[Music]
I don’t think most of you guys haven’t
heard this song right so most probably
my previous generation give up on this
song so naturally so I will see what
exactly does that mean to us today okay
let me start with something different we
are going to talk about something about
a rear view mirror we have all seen in
our cars and all that what will will see
it something different okay let me
address the elephant in the room I have
a problem okay numbers I’m number blind
as people are colorblind and all of that
I am number blind that’s why whenever my
wife asks what is the the your bank
balance you know I’m number blind okay
so same thing with history right so when
we were studying history half of half of
them slept but the other guys were
working out on on which year the plug
the Plassey war happened or or when was
Akbar born and all of that
so everything was only numbers as you
can see that there were only numbers and
remember I am number blind you must have
realized how learn ed I was in history
at that time right it was it was
extremely difficult for us I couldn’t
relate to most of the things that was
happening most of you guys must be
knowing this guy right yeah okay so he
also says never memorize something that
you can look up that’s the only thing
that is common between both of us
because he also was bad in history
apparently so but then I did not know
how do you use history in your life yeah
history repeats itself if they say right
but it’s so cliched how do you use the
history I never knew but I was very
interest
reading everything but till then two
things happen I came across a couple of
concepts like art of war and then later
on a business of freedom I’ll tell you
more about it suddenly it hit me that
what we have been told or the way we
have learnt history was always wrong we
were never taught the right part of it
right we were never told about that we
were only given the dates so in other
words they never told us how to look at
the rear view mirror and drive forward
looking back to go forward they never
taught us right so today we are going to
actually look at few of the examples in
our own history and see what does what
did they tell us so that you can from
now on go back and see and when you take
a history book or read the history part
of it you look at it differently because
remember one thing today as we all know
that history is being changed by
left-right and the center okay so now if
you think about it how do we learn the
history part of it we’ll take it
quiz time do you know this King identify
the king okay I think you are not going
to get it I will give some hints okay
this was the man of knowledge a keen
student of Persian poetry a master of
style supremely eloquent in an age of
rhetoric a philosopher trained in logic
and greet’ metaphysics with whom
scholars fear to argue this was not I am
NOT making it up this was written by one
of the Moroccan explorer called as
evening batata you have heard the song
but you don’t know who is but anyway a
mathematician and lover of science okay
he was so kind that when he there was a
famine he distributed food free okay he
gave his army the pay in one year in
advance you know whom I’m talking about
right Mohammed Ben took luck what are
you serious yes what did we learn he was
the greatest fool right from possibly
the corner of Afghanistan to the remote
village of Camilla if you want to insult
somebody’s intelligence we invoke to
luck right but we never learnt what he
was we all that we learned was that he
shifted his capitals twice we did not
realize such an intelligent man why did
he even take those steps right we all
lost that entire part of the story okay
now I told you something else I told you
that he paid his army in one year in
advance right but do you know what is
the fallout of that economically
socially we never learned that I’ll tell
you the other part of it because look at
the context of that entire period right
changi scan had died almost 100 years
back so there was that there his legacy
was dying out so he wanted to expand his
kingdom right so he got his armies and
paid them in advance now the question
was okay he has to go to war but then he
soon realized that he did not have
enough silver and gold to actually mint
more money to economic to run one day he
came and announced that these silver and
gold coins are no longer valid and
copper coins are going to be introduced
but copper and all these kinds of metal
were very commonly available so people
started making fake currencies suddenly
nobody had any control exports and
imports fell because none of the outside
guys would like to accept this copper
currency whoever actually said no to
this
severely punished think about it this
king who has paid the army in advance
and never went to a great war because of
all of these problems coming in and soon
he realized that what kind of problem he
is getting into so he would view that so
when he withdrew it there were all the
copper coins people held was of no value
people came and threw it in front of the
palace there were huge amounts of copper
useless worthless coins in front of his
palace if you think about if this was
available to us as a instruction or a
learning for our politics and economics
of today’s think lot of things would
have been different right we were only
given dates we were never told about the
moral of the story right ok let us go to
the next part of the story Bhagat Singh
what emotions
does the name Bhagat Singh Kham read
about Bhagat Singh bring in all of you
