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Life is not fair . Get used to it

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Life is not fair. Get used to it Rewards in life are unfairly distributed. If you are from Kolkata, you will realise the difference between being born in Bally and being born in Ballygunge. The latter is born with a silver spoon in the mouth and eventually had often success thrust upon him/her.  Good things in life- fame, money, intelligence are unfairly distributed.  Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was far more deserving than Jawaharlal Nehru. State Congress Working Committees had recommended his name but Gandhi vetoed and Nehru became the PM of India. Same for deserving freedom fighter like Subhas Chandra Bose. He was left to live a life of oblivion.  Anna Hazare fought the anti-corruption movement but the rewards were enjoyed by his follower Arvind Kejriwal MS Dhoni, just because of the Central Coalfields Limited Chairman, had a delayed  trip to Kolkat to take the flight to Agartala where he was to play for the East Zone in the Duleep Trophy, whi...

#ICAIReforms - Dear ICAI Please Change

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#ICAIReforms has again become a topic of fierce debate Is everyone who fails, a victim of poor evaluation process - No But certainly, there are deserving students who have failure thrust upon them because of the careless checking. When the suggested answers matched with your certified copy and you still dont get the marks, you have every right to feel cheated In the manual method, however, there will be issues Asking working professionals to come to the centralised centres also doesnt help - ICAI empanels a) CAs with 4+ yrs b) University Lecturers/Professors with 5+ years \ c) CWA, ACS, M.Com, Post Graduates in Economics or Law, Lawyers, IT Professionals, MBA (Finance) etc with 5+ yrs exp Now asking that person to come to a centralised hall for 25 days * 8 working hours = 200 hours to properly evaluate a lot of 400 scripts ( assuming a standard time of 30 minutes for 1 script) is also possibly quite an issue. How will the professional justify this disrupti...

Opportunities in the Digital World

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Business as usual is dead. Increasingly, science fiction is becoming science fact. Exponential technologies are rapidly changing our lives and societies, every day, everywhere.  Gone are the days when we used to visit railway booking counters for ticket booking or stand in long queues for paying our electricity bills. Same for banking, when Internet has transformed the entire dynamics of the system.  Today, a robot Sophia, has been granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia and companies are trying to codify the decision making instincts of their senior management using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Amazon and Flipkarts are not just websites, they have changed our outlook towards shopping. Same for a Zomato or Swiggy which in the future might potentially disrupt even the very concept of fine dining in an expensive restaurant. Uber and Ola have transformed our approach to buying cars. Its such a redundant thing to own a car and maintain it, when it comes to you...

Recommended Books

Recommended Books  A lot of people ask me which books I have read in the recent past and strongly recommend. So here is the list — mostly self-help books and biographies/autobiographies which narrate a lot of instances that I found inspiring and useful in my career Will keep updating it with new books that I read https://www.amazon.in/shop/anuragsingal #career #books #life #reading