While the title is brilliant the contents are outdated. You are living in your old world. Instead of appreciating and being grateful of the brilliant and the bright young generation of IITs & IIMs and the very enlightened entrepreneurs, who are from the same stable, who dedicate some of their hard earned money, saved after losing a part to a few farm houses, to build new & progressive India, you are taking us back to the age of the regressive ideas steeped in stupid concepts of humanity. There is no free ride in the new world and everyone gets what he/she deserves. The courier boys should be grateful that not only they are getting jobs but they also get paid for it; this happens nowhere except in Government jobs. If we had pursued your old world ideas, they would have been starving like million others. It is shame on you that you are writing for a kind of people who do not know what is STEM, the critical knowledge to earn a right of living in the world, and who are wanting to have an easy ride on the logarithmic brilliance of the new businesses. It’s easy for you to write such pieces of trash since you neither have to put in your money nor your life into building great portals of e-commerce. You must at least have some brains to realise that these new businesses are reaching great heights of valuations running into billions and instead of raising silly issues, you must encourage the masses to dedicate their lives to take the valuations to trillions. Who lives if these businesses die and who dies if these businesses thrive? I always respected you as a very well read person, but I have now started doubting your reading abilities. Have you not seen great length stories being published by India’s great media houses on the lives & times of these path breaking ideators and creators of the new businesses, sorry, New India? Every print and virtual media is full of them and even an illiterate person cannot miss them. Clearly you are reading mythologies of old genre. Future belongs to them and they will make us proud through building the new India! India is e-commerce and e-commerce is India!

Amen.

Vilas

Only an HR guy who has vivek like you can write on a under surface burning issue.
Thanks for rocking the boat ….it should be noted by all others who are exploiting contract labour.

This is like a LAVA and will any day burst if the haves keep on exploiting havenots

Can we launch a campaign ?

A brilliant post Sir. Very thought provoking.
Kavi

Hariprasad Menon writes:
For some reason, the "business" focused guys almost always have low quality approach to HR. The irony is that "business successful" guys almost always have a very respectful and wholesome approach to HR !!

I'm always amazed by the shortsightedness of the so called "successful" business managers who always undermine the power of real HR !!

Regards … Hari

Rahul Datta of CESC, Kolkata writes:
The points raised in your blog are very fundamental issues and puts all of us to think whether what we are currently doing are right. Are we doing enough for our employees, irrespective of their rank & file.

While we try to find out answers to these embarrassing questions, we would keep on expecting more from you in future.

best regards,

Rahul Datta