ponderings & pennings

First of all, wishes for the Republic Day! Let’s pledge to uphold the essence and integrity of our Constitution.

It was a nice occasion to watch Guru on our Republic Day. A good day to reflect back. I have had in the past discussions with people on the ways and means of Dhirubhai Ambani’s business growth. I believe that today is an answer to yesterday and a question for tomorrow. And people like Dhirubhai keep answering the question as they work for tomorrow and he did so in justifiable manner in his times of bureaucracy and license-raj. I also agree that the system adopted in 40s and 50s was the best choice available given the fledgling economy which had to guarded by all means. But we erred in keeping it in the same way all through the 50s, 60s, 70, 80s and only the empty coffers in early 90s shook the governance up to see if any change was required. But people like Ambani fought the system much before the awakening of the government and in doing so may have twisted & bent rules but then they made money for the shareholders which even the government encourages now.Though i will be stretching it a bit too far if i call Dhirubhai a person with foresight as his actions were no doubt led by narrow greed of business gain, he was definitely a person with foresight in the way he changed the perception of the people from considering this greed for gain as bad to as something good.

Coming to the movie, its a Mani Ratnam movie which never fails to impress you.