Inquilab zindabad right
he is the supreme Martir one can have
amazing story a fantastic person at the
age such a young age went to gallows
instead of asking for mercy think about
it but now look at this at a totally
dispassionate way let us step back and
look at it what is the moral of the
story what this was history where does
the moral of the story come in no I want
something out of this story where is it
if you look at his last letter to his
father or his book called as why I mean
am I an atheist he talks about couple of
very interesting parts he says do you
think that I don’t have the desire to
live and have my own family and life
everybody else would expect he says that
right now look at it then why does he
offer himself to the gallows look at the
time
there was a heavy censorship everywhere
but look at the the kind of amount of
coverage that Bhagat Singh’s case was
actually getting there even the English
medium media in in in England was
covering about Bhagat Singh so they had
this platform of court to actually send
out the masses messages to the the
masses there millions of them and
suddenly the whole country or huge
amount of our youth were looking up to
them and like in many other cases there
were many cases where in apology or
mercy letters were given and they were
pardoned with of course conditions but
these people said these people thought
that if they actually give the mercy
petition and opted for mercy and
actually live they thought that their
return on their investment would be bad
think about this as a business how many
of you guys know business continuity
planning a CEO and the CTO or or the the
board members never traveled together in
a planar why that is a part of the
business plan of a continuity planning
every company which large company with a
data center or say for example in India
will also have a backup data center in
Singapore what if there is an earthquake
or something like that here I have a
business continuity planning so what
Bhagat Singh and his team did if you
look at it from a business perspective
it was business continuity planning what
he says is amazing if you think about
look at our freedom struggle and look at
it as a business of freedom they were in
the business of freedom so when you
think about it you will see different
parts of life if you look at relook at
our our history from that perspective
you will get lot of strategies for
business politics economics sales and
marketing that reminds me
this is dandy March Gandhiji in his the
famous Salt Satyagraha
what did he do just went there picked up
salt came back why does it make so much
of nice look at the time period again
the whole media was under censorship
okay there was no other medium of
communication nor knobs there how will
you make things reach to so many people
in today’s context if you have to tape
how did he make his satyagraha viral we
never were forced to study history like
that we were never do we have history in
engineering of course no we don’t right
so that’s the part that we were looking
at let us go a little bit far away from
here the Vietnam War a superpower
already a US goes into this supporting
war in Vietnam a tiny tiny country and
that two rebels in that country you are
fighting and what happens in 60s and 70s
they lost a very very bad war they lost
a lot of money lot of people and of
course there was so much of pressure
even internally within their country
that they had to ultimately withdraw how
did that happen
you are talking about a superpower right
but if I tell you that the actual script
for this war was written 2500 years be
back free believe me right so if you
look at the entire war the way the
Vietnam War took place which again
ultimately ended up in US v drawing it
was written by somebody called as sons
oh okay a Chinese general who had
studied history of war and had
documented principles of how do you go
and face a war but there was this in in
u.s. u.s. general okay William West
Westmoreland he was a decorated World
War two soldier okay
he had amazing template wherever Germans
where he would bomb first whichever
posts that he wanted to take bomb them
drop the air drop the the armies they
would take that post and one simple
template highly successful he comes into
Vietnam tries to do the same thing let
us now connect what the Vietnam rebels
general general Jia what did he do how
it was different
let us see that let us look at art of
war quotes some of them and then relate
to this Vietnam War
ok know your enemy and know yourself in
hundred words you will never rule never
loose ok let us come back to the whole
point of war again general Jia
understood the way Americans fight they
name the power especially the bombing
power the air power all of that so he
never fought with with with these guys
they have directly at all so there was
no air force behind these guys at all ok
to win – to subdue the enemy is the most
important part so what happened is
general Westmoreland exactly used the
same template
he took bombed an area and started air
dropping the forces but this was the
same template so what the these rebels
started doing is that wherever they
bombed these people would go towards it
why the template is the same because now
they are going to Al drop the army right
so they know that where these these
enemies are but US Army doesn’t know
where these enemies are right so
actually the US Army was pre hinting
that where I am going to drop L drop all
the army right so these are the kinds of
things that that were taken avoid what
