"The word
'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only
one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
—Friedrich Nietzsche
(German, 1844-1900)
Word for the day
Iconoclastic (adj)
Attacking or ignoring
cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, etc.
Malice towards none
Justice is blind, I had
heard. But the government is blind, deaf and dumb, this I only realize
recently. It only sees, hears and responds when an issue gets good TRPs in
media.
So much so that the amount
of compensation in cases of rapes, murders and suicide is directly
proportionate to the TRP of the case.
First random thought this morning
The positive outcome of Doklam
standoff and Kim Jong Un's jingoism could be stronger and deeper Indo-US and
Indo-Japan relations. While the hostilities will end sooner or later, the warmth
relationships may last much longer.
The focus therefore should be
on making efforts to preserve the opportunistic thaw in relations and convert
into a sustainable and lasting phenomenon. Keeping Doklam at the center of
focus, may not that fruitful after all.
In the meantime, two nuclear
powers are fighting each others with stones!
Angry birds and spinning wheels
Most of Indian middle class
mothers could be seen complaining about Shin Chen, Doremon et. al., the cartoon
character that our children are addicted to.
It was not long ago that when a
digital game "Pokeman Go", got many people hooked. The fan club
included some renowned people like Shah Rukh Khan (as per media reports).
The latest craze amongst masses
seems to be the innocuous Fidget Spinner, being propagated as stress buster
device. The device is nothing but a variation of ordinary bearing wheel that
has been in use for more than two centuries.
On a visit to Mathura-Vrindavan
early this week, I saw at least 500 varieties of Fidget Spinners being sold on
the street of this tiny town. Yesterday I noticed that the situation is no
different in the streets markets of Delhi. In the popular Connaught Place area
you can see hundreds of colorful variants of designed to serve the local taste.
On enquiry I discovered that most of the children I know are hooked to the
device.
The point is that there are
entrepreneurs who seems to have ideas that can work, and also have the
capabilities to make such ideas work.
There are numerous examples of
successful ideas like Whatsapp, Facebook, Angry Birds, Shin Chen, Doremon,
Pokemon that transcend all boundaries be it geographical, socio-economic, or
language.
I am sure behind every such
successful idea there could be 999 failed ideas also. But that's not the point
here. The point is that these successful ideas are about people and not any
complex technology. Most of these ideas have created their market themselves.
Till the time these ideas were commercialized, no one was really crying need
for these products or services.
Unfortunately, our enterprise
ecosystem is overwhelmingly skewed in favor of thought followers rather than
thought leaders. The cherished unicorns like Flipkart (Amzon), Ola (Uber),
PayTM (PayPal) etc. are all poor copies of the global leaders.
Mr. Bhatia created Hotmail two
decades back. But he perhaps himself did not believe in the potential of his
idea and was happy to sell it to Microsoft for a pittance. And Chota Bheem is
so inadequate in rescuing children from the spell of Shin Chen.
If our government is seriously
looking to create a New India in five years, we would need to develop an
ecosystem that encourages, motivates and supports innovation and not just
copying the successful ideas.
I do have some such ideas, if the
Prime Minister does care. For those who are itching to make fun of me, I may
just remind Dronacharya who taught many a prince and kings the art of winning
wars and ruling always remained a poor teacher himself.
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