ABP Network Ideas Of India Summit 2023 Draws To A Close. See You Again Next Year
Ideas of India Summit 2023: The second edition of the ABP Network 'Ideas of India Summit' concluded on Saturday, with a wide array of leaders deliberating on what constitutes 'Naya India'.
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ABP Network’s Ideas Of India Summit 2023 has come to a close now. The two-day event saw a host of eminent personalities sharing their views and ideas for a ‘Naya India’, which was the theme for this year.
In his vote of thanks, CEO Avinash Pandey said the summit will be back next year and promised it will be “even bigger and better”.
Chef-author-filmmaker Vikas Khanna takes the stage.
"The BJP is playing the divide-and-rule game, said BRS leader. "My entire family was fighting on the streets even when Telangana wasn't even a state," she added.
"This party was born on the streets of this country to fight the corrupt regime," said AAP's Raghav Chadha.
Raghav Chadha, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Kavitha Kalvakuntla take the stage
Yami Gautam discussed about her roles in industry and said, "I am still learning".
Bollywood Actress Yami Gautam takes the charge for 'Making It Big.'
"India to become global automobile manufacturing hub in 5 years," said Nitin Gadkari.
"Financial audit is important but performance audit is more important," said Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways.
"Good governance and development is what we aim for," said Gadkari.
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari takes the charge.
"Balasaheb's ideologies are enough for us to carry his legacy forward, we do not need the party symbol and name," said Maharashtra CM Shinde.
While showering his praise on Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and talking about infrastructure development in Maharashtra, CM Eknath Shinde said, "Gadkari Sahab Toh Hamare Hi Hain."
CM Eknath Shinde said, "we are getting enough support from centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi supports us".
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde takes the stage.
"Making a film in India is like going to 'Chor Bazaar'," said Shekhar Kapur on making movie in India.
"Technology changes constantly and the way in which content is disseminated today has made films much cheaper. Creation of content is going to be worth a trillion dollars," he said.
Filmmaker and Actor Shekhar Kapur takes the stage
While sharing her views, Meethika Dwivedi said, "My Mother Caught Me Making Videos And Posting Them On Social Media".
Comedian and Content Creators Meethika Dwivedi, Saloni Gaur, RJ Karishma take the stage
"I feel we should dream big and never get satisfied to be able to achieve more," said actress.
"I don't like the term serious actor... it takes a role like Mimi to get the talent out. The character had a lot of range": Kriti Sanon.
I feel we should dream big and never get satisfied to be able to achieve more: Kriti Sanon
My journey in films so far has been magical: Kriti Sanon
"Hinduism is like a Banyan Tree, it's very capacious and that is exactly what the ideologues in Hindutva do not like. They do not like its capaciousness. They want a Hinduism very much like the religion of their adversary, they want a monotheistic religion that has one book": Prof Vinay Lal
The present project in India is to turn us both into proper Indian subjects of the nation-state and into proper Hindus well: Prof Vinay Lal.
One can say India is a Nation-state within which there are many nations, this distinction is somewhere elementary but an important distinction to make: Vinay Lal
The government's present project also involves the collapse of Civilization into the nation-state because fundamentally there is a realisation that it is only as a nation-state that you can earn any kind of capital in the world. You can no longer or any kind of cultural capital by proclaiming yourself a great civilisation.. This is the relisation of Mohandas Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse had. He made it very clear that one of the reasons Gandhi had to be eliminated was because he was an obstacle to the emergence of India as a muscular Nation-state: Vinay Lal
The present project of the government of India is to trace India's history to 5000 years, it is it to trace it to 12000 years and to suggest that this Civilization has been essentially a Vedic Civilization right from that period of time: Vinay Lal
A nation-state is different from civilisation. India as a nation-state, is a very young entity and as nation-state, it can only be like any other nation-state. There can be cosmetic differences but it is only one way of being a nation-state, being muscular, being protective of your borders, being intolerant of immigrants: Prof Vinay Lal
Vinay Lal, Historian and Professor, UCLA speaks on The Many Identities of India - The Pluralist Vision
Learn from life, learn from your friends. Speak to your friends... Becoming IAS should be a part of your life, it should not become your entire life: Vikas Divyakirti
Overconfidence is more dangerous when you are in a powerful position. However, if you are living at a normal level, underconfidence can be more problematic: Vikas Divyakirti
"Mugging is only 10-15% of IAS preparation, the rest is about understanding": Vikas Divyakirti
I don't have any personal life as such anymore. Several senior people like a Union Cabinet Minister told me they learn from my classes: Vikas Divyakirti on his viral videos and popularity.
