by keeping in mind if you didn’t get  appropriate opportunities in life in terms of lover or life partner , you will switch over to this tailored one  without thinking about the consequences, and  without giving respect to her emotional feelings,  that’s really ridiculous  and selfish of you.

Would you be doing this to an innocent girl , who loved you for no reason , who is still in hope or in dilemma of having you in his life in her future . what if , luckily you got the one you are searching for , would you be leaving her for just a selfish reason, what if you would never be successful in conditioning her to your own requirement and you won’t get the dream girl of your life.

Would you be leaving her  , and creating another one like you , what if the  chain continues ….

Choice is yours , you can be a loser by posing an image of  winner by grabbing  all the superficial  materialistic things in your life or you can be  a  real winner by accepting the truth around you .

Rishi said:- Gyan guru is nothing but me , he knows everything that I know, I ain’t  a hero , so he is not either , lies, faking , hiding and mimicry  is my  area of jurisdiction, I am best in it and I am doing , whats best suited for me , so what If I act crazy at time or may be most of the time , I still get something good from  life , I can console my self by doing so.

By truth , by reality all I am getting  is shit , repent, sadness  around me , I am in control when I am not speaking truth , when I am not accepting a reality , doing so give me immense power and motivation  to fight and survive the world around me, so what if I am cheating with the world , atleast the world feel good about it ,so what if only gyan guru know s the truth , who gives a damn to gyan guru , no body Is bothered about gyan guru , gyan guru is nothing but me , and I am not gyan guru !!!

This is the end of gyan guru, this is the rise of rishi ,  and from now on to hell with gyan guru!!!  

My Idea of BUSINESS PLAN :) :) :)

Disclaimer:- By writing this document I am sharing my best practices ( ideal practice that one should do)to all the entrepreneurs or to be entrepreneurs , it’s not a guarantee that It would work , though it should work. People can add salt and spices as per requirement.

Community who plant everything on paper are seldom the ones who take any feat and the ones who desires to just go and get it done never give the impression to put anything on paper; this is so true for entrepreneurs, and I think … no I believe that I am different from the later community.

Pen down everything coz kya pata "kal ho na ho" either plan or pen:)

Not so many people know except my mom, that I write down each and everything, I create plans, execute them but prior to that I document it somewhere. Now why I am bringing this context as I am about to share my practice along with my imagination, probably I may exaggerate but I believe this ideally should be done in a specified manner.

But, everyone in their life ends up using Microsoft Word. Okay Okay, that was just a degraded artistic way of saying it. The point is even the action heads-on kind of entrepreneurs at some point would have to sit down to write everything on paper before it gets too messy. You have all the money, you don't need any investors investing in your business, but you still need your business model on the paper. You need your business plan in writing.

So today gyan guru celebrated his weekend by clearing the junk from his computer, during the process he found some interesting business plans that gyan guru’s intellectual mind once conceived when he was in college and the interesting part is ,some business plans has names only , that’s it period dot full stop and blank document afterwards like fill in the blanks.

Thats what Gyan Guru  says, if it’s in your head, it can never be done , you have to write and you have to write till the end , not just  Business name, and self organization is also important in a way or other  .So, once you have folded your shirt sleeves and loosen that blue tie to sit and write down that dreaded piece of document called the business plan, here is how to do it.

You can't leave any information out of this document, everything has to be on it, the team, the product, the service, the target market, the projected or actual balance and income statements, the money invested, the money loaned, the money expected, the exit strategy for investors, the intent of doing the business, the duration which you are expecting to be in this business, everything and once you have written and verified it, verify it again, there's a big chance that you forgot to put in something.

Let's begin.

How thick my plan should be?

Oh, come on! It can be as small as a one page or as long as hundred pages but keep in mind that no one is going to take a one page plan seriously as much as no one is going to complete reading a hundred pages one too. On an average, 30-50 pages are enough for small businesses, but its better be a 50 pages one with diagrams and bullets rather than a 30 pages flat text. 

It should not contain headings only coz as I said earlier nobody likes “fill in the blanks “anymore

Define What and Why.

What is it you want to do? What is the plan? You don't need to mention how you would be pulling in money here, just define what is it you want to give to the world. Be honest here, investors or anyone else reading your plan would want to know what and why you want to do something.

The Team.

Layman likes the concept of a single innovator but thats not how the world works, team is what makes a business, Start with people who have made it big in the outside world, moving down to people who haven't made it big but have worked for people or companies who are famous and then lastly moving down to those who have not been in the limelight. Write a lot about the last ones, tell them about their professional and personal traits which makes them the right member to be on the team.

