Many of us are contributing to society in our unique way. They don’t need limelight, hashtags, or fan following on a social media platform. They are just contributing. Be it a hotelier, offering leftover food to shelter home, or school kid dancing on tunes for collecting charity. There are many more teaching kids for free. …
Author Archives: Atul
special
We are all special in our tiny little world. Our world is our imagination, aspirations, and zeal of not giving up. When we start seeking within, questioning ourselves, that is when the magic happens. We don’t need a self-help book or a therapist to tell us our purpose of existence. Tesla dies poor; Van Gogh …
Interview
We have been interviewing interns for two-quarters of paid internships. I have been noticing a trend in most of the CVs: AI and Data analytics. I am not going to blame the students as they are just getting out there and acquiring familiarity. What worries me is almost everyone wants to do AI and, most …
content
How much is enough? Will this realization going to come anytime soon? Why are we running like a headless chicken towards one goal post to another? Our life was supposed to be lived peacefully with our dear ones around. But it seems the opposite. We are living isolated, working like a robot, buying all the …
think
Can we think like free-flowing water without the bias of the past?Can we see every adversary as an opportunity? Can we not let the past blind us and make us like/trust the world less? How much do we have to compare our journey with the rest? Are we not different? As in our identity, consciousness?Why …
home
I have been talking to many of my friends who have been working from home for some time. The adversity of COVID has given an opportunity. Most have accepted the fact that working from their hometown, village and, farmland is a reality. Industrialization accumulated talent and wealth both. It resulted overnight and making a city …
Bakri
Budhiya ka dimag kharab ho gaya hai, screamed Renu. Budhiya is Boodhi Dadi; she celebrated her seventieth birthday last month. A stout lady with a potbelly, showering all her elderly love on Gulabo, her dear goat. Gulabo, the goat, is the purpose of her life. The love and care Boodhi Dadi has for Gulabo are …
reach
There are many people we are connected via our network like LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. We have not personally met them. We are added to them for their wisdom, domain expertise. As a founder, we are always on a joyride with things screwing up now and then. I was looking for some help in marketing and …
Havells Story
I picked Havelles: The untold story of Qimat Rai Gupta. It is another rags to riches story. One guy works hard to build an empire by going against all the odds and uncertainties. It reminded me of the MDH group and Haldiram’s founder’s journey. The risk-taking attitude, perseverance, and persistence. I think I have found …
success
The secret sauce of success is sold and glamorized by media and best selling authors. What most don’t tell you about the sufferings one has to go through to achieve the invisible. Tesla, Gandhi, Beethoven, Rudyard Kipling, Helen Keller, Ada, Charlie Munger, Ruskin Bond, Van Gogh, Epictetus, founders of Haldirams, Havell’s Electric: the list is …