I want only my son to touch people's feet, to learn that one needs to bow down in life. I am a scientific man, I don't believe in blessings but I feel it brings humility. I don't like my students touching my feet: Vikas Divyakirti.
General attention span is 1 minute, it can be extended 40-50 minutes. We teach for 3 hours so it becomes important to refresh students. We use humour to do it. However, it shouldn't become too distracting and it shouldn't target vulnerable sections of society targeting women, LGBT, caste backgrounds: Vikas Divyakirti
When we take mock IAS interviews, we presume someone with English Hons background may be intelligent and we are proven wrong sometimes. If someone comes with Hindi or Urdu background, it takes him 10 minutes to prove himself worthy: Vikas Divyakirti says 'English is overvalued'.
If a child dies by suicide, it's the society killing him. Society makes parents its agents, they have their own pressure. They have to understand if they thrust that pressure on their child they are not being good parents. Parents need training: Vikas Divyakirti
If a child dies by suicide, it's the society killing him. Society makes parents its agents, they have their own pressure. They have to understand if they thrust that pressure on their child they are not being good parents. Parents need training: Vikas Divyakirti
A girl came to me and told me she was raped, she told me I can share the incident with the rest of the world except for my parents. I want to become a police officer to ensure this doesn't happen with anyone else: Vikas Divyakirti on his most satisfying teaching experience.
'I don't think I am making India's future, I am only enabling students to join IAS: Vikas Divyakirti, Founder, Drishti IAS
Minorities are defined in India as religious groups which are not Hindu, meaning religion is politicised. There are hundered of minorities in India but they are not of significance politically. This happens in whole of Asia: Prof Mahmood Mamdani
Now America supported the project for a homeland for Jews outside of Europe. The Nazi Project continued, in my view it's global. Permanent minorities today exist everywhere and the national state is considered a worthy goal: Prof Mahmood Mamdani
I would caution not to exceptionalise the Nazi project. It was to purify Germany, to rid Germany of all minorities. The first minorities were the Jews but they were not the only minority, there were others. When Nazi party was defeated and Americans came in and the nuremberg trials were held, there was no questioning of politicial project of Nazis, they started identifying individual nazis who committed war crimes... they reproduced the Nazi political project in Eastern Europe by throwing out ethnic minorities and in Germany itself, by not re-integrating jews in Germany: Prof Mahmood Mamdani
In South Africa, you had anti-apartheid organisations. You had the African National Congress, Gandhi's Indian National Congress, the coloured people's Congress, and the Congress of democrats. The interesting thing is all of them organised their particular race, they accepted as natural the political architecture of apartheid that was true until the 1970s. It's only in 1970, Steve Biko comes and creates black consciousness. He said black is not a color, black is an experience. If you are opressed, you are black and Steve Piko breaks down the racial walls between Indians, coloreds, and Africans: Prof Mahmood Mamdani
I don't think we are prisoners of history, but I think we are shaped by history. There are choices: Prof Mahmood Mamdani
An immigrant is always both an outsider and an insider and that privilege allows to be both self-critical and to take all insider claims with a pinch of salt: Prof Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani, Academician, Author, Political Commentator and Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University discusses 'The Nation State and its Permanent Minorities - From the US to Israel'.
"Inclusive growth is very important. It has to happen overall through franchises working with kaarigars, training them with technology and upskilling them because it is in their blood but it is about adoption of technology: SENCO Gold & Diamonds MD & CEO Suvankar Sen
Govt should work for building a Brand India which should stand for quality and design. We have a long history of art and craftsmanship: SENCO Gold & Diamonds MD & CEO Suvankar Sen
It's time for Indian jewellery brands to start expanding and the world will want to own a piece of Made-In-India jewellery, he added
In terms of digital gold, for the new gen the risk of storing gold goes away. For as low as Rs 250, one can buy gold and we store it for the customer: SENCO Gold & Diamonds MD & CEO Suvankar Sen
There's a lot of demand for Lab-grown diamonds worldwide. In the US, there is a need for such products which are environmentally friendly, we have become the largest exporter of lab-grown cut 7 polished diamonds, he added.
