A brief history of #AirIndia 1) #JRDTata creates a airline that has 30% market share & had one of the highest best in class reputation globally 2) #Nehru derails it by nationalisation 3) #Morarji kicks out JRD Tata & sending it diving down 4) #RajivGandhi thinks #RatanTata will
avoid crash landing & makes him chairman. Later #AnandMahindra is made chairman. Nothing helps becoz both have no control 5) #UPA/#SoniaGandhi/#PrafulPatel/#MMS decide crash landing inevitable & they encash on it by spending 11 billion $. 6) To soften crash landing they further
merge it with #Indianairlines & #AirIndiaexpress so more employees can share the pain of the crash 7) Airline approaches crash point & #NarendraModi looks for a new pilot without success 8) Modi govt finally bites bullet, jumps out without parachute thus reducing the excess load
As @airindiain comes home to family @TataCompanies I was reminded of this brilliant advertising booklet that the airline used to give out to passengers when the world was normal, people could laugh at themselves & unlike today not take offence & outrage at the slightest imagined
insult or slight. Today these 2 booklets would have led to riots inside parliament & someone like even #JRDTata termed as anti-national, being asked to leave the country, heads would have rolled. But back then we were humans with the ability to laugh at the incongruous not idiots
I share the entire booklets in 2 series. This was called #FoolishlyYours & genius admen/ marketers like #BobbyKooka conceived this. The woke leftlib secular idiots would outrage at the plethora of racism while the equally idiotic right would do so on the insult to nationalism.
For all the apparent bonhomie during the #ModiInAmerica visit the following stand out. 1) As critics gleefully pointed out #kamlaHarris tweeted the visit very late 2) #Modi did not wear a suit even once & only Indian ethnic dress 3) #NarendraModi refused to speak in English even
snubbed those who lectured with a slap 6) #NarendraModi bluntly told failures of world orgs without taking names about origin of vaccine & #Afghanistan 7) The most self confident assertion was when he said "When India grows, the world grows, When India reforms world transforms"
Nandini even as of September 2021 we as a nation refuse to learn that respect comes from putting your flag on the ground (IP), documentation to demonstrate facts & good marketing in how you communicate. We still depend on emotional jingoism to say that Sun rises in the East. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Let's take the astronomy observatory jantar mantar in Jaipur or Delhi. Except chest thumping which nobody appreciates we can do a million things to market it, educate folks & make it a "tourist" attraction par excellence. Look at temples constructed with unique features. We don't
The thread on a BBC program I did here few days back - scientists were giving lectures with facts & demos on massage, cold water bath, looking after the new mommy & so many things that my grandparents told us we must do - becoz they told us their grandparents told them.
Inspired by @MonicaK2511 to share photos taken my ME, God has been so wonderful to me that my work has taken me to so many places & I share some pictures from my travels. Maybe I will add to this like a series but this is just a beginning. #Amritsar#Dhaka#Dublin#Mysore
Are genius mentally unique or unhinged? Are justice systems globally illogical at times or is there is a warped logic to have such systems? To all intent @officialmcafee was a genius, eccentric maybe, even paranoid but THAT is not the issue here. The tax
claim as per reports was around $ 4.2 Mil or just about ₹ 32 Cr. Having sold his company #McAfee for $ 7.6 Bil this was loose change to pay up. But the demand was that these were criminal in nature - legally yes - & attracted 30 yrs in Jail. Unless there are reasons we don't
know this seems rather harsh & impractical. Here we have Indian bizmen owing billions of dollars to the govt, spending a life of luxury abroad & the what that can happen to them is a token arrest & public parading when taken to court or jail. By the above logic these bizmen would
Recently #SunilMittal of #Airtel was ruing the possibility that India may end up with just 2 mobile operators from a dozen earlier. Forget the govt scam, he needs to remember that each of them contributed to this situation with idiotic policies. Let me share for his education.
In the beginning we customers could connect to whichever operator had good network in a place by paying a higher roaming/interconnection charge. This meant that everybody did not have to invest in infra everywhere & instead could have invested the money to expand coverage, speed
connectivity etc. But no they stopped that & if they had a poor infra in a place they invested money duplicating infra. Then they personally invested in these infra & rented them to their own companies & they individually got richer & RICHER while the company's became poorer.