Thursday 15 August 2013

INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH - Ganesh NAIR M.G univ



Good Morning to all, first of all, let me express my heartfelt greetings and salutations to all of you on the special occasion of Independence Day. Today, we pay homage to each and every one of those heroes who sacrificed their lives. On the eve of 14th august 1947, INDIA’s first Prime Minister in his speech said, “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now, the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the whole world sleeps, INDIA will awake to life and freedom”.

India’s dark era started when East Indian Company came to Kolkata in 1760s for trade. They made advantage of the dispute between provinces of Indian subcontinent. Later, they started engulfing our nation. It was later in 1915, after arrival of Gandhi ji. Indian Independence movements stormed like tornado. After lots and lots of agitations, British were forced to leave the country. Today is the day, when we should pay homage to legends like Chandrasekhar Asad, bhagat Singh, Rajguru, netaji and so on, who gave their life for the well being of mother INDIA. Hundreds of common people were massacred by British soldiers, thousands were send to cellular jails of Nicobar islands, but, the quest for freedom never settled nor faded. Finally, after 200 years of colonial rule, INDIA was liberated from ‘COMMONWEALTH COMPARTMENT’.

Now, looking to the post-independence period, we have achieved many things which others envy us for, which include, maintaining unity and integrity, a vibrant democracy, INDIA’s space programme and more importantly our aggressive economy. Today, INDIA is the second fastest growing economy in the world. Our arsenal is filled with emerging SMEs, billion dollar enterprises and larger talent pool. INDIA is accelerated to that destiny, which our founding fathers had set before ages.

Dr. B.R Ambedkar gave the longest written constitution to us. Nehru worked for an Industrialised INDIA. Netaji inducted courage in us. Swami Vivekananda gave us spiritual power. Yes!! With these contributions, INDIA will be the super power in the coming years. Our president Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam called the children of INDIA to dream to build a strong INDIA with aim and innovation. Indeed, this is not the word of a single man, but the word of a billion glittering souls. As he said in his book ‘the ignited minds’, “let me go to dust as a proud citizen of INDIA, to rise again and to rejoice in its glory...

-------------------------------- THANK YOU............... JAI HIND.........

Sunday 4 August 2013

"STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH"



I have been highly inspired and motivated by founder of apple, Steve Jobs, whom I admire for the quest of innovation and simplicity. His speech at the ‘Stanford University’ convocation ceremony gave me a new vision. He led a simple life. Who laid stone for a billion dollar enterprise like apple, which is famous for their innovative products. Now, Apple has its own market share across the globe. Its products are well known for  quality and technological specifications. All chaos and kudos to Steve for his model of development. He was not just an entrepreneur, but a philosopher too. His words had  magnetic power, which could attract the minds of listeners. He was someone who ‘proved that he is worth of talking’. Any aspiring entrepreneur or management studies aspirants show know his life, which was an epic as far as I concern.


Initially he had nothing to start a business. He was not even graduated. He was once admitted to Reed College, but he found no value on it, he escaped from the place. Steve walked 7 miles to go to Hare Krishna temple to have a nice meal once a week. He used to collect the 5 cent deposit on coke bottles and found his daily bread. He had no ‘palace’ to sleep. He slept on the street on ‘wall street’, the same place which saw the bullish Apple shares crossing all marks and crossing the 600$/share. The same street seems to be filled whenever apple launches a new product. Innovation is what apple is driven by; he showed the world that “when driven by dreams and aware of challenges no one can stop you”. Later when he died with pancreatic cancer, he left his foot prints on minds of youth across the globe..
 Life wasn’t so romantic for Steve. His misfortune started haunting him even before he was actually born. His biological mother was not married; she later put the kid Steve for adoption. He was adopted by a couple who were of ordinary class. At the age of 19, he along with his friend, made the first computer on apple series, the Macintosh 1 in the garage of his father’s home. Later, after 10 years, apple grew to a billion dollar enterprise and 4000 employees. But, Steve was fired from his own company. But, he didn’t settle, he went on creating two new companies, the Pixar and the next. Pixar went on creating world’s first animated film, ‘the toy story’, later apple bought Pixar and Steve was back on the board. He always emphasised on one thing, ‘have the courage to follow your heart and intrusion’. He asked the youth to love what they do and also to connect the dots looking backward. He said that one should show courage enough to follow his own heart and to believe in, ‘dharma’, ‘self’ or something.

Steve was highly inspired by ‘Stewart Brand’ who created the amazing ‘whole earth catalogue’, which he called the Google in paperback form. It was rich in notations and had neat tools. After the magazine ran out of course, on the final issue, there was a photograph of a long path, underneath it, it was written “stay hungry stay foolish”. These words had deep influence in the personality of Steve. If you have noticed him, launching any i products, he had a simple dress, not like bill gates launching his premium windows products. But Steve created a ding in the universe. What made him an entrepreneur were his mind power and his hard work. Many occasions led him down, but he had the courage to overcome every obstacles. He did it and the world had tears in their eyes when he departed the world. But, though out his life he uttered a single thing, “stay hungry stay foolish”............