Or just search options near by you, but never bring another entrepreneur into your team if you have selfish and egoistic nature or sometimes you get mad when things goes wrong unexpectedly.

The Market.

Start with the surveys you have performed which prove what market your product fits in. Explain how would be targeting the people in this specific market. Elaborate about the current situation and how crowded that market already is, how big are your competitors and how you plan to tackle them. You need to show some figures here to back what you are saying, if you have not performed any survey and you just know how these group of people are the right target for you, don't expect anyone to believe you.

The Green Paper.

I cannot express how much I would like to say that investors or anyone else reading your business plan would look in the value you are giving to the world, but this is not a fairy tale and I risk losing my job if I say that, I must tell you the truth. You are selling crap but you are making good money, you will get people hooked to you. Financial projections is the highlight of any business plan. If you are already in operation, you would have to show your actual otherwise projected income and balance statements for 3 to 5 years with the first year broken down monthly and rest shown quarterly. If an investor is looking at the plan, he would grill you over your break even diagram which signifies when would you be in a position to make some real money after you have paid all your expenses.

That’s what my own company is doing nowdays , building a bridge of money over loads US, UK and Australian citizens : (

Exit.

Any investor looking at your plan would need a few pages on the exit strategies, no investor wants to stick to you forever, and they want to invest, earn, go out and live happily ever after. Show them how and when they can leave. Some of the common plans are IPO, franchising, passing the business on to another in the family, etc. But again, this is not a fairy tale and no matter what you have read about internet companies in the autobiographies of their founder, going public is a very tough option for any startup. If you include that in your business plan, be ready to be grilled.

Once you are done with above mentioned points , your business plan is ready , make it on Microsoft word , save it in hidden folder , and forget it. Someday you will start cleaning junk from your computer and find this business plan then you will LMAO.

But on a serious note , if you have will to do something and of you are passionate , just implement  this plan into this real world and share 5 % of the total profit to Gyan Guru for enlightening your thoughts.

Coz Gyan Guru Said So.... Enjoy!!!!

A Pragmatic iNDIAN Entrepreneurship

I don’t know what would be the outcome of this blog of mine, I started topic first and then started hitting keys on my keyboard, so may Rajnikanth will help you with this, though the topic might suggest something related to me but I guess not as nowadays i am not the big picture however   and yes I am eyeing bigger panorama still restricting or refining my focal point to india only.

As an entrepreneur (whatever mere projects I handled, as an Indian, I am proud to be an Indian, me being the smallest entity in this land crammed with entrepreneurs all around , right every corner of this country , we can see so many “jugaads” walking around here and there.( “Jugaad “ in my words is a temporary arrangement made as substitute and then used as permanent object later…) and its true that “need  or necessity is the originator of inventions”. 

From our childhood, every Indian is programmed for compromises, arrangements, substitutes and reuse with equally effective outputs and results as in india we believe in destinations no matter how we reach it coz sometimes we need to fly, swim or need to perform time travel to made it as roads are not available for everybody.

 I still remember the plight of an Indian child who belongs to a Joint Family one way or other , his struggles starts from day 1 of his life , coz his clock is started and till the age of self independence he needs to wait for his share of cloth , toys , books of his elder cousin brother and sisters, myself  being a victim of this situation , I still remember once i said to my elder cousin brother that next year I want your green jacket , don’t give to my other brother .I still remember there was a shirt  and  the reason of” was “ that I don’t know the location of that shirt right now, but I pray it must be in existence in this “kalyugi” world, so whatever, this  was the shirt that was shared by 9 brothers and sisters of my family , I use to love that shirt when I was a kid. Same thing happened to my first  computer , it was imported from Canada, it was Cyrix 333 MHZ processor , with two high speed 32 MB SDRAM’’s in each slot and it had 4.7 GB of hardrive t , it had huge color CRT  monitor  , its tower was Huge with a 32 X CD ROM drive , well this was normal but abnormal thing was till the time it reached to me , I was in college , I guess I got this machine in May 2005 ,  it had undergone so many surgeries courtesy my elder electrical engineer cousin brother  and he constituted it to be a masterpiece or a legend of its own kind when I opened it first . ( God knows how I assembled it back ) , I saw so many jugaads in it, specially the Fan over the CPU socket, those were the days of technology for me, I was playing with the technology since then.

