Subrato Bagchi, Arindam Chaudhary, Narayan Murthy
*Courtesy BCCL, Permission not taken, will be revoked if questioned.
*Though I did not mentioned women entrepreneurship but I value it.
... Azim Premji, Subrato Rai Sahara, Sunil
Mittal are few heroes of Indian Corporate. I call them living legends of India
Inc.
Well you must be wandering why not other
names? In a country where Ambanis and Tatas are the gods of business, I am not
even mentioning them in my list of legends. Well, I accept your complain for
the Tatas but with a few corrections explained in this article. While reading
further, you will get to know why not Ambanis, Ruias, Goenka, Birla, Mahindra,
Mittals, Munjals, Biyani or Bajaj are listed in my bucket.
I should mention here that I accept the
stand points of Premiji, Arindam or Narayn towards the political polygamy of
Indian castes, classes and cultures but I indeed admire their courage that they
often do comment upon the poor condition of our country by being a businessman.
They do not only comment but also they suggest the solution, or more to say, they
work towards those solutions.
Arindam's theory, in his book THE GREAT
INDIAN DREAMS, of 'soft capitalism' for a country like India is a wonderful
insight specially when he proposes the theory of LSP (Life Style Parity) as a
correct model of measuring poverty than PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)
Narayan's model, in his book A BETTER INDIA
A BETTER WORLD of creating mega-corporations to ensure disposable income of the
educated young brigade of India is the only solution to get country out of the
bastion of pseudo factorial politics of terrorism and social divide.
While Subrato's teaching in his book GO
KISS THE WORLD of least minimum required civil senses i.e. not defecate in
public, not to spit in public, keep the public sanitary as you want
it, adopt hygienic lifestyle are a few lessons majority of Indians
need to lean as soon as possible.
All these three attempts are greater than
that of entrepreneurial mindset. I feel these great authors of these great
books have not only made money from their business but also turned the table
towards those who are so called under privileged and would otherwise never
got the chance to become entrepreneurs. They attempted to remove the bad of
Indian society. If I closely interpret these three books together in
a nut shell, these authors want we Indian to understand that we should NOT
compare our self (Arindam) we should earn money (Narayan) and we should
live hygienic lifestyle (Subrato). Precisely these are the three things a
human should do in lifetime.
Azim's ambitious project of imparting
quality education to every Indian irrespective of Caste, Creed and
Wealth is one thing I admire and salute. He become the victim of
miss-interpretation of his concept of unreserved meritocracy system by a few
religion based extremists. He compared a moon mission where all
the astronauts should be elected by the ways Indian government elect the
Engineers and Doctors i.e. caste based reservation in otherwise meritocratic
election process. He says that if you do so, the space mission will never
succeed because of the inadequacy of the required talent on board. He
wanted to say 'uplift the talent capacity of everyone and then ask them to
compete in the leveled field but majority of Indian extremists understood
it this way 'stop these moron idiots to compete with us, they are good for
nothing and destined to be slave how dare they out compete us' However, I do
not offend Azim for this as he is not a politician to get benefit out of
his statements and so he need not to give any explanation of what he said
or how it should be understood.
Ray-Sahara is a man of selflessness; he
dared to dream for money because his wife wanted to be a singer. He otherwise
was happy with his one bedroom house and scooter in Lucknow. His business of
Micro-Fiance which reflects the model of CK Prahlad i.e. 'serving to the bottom
of the pyramid' is marvelous. He become the biggest philanthropists who
sponsored Cricket other sports to develop the competency among Indian
with the world.
TATA's are greater than all of them.... certainly
not as a person but as family’s business methodologies. This is one reason did
not kept them in my bucket list. They were the first to introduce Provident
Fund and Health Insurance for their workers much before than Government of
India adopted this. They developed Indian Institute of Science, Tata Institute
of Social Science, The Taj group of hotels to show the world that we Indians
are talented, helpful and capable. This is a courage I want every budding
Indian Entrepreneur should adopt.
Sunil Bharti has pioneered the corporate
world. He began from making the crank shafts of bicycles and constructed
the world’s top three telecom network. Those who know, knows that he is very
down to earth, very prompt and lovable human being. This is something I want my
budding entrepreneur should learn from him.
I respect others too but because I believe
they are inclined towards making money not making meaning hence I do not admire
them the way I do those who are listed above. I believe my young co-citizen of
this great sub-continent will fall in line with legends in their future.
With
Love JV
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