The power of Innovation

Just now, I read two news items -

1. Mukesh Ambani's personal wealth is $18 bn.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/india-home-to-70-billionaires-mukesh-ambani-richest-man-with-fortune-of-18-bn/articleshow/31265967.cms

2. Zuckerberg's fortune grows by $15 bn as Facebook shares soar.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/zuckerberg-s-fortune-grows-by-usd-15-bn-as-facebook-shares-soar-114030200115_1.html

That's the difference between doing business on innovation and doing business on government policies or natural resources.

Most of the billionaires in India have played on government policies or natural resources. Be it Reliance, Airtel, Adani or Jindal.

Our system doesn't promote innovation. Hence, we don't have Microsoft, Apple or Facebook or even a Whatsapp which was recently sold off for $19bn - slightly higher than Mukesh Ambani's personal wealth.

Enjoy the coming months of this year

It’s Holi time now. And it’s time to save water. Get ready for series of forwarded messages asking you to save water. After Holi, messages will go away.

Then, we are going to have general elections. Modi wave, Rahul wave or Kejriwal wave but for sure north Indians are going to have heat wave.

Then as usual the country will get ready for monsoons and don’t worry – Trains will be late, traffic will be jam but Mumbai will survive this year too. And then we will say - Hats off to Mumbai spirit.

Bihar will have floods and Laloo will criticise Nitish the same way Nitish used to criticise him. And Bihar will look like this.

After monsoons, it will be time for –

Then,we will say no to crackers because Diwali will be approaching.

Nobody says no to killing the poor animal on Eid but crackers are a big No. L

Diwali as usual will also witness only Shahrukh khan movie of the year.

On 26/11, we will criticise Pakistan. Its customary.

And post all this it will be time to celebrate new year.

In between, there will be a few gaps and people like Diggy, Salman Khurshid will keep entertaining you.

A few gaps will also be filled by praising Ratan Tata and a few others.

Cartoons on Rahul Gandhi will keep coming in but we must understand that it’s tough to be Rahul Gandhi.

We will also see some secularism and communalism debate in between.

And last but not the least, Kejriwal will be at Jantar Mantar most of the time.

Enjoy the coming months of this year.