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May 10, 2019
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5 lamps inside you

While we all light up our houses, do spend some time today to light a few lamps inside you and sit in silence with your eyes closed…

Light the first lamp inside you and let it burn away your anger and/or jealousy that you may have for any one till date; see it melt away…

Light the second lamp and let it burn away unwanted greed and desires… Feel happy and content with what you have been blessed with.

Light the third lamp and let it fade away all your insecurities that you may have in your mind related to anything or financials. Just believe that God has given you life and he will surely give you enough to survive.

Light the fourth lamp and carry that lamp to each part of your body; let it burn away all your diseased cells or any diseases in making. Feel healthy as this lamp travels to each part of your body and illuminates each organ.

The fifth lamp is a miniature of the sun… Nothing but the divine light… Light it in the centre of your body and let it fill you with its warmth and love inside your whole body… Feel one with the Divine… Let the love and warmth that’s filled inside you ooze out of you through your smile, eyes, speech and body. Carry this love with you throughout the day.

Wishing you a happy Diwali!

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Art by associates at Intellect

Two associates at Intellect Mumbai, Anand Sawant and Mitali Khairnar created this during our internal Diwali Rangoli competition.

I am amazed to see the perfection of art behind the minds of technologists. At first glance, I thought it’s a work done on Photoshop but surprised to see that it was created with sand.

Salute to artists and the spirit of creation and celebration.

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Panchayat leadership

The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) and Mission Samriddhi have signed an MoU to work towards holistic human development in many areas with a key focus on the 100+ Panchayat clusters (500 gram Panchayats) Development Programme across 19 States in India. This is a 3-year programme which entails building leadership capacity at the Panchayat levels (smallest unit of administration) by applying Design Thinking and Structured Planning process of Development (GPDP) of around 37 parameters.

During this programme, we need to connect by preparing the minds of Panchayat functionaries through Samriddhi Yatras to ideal villages of India. We will also be employing the Unmukt programme involving appreciative enquiry and applying principles of boundary-less thinking. In this programme, Art of Living and FES are also participating. The programme will require many like-minded organisations to come together for an integrated development including innovative rural development technology companies to participate.

The attempt is to celebrate, connect and catalyse the existing energies and intellect to create new models of development.

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Clean/create 5000 water bodies

Ram, Manju and I are travelling to Buldhana District in Maharashtra.

Shantilal Mutha BJS and the Government of Maharashtra along with the Tata Trust have taken on one of the biggest projects to clean or create over 5000 water bodies in the next 100 days (maybe more). They have acquired over 120 JCB machines to help remove the silts. Mission Samriddhi is partnering with this initiative to accelerate the Gram Panchayat leadership and connect with other programs such as livelihood and education.

The beauty of the program is about connecting.

Sensitivity of NGO
Agility of Corporate
Reach of Government

To drive change with speed and scale.

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Question: Why aren’t the long periods of great prosperity between wars undocumented in Indian history.

We have studied major events in history books. Most of the events are recorded around major wars and change of power. In Indian history, we remember Alexander’s (Sikandar) war and the birth of Chandragupta and then Ashoka Kalinga’s war which was in 2 BC. Then lots of wars between the 11th century till our recent independence.

Between these invasions there were long periods of great prosperity for 300 to 600 years (12 generations to 24 generations) which are not at all documented in our history. These periods are much longer than the entire industrial transformation over the last 175 years.

What were those successes?
A. Systems – Political, Economic, Social
B. Processes – Education and Health
C. Governance – Empowerment and conflict resolutions

The modern ‘ism’ like Communism and Capitalism have completed just over 150 to 200 years and they start showing that it’s cracking.

How do we retrieve those knowledge systems that may have possible learnings of holistic happiness built around spirituality, expertise and interdependent livelihoods with lesser greed, selfishness, ego and violence?

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May 10, 2018
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Fight scenes even in animated movies – responses

Yesterday, I questioned the fight scenes even in animated movies made for children on Facebook and LinkedIn. I received a lot of insights from your comments. I am documenting a few of the observations here.

1. Fight scenes train a child’s mind for better defence.
2. Fight scenes build ‘violence’ as a key method of resolving any difference of opinions/perspectives/expectations.
3. Violence sells better among audiences which means we as developed human being still love ‘animal’ instinct of physical force over logical conversations (dialogue) to resolve difference of opinions/perspectives.

Somewhere I am confused with our ‘expressed’ behaviour i.e. we must live with love as a key uniting force of humanity vs. ‘suppressed’ behaviour of liking physical dominance.

Please share your thoughts on this dichotomy of our behaviours.

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May 10, 2018
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25th anniversary of Polaris/Intellect

It was on 24th July 1993, when we started Polaris Software Labs from a small office at Carex Center, Chennai. We were a very small outfit with a small capital of Rs. 10,000/- (USD 200) but with large dreams of contributing in small focussed ways in FinTech space. Polaris/Intellect got its public listing within 6 years of its inception in August 1999. In 2002, Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd (Orbitech) merged with Polaris and strengthened our foot print. Lasersoft, Indigo TX, SEEC further made Polaris a dominant specialised player in the FinTech space. Ullas Trust is another important initiative which worked with young achievers since 1997 by all of us. In 2014, we decided to rebrand the core part of our business as Intellect Design Arena Ltd. and let go of Polaris’ services business.

Today, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Polaris/Intellect. I must thank and congratulate all the Polarites who contributed to building an institution of eminence in the FinTech space.

Happy Foundation Day!

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