As an industry we have been working with govt so that consumption goes up for the new gen customer as jewellery is a real asset: SENCO Gold & Diamonds MD & CEO Suvankar Sen
There is no shortcut to success, it requires hard work and dedication. Your aim for your goals has to be like that of Arjuna. Challenges will come up, but one needn't get disheartened by them: Gallant Group Chairman & MD Chandra Agrawal
With GST, there has been a relaxation with respect to multiple compliances. But the multiple slabs should be reduced to three: Gallant Group Chairman & MD Chandra Agrawal
We are asked to pay the GST amount that we have already paid, the government is imposing on us its incompetency in collecting the amounts. There are no guidelines, there must be some redressal system regarding it, he added.
Those honestly paying taxes will be made to steal from the system if they are made to pay the same amount twice, he stressed.
Without infrastructure, any ideas or talk regarding development (Vikas) is futile: Gallant Group MD Chandra Agrawal
"The situation in terms of goods traffic movement needs improving. The infrastructure needs boosting up, Why not Vande Bharat train for goods traffic movement?": Gallant Group Chairman & MD Chandra Agrawal
The growth that India can achieve with agriculture is limited and to be a 5 trillion economy, industry has a major role to play in it. Growth of industry will improve people's standard of living here: Gallant Group Chairman & MD Chandra Agrawal
Several people in India have started from the ground-up to touch the skies, and the journey of Gallant group is ongoing: Chandra Prakash Agrawal, Chairman & Managing Director, Gallant Group of Industries.
I am satisfied with the growth of Gallant Group of Industries: Chandra Prakash Agrawal, Chairman & Managing Director, Gallant Group of Industries.
Having dreams is important, it's important to be adamant to fulfill them, however, choose a middle path... Never make the mistake of walking a traditionally set path: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
We should seize our share of happiness ethically, believe in love and positivity: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
Both product and marketing are important, but the product is most important and its positioning is also key: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
Do small pilot runs for your products as small mistakes can be manageable. Ensure the product's efficacy, learn from mistakes, and then invest in making it big: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
Result-oriented products become brands and the masses accept them. It's easier to start with one hero product/hero and extend that further. Consistent effort is needed to maintain success: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
Girls are more generous so they can accept 'King', but boys' egos can get hurt if they are asked to apply 'Kesh Queen': SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja on naming 'Kesh King'
Finding new categories, new businesses the way to make new India: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
The path to success is step-to-step process, you can't directly step on the last pedestal as you won't learn the lessons that come along the way: SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja
No institute can teach you what struggle teaches you, SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja says
SBS Group Founder Sanjeev Juneja discusses 'India Inc. - Building Tomorrow's Economy' with Gul Panag.
Percussionist Bickram Ghosh charms the gathering with his fantastic tabla performance
Sarod Artists Amaan Ali Bangash & Ayaan Ali Bangash perform along with Percussionist Bickram Ghosh and enthrall viewers with their performance on 'Ekla Chalo Re'.
Ryhtmn in its essence cuts across nations, cut across pretty much anything but Indian rhythm, in particular, has a tremendous tradition, has a fantastic history of understanding Rhythm as life. So the whole concept of the circular Ridam which is the taala structure... Indian Rhythm was thought of in that way connecting it to the cosmos because it's a very very old tradition and rhythm in India is a philosophy. It's not just a beat or a groove so in that context the way we see Taala is so refined: Percussionist Bickram Ghosh
A Guru or a mentor can only convey the path to you but I think the realisation of the sense of responsibility has to come from within. I don't think that can be kind of thrown upon. If you don't feel it, then don't do it: Sarod Artist Ayaan Ali Bangash
I think it has to do with culture because our music is more about you know what we have heard from the great Ustads and Pandits, what we learned from them. It's to do with spirituality. I think Indian classical music is connected with spirituality: Sarod Artist Amaan Ali Bangash on the humility of classical artists.
If you think of what is the most powerful relaxation tool that today for many people is chanting, chanting is a cycle of rhythm. Anything that you hear or speak that you like has a rhythm. The rhythm may not be overpowering but the rhythm is there nevertheless. I think that if you get the rhythm right and it vibrates to your heartbeat, there is something very calming about it: Percussionist Bickram Ghosh
The companionship of music kept me going through difficult times in past 2 years, even near-death experiences. It's possible that companionship of music provides unconditional healing and support: Shubha Mudgal
Percussionist Bickram Ghosh, Classical Vocalist Shubha Mudgal, and Sarod Artists Amaan Ali Bangash & Ayaan Ali Bangash discuss 'Art for Heart - The Healing Power of Genius'
"India is not one India. It's cliched to say 'unity in diversity', but I grew up in an India which was so inherently diverse, there was no desire to put it in any one framework. I never felt the need to kind of even define it because by defining you are kind of limiting India. India is everything. You have the most progressive ideas here and you will have the most traditional and regressive ones," Nandita Das said.
