What is the purpose of a school? We often think it is to make kids employable. It is much more than that. It is to prepare them for life. Today we are producing mostly Degree gatherers and Corporate types. We need to move on to producing more Freelancers and Entrepreneurs. From CD –> To EF. … Read more

I met with Prof Ashok Jhunjunwala, thanks to my friend Arvind Gupta. Both are batchmates from  IIT Kanpur. He started by switching on the NSE terminal on his laptop. Prof is the chairman of the SEBI committee on technology, and he likes to keep track of how the site is behaving. Prof was courteous enough … Read more

A three member team spent a day being trained to take the P4C program with school students. The venue was Aryawrat Society near Ghotawade Fata. Venue was courtesy Archana Joshi, who owns a plot in the society. The Joshi family has been benefactors for this program by also offering the hall at Ved Vihar Society, … Read more

THE HONDA STORY What sets apart great people is persistence; they will change their approach many times when faced with failure, whereas most of us just give up. Honda – Soichiro Honda started off his entrepreneurial career in 1938, while still in school, as a self-employed R and D engineer. He invested everything he had … Read more

Got a message from Nidhi Anartak, inviting me to the inauguration of their new campus at Pathar Vasti, Lohegaon. The infra has been built by Anish Jadhav Memorial Foundation. Met with Brig Jadhav and heard the story behind the foundation. Anish was the only kid – and had a deep interest in photography. He transformed … Read more

Want to share some thoughts with you today on learn-ability. How is your today different from your yesterday, and how is tomorrow going to be different from today? I expect the answer to be – No different. To grow older and wiser, today has to be different from yesterday.   Not all change is for … Read more

Cycled to Anup Jain’s place and walked over to the airport from there, about 1.6 km away. The shortest walking route is through Sanjay Park and opens onto the Viman Nagar road. Took 26 minutes to reach and check in. Managed to lose my phone charging cable in the security check. The Air India flight … Read more

Ideas about Ideas Managers in companies are mole-hill men. A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will have his mountain finished even before lunch – … Read more

We started with participation introductions. There were 12 of us – with ages ranging from 12 to 75. Except for the 12 year old, who decided to make AI drawings on his dad’s phone for the second half of the session, toast master Abinash managed to keep his audience awake and involved. Abinash works with … Read more

This workshop was organised by EKF – Existential Knowledge Foundation (http://existentialknowledgefoundation.org) at BAIF, Warje, Pune. They were about 20 participants. We started with introductions. What I liked about the training program was the absence of chairs. And the presence of young children. On the mattresses, you could sleep through the sessions, and it was perfectly … Read more