Today we play with Technology, apply “jugaads “on technology which is completely ethical in nature which require simple intellectual treasury as application “compromises, arrangements, substitutes and reuse” being riders to it , some of the perfect examples are Nehru Place (biggest IT market hub in ASIA where you can build you ALIENWARE for the cost an INSPIRON) and Gaffar Market ( where you can buy any cell phone even if you are expecting telescopic camera lens on your mobile phone) .

Well these were only few examples that are actually accepted globally, though some movies has good speeches for india , that are available on youtube lke “Purab and Paschim” or “Namastay London”.Well india is a developing country and now emerging as strong world leader , After all, what constitutes a world leader? If it’s population, we’re on course to top the charts. We will overtake China by 2034. Is it military strength? Well, we have the world’s fourth largest army. Is it nuclear capacity? We know we have that. The Americans have even recognized it, in a formal agreement. Is it the economy? Well, we have now the fifth-largest economy in the world in purchasing power parity terms. And we continue to grow. When the rest of the world took a beating last year, we grew at 6.7 percent. Infact my own growth last year for was 200% financially and 2 inches in waist and 20 kgs in weight physically…

The usage of application constitutes and provogues the entrepreneur in you, I hope most of us had read the book by shashi tharoor  “ the elephant the tiger and the cellphone “ he once stated a story or rather a journey of fastest evolution of  culture ever in any part of the world ,following is the transcript of his narration on “Soft power” in a TED show:-

“what I think India really can aim to contribute in the world, in this part of the 21st century. And so I wondered, could what the future beckons for India to be, be about a combination of all these things, allied to something else — the power of example, the attraction of India’s culture? What, in other words, people like to call “soft power.”

Soft power is a concept invented by a Harvard academic, Joseph Nye, a friend of mine. And, very simply, and I’m really cutting it short because of the time limits here, it’s essentially the ability of a country to attract others because of its culture, its political values, its foreign policies. And, you know, lots of countries do this. He was writing initially about the States, but we know the Alliance Francaise is all about French soft power. So is the British Council. The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the Voice of America and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity.

So soft power is something that really emerges partly because of governments, but partly despite governments. And in the information era we all live in today, what we might call the TED age, I’d say that countries are increasingly being judged by a global public that’s been fed on an incessant diet of Internet news, of televised images, of cellphone videos, of email gossip, in other words, all sorts of communication devices are telling us the stories of countries, whether or not the countries concerned want people to hear those stories.

Now, in this age, again, countries with access to multiple channels of communication and information have a particular advantage. And of course they have more influence, sometimes, about how they’re seen. India has more all-news TV channels than any country in the world, in fact in most of the countries in this part of the world put together. But, the fact still is that it’s not just that. To have soft power you have to be connected. One might argue that India has become an astonishingly connected country. I think you’ve already heard the figures. We’ve been selling 15 million cellphones a month. Currently there are 509 million cellphones in Indian hands, in India. And that makes us larger than the U.S. as a telephone market. In fact, those 15 million cellphones are the most connections that any country, including the U.S. and China, has ever established in a single month in the history of telecommunications.

But, what perhaps some of you don’t realize is how far we’ve come to get there. You know, when I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor, or something, you might have a telephone. But, sometimes it just sat there.

I went to high school in Calcutta. And we would look at this instrument sitting in the front foyer. But half the time we would pick it up with an expectant look on our faces, and there would be no dial tone. If there was a dial tone and you dialed a number, the odds were two in three you wouldn’t get the number you were intending to reach. In fact the words “wrong number” were more popular than the word “Hello.” (Laughter) If you then wanted to connect to another city, let’s say from Calcutta you wanted to call Delhi, you’d have to book something called a trunk call, and then sit by the phone all day, waiting for it to come through. Or you could pay eight times the going rate for something called a lightning call. But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through.

In fact, so woeful was our telephone service that a member of parliament stood up in 1984 and complained about this. And the then-Communications Minister replied in a lordly manner that in a developing country communications are a luxury, not a right, that the government had no obligation to provide better service, and if the honorable member wasn’t satisfied with his telephone, could he please return it, since there was an eight-year-long waiting list for telephones in India.

Now, fast-forward to today and this is what you see, the 15 million cellphones a month. But, what is most striking is who is carrying those cellphones. You know, if you visit friends in the suburbs of Delhi, on the side streets you will find a fellow with a cart that looks like it was designed in the 16th century, wielding a coal-fired steam iron that might have been invented in the 18th century. He’s called an istriwallah. But he’s carrying a 21st-century instrument. He’s carrying a cellphone because most incoming calls are free, and that´s how he gets orders from the neighborhood, to know where to collect clothes to get them ironed.

