I love how a group of Uncles sitting in New Delhi, in 2008, decided that all Indians can have a car, as long is it is less than 4 Mtrs in length and has an engine, that is less than 1200/1500 cc.
The single policy ensured, India got absolutely shortchanged by all global Majors.
We got badly designed, horribly built cars which had no power and no features. Which were cut, because they had to stick to the ridiculous 4 Mtr stipulation.
While the uncles who made the decision in Delhi, got to move about in Ambassadors, Corollas and Innovas.
If the policy was to spur the auto industry, it failed miserably.
If the policy was to ensure we never had good cars, then it is roaring success.
Maybe another policy should have been made, where the uncles who wrote that policy, got to drive only those sub 4 Mtr cars.
Then we would have got a better policy.
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If you noticed, a week ago my handle was changed to "Wormhole" and the profile Pic had changed to some arbit picture
And then random bitcoin posts were made.
In case some of you thought I had gone over to the other side, dont worry
Here's one small story of my sorry stupidity
I was just getting of my amazing fight with the VW fanbros, when I got a DM from a verified account. The account said they were from Barrons.
The same GRE/GMAT Barrons.
Now the message said they were exploring some kind of collab with me, regarding some kind of podcast.
First I didn't believe it
But trusting the blue tick, I visited the profile. Now The profile was legit with links of Barrons. So I thought, maybe, you know, it was actually true.
On Jan 22nd when the Prana Pratishtha ceremony was conducted in Ayodhya, the dreams and aspirations of thousands of people was finally realized
It took the efforts of people across the world, to bring this vision to reality, Including as far away as Denmark
Confused? Read on
The year was 1937 and India was under the British rule and Europe was dark with the clouds of war. In those dangerous times, a Danish Engineering company called FL Smidth decided that they wanted to do business in India and sent one young Engineer as their representative.
His name was Henning Holck Larsen.
He arrived in Bombay and tried to sell Danish Dairy equipment to Indians who wanted to get rid of the white man.
3 years to prior, his schoolmate also working for the same Danish company arrived in Coimbatore to set up a Cement plant.
If I ask you which is the most important company in the world today, chances are you will name Apple, Google, Samsung, Nvidia etc.
What if I tell you, there is one company, that too a Dutch one, which is more critical than the ones above.
Surprised?
Read on
Most of the technology today that you use, be it cars, watches, phones or aeroplanes, all run on microchips. Chips with so much computing power that it will make Superman blush.
These nanotubes of wonder are the ones that make the life as we know today, possible.
And as you know, it is extremely difficult to create these miracles.
One of the most important steps that goes into its creation is a process called Photolithography. Simply translated, it means the use of light to write on stone.
People glamourize Silicon Valley companies which started off in Garages & how they are now worth trillions of dollars.
Here's a garage, where a movement which uplifted 50 million people out of poverty, took off
This is probably the greatest garage of all time
Here's its story
The year is 1948. India is newly independent. You are from an elite family, who was just graduated from the Michigan state University, on Govt Scholarship and have come back to India.
You would think you life is all set and you are going to live happily ever after.
Then the Govt sends you to a rundown village in Gujarat, that nobody has heard of. Then they put you up in a grimy, sweltering car garage.
And then ask you, an English Speaking gentleman, to work with farmers, who can speak only Gujarati, a language you have no clue about.