Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

Last Thursday, I hosted a panel in Bangalore on future of innovation in India . One of the panelists was my buddy Abesh B from Kolkata . His comment was “Indians have always been innovative – our word for it being jugaad”. It immediately resonated with me – I could totally visualize his explanation ofContinue reading “Incredibly Impatient India”

I landed in India at the city of Kochi – popularly known as the queen of Arabian Sea . And about an hour later , I delivered the Inaugural address for the international conference organized by the School of Management and Communications Studies . To my pleasant surprise , I was given a very warmContinue reading “Incredible India – a short trip report to SAP Teched Bangalore”

As I look back at the last one week in India , I am both incredibly proud of what we have accomplished as a country – and incredibly sad and angry at how much is left to be done to bring India socially forward from 1800s to 2013 . Let me get the awful stuffContinue reading “Did India socially regress by a couple of centuries in the last one week ?”