Enslaved

Zulu was wondering the causes and effects of nature. Sitting there in the jungle thinking about his tribe people and pondering over the wealth and riches of the forest and devising plans to protect it was making him worried. But as the tribe member he was supposed to do it and do it properly. The white man was never kind to him. They had enslaved his forefathers and made them slaves; now he sees his kind wandering through unchartered cultures and lifestyles unknowing what it means to be in a tribe and protect the forest’s riches. The white man with his crazy ideas have indoctrinated pretty much everything. Their aim seemed just one culture under one tribe. But the great gods of the forest prohibits it.

He was in a world where everybody wanted to be masters to him? Colour of his skin? God knows but the rules of the tribes where very much clear and that was that mattered and then survival; everything was centred or brought down to the point of the rules of his tribe or to the love of fellow tribe men or to other tribes people and despite of all the hardships that he was facing he knew the lifeline of the tribe was the tribes people itself and before the word Ubuntu became engraved in computers he knew what it meant – I am because we are; and that constituted both its good side and bad, but he knew his tribe well; but he was not ready as of now for him to represent his tribe.

The Business Class

India in this century is witnessing a new kind of makeover in its business models. The once traditional system is being replaced by a more competitive breed of MBA holders which adapt strategies and formulate business decisions from the west. Somehow in India and precisely in Kerala Business has been associated with a negative word as wealth acquisition and exploitation; it may be because of the socialistic or spiritual approach of our nation or state, but the failure of the socialistic model has made the fans wandering in terms of ideologies to relate to and practise.

We are a nation where inequality by birth was so evident and till now India is confused about her past and doesn't know where to place it in her future. We sadly wont have any other way of implementing and following the western approaches; sadly the British leftovers has to be followed untill we come up with plans to put these esoteric indigenous past in place in our system especially in our education until then we are applying band-aid for cancer; such is the situation of our system and like DevDutt Patnaik the author of numerous books in Hinduism states if you do business in India why not formulate an Indian way to do so? Sell Indian products to Indian customers, make intelligent products and services, make innovation come alive, create newer business models which could be said as Indian inspired from autochthonous insights aiming for a zero wastage sustainable economy.It is interesting to note that 300 years ago around worlds 70-80% GDP was from India and the fact that what remains shows the extant to which our Colonial masters have looted us and we have a far way to come if we are make ourselves a developed nation which couldn't be seen even in the far fetched dreams of our countries politicians; you have a chance and the resources to take the lead. Become leaders whose vested interest are on nation building & building of strong citizens rather than just accumulation of wealth. Invest time and money on ethics when the Govt. seems cold in adapting to sustainable alternatives and formulation of laws regarding them. The core of Indian Philosophy has always revolved around Karma and Punarjanma and to an extant the economy also revolved around these truths; what you can do is include concerns like national unity and stirring consciousness in your business agendas; doing business & making profits and innovations the Indian way, doing business and making profits all following spiritual ethos.

Plan and implement scenarios for ease of life seeking truths rather than surviving; fund for the eternal; fund for the indegenous in a time when we are completely looking at India from a western perspective; the truth is weare looking at ourselves through western glasses.