Bijay's Blog

The Story So Far AAP winning landslide in Punjab is making disproportionate hype in the media. Now quite obviously, the Delhi-based greenhorn trumpeting this with deafening volume to win election elsewhere. They did the same after winning the Delhi assembly election in 2013. Those who follow political news and AAP very casually, it’s no doubt a big win for them. But the fact is Punjab is the only state that gave AAP representation in Lok-Sabha in 2014 when AAP could not open its account elsewhere in India with most of its leaders lost miserably including their convenor Arvind Kejriwal. In spite of their consecutive victory in the Delhi assembly, they could never win a single seat in Delhi Parliamentary election in both 2014 and 2019. The volatility of Punjab politics continues since ’80s, support for the Khalistani Movement, Operation Blue-Star, and the Assassination of Ms.Gandhi, Anti Sikh Riot always occupied popular Punjabi sentiment to date. In the last 3 decades, normalcy prev

We (my business associates) spent some time in Management Consulting before we were badly hit by COVID-19. During COVID lockdown too we never stopped ourselves from exploring both existing and emerging business models. Management Consulting is a very difficult proposition for the Indian market. In our short journey, we met a few promising and smart entrepreneurs with steady revenue but inefficient operations. We coined a term called “BAU on Auto-Pilot mode ”. By that, we explained that the business top heads need to relieve themselves from the monotony of daily operations and make some quality time for future growth. However, Indian entrepreneurs are very controlling and our proposed model seemed to have taken out that control from the clutches of the existing management vesting into a more efficient and manageable management group. Irrespective of the operational distress they draw synergy spending time in fire fighting all the time. We burned our fingers not once but at least half a