Shyam's Blog

After reading the book 'Breaking India' by Rajiv Malhotra, I am thinking about recent history since 1990. In the past 15 years, we have seen India getting into the world map in terms of IT. On one side, we feel proud that India has evolved as a global major and is termed as prospective super power next to US and China. On the other side, we don't realize the possible mistake that was done in the 1980s by the so called entrepreneurs within India. Whenever we start something new, we are always circumspect. This is specifically in case of business and investments. When Indian IT companies kicked off 2-3 decades ago, their main goal was to do things that they people felt right. They would have hardly thought of revolutionizing Indian life 15 years down. They started business for their own success. What has this done to the greater India? It has created a gap among the people by splitting the population into IT and non-IT crowd. Also, this has created a gap of 15 years in te...

Last night, I was introducing my wife to the concept of Toastmasters Club and had shown her few 'Humorous Speech' videos from Youtube. She instantly gave me the topic, "One Sunny Morning". I couldn't think much at the moment as RCB was losing to SRH in the IPL match. After reaching office today, I called my wife and narrated the below story, "One Sunny Morning": This morning, after getting ready, I started walking towards my cab at 7am. Just then, I started hearing the 'lapp-tapp' sound from my left foot. For my surprise the sole had chipped off in front. I reached the gate and thought of telling the cab driver to stop me on the way to office to buy fevi-quik. Fortunately or unfortunately, the driver was busy working with changing the flat tyre. This gave me good reason to run back home and wear another pair of shoes. As I walked, the sound, 'lapp-tapp' increased. For people taking the morning walk, my walk looked peculiar which ...