Back to writing

It has been nearly 2 years since this blog was updated. During this time frame, I created several 'other' blogs (notably on travel and photography) in an attempt to diversify and after a few months or days of starting, I lost touch with the subject and hence could not continue writing. Another reason can also be attributed to laziness and my association with the not so intelligent community. This association kept me brain lazy and idle and I just could not write. The only writing I did was writing emails to my friend as she would insist that I write to her every day :).

I took some time to analyze what kept me away from writing and why did I start these different blogs and not write in them continuously. The reasons are quite candid. When I started writing this blog, about 4-5 years back, I started it for the sheer joy of writing and for sharing my thoughts and I lost that joy of writing. The 'other' blogs were started merely for the purpose of starting and writing about something that I neither wholly enjoyed nor wholly felt like. The quest for perfection, also didn't help me in continuing blogging on these other blogs.

In the past week, after having analyzed all of these, it did occur to me to get back to writing on this blog. It's something that I had always loved and there are all these new 'topics' to write about and share my thoughts. More over I'm reading some interesting books like "Guns, germs and Steel" which are provoking new thoughts and giving new dimensions to existing thoughts. So I'll keep writing hopefully .. until the next wave of boredom hits me and takes me away from writing.

Ratan Tata's Vision

I've always been an admirer of The Tata group. I could quote several reasons. No one in my family or close circle has worked for the group, so this opinion is not biased. I have heard and read a million good things about the conglomerate. Their way of business, employee friendliness, non-bureaucratic work culture are few of the examples. The Vice chairman of GM operations in Europe quit GM to join TELCO. That is a testament of the company's quality. Contrary to all the the positive things about the group, their software consulting arm has a 'bad' reputation amongst the employees. That apart, I'm all in awe of the Tata sons. A 5.6 billion dollar bid for Corus Steel. No one ever had predicted that an Indian company would make such a valiant bid, irrespective of the sector. I should rather say a successful bid. Now the combined firm is trying to buy Brazil's biggest steel firm CSN. I still remember reading Ratan Tata's interview when he offered to buy Corus. He had mentioned that one of the major issues for the steel industry would be the availability of iron ore. To back his comments, he has offered to buy CSN which owns the world's largest iron ore mines. Corus had unsuccessfully attempted to buy CSN but now the combined Tata-Corus conglomerate will make a second attempt. Unlike some business zealots like Larry Ellison, Ratan Tata has made it clear that his group will not make a hostile bid. That's his vision. He has successfully used the cash from TCS in building one of the world's largest steel producing entity. He may look at other sectors and work towards M&A's in making the Tatas a more visible global brand. Way to go Sir.