Inside the mind and heart of Venkatesh Sridhar

The placement seasons have started in the Indian b-schools and the buzzword on campuses is about who is coming on campus, how much they are giving and what is the kind of profile that one is being offered. In this blog, I am going to look at what I think is going to be one of the biggest problems faced by Indian companies today, in fact anyone who is hiring or planning to hire out of India. I will trace this over a two part blog.

In this first part, I am going to try and trace the reasons for what I believe is the failure of the Indian higher educational system.

India is facing a talent crunch. You may wonder, that how can a nation of 1.1 Billion people with roughly 54% (594 Million) of them being in the active work force face a talent crunch. Well, it is surprising yet it is true that the reason for the spike in salaries offered across the board is due to the ‘artificial’ talent crunch in India. Now, why do I call it an artificial phenomenon, it is simply because this talent crunch is due to the ineptness that is prevalent in our educational system today.

I would like to point out that I am going to talk primarily about employability and not the number of people who can be employed. So, here is what I think….. 

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As I write this, every Ram, Hardik and Hari in India would know about India’s first ever Test match victory on South African soil. And the media has gone ga ga over the dramatic and a dream return of Sourav Ganguly, starting with the 3 day match at Potchefstroom and the good showing in the First Test at Jo’burg.

What I found amazingly different in Ganguly’s approach towards the game was - his attitude. The way he walked up to the pitch in a positive fashion. He played every shot with a positive intent. He looked fitter and leaner on the ground. In the overs running up to India’s win, he even showed his new found atheleticism by diving and saving a run, a far cry from the days when he used to stand at mid-on and be unable to prevent the single, sometimes even misfield and let the batsmen run for two………

What has changed Saurav Ganguly?