Hi kids of the graduating batch of 2013! There are certain things that I ‘forgot’ to tell you in 2011. It is also called ‘suppresso veri’ – well it is a legal language to mean ‘hiding of the truth’ but my job did not allow me to tell you the following. The following is also [...]
Many kids in their 20s are serious about their career. Sadly many, many more are not. The reasons for this are not far to seek. Many of them have been told that it is all right to keep wondering what to do in your 20s. Not true at all. I know of one boy who [...]
There are no hard and fast rules in the world. None. Sachin Tendulkar did not copy Vivian Richards. Nor did he copy Don Bradman. So there are no ‘success rules’ that work for everybody. Start early – is a good rule, but Kentucky Fried Chicken was started by a man in his 60s, right? what [...]
Many young people I know have got into their MBA schools and should be joining soon…so here is a note addressed to them… Hi Children! Congrats on getting into your MBA school. I am not making a distinction between a full time MBA, an executive MBA, a 2 year course or a 1 year course. [...]
what is the Indian Institute of Ponytail Management worried about? it is worried about people knowing that it is NOT recognised. Is it really a problem? No. As long as parents BUY seats such institutes will survive. Sorry make it thrive. One Armstrong (translate to Hindi) runs an institute in a prime suburb of Mumbai…but [...]
Long ago while doing an article in ET one of the journos there said ‘Subra says he feels like Bheeshma pithamaha – people come for advice, but do not listen to him anyway’. So with that background I felt good seeing a bunch of kids going to Bhargava uncles house for lunch and listening to [...]