"We are a syncretic culture, we are syncretic country or we were more of one than we are now and that ability to be and take and to absorb and to fluidly encompass its culture, its language, especially for me music is a very important source of just that inspiration that I feed myself with," Mira Nair said.
"The film is about the small losses of dignity that people face that we don't realise, but you know the small acts of indignation," Nandita Das said.
On casting comedian Kapil Sharma, she added: "I don't have a TV and never watch his show but something popped up as the say serendipitously on my screen when he and Karan Johar were representing some award function I looked at him and said he looks like such a normal person. In the film industry, you have people who really look like actors or there are those who don't but then you kind of know what they are going to do there is a certain predictability that has come because they have been doing all these realistic roles. There was something about him, it was very vulnerable and real. Even though he is no more an ordinary man, the jokes he was making about ordinary people, they had a connect. So I just found this number and reached out to him."
Nandita Das reveals how 'Zwigato' began as an anthology that didn't materalise and she made it about the story of one delivery man. "It came not only about the food delivery rider but his family, his wife, his children, and many other people who form our world and have remained so invisible, the watchman, the nanny... It's not a blame game on big companies, not a blame game on the consumers. It's really a slice of life in 4 days," she said.
"Salaam Bombay' was a life and death story. No one knew me, no one had the money for me. I got a little Grant of $150,000 from NFDC for which they suck my blood dry, but they gave me the money. I went to a channel in England that matched that money and that was the money with which I started the film. But the point was that I didn't want to apologize for the cinema, I didn't want to say I am from the third world and that's why it looks out of focus. I blew the entire 300,000$ on 35mm cameras, on great diffusion, and good lighting but on the streets with the children, having no money really to finish the film and post-production. Wwhich is where the French came and I would shoot in the morning and at night I would raise money on the phone... It was really difficult and I didn't know from one day to next if we would shoot": Mira Nair
"It was brutal but also beautiful because I got to tell it exactly my way," he added.
"I was a hesitant actor, an actor who thought that films were a means to an end, it just give me opportunities through my films and through the platform that it offered, to talk about things. But I think when you are on various and some sets where you think 'I could tell that story better', I have to admit sometimes you feel that. Also, there are stories that compel you to tell them. For me 'Firaq' my first film happened after the Gujarat carnage in 2002, the first time we saw images on television of that violence and what I was more intrigued by was that when the obvious violence finishes, everything that lingers on": Nandita Das on taking the plunge into direction.
Filmmakers Mira Nair and Nandita Das join Vir Sanghvi in discussing "Director's Cut: Telling Original Stories".
Vasudeva Kutumbhakam is our ethos and that is the future of India. India has always been a place where multiple ideas are welcome, where you can find the best idea because there is debate and because there is discussion about all formats of contribution to society. Be it technology, Be it science, Be it humanity and that's where I feel India's contribution to the world will be. I feel we are at the early stages of a massive renaissance for India: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
New types of jobs will get created because of AI and productivity will enhance for the whole economy and that has to be the journey. We should adopt AI and make sure that we are the most productive economy in the world. We don't have to go through the same linear curve, we can leapfrog and become the first adopters of new technology and be more productive that everybody else: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
"I am not here to rest, my motivation is not money but to make companies that are transformative and impact the country. This cannot be achieved with a work-life balance. Ola is not a company where you come for a 9 to 5 job. We are very clear in that our proposition to employees is come join us and change the world, change India, create a legacy for yourself and that's not for the average person," Ola Cabs CEO said.
Businesses exist to create impact and to create impact for all stakeholders starting with society, then shareholders, then customers, employees, everybody, and the culture has to be an input towards creating that output of creating an impact and that's the culture we have," he added.
The government has been a big enabler for industry growth. For example, in EV sector, I feel the Indian government is the most strategic in the world in setting up the right policies and encouraging EVS, putting an incentive structure for the customer and for companies like us": Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
"We try to be ahead of the curve in terms of safety," he added.
We set up an all-women's factory and also took up many more challenges. We have 3,000 young women working in our factory and the factory that we are building, we have built Phase 1 which we constructed in record time in less than 8 months from buying the land in February 2021, 2 years ago, to making the first scooter in October: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal.