The other day I was in Kerala, my home state, at the country farm of a friend, about 20 kilometers away from any place you’d consider urban. And it was a hot day and he said, “Hey, would you like some fresh coconut water?” And it’s the best thing and the most nutritious and refreshing thing you can drink on a hot day in the tropics, so I said “sure”. And he whipped out his cellphone, dialed a number, and a voice said, “I’m up here.” And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cellphone in the other, was the local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

Fishermen are going out to sea and carrying their cellphones. When they catch the fish they call all the market towns along the coast to find out where they get the best possible prices. Farmers now, who used to have to spend half a day of backbreaking labor to find out if the market in town was open, if the market was on, whether the produce they’d harvested could be sold, what price they’d fetch. They’d often send an eight year old boy all the way on this trudge to the market town to get that information and come back, then they’d load the cart. Today they’re saving half a day’s labor with a two minute phone call.

So this empowerment of the underclass is the real result of India being connected. And that transformation is part of where India is heading today. But, of course that’s not the only thing about India that’s spreading. You’ve got Bollywood. My attitude to Bollywood is best summarized in the tale of the two goats at a Bollywood garbage dump — forgive me — and they’re chewing away on cans of celluloid discarded by a Bollywood studio. And the first goat, chewing away, says, “You know, this film is not bad.” And the second goat says, “No, the book was better.” (Laughter)

I usually tend to think that the book is usually better, but, having said that, the fact is that Bollywood is now taking a certain aspect of Indian-ness and Indian culture around the globe, not just to the Indian diaspora in the U.S. and the U.K., but to the screens of Arabs and Africans, of Senegalese and Syrians. I’ve met a young man in New York whose illiterate mother in a village in Senegal takes a bus once a month to the capital city of Dakar, just to watch a Bollywood movie. She can’t understand the dialogue. She’s illiterate, so she can’t read the French subtitles. But, these movies are made to be understood despite such handicaps, and she has a great time enjoying the song and the dance and the action; she goes away with stars in her eyes about India, as a result.

And this is happening more and more. Afghanistan: we know what a serious security problem Afghanistan is for so many of us in the world. India doesn’t have a military mission there. You what was India’s biggest asset in Afghanistan in the last seven years? One simple fact: you couldn’t try to call an Afghan at 8:30 in the evening. Why? Because that was the moment when the Indian television soap opera, Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi[Hindi], dubbed into Dari, was telecast on Tolo T.V. And it was the most popular television show in Afghan history. Every Afghan family wanted to watch it. They had to suspend functions at 8:30. Weddings were reported to be interrupted so guests could cluster around the T.V. set at 8.30, and then turn their attention back to the bride and groom. Crime went up at 8:30. I have read a Reuters dispatch — so this is not Indian propaganda, but a British news agency — about how robbers in the town of Mazhar-i- Sharif stripped a vehicle of its windshield wipers, its hubcaps, its sideview mirrors, any moving part they could find, at 8:30, because the watchmen were busy watching the T.V. rather than minding the store. And they scrawled on the windshield in a reference to the show’s heroine, “Tulsi Zindabad”: “Long live Tulsi.” (Laughter)

That’s soft power. And that is what India is developing through the “E” part of TED: its own entertainment industry. The same is true of course — we don’t have time for too many more examples — but it’s true of our music, of our dance, of our art, yoga, ayurveda, even Indian cuisine. I mean, the proliferation of Indian restaurants since I first went abroad as a student, in the mid ’70s, and what I see today, you can’t go to a mid-size town in Europe or North America and not find an Indian restaurant. It may not be a very good one. But, today in Britain, for example, Indian restaurants in Britain employ more people than the coal mining, ship building and iron and steel industries combined. So the empire can strike back. (Applause)

But, with this increasing awareness of India, with tales like Afghanistan, comes something vital in the information era, the sense that in today’s world it’s not the side with the bigger army that wins, it’s the country that tells a better story that prevails. And India is, and must remain, in my view, the land of the better story. Stereotypes are changing. I mean, again, having gone to the U.S. as a student in the mid ’70s, I knew what the image of India was then, if there was an image at all. Today, people in Silicon Valley and elsewhere speak of the IITs, the Indian Institutes of Technology, with the same reverence they used to accord to MIT. This can sometimes have unintended consequences. I have a friend, a history major like me, who was accosted at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam by an anxiously perspiring European, saying, “You’re Indian, you’re Indian! Can you help me fix my laptop?” (Laughter)

We’ve gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers doing the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus. But that too is transforming the Indian story around the world.