is strong attack what is weak when these
guys are dropped they never went and
started attacking them they just
followed them they were so close to them
even the Air Force saw them they
bomb because that would be friendly fire
because they were very close to the
American forces right so it is important
to out think your enemy then out fight
him so then as soon as they approached a
geography which was favorable I’ll show
you what I meant by geography which is
favorable they would attack them so and
they never went direct face-to-face war
with them at all
but people were losing people were
losing lives these people as soon as
they would attack they wouldn’t kill
everybody they would leave few of them
back these people would ask for a backup
the backup would come again the same
template would be applied so in a way
American army which did not know the
geography well or the opponent well
we’re working like sitting ducks so if
you look at the geography that I am
talking about there are miles and miles
of tunnels like these where people could
stays survive for hundreds of days
underneath in in Vietnam they are still
there okay why go that far let us come
closer to our home I am going to
demystify mr. Amit Shah if you look at
it dispassionately he is being called as
the Chanakya of poles and okay all these
parts of it if you start studying him
the pattern in which he he works I will
compare that okay I will again tell some
of the quotes and we’ll link it he will
win who knows when to fight and when not
to fight for example take Punjab
election they never came forward they
never wear front so if you ask who lost
it’s a colles who lost BJP did not lose
so when not to fight he knows he will
win who knows how to handle both
superior and inferior forces you know
how well he can get that thing’s agreed
upon RSS as well as his followers he
will win whose Army is
animated by the same spirit throughout
its rank he will win who prepared
himself and waits to take enemy
unprepared you know what happened in Goa
election if you remember the the
opponent slept if you look at the way
the entire thing he will win who has
military capacity and is not interfered
with by the sovereign so complete trust
by the leader Supreme Leader on to him
the general has all the the armies under
him no questions asked
these are hundreds and hundreds of
examples that are there for example you
know what happened between Hitler and
Napoleon just one hundred years apart
both of them exactly same way lost in
Russia if you had learnt history the
story would have been different when you
look at the rear view mirror you know
that disclaimer was always there that
the objects in the mirror is are closer
than they appear
thank you
[Applause]
I don’t think most of you guys haven’t
heard this song right so most probably
my previous generation give up on this
song so naturally so I will see what
exactly does that mean to us today okay
let me start with something different we
are going to talk about something about
a rear view mirror we have all seen in
our cars and all that what will will see
it something different okay let me
address the elephant in the room I have
a problem okay numbers I’m number blind
as people are colorblind and all of that
I am number blind that’s why whenever my
wife asks what is the the your bank
balance you know I’m number blind okay
so same thing with history right so when
we were studying history half of half of
them slept but the other guys were
working out on on which year the plug
the Plassey war happened or or when was
Akbar born and all of that
so everything was only numbers as you
can see that there were only numbers and
remember I am number blind you must have
realized how learn ed I was in history
at that time right it was it was
extremely difficult for us I couldn’t
relate to most of the things that was
happening most of you guys must be
knowing this guy right yeah okay so he
also says never memorize something that
you can look up that’s the only thing
that is common between both of us
because he also was bad in history
apparently so but then I did not know
how do you use history in your life yeah
history repeats itself if they say right
but it’s so cliched how do you use the
history I never knew but I was very
interest
reading everything but till then two
things happen I came across a couple of
concepts like art of war and then later
on a business of freedom I’ll tell you
more about it suddenly it hit me that
what we have been told or the way we
have learnt history was always wrong we
were never taught the right part of it
right we were never told about that we
were only given the dates so in other
words they never told us how to look at
the rear view mirror and drive forward
looking back to go forward they never
taught us right so today we are going to
actually look at few of the examples in
our own history and see what does what
did they tell us so that you can from
now on go back and see and when you take
a history book or read the history part
of it you look at it differently because
remember one thing today as we all know
that history is being changed by
left-right and the center okay so now if
you think about it how do we learn the
history part of it we’ll take it
quiz time do you know this King identify
the king okay I think you are not going
to get it I will give some hints okay
this was the man of knowledge a keen
student of Persian poetry a master of
style supremely eloquent in an age of
rhetoric a philosopher trained in logic
