Business to the Buddha

Every thought from earthly to unearthly

For Profit Businesses

Businesses are made for profit making, is there a question in this assumption or argument? For the time being, I am assuming there is no doubt about the argument that business exist for making profit. I have been thinking about the topic of “measuring growth” I wrote recently. People may say there are businesses as…
Measuring growth

I had been asking myself a very naive question. How do we measure growth? Well the answers is not “the GDP” etc. What if I sell things very expensive? GDP might grow, right? So, I zeroed down to interest rate as one vehicle to measure growth. Well, let me be more fairer in providing one more reason…
What are you searching for?

My little niece – we call her Chinu – has a couple of videos and books. In some of the videos and books there is a story, in this story the main character – Lenny (in one story) – is searching/waiting for a friend. The idea is – Lenny wants a friend did not know…
Sai kaka

I met Sai Kaka about 4 1/2 years back. He is from Sangli, a city in Maharashtra. I read a book on him (in Hindi) Pooja Ka diya and quickly had an opportunity to meet him. I was impressed with his straightforward and practical approach. Take an example Sai Kaka says “Religion is an individual choice,…
Currency for the future?

In his class, Prof Mankad asked us “what is money?” He answered – “Money is what is accepted as money”. Very apt definition. Here I am taking small freedom to change it a bit. I am changing the word “accepted” to “trusted”. Of course trust is a very heavy word. We have built a concept…
Death is inevitable

For Humans – Death is inevitable; there is no hiding from this truth. For Companies – Only the paranoids survive! Well, it was a coincident that my previous blog was on death and the season of Ganesha festival (an Indian festival) arrived. This Ganesh festival I had seriously thought about the Indian culture, festivities and the…
Death!

Is death the ultimate truth? I asked this question to myself a couple of times during last weeks. I wrote a tribute to Dadaji on his birthday as he passed away in Jan 2012. I met with Rajgopaul uncleji recently; his father also expired recently so did my maternal uncle. I learnt a great deal…
Swasthay – dwelling in oneself

“You have to move on from the posts, you dont hang around it – I was a post you have to move on now.” When Prof Lopez told me this in our last meeting at Dubai, I felt bad. He further added – “Once you pass standard 1st you move on to the 2nd and…
A tribute to Dadaji

It was a rainy day in June 2007 when I took a train to Thane. I did not know anything about how to reach Yeoor. Android phones were not around so I had to find my way. Being new to Mumbai I just asked people on different places and reached Yeoor. This was not the…
Collective Materialism – likely future of economy!

I have written about socialistic capitalism or capitalistic socialism. When I say that I simply mean that we would move our economies and businesses in a direction where there would be a balance. It would be a kind of middle path where enterprise would exist at the same time there would be a concern for…