I want is to be a part of Credible India!!!!

Hope is the most essential feeder for growth in any nation. What Hope asks for is focus to build a nation that is compassionate, humble, confident and above all a great one.

The great Indian obsession with wanting to be a great power is impractical, completely undesirable and nonsensical. I want India to be a GREAT NATION instead of just a GREAT POWER. I want a CREDIBLE INDIA instead of being a part of INCREDIBLE INDIA, because:

• Great Powers destroy, Great Nations Nurture
• Great Powers are built by Rulers, Great Nations are built by its Citizens

Unfortunately contemporary History is filled with many such examples which supports this thought. Without exception many nations who were once super power failed to the core; be it the Roman Empire, French or the British Empire. All of them have been liquidated. The American empire is now teetering on the brink of collapse.

Twitter , Politicians and Politicking

Twitter - one of the widely used social networking site has been witnessing a great hungama with the tweets and counter tweets from Politicians from all around the world. Head of states and governments of at least 125 countries are represented on Twitter. The density of tweeting varies from person to person though. 

Very few leaders tweet regularly and tend to use it more as pre-election engagement tool. 

It will not come as an surprise today to see National Leaders, International Leader and the World Leaders tweeting from their tablets, laptop and mobile phones every now and them at not so common timings. US President Barack Obama was the first World Leader to get on Twitter in March 2007; He is also one of the most popular politician on the micro blogging site with more than 16 million followers. 

The Yogi and the Commissar.......

The Yogi and the Commissar.......

Its almost been an year that the urge for a Lokpall bill is fuming in the belly of Mr.Anna Hazare and his followers. It also have been very long that the wants of Baba Ram Dev addressing the issue of Black money to be brought back to India is left unanswered. 

The Yogi is back again, but not with the old attitude of just being a bhola bhaala (Innocent) religious leader but as an activist who is looking for a change and for the betterment of his country. 

The title of this post is copied from the great Arthur Koestler's write up titled "The Yogi and the Commissar" where he speaks of the "Yogi" who seeks change within and for the betterment of the surroundings and humanity. He seeks a change so that he can transform the world. On the other side is the "Commissor", for whom only what matters is power and for whom change comes from without not from within. 



The Nation is witnessing a great match between "The Yogi" followed by his followers and the battalion of corrupt, unpredictable, power hungry politicians and bureaucrats on other hand. But between these two lies the India of intellectuals, business tycoons, new rich entrepreneurs, business man ,traders and the new middle class. But it is sad to notice that the intellectuals lives in the dream world of Ivory and don't want to dirty their hand in politics or join protests like the one of Ramdev to bring change (a very little percentage being exceptional). The tycoons hunting with the hounds and running with the hares are ready to prostrate themselves before every political party and place their bets on multiple horses as they know that peoples mandate and liking for political parties keep changing like seasons. The middle class lives in a cocoon of their comfort zone spending most of their time in working, spending time with family and friends, seeking entertainment etc neglecting the issues which are plaguing the nation. 

If I note all this I find that with all their faults, Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare are better than the best of us irrespective of what kind of allegations related to funds and IT are charged or raised against them. 

I just hope that we see India shining and being called as "The Golden Bird" of the world......

Regards,
Rohit Tiwari

You don’t get it right with one eye closed!!!

You don’t get it right with one eye closed!!!

Ever imagined how does it sense to look around with one eye closed? I guess many of us have tried that and also have found that you don’t get to see the complete picture of the view in front of you. And none of us would want to be the pirate character whose one eye is covered with a black cloth.

In real life if we want to see the world with two eyes open, then why don’t we understand that we gotta see the business world even with the same two eyes open. In majority of cases the students at Business School or academic institutions and the newly joined freshers at the offices are trained in a way to see the world with only one eye open.  I recently had few converstaions with the newly passed out MBA’s from different B-Schools who joined different national and multi-national companies. Majority of these people said that what they were taught at the B-schools was no where in connection to the reality. The major problem which every one faced was they were trained to be a specialist in one subject of business management without connecting the dots with the other areas of management. For Example: one person who specialised in marketing  working in a shipping company had the problem while closing the deals with the clients because he had the best knowledge in marketing but no knowledge of finance, operations and law.

Therefore for any successful business professional today it is a must that he doesn’t see the business world with one eye closed. He/She should posse’s knowledge in each and every area of Business management. it 

Regards,

Rohit Tiwari