"Automotive is one of the toughest industries, it is the cornerstone of industrial society... India's industrial base depends on the automotive industry": Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
We have big ambition, we have raised a lot of money, but the business has also grown. Today, Ola is three businesses, Our ride-sharing business is profitable: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on raising 5 Billion dollar investment in the company.
My satisfaction was not in just doing a job. I wanted a more creative outlet to build what I wanted to build in terms of a company: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on quitting his Microsoft Job to start his entrepreneurial journey with Ola.
Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal says lessons of hard work and first principles thinking has stayed with him.
"I come from Ludhiana, We had a very middle-class upbringing. We had the intent to make an impact and do something for the country": Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO, Ola Cabs rides in on-stage
"The hard-heartedness of the educated is partly because they have a larger wrench of self-justification, it acts as a safety work for them. They have acquired an ideology where fights within for recognition, for the sake of ideology, you are killing for the future of the society": Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy
"To me everybody is a potential killer and everybody is a potential victim": Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy
On rioting, Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy said: "This kind of cruel violence comes when two parties are not strangers but are very close to each other. In Punjab, the Hindus and Muslims were very closely intertwined. Where intimacy and closeness come, that leads to more cruelty and violence"
"The victims do have their way of internalising what they are victims of and it is our job to give this message to the victims that they are not only victims, they are in some sense, a partial copy of the killers/oppressors. Until they become conscious of this fact, there is no escape from this chain of killing": Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy
Humans are not genetically programmed to kill, he added.
"Psychopaths are often psychotic, killing has its own costs": Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy
In my study of partition violence, we ran into several killers, and over the period of 20-25 years, I have met only one killer who seemed to me a normal functioning individual the rest are different variations of the kind of killers I would expect to meet who are themselves in the process of killing lost: Clinical Psychologist Ashis Nandy
The one exception had the attitude of fighting a war, they were attacked and they hit back, and they resisted. The rest are all psychologically bent, they are living with their past and many of them have not lived a very happy life, he added.
Violence takes enormous toll on the killers: Ashis Nandy, Sociologist and Clinical Psychologist
Those who fail are those who don't even try: NV sir
If boards are a parameter for the world, we have to perform on criteria agreed upon world over, NV sir said, as he advises students to prepare for boards well.
Govt regulatory body should be formed for Ed-tech, coaching institutes like other education institutes. There is a need for changing education processes. We have to understand that education processes are changing every 5 years. We have to make students capable of learning and adapting to new changes: NV sir.
Clearing IIT or becoming doctor is not criteria for success, it is to be disciplined and focus on one goal: NV sir.
The day we begin to love our struggle, we will begin achieving, he stressed highlighting the difference between struggle and sadness.
We are experts in science-based competitive exams. We shouldn't be seen as competitors of schools, we should be seen as specialists: NV Sir
"Kota is not a factory, it has made impressive contribution of engineers and doctors to the country," he added.
NV Sir reveals the time when he was fired from an institute for being too popular among students. He called it a "turning point" in his life and about 2,000 students gathered in front of his house insisting that they want to be taught by him.
"A teacher should carve stars from average students who have zeal: NV sir.
I was scared of physics when I was preparing for IIT, I scored 0 in my first test. I worked hard and now I want every student to score full marks: NV sir.
Nitin Vijay ‘NV Sir’, CEO & Founder, Motion Education Pvt. Ltd. takes the stage to discuss 'Friction, Action, Reaction - How to Conquer Failure'
Climate change itself is a geopolitical contest, it's a kind of war against the world's poor: Amitav Ghosh
Punjab has been very much disrupted not only by climate change but also by certain patterns of agriculture. The green revolution was seen to be a huge boon, but now it turns out to be one of the phenomena, the unintended consequences of which have been disastrous in the long run: Amitav Ghosh
"The most important impacts of climate change is that the Arabian sea is heating up incredibly fast, the Bay of Bengal is also heating up fast but the Arabian Sea heating up even faster, so cyclones are essentially heat engines. You will have noticed that in the last 10 years, there have been many more cyclones in the Arabian Sea region": Amitav Ghosh
"Image what will happen if a major category 4 or 5 hits Mumbai... Mumbai has no protection at all. If a major cyclone hits Mumbai, it would be catastrophic," he added.
