What Young Kerala should try to do
Organizations such as Young Kerala, are a blessing to young entrepreneurs. But there are many challenges that need to be addressed. There has been a lot of talk about how “anti-entrepreneur” Kerala is, but nothing much has been done to address the real issue. There has been a lot of cribbing about how the educational system sucks. But people often tend to forget the part that they are also a part of the very system that they criticize. One thing, that any young entrepreneur would require in the initial stages is definitely an improvement in the eco-system. It makes no sense to...
Read MoreA Student Entrepreneur’s notes
I really regret for taking engineering in one of India Today’s top 100 colleges of India (rank 97). The quality of education is sub standard. Here campus politics is strong, and teachers oppose the students participating in politics. So you can imagine the life of a student entrepreneur. So after I landed up there, within a couple of weeks, I figured out this is not the place I wanted to be in. Why? Because I am a student of computer science and unfortunately there is no subject called Computer Science in the first year. This is very weird considering the fact that most people who...
Read MoreResul Pookutty
What comes to your mind if you think of Resul Pookutty ? He makes Malayalees proud. Oh yeah. Yes, he was aspirational. So he left Kerala, worked from Bombay to achieve the success he deserved. My question is would he or any one else achieve the scale of his success in a change resistant society that we have. Big names in the filmdom mostly live in Chennai, both Mohanlal and Mammootty did that too to get to where they are today. Is it about networking or a sheer lack of local initiative of national and international appeal ? Yes, he chose an alternate career and sure his scale of...
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