Lot of my friends across the world wonder why Indian movies have so much song, dance and movie lengths which typically stretch to about 180 minutes. Black has no song, no dance and approximately 120 minutes in duration. Story of a girl born deaf and blind under the guidance of a teacher is integrated from [...]
Archive for February, 2005
Black : Truly Hollywood
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Is an MBA good for you ?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I have not done an MBA, never felt the need to do one when dealing with other MBAs. I do not feel the same when I am discussing genetics, mathematics, physics or even economics. Some of the greatest entrepreneurs of the last century Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Dhirubhai Ambani, Andy Grove etc never went to [...]
FDI vs Freedom
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2005 | 1 Comment »
As a Indian who has worked in Hong Kong (after the handover), I am constantly compared and reminded of the progress China is making over India in terms of FDI, exports, economic progress etc. Subject to sit through comparisons of how the home PC market in China is ten times that of India. China has [...]
Bill Gates on Innovation, Education and Role of Govt
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »
In a one on one with Peter Jennings (via ABC news) Bill Gates has some interesting insights. Some interesting questions captured here. JENNINGS: Can you tell me two things that you have changed your mind about in the last year about, in the last year, about technology? GATES: Well let’s see. There are some things [...]
How to Advise Children in a Digital World
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2005 | 2 Comments »
22 years ago we had no option but BBC to get the latest on Indira Gandhi’s assasination, inspite of having Doordarshan the then incumbent government controlled national TV channel and number of local radio stations. We were victims or beneficiaries of information scarcity, often stale by a number of days. We had wired phones with [...]
Leadership by Peter Drucker
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Peter Drucker Discusses key aspects Leadership with Rich Karlgaard, (via Forbes) Peter F. Drucker was born 95 years ago today–can it be possible?–in Vienna. The universally known writer, thinker and lecturer now is nearly deaf and doesn’t get around like he used to. He stopped giving media interviews about a year ago. But in late [...]
About Myself
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2005 | 24 Comments »
Shrikant Patil is based in Pune and leading a semi-retired life. At present he is catching up on the reading that has piled up, spending time with his 2 children and shooting the breeze with good friends on the next big business idea that will address some of the issues India faces namely illiteracy, innovation [...]
