The over-rated start up generation!! (Part 1)

Dear All,

I have been having discussions with a lot of people these days about the number of starts-ups this current generation is taking up. It's indeed delighting to see so many young brains taking risks, creating business models, getting investments, growing well. In fact some where in my heart I am also a wannabe start up guy but I think I have crossed the age to be young enough to attract eyeballs and guys of my age are already multi millionaires! (I am 27 by the way)
But as they say those who can't do, preach (and write blogs in deep slumbers of nights). That's one of the reasons this one is coming.
So we are 68 years independent. My grandfather was one who was born before independence, then came the generation of my dad who was born after independence but into a very under developed, controlled India and then I am born in a generation that has seen the transformation of India from an old school economy to a rising super power, a communication less society to and over communicated society.
So I think I will not be wrong to say that we are broadly into 3rd generation India. Yes the next generation is in process but the they are too young to make a difference except to their nappies.
Yes, so my grandfather was the one who struggled his way to an independent India and struggled hard to keep up a family, do some business (yes a start up in the time when nothing existed by the name of organised business) and some how the country started settling down.
Then came my dad's generation which I think are the people who are the real entrepreneurial generation. These are the men who developed the huge manufacturing base in this huge country. These are the men who started factories, plants, units, infrastructure companies, designed business, went to consumers, opened showrooms, opened shops and practically without much (rather any) backing. At that time opening a kirana or a cloth shop in the market was also a start up which these people did without any investors or any business consultants, on their very own.
These were the people who grew business in this country, mobilised agriculture. Created a huge manufacturing base and laid foundation to the service industry.
How big start ups they created which took the value of our economy to this scale.
They created products, they explored mines and minerals, they produced cloth, stone, oil, engineering equipments, agriculture equipments, FMCG items, chemicals, fibres etc etc...to support every thing they created infrastructure, transportation, service industry.
So I believe that first of all these great men who brought us till this stage deserve a huge round of appreciation and in real sense deserve to be called the start up kings who, with very limited resources and funding are into every nook and corner of this country. They created wealth!
Now the third generation has come and is doing fantastically well. But we are just a little over rated I feel..
How and why do I feel so will require me to continue this long blog with (another) part two!!
Wait for a few days until I post the second part...

I hope I will make some sense with this one too like the previous 2 part reservation blog.

Happy reading.

Signing off

Siddharth

PS: your thoughts and comments are most welcome! 

Reservation - The biggest threat to emerging superpower (part 2)

Dear All,
So here I am to finish writing the second part on reservation!
After writing the first one and then having views shared with others on this topic, I think more or less people believe that reservation is a bigger peril than anything else.
So yes, the last one I finished with the thought that we were slaves and will remain slaves, that's how our minds are engineered.
We lack patriotism like Japanese or passion to be and remain number one like the Americans. We are more of a selfish breed and thus we cannot let the power to from our hands once it comes. Therefore our politicians have no guts to decide and prepare a framework to end this menace of reservation.
Like all the parties come together on matter of MPs pay hikes and unanimously vote for it in the parliament, these people do not have guts to unanimously end reservation.
So the question comes why do we, those who are against reservation get into the system and clean it? Because there is no national party who has this kind of an ideology.
The basic ideology of any national party is how to remain in power and for that reservation plays an important role. If this continues we will have a proper caste based bifurcation of everything.
Let's have a quota based on caste for everything then. Marriages, private jobs, agriculture, land, ownership of companies, President's post, trade, pilots, restaurants, pictures etc etc whatever we can think of. Is this the method we are going to proceed in this country?
No! We have to have a drive to drive out reservation from this country. I, for that matter, cannot see the next generations struggling for their deserving rights. We cannot have the people who run this country with this ideology. It's high time we start thinking for the country rather than 'party first' and we first.
Remember the dialogue from Shahrukh Khan's movie Chak de India where he says "play for your country first, then if you have energy left play for your team mates, then still if you have life, play for yourself".
Some would say that these thins sound good in films only but only this is how we can make the difference.
Have a thought and write about it, tell others and if possible act on it.
I keep trying.
Hope some day we will make a difference and help eliminate this curse of reservation which our forefathers have forced upon us and we are helplessly and hopelessly following it.

Signing off,

With high hopes,

Siddharth