But, there is something more substantive to that. The story rests on a fundamental platform of political pluralism. It’s a civilizational story to begin with. Because India has been an open society for millennia.

India gave refuge to the Jews, fleeing the destruction of the first temple by the Babylonians, and said thereafter by the Romans. In fact, legend has is that when doubting Thomas, the Apostle, Saint Thomas landed on the shores of Kerala, my home state, somewhere around 52 A.D., he was welcomed on shore by a flute-playing Jewish girl. And to this day this remains the only Jewish diaspora in the history of the Jewish people, which has never encountered a single incident of anti-semitism. (Applause) That’s the Indian story. Islam came peacefully to the south, slightly more differently complicated history in the north. But, all of these religions have found a place and a welcome home in India.

You know, we just celebrated, this year, our general elections, the biggest exercise in democratic franchise in human history. And the next one will be even bigger, because our voting population keeps growing by 20 million a year. But, the fact is that the last elections, five years ago, gave the world the extraordinary phenomenon of an election being won by a woman political leader of Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith, Sonia Gandhi, who then made way for a Sikh, Manmohan Singh, to be sworn in as prime minister, by a Muslim, President Abdul Kalam, in a country 81 percent Hindu. (Applause)

This is India, and of course it’s all the more striking because it was four years later that we all applauded the U.S., the oldest democracy in the modern world, with more than 220 years of free and fair elections, which took till last year to elect a president or a vice president, who wasn’t white, male or Christian. So, maybe, — oh sorry, he is Christian, I beg your pardon — and he is male, but he isn’t white. All the others have been all those three. (Laughter) All his predecessors have been all those three, and that’s the point I was trying to make. (Laughter)

But, the issue is that when I talked about that example, it’s not just about talking about India, it’s not propaganda. Because ultimately, that electoral outcome had nothing to do with the rest of the world. It was essentially India being itself. And ultimately, it seems to me, that always works better than propaganda. Governments aren’t very good at telling stories. But, people see a society for what it is, and that, it seems to me, is what ultimately will make a difference in today’s information era, in today’s TED age.

So Indian nationhood is not the nationalism of ethnicity or language or religion, because we have every ethnicity known to mankind, practically; we’ve every religion known to mankind, with the possible exception of Shintoism, though that has some Hindu elements somewhere. We have 23 official languages that are recognized in our constitution. And those of you who cashed your money here might be surprised to see how many scripts there are on the rupee note, spelling out the denominations. We’ve got all of that. We don’t even have geography uniting us. Because the natural geography of the subcontinent — framed by the mountains and the sea — was hacked by the partition with Pakistan in 1947. In fact, you can’t even take the name of the country for granted. Because the name “India” comes from the river Indus, which flows in Pakistan.

But, the whole point is that India is the nationalism of an idea. It’s the idea of an ever-ever-land, emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history, but sustained, above all, by pluralist democracy. That is a 21st-century story as well as an ancient one. And it’s the nationalism of an idea that essentially says you can endure differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, custom and costume — and consonant, for that matter — and still rally around a consensus. And the consensus is on a very simple principle, that in a diverse plural democracy like India you don’t really have to agree on everything all the time, so long as you agree on the ground rules of how you will disagree. The great success story of India, a country that so many learned scholars and journalists assumed would disintegrate in the ’50s and ’60s, is that it managed to maintain consensus on how to survive without consensus.

Now, that is the India that is emerging into the 21st century. And I do want to make the point that if there is anything worth celebrating about India, it isn’t military muscle, economic power. All of that is necessary, but we still have huge amounts of problems to overcome. Somebody said we are super poor, and we are also a super power. We can’t really be both of those. We have to overcome our poverty. We have to deal with the hardware of development, the ports, the roads, the airports, all the infrastructural things we need to do, and the software of development, the human capital, the need for the ordinary person in India to be able to have a couple of square meals a day, to be able to send his or her children to a decent school, and to aspire to work a job that will give them opportunities in their lives to transform themselves.

But, it’s all taking place, this great adventure of conquering those challenges, those real challenges which none of us can pretend don’t exist. But, it’s all taking place in an open society, in a rich and diverse and plural civilization, in one that is determined to liberate and fulfill the creative energies of its people. That’s why India belongs at TED, and that’s why TED belongs in India. Thank you very much.”