and greet’ metaphysics with whom
scholars fear to argue this was not I am
NOT making it up this was written by one
of the Moroccan explorer called as
evening batata you have heard the song
but you don’t know who is but anyway a
mathematician and lover of science okay
he was so kind that when he there was a
famine he distributed food free okay he
gave his army the pay in one year in
advance you know whom I’m talking about
right Mohammed Ben took luck what are
you serious yes what did we learn he was
the greatest fool right from possibly
the corner of Afghanistan to the remote
village of Camilla if you want to insult
somebody’s intelligence we invoke to
luck right but we never learnt what he
was we all that we learned was that he
shifted his capitals twice we did not
realize such an intelligent man why did
he even take those steps right we all
lost that entire part of the story okay
now I told you something else I told you
that he paid his army in one year in
advance right but do you know what is
the fallout of that economically
socially we never learned that I’ll tell
you the other part of it because look at
the context of that entire period right
changi scan had died almost 100 years
back so there was that there his legacy
was dying out so he wanted to expand his
kingdom right so he got his armies and
paid them in advance now the question
was okay he has to go to war but then he
soon realized that he did not have
enough silver and gold to actually mint
more money to economic to run one day he
came and announced that these silver and
gold coins are no longer valid and
copper coins are going to be introduced
but copper and all these kinds of metal
were very commonly available so people
started making fake currencies suddenly
nobody had any control exports and
imports fell because none of the outside
guys would like to accept this copper
currency whoever actually said no to
this
severely punished think about it this
king who has paid the army in advance
and never went to a great war because of
all of these problems coming in and soon
he realized that what kind of problem he
is getting into so he would view that so
when he withdrew it there were all the
copper coins people held was of no value
people came and threw it in front of the
palace there were huge amounts of copper
useless worthless coins in front of his
palace if you think about if this was
available to us as a instruction or a
learning for our politics and economics
of today’s think lot of things would
have been different right we were only
given dates we were never told about the
moral of the story right ok let us go to
the next part of the story Bhagat Singh
what emotions
does the name Bhagat Singh Kham read
about Bhagat Singh bring in all of you
Inquilab zindabad right
he is the supreme Martir one can have
amazing story a fantastic person at the
age such a young age went to gallows
instead of asking for mercy think about
it but now look at this at a totally
dispassionate way let us step back and
look at it what is the moral of the
story what this was history where does
the moral of the story come in no I want
something out of this story where is it
if you look at his last letter to his
father or his book called as why I mean
am I an atheist he talks about couple of
very interesting parts he says do you
think that I don’t have the desire to
live and have my own family and life
everybody else would expect he says that
right now look at it then why does he
offer himself to the gallows look at the
time
there was a heavy censorship everywhere
but look at the the kind of amount of
coverage that Bhagat Singh’s case was
actually getting there even the English
medium media in in in England was
covering about Bhagat Singh so they had
this platform of court to actually send
out the masses messages to the the
masses there millions of them and
suddenly the whole country or huge
amount of our youth were looking up to
them and like in many other cases there
were many cases where in apology or
mercy letters were given and they were
pardoned with of course conditions but
these people said these people thought
that if they actually give the mercy
petition and opted for mercy and
actually live they thought that their
return on their investment would be bad
think about this as a business how many
of you guys know business continuity
planning a CEO and the CTO or or the the
board members never traveled together in
a planar why that is a part of the
business plan of a continuity planning
every company which large company with a
data center or say for example in India
will also have a backup data center in
Singapore what if there is an earthquake
or something like that here I have a
business continuity planning so what
Bhagat Singh and his team did if you
look at it from a business perspective
it was business continuity planning what
he says is amazing if you think about
look at our freedom struggle and look at
it as a business of freedom they were in
the business of freedom so when you
think about it you will see different
parts of life if you look at relook at
our our history from that perspective
you will get lot of strategies for
business politics economics sales and
marketing that reminds me
this is dandy March Gandhiji in his the
famous Salt Satyagraha
what did he do just went there picked up
salt came back why does it make so much
of nice look at the time period again
the whole media was under censorship
okay there was no other medium of
communication nor knobs there how will
you make things reach to so many people
