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Posts from ‘March, 2009’

On Entrepreneurs …

Maybe it’s a tradition or maybe it all began during the days when we couldn’t fix the toy car, yet our parents looked dotingly as we showed glimpses of “genius”, even with five thumbs. We still tried to fix, create and provide a solution to the audience of our imagination. Since then, innocent enterprises became [...]

Its summer again. I write this post under the monotone of the airconditioning and as a large watermelon cools in Aashu’s flat below. Life comes a full circle. Exactly a year ago this was how the journey began. 434 random people thrown together, bound only by a singular thought. The thought was fairly simple then [...]

Institutionalized, my a**

I had my last class at ISB today, and one of the most obvious things (that I had taken for granted, having seen it for… forever!) was gone – the class layout. Imagine… the smallest, most inconsequential thing goes – and I’m standing up and paying attention to it. I know that all the people [...]

Inclusive Growth and New Business Models

Why is inclusive growth important? India already is projected to have the world’s second largest GDP growth rate for 2008-2009 and will surpass the world’s largest economies in the next 25-50 years. However 800 million are still to participate in the country’s growth and benefit from it directly and therefore we still need solutions to [...]