India’s Rail Mastery And The Silence Of Global Media It was a morning news scan, when yet again the hydrogen train in India came to mind. And then, next came my daily scan of a top US daily – I scan Indian and Global news daily. It occurred to me, when I saw a negative article on India judging from the headline, that this hasn’t received attention globally, at least judging from my limited daily scans. Then I started on 3 LLM portals to research this – ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. What follows is a article from that quick research. A quick random dip stick checking of the facts has been done, followed by a full article scan through claude for fact checking. One fact – ticket price was found slightly off in my check, and was edited in the text. What I want to point out in this article: 1. India’s stunning record of railway development, laying a strong backbone for the nation’s development 2. Western Media’s absolute ...
Why Large Indian Corporates Fail at Innovation A recent piece in the Business Standard accurately pointed out a glaring problem in India’s business landscape: while our startups build frontier tech and the government successfully drives massive digital and defense innovations, our large, legacy private corporations are lagging. The popular consensus often blames this on "rent-seeking"—the idea that large incumbents are too comfortable operating as oligopolies in protected markets to bother with R&D and building innovative ideas and stoking innovation and experimentation in their organisations. While rent-seeking is certainly a factor, in my long experience of large organisations, it is not the predominant one. When you spend decades in the trenches of corporate strategy and execution, a very different reality emerges. Companies do not actively hold board meetings and vote against innovation. Instead, they fail because of a massive structural and cultural misali...