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“I AM AN INDIAN, I AM A MUSLIM” - Omar Abdullah

We need more politicians like him, ready to say the right thing. Willing to make a choice for the nation first, then their religion. I can understand all the things we say about Kashmir, the truth is that in pure financial terms nation building is a costly exercise …. splitting into a separate state may look like the best but it will take tremendous amounts of help from its 2 warring neighbors.

I do hope we learn things and not make short-term stupid decisions that hurt our nations future. I don’t understand the nuclear deal properly, (there is so much in the fine print which we *commoners* never get to read) but faith is needed , mistakes will be made …. but its not easy to become a super-power

“sab kuch nahi chalega”

http://blog.kwippy.com/2008/07/03/technology-behind-kwippy-and-scaling/

A post about how kwippy works and scaling strategies involved. Feel free to ramble and comment.

Opdrage Venture Partners are a New Delhi based boutique Management Consulting and Capital syndication firm focusing on seed and early stage ventures.

I have been the geek-in-residence for Opdrage for quite sometime and its time to talk about it a bit more. Here at Opdrage, we aim to build things that are solid and last … it does not matter what is the focus area, as long as it is a solid capitalist business. This is a very much Y-combinator approach to businesses in my view, Paul Graham would be proud :).

My mentor Kris Nair also the founder of Opdrage is very clear about his approach to it, and I have learned a lot of things from him about his experiences (NDA guy, marketing guru, and much more). A lot of coffee and crazy amounts of fun define how one becomes a part of something like Opdrage. Helping out startups to *start* *get funded* , helping people put money into the *right startups* is all that happens in a routine day here.

So if you have a killer idea (like mine here), mail in to me or Kris at opdrage (contact@opdrage.com) and make it all happen. Believe me, the next google killer is going to be in an Indian garage …. its all happening here.