Now the reason I shared this with you all is that how India is an Entrepreneur country as a Whole , how we are different from others and still part of them , connected with them not only by the means of compromises, substitute, arrangements and reuse but by commitment , talent , education and self respect.

This is for the day from my end ,  this is  something making me think about creating another blog on my entrepreneurship skills and where I delivered my best  with minimal resources for maximum output.

Indian Engineer goes logically senti again

To think of it life's good...work is  going pretty decent, being competent to play  a team leader role on  weekdays and weekends, celebrations exclusive of  friends, life just crossed the transition phase and now in operations, People considers me the most lucky person on the planet , they TRUST my capabilities and i put my heart to justify those,  i am happy dealing my professional life as it has came with real  challenges and now i am actually liking it, i am totally busy these days took an off today after well over 26 days and i am  getting bored at my home, still dont know what i am going to write , but me feeling responsible nowadays (funny but true)

I realize my other blogs the ones on  relations , psychology , emotions and preaching are languishing...so I’ll begin doing some work on that...also my new books character(hope I would manage a publication for this) keeps coming alive in front of me wanting to be penned down and brought into existence.

quite a few preachy posts have come from me...even if they were nice quotes  and education...which go against my pledge to be a dude and not to do that...bad bad mystique :P

and this is also an adieu of sorts...no not permanently (and yes i do realize I’m doing this one too many times bringing it dangerously close to be taken as a flippant statement)...well last instance it was coz i was wondering why is it that I’m writing...now it is because there has been a tiff with a dear someone and I’m just too hurting right now to write anything other than overly sentimental and highly boring stuff that u wouldn't want to read anyways...so i'll go mend my heart...and i can reassure u when i come back...the question is still gonna be on air and you   still won’t know the right answer  to reveal.

The only thing that had transformed over these few months is my trust; though trust is a very dicey thing...it’s like setting up yourself to trip. I've written about various aspects of trust earlier also in different aspect obviously. Today i cover another aspect...the basis for trusting...

while to a certain extent trust is a matter of risk appetite, trust is also a matter of logical deductions. The whole thing of why you would trust one person with your credit card details and not another.

First let me supply some credentials...i make and reject friends on the net, trains...anywhere. My credit card has been used by many diff people at diff points of time, so when i say i know about trust I’m not exactly speaking from the back of my pants, it’s just an example  expressed in terms of money though it’s totally directed towards somebody and that somebody had  logic to deal with trust on the contrary never had emotion attached to it…

Coming to the funda of logical deductions...what are these logical deductions, its the combined derivative analysis of words, demonstrated actions, situations and inherent play of emotions.

Lets take each of these in part and then in whole:

words: trust me, i love you, it'll be done, it won't happen again

Demonstrated actions: did the person do what she said, did the person do beyond what she promised, did the person undergo an inconvenience in favor of you, were the actions of no personal benefit to that person, when taken a step forward did the person reciprocate

situations: was there a possibility of reasonable doubt, could the situation be considered ambiguous, were there unbiasable evidences to point towards some conclusion

inherent play of emotions: greed, lust, fear. These three can color your own vision as well as that of the person being thought of. In down times or dicey times its usually not the strongest person who will last with you but someone who is not afraid to lose, does not suffer from greed or does not lust; which of course never happens...so you need to figure out what that person has greed for, what that person lusts for and what that person fears.

And when you think of all these...together you will be able to logically deduce...what needs to be logically deduced sorry for me being technical again, coz I am an engineer by heart and by blood (thank you grandpa !!!)

An important aspect which could easily slip from your thought, that in all this you are judging the person...not as to how that person is...but there trustability...but u still are judging and one must be conscious of this fact...

while i have given all this gyaan...i've basically seen two kinds of people...people who trust easily and people who find it very hard to trust and its mostly based on their own fears than about the people around them... and the past experiences(mostly from the closest buddies or the opposite gender) 

so after all this piece of useless information which you can't use...i leave you with one nice link and just listen to the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzAse1LzhV8&feature=related

Watch this , when you are alone, coz I am also alone today , still thinking about fixing some un fixable things , wish I could change something, its like something  gone corrupt and you want it the way it use to be…

Though I already concluded the post, but want to share another thing, this post is just one way to understand the “basis of trust” and emotions cannot be a pillar to it, it has to be logical, and its your brain that process all the information, and brain accepts only logic , and you can always engineer  trust !!!

Do Good Be Good and Good Karma to all….