in today’s context if you have to tape
how did he make his satyagraha viral we
never were forced to study history like
that we were never do we have history in
engineering of course no we don’t right
so that’s the part that we were looking
at let us go a little bit far away from
here the Vietnam War a superpower
already a US goes into this supporting
war in Vietnam a tiny tiny country and
that two rebels in that country you are
fighting and what happens in 60s and 70s
they lost a very very bad war they lost
a lot of money lot of people and of
course there was so much of pressure
even internally within their country
that they had to ultimately withdraw how
did that happen
you are talking about a superpower right
but if I tell you that the actual script
for this war was written 2500 years be
back free believe me right so if you
look at the entire war the way the
Vietnam War took place which again
ultimately ended up in US v drawing it
was written by somebody called as sons
oh okay a Chinese general who had
studied history of war and had
documented principles of how do you go
and face a war but there was this in in
u.s. u.s. general okay William West
Westmoreland he was a decorated World
War two soldier okay
he had amazing template wherever Germans
where he would bomb first whichever
posts that he wanted to take bomb them
drop the air drop the the armies they
would take that post and one simple
template highly successful he comes into
Vietnam tries to do the same thing let
us now connect what the Vietnam rebels
general general Jia what did he do how
it was different
let us see that let us look at art of
war quotes some of them and then relate
to this Vietnam War
ok know your enemy and know yourself in
hundred words you will never rule never
loose ok let us come back to the whole
point of war again general Jia
understood the way Americans fight they
name the power especially the bombing
power the air power all of that so he
never fought with with with these guys
they have directly at all so there was
no air force behind these guys at all ok
to win – to subdue the enemy is the most
important part so what happened is
general Westmoreland exactly used the
same template
he took bombed an area and started air
dropping the forces but this was the
same template so what the these rebels
started doing is that wherever they
bombed these people would go towards it
why the template is the same because now
they are going to Al drop the army right
so they know that where these these
enemies are but US Army doesn’t know
where these enemies are right so
actually the US Army was pre hinting
that where I am going to drop L drop all
the army right so these are the kinds of
things that that were taken avoid what
is strong attack what is weak when these
guys are dropped they never went and
started attacking them they just
followed them they were so close to them
even the Air Force saw them they
bomb because that would be friendly fire
because they were very close to the
American forces right so it is important
to out think your enemy then out fight
him so then as soon as they approached a
geography which was favorable I’ll show
you what I meant by geography which is
favorable they would attack them so and
they never went direct face-to-face war
with them at all
but people were losing people were
losing lives these people as soon as
they would attack they wouldn’t kill
everybody they would leave few of them
back these people would ask for a backup
the backup would come again the same
template would be applied so in a way
American army which did not know the
geography well or the opponent well
we’re working like sitting ducks so if
you look at the geography that I am
talking about there are miles and miles
of tunnels like these where people could
stays survive for hundreds of days
underneath in in Vietnam they are still
there okay why go that far let us come
closer to our home I am going to
demystify mr. Amit Shah if you look at
it dispassionately he is being called as
the Chanakya of poles and okay all these
parts of it if you start studying him
the pattern in which he he works I will
compare that okay I will again tell some
of the quotes and we’ll link it he will
win who knows when to fight and when not
to fight for example take Punjab
election they never came forward they
never wear front so if you ask who lost
it’s a colles who lost BJP did not lose
so when not to fight he knows he will
win who knows how to handle both
superior and inferior forces you know
how well he can get that thing’s agreed
upon RSS as well as his followers he
will win whose Army is
animated by the same spirit throughout
its rank he will win who prepared
himself and waits to take enemy
unprepared you know what happened in Goa
election if you remember the the
opponent slept if you look at the way
the entire thing he will win who has
military capacity and is not interfered
with by the sovereign so complete trust
by the leader Supreme Leader on to him
the general has all the the armies under
him no questions asked
these are hundreds and hundreds of
examples that are there for example you
know what happened between Hitler and
Napoleon just one hundred years apart
both of them exactly same way lost in
Russia if you had learnt history the
story would have been different when you
look at the rear view mirror you know
that disclaimer was always there that
the objects in the mirror is are closer
than they appear
thank you
[Applause]
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