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This week BJP received a unprecedented victory. Amit Shah, an intense Hindu nationalist played a very vital role in this victory. He combined his belief in India being a potential world leader with the conviction that no goal is hard to achieve when pursued with devotion. He set one such goal for himself when he said the party needed to expand and make gains in inhospitable terrain, setting the stage for “Operation Coromandel” which saw BJP making impressive gains in West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana. Success did not come on a platter. Shah, a diabetic on insulin thrice a day, visited Mamata Banerjee’s fortress 84 times as party president. He also conceived the North East Democratic Alliance as part of an outreach that saw the party emerge as the predominant national party in the region and fetch a record number of seats in this election. The journey to our goals and grand ambitions are often fraught with failure, hardship, and inner discord as we strive to make something real out o...

This week again I was standing in front of the audience much more in experience. At the end of the session, they all liked what I spoke because they felt I spoke Straight from the Heart. I believe Speaking Straight from the Heart is not about the right time or place but about doing the right thing, it is not about reacting but about being interactive, it’s not about frustration but about staying engaged and connected. When we Speak from the Heart there are no assumptions or judgment. We are just relating to a deeper level. By doing things Straight from the Heart We can be more positive, We can help the people around us, We can be a little bit better at being us every day. To be happier in life, we need to do meaningful work. We need to do work that ignites our passion, work that excites us. I’m happiest when I know the work I’ve done is impacting someone in a positive way. That’s what allows me to be the best version of my self. I can only live with my self when I know I’ve tried. I...

Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chair, Charlie Munger, responding to a question about human nature at the recent annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, said that the one mantra he followed in life came from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore who governed for three decades. Lee Kuan Yew — he said one thing over and over and over again all his life, and that was to “Figure out what works and DO IT." Go at Life from this simple philosophy, you’ll find out it works wonderfully well. I could relate to the above philosophy as much as we had followed it in our Startup Journey of many years. According to the “problem-solving” approach, there should be a logical and coherent relationship between problems and solutions. However, we had encountered numerous examples when such logic does not stand up to real-life & business. At times we need to take bold steps to do something different as the solutions are not always directly related to the problems. Once...

This week again was spent doing Campus Interviews and one question which I saw the students kept asking was with so many choices available what career option they should choose. I keep telling the graduates that when they are trying to pick a new path in their career, the criteria they should use is 75% "I Add Value" and 25% "It Provides Opportunities for Growth." When we choose based on what We can Offer, our Value-added becomes the greatest. The choice is all about possibilities. The choice is also a cultural construct. Our culture teaches us how many choices we want, how to make a choice, who should make a choice, what constitutes a meaningful choice. No matter who we are, our lives get affected by our circumstances, fate and random events. Sometimes they make us fortunate, and sometimes not. The reason I believe why choice is so powerful and so important is because it is through choice that we decide what we wish to do with what we have before us. Will we acc...