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16th Surgeon General of US was the first black male chosen for the post and he brought such issues as infant mortality, oral health and suicide to the fore front in his tenure. He was in a radio interview, I believe National Public Radio (NPR) that I listened and when questioned what motivated him, his reply was , "All my life I wanted to make ............ A difference". I guess I remembered it because it resonated.
While in US, we all discuss how things are wrong in India and how it is impossible to fix them. Reasons are many and easy to find. I believed the way to fix a problem is to 'fix it' at least in a small scale and let it be copied. Same trait of ours that produces a street full of similar shops, can be used to copy a success easily. Also the shops in the street will happily point to their neighbor if they do not have a specific item, team work is not alien to us.
Those of us who went out have an advantage over people who were not able to; a vantage point to gauge on how we are perceived by the rest of the world. Picture is not pretty. Countries much smaller in size, population and any other measure outshine us. To solve our problems then is to look at the issues involved in the problem and design an engineering solution. Who should do it? Obviously those who can. We have many intelligent gifted people in India , who did very little to become intelligent .. they have an obligation to solve the problems. KarMic is one such solution, we will discuss it next time.
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well, you have begun with a bang!!! do continue! would love to know whats special there. to make 220 people stay for 8 yrs is not easy!
do tell us about the difference that you made!
I agree totally. Though I would like to add that most of us want to make a difference. Just that we don't know when and how to start.
@bombay dosti, Thanks for the kind words. Silicon valley start-ups usually are high risk high payoff ventures, whereas we in India usually are averse to such. Importance of knowledge increase in such high risk ventures and one can not afford attition. If on the other hand, we have an assembly line approach where anyone with a little training can do the job, then attrition does not hurt the venture.
@Chintan, I will cover my thoughts on this in the next couple of articles. You have enough time on hand, so I would think you start the first venture in a small way, assuming it will fail. Take a breather and with the experience, you can do something that will benefit many more people. This is just my view, take with a pound of salt.
Will keep your advice in mind. Thanks.
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