Mumbai was 6 islands. The Portuguese had that the common sense not to build on Islands, they actually made their base in Vasai, which is on the mainland. But the British tried to reclaim parts of Mumbai and joined the 6 islands together over the period of 100 years or so. Now these islands were reclaimed from the sea. The water never gives anything up willingly and these islands are going to go back to the sea: Author Amitav Ghosh on Mumbai.
Unfortunately what we see today is that India has wholeheartedly adopted this model of a kind of extractiveism in relation to the environment which is going to lead to absolute disaster. You can just see it again in Bombay, the Coastal Road you know which is going ahead despite the fact that we know that this coast is incredibly threatened by sea level rise: Author Amitav Ghosh
"Capitalism is the greatest market failure of all time. you know especially in relation to climate change. How can you actually expect people who are told that greed is good and people who are told that you know just go out there and make money for your shareholders to care about the environment & land, they obviously don't": Author Amitav Ghosh said.
"A lot of capitalists talk a lot of greenwashing," he adds.
The difficulty with climate change is that climate change doesn't always manifest itself in extreme events rather it's what has been called slow violence, people are driven away from their lands over long periods of time, and an incredible demographic shift has occurred in India which unfortunately passes largely unnoticed": Author Amitav Ghosh
"We are in the centres which have made in today's India a dynamic economy but all around the margins of this country there is incredible suffering that is coming because of climate change": Author Amitav Ghosh
"Climate change is real just like death is real": Author Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh, Author discusses 'The Great Derangement: Facing a Climate Catastrophe' with Gul Panag
"My fervent plea to the youngsters in the country is that they should realize that performance is the only instrument they have, therefore, they should work very very hard they should be ultra-disciplined and they should have high aspirations and make this country truly realize it's potential": Narayana Murthy.
"I think in 2015 when our son-in-law (UK PM Rishi Sunak) entered politics, Sudha (Murthy) and I on one side and Rishi's parents on the other side, we had a discussion and we decided, we communicated to both our daughter Akshita and son-in-law that as a matter principle, we will never ever discuss political issues with them, we have kept our relationship only to our personal one": Narayana Murthy
"If you want to build a culture of an organisation, that culture building is only possible if we all come together in physical form so I am not enthusiastic about working from home. Moonlighting is unethical, you cannot be part of two Institutions because there may be classified information that may go from company A to company B": Narayana Murthy on work-from-home and moonlighting.
"I would say from my own experience of having worked with properly 150 thousand employees that there is probably top 10 to 20% of the students who are smart, bright and they fit in very quickly and very easily that's not they are not the problem. But the majority of the students coming out of the Indian education system, they are exam-oriented they have been brought up on the staple diet of coaching classes they do not study throughout the year, they wake up and in the examination, they come in and solve some problems and they forget about it. These youngsters need a lot of internal coaching before they become employable," Narayana Murthy.
"I have no doubt at all that an idea which has true value to India, which has market in India, and which is handled by entrepreneurs who have the desire to control their costs so that as early as possible, they will take the company to a positive cash flow situation, I think they will definitely find funding": Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy.
"I am quite used to the situation where there is extreme competition for obtaining funding in an environment of intense competition. Couple of years ago, all kinds of investors coming to India that made money elsewhere easily and they wanted to invest huge sums in India. Now today, that funding has dried up therefore, our entrepreneurs who are very bright and very smart will have to realise that the threshold for obtaining funding has been raised. So now, they will have to establish their differentiation vis-a-vis other ideas in the market place": Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy.
"My hope for the country and my desire for our entrepreneurs is that they should start using ideas that have not been thought of anywhere else in the world and then say these are our problems and therefore we will be the first one in the world to start thinking of our problem," Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy.
"We all want India to be known as a country that signified the age-old Sanskrit saying Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah. India's leadership has to be based on extraordinary principles. We have to conduct ourselves as people with wisdom, compassion, people who have done well in seething opportunities," Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy.
The second edition of the ABP Network "Ideas of India Summit" returns on Saturday with N R Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys speaking on 'A New Corporate Culture - The Leader's Guide'
After a successful Day 1, the second edition of the ABP Network "Ideas of India Summit" returns on Saturday with N R Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys speaking on 'A New Corporate Culture - The Leader's Guide'.
A wide of array of leaders will deliberate on what constitutes 'Naya India'. The speakers on Day 2 include Nitin Gadkari, Bhavish Aggarwal, Kriti Sanon, Nandita Das, Shekhar Kapur, Vinay Lal, Yami Gautam, and Mira Nair.
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