I read an interesting TOI article today. It talks about how Indian businessmen and other businessmen around the world finding cultivable lands in countries like Ethiopia, Namibia, Argentina and growing oil seeds and other commodities to help their native countries in cases of shortages and also making a new wave of export businesses. Fascinating to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Opinion'
Embrace or extinguish
October 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
Tags:business·internet·medium·model·news·newspaper·online·Opinion
Talking to BrainVilla’s founder
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
Today, I had a chance to meet an entrepreneur, who until recently was my supervisor-like. He recently bootstrapped a book and toy lending venture, BrainVilla. This start up is kinda unique one, in the sense, it not only rents & sells books, which other companies like librarywala.com, flipkart.com does, but also rents toys. Interestingly, he [...]
Tags:Books·business·Entrepreneur·founder·startup·toys
‘Hurry up kid, you need to catch up with Indians’
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
America is nervous about its future generation. It thinks its future generation is not equipped enough like that of India’s and China’s in the area of education to face new dynamics of 21st century. This is some kind of irony. Here, in India, there is huge hue and cry about poor educational system and the [...]
Tags:Education·India·Opinion·school
Regulator in Education sector
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
I had this idea for a long time, given the pathetic primary schooling and skewed higher education in India. We need to get the government out and give some independent body full power to bring in what is needed. This is exactly Mr. Kapil Sibal, new HRD minister, echoed in his interview to CNBC TV18 [...]
Tags:Education·India·politician·regulation·scam
It’s all in the family
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
The general feeling is that the present government is trying to run the country like a business corporation. The other palpable thing, the leaders are at least looking genuine to bring reforms, make policies, improve economy with some 100 days targets (call it Obama style!). Another overwhelming fact is, the people clearly showed in this [...]
Tags:elections·India·Minister·Politics·Telecom·vote
Online book stores. Few thoughts…
April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
I love reading books. You would have seen my views on some of the books I read in this blog. I made a habit to buy one or two books every month. The unread books keep piling in my shelf and this pushes me to complete reading them asap. This way, I force myself to [...]
Tags:Books·ebook·online·Opinion·reader·stores
Where are our true leaders?
April 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
I find, people who show no remorse for their gross misdeeds, as those fall in sub-human category that yet to be discovered. When the same people gets supported and re-elected multiple times to the highest offices in the state, well, I should blame the people who voted him/her. It also could be, that we might [...]
Tags:Godhra·Gujarat·HardTalk·leader·police·political·politicians·remorse
Coin Imagination
April 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Opinion
Today (in some states yesterday), the auspicious Sri Rama Navami festival being celebrated. I personally don’t have any affinity of doing special things on this occasion. But, I have greater reverence to the character of Lord Rama explained in Ramayana. I like his character. His display of righteousness & other qualities. So, I planned to [...]
Tags:coin·devotion·festival·Hindu·history·Lord Rama·mythology
Desperate seller
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
Today, I had argument with an insurance agent. And I learned how a simple google search can end up losing a customer or in other words, how one can help oneself, from falling into mis-information trap. One of my relatives called me up & asked me about tax saving investments. He told me that an [...]
Tags:advice·finance·insurance·ulip
Celebrating ARR
March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Opinion
Entire country was jumping in joy, when a genius, at last, shown to the world. It is bit odd, that entire country rejoicing the success of an individual. Well, that is India for you. Our need of recognition from outside has been palpable for some time now. Whenever, any name that strikes Indian chords, succeed, [...]