Passionate About India

Praying on this day will remove the problem of hunger, like praying on Diwali removes the problem of poverty After the unending comments on how I am an educated fool to question God's existence, today finally, I am sure you all will love this post. I have put this lovely picture which I suggest all of you must put as your Facebook / Whatsapp display picture the way you put Sai Baba and JMD images! This is so, because in every other street corner today I see there is Govardhan Puja being celebrated like almost never before and similar hillocks with cow dung - like in the picture above - are being made. I am even getting a lot of Happy Govardhan Puja whatsapp wishes! And after scrutiny, I realized this is an extremely important day specially in the newly ultra patriotic and religious India. Eat cow dung as medicine, worship cow dung but yes don't mess or mock at cow dung - specially if you are a poor and marginalized dalit - there are people watching!! So, Happy Govardhan Puja to...

A world free of Poverty? Birthday Wishes for Bill Gates - one of the greatest humanists alive... a man who dares to dream of a world free of poverty! Today is Bill Gates' birthday! And this is how I believe he is changing the lives of millions which we must all know and share... A lot has been said about Steve Jobs. Indeed, he was a fighter and his success story has been most inspiring. His biography ‘The journey is the reward’, written years ago, inspired me personally to try and achieve more. And since Steve Jobs was the creative wild and hippie underdog during the same era as Gates, perhaps he overshadowed Gates largely during our times. Yet, I have always maintained that Bill Gates is the man who is the real visionary. Far beyond any businessman the world has seen in our times. For who is a greater business icon? The man who makes billions and keeps them as reserves or the man who makes billions and then uses that money to change the world into a better place to live in? Yes, ...

The human factor presents for the first time the definitive list of India's best human resource leaders and heads, whose contributions are now considered the most significant, noteworthy and innovative in the indian industry and specifically in the human resource space. Aadesh Goyal   wears many hats as Global CHRO, Board Director, and Community Service Director on the Board at Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS). Prior to this he has worked with PeopleStrong HR Services, Aricent Technologies Holdings Ltd (earlier known as Hughes Software Systems & Flextronics Software Systems) and Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) in various capacities. At C-DOT, he set-up project management and HR processes which were ahead of their time. A natural thought leader, he is a versatile individual. A tough task master, he mentors his team and creates learning and growth opportunities for them. He also has the ability to strike a good wor...

S uch propagation of blind faith, illiteracy and fundamentalism without questioning logic is what takes humanity down.   When I was really young, and though even then I never believed in God, we used to celebrate   Saraswati Puja   as a part of our local club’s annual ritual! My father had told me that we must not use the entire surplus from the   Puja   to buy cricket kits etc for our club. He insisted that we must also do some good work, like donating to Mother Teresa. And like an obedient son, to get over the guilt of buying a cricket bat, half of the said surplus was donated to Missionaries of Charity. I still have that letter of thanks from Nirmal Hriday (earlier called Mother Teresa’s Kalighat Home for the Dying Destitutes). As I look back, I find probably that’s the only purpose Mother ever served.   For all the Western capitalists and countries full of guilt of exploiting the rest of the world and doing precious nothing for them, she was a Wester...

On 11th June 2016, I read an article on IndiaTimes that said,  and I quote: Blaming the decrease in Hindu population in India on impotency of men, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia has urged Hindu men to “go home and worship your manhood.” Addressing a gathering in Gujarat on Friday, he asked Hindu couples to have more children to counter the growing number of Muslims in India. Togadia also blamed “love jihad” and conversion to Christianity for slipping percentage of Hindu population… He also questioned the Narendra Modi government’s policies of development without offering protection to Hindus. The VHP leader said, “You are making bullet trains, smart cities, but who will travel in the trains if there is no Hindu?” On 20th July 2016, I read in The Huffington Post: On Tuesday, members from the Punjab unit of the Shiv Sena allegedly stopped trucks on their way to Jammu and Kashmir and forced the Muslim drivers to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’… Of the many things ultrana...

After writing 'The Great Indian Dream' and running a blog, 'Passionate about India' for over a decade, today I feel uncomfortable promoting any message that sounds 'over' patriotic. Thus, happy to share these two lovely quotes by two of India's greatest thinkers... And pass on a message to all my friends to love India very much, and yet, not get carried away by the love so much that we start hating anyone else! Cheers and Happy Independence Day! Know more about Arindam or get in touch with him: https://youtube.com/c/DrArindamChaudhuri www.Instagram.com/dr.ArindamChaudhuri https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1374768/ https://www.ft.com/content/57cb97bc-f3db-11da-9dab-0000779e2340?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6 https://elitedelhimagazine.wordpress.com/2018/10/21/the-mega-disruptor-and-godfather-of-private-education-in-india/ https://www.abillionleaders.com/media-feedback.html https://m.businesstoday.in/story/best-b-schools-iipm-arindam-chaudhuri/1/188870...

The big question that people have in mind the moment they hear of NITI Aayog is, is this something like Gurugram – just a change in the name with everything else remaining the same? Most people i speak to seem to think so. And that doesn’t sound too exciting, given the amount that needs to be done in the nation. The truth is, the Planning Commission indeed needed changes. Sweeping changes. And the thought was indeed in the right direction by Modi. Having been a member of the consultative committee to the Planning Commission of India briefly, and then interacting with its members, I know first hand the lack of dynamism and focus that was there in the Planning Commission. In any case, the Planning Commission of India had become a pure insult to the word “planning” within a few years of its setting up. The word planning has to necessarily be inclusive of people and the masses as that’s where the centre of focus should be. What we had in India was hardly ever planning. Yes, the idea...