We quit our jobs.
There were six of us — Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Yogesh Vaidya, Subhash Arora, D.S. Puri and me.
It was 1976. Startups were not really a thing in India. Venture capital did not exist. Banks were not exactly lining up to lend money to six young men with an idea and no collateral.
And computers? Most people had barely heard of them.
But we believed the microprocessor was going to change the world.
So we took the plunge.
Between the six of us, we managed to put together ₹1.87 lakh. We borrowed, pooled our savings and, in one case, even sold a car.
Our first office was a small barsati in Golf Links, Delhi.
We called ourselves Microcomp. We wanted to build an Indian computer.
There was just one problem.
We didn’t have a manufacturing licence.
That eventually led us to UP Electronics Corporation. They had the licence. We had the technology. And that partnership gave birth to Hindustan Computers Limited — HCL.
But perhaps the most audacious part of the story was what happened next.
We started selling a computer that was still being designed.
We had a brochure and a mock-up of the machine. That was it.
Our sales teams went across India, knocking on doors and convincing businesses to buy into a technology they had never used before.
The first orders came from IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras.
Then came the harder part — convincing businesses.
In Coimbatore, we were up against DCM DP, a much bigger and more established name. I still remember sitting in the reception area of Premier Mills while the DCM team made its pitch.
We went in second.
And we won.
That one order gave us five more. Then ten.
That was HCL in those early years: not having the biggest balance sheet, the biggest brand or the easiest path — but finding a way.
We were restless.
We looked for gaps. We hired people who had what we called a “cowboy” spirit. We believed that technology had to be made useful and accessible, not intimidating.
And we kept moving.
From building India’s early indigenous computers to taking our business to Singapore when HCL was just four years old. From a small room in Delhi to a global technology company.
When I look back at 50 years, I think about six people sitting together in 1976, wondering if this crazy idea could actually work.
I think about a barsati.
A brochure for a computer that did not yet exist.
And the courage to knock on the next door.
That, to me, is the real HCL story.
50 years later, the technology has changed beyond anything we could have imagined.
But the spirit remains the same:
Dream big. Take the risk. And above all, Just Aspire.
Happy 50th, HCL.
What a journey it has been.
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Intelligence is the ability to derive general principles from specific observations. When someone tells you to stop generalizing, what they often mean is “Stop using your intelligence to describe reality.”
If anyone's wondering why india is hated online it's just due to smear campaign conducted by paid twitter and Instagram accounts, which normally were used by western music industry to artificially create hype for mediocre singers and hip-hop artist.
Do uk intresting fact that why indian Economy dropped to 6 position because govt revised the base from 2010 -11 to 2022 - 23 and they found out that under manhmohan singh govt they overestimated gdp by 300 billion dollars wtff fake economy growth rate under manhmohan!!
Nobody is born low agency. Babies are the highest-agency creatures alive, they will absolutely try to eat a battery, they have no concept of "I can't."
Low agency is learned, usually from being punished for trying.
Gut facts nobody tells you:
- Brushing your teeth after meals can cut fecal Candida up to 100x
- Low Melatonin leads to constipation and SIBO
- Stress causes iron to feed bad bacteria
- Hard training tears the gut lining faster than junk food
None of this is a food problem.
Arnab Goswami announced Hall of Shame awards to all those who were super active during CJP but quite during Jharkhand protest
Arnab destroyed the whole gang including Naseeruddin, Swara, Prakash Raj, Shekhar Suman etc
IF YOU'RE SOMEONE WHO IS:
• 25 years old
• 26 year old
• 27 year old
• 28 year old
• 29 year old
• 30 year old
AND REBUILDING YOUR LIFE, START WITH THESE 12 THINGS.
1. Fix your teeth, skin, and posture.
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>=8 sets per muscle per week
~3 sets at a time
5-20 reps each
go until failure (~1 rir) every set
1g protein/lb bodyweight
that's it. that's literally all you need
Art of Lying ~ Swara Bhaskar!!
Everyone knows that before her marriage, she used to call herself an atheist.
Later, she married a gorilla called Fahad!!
She started eating Nihari every day and gained weight!!
During the elections, she wanted Muslim votes for her husband, so she wore a salwar suit and covered her hair while meeting a maulana.
Now that her husband has lost, she is trying to whitewash those moments that raise questions about her atheism...
Because she has to attack Hindus in the future.
ARNAB GOSWAMI EXPOSES THE “AMERICAN DEEP STATE” 🔥
“Mark Zuckerberg of Meta… has now confessed that he along with other Big Tech companies are partners with the American deep state.”
“What are you doing, American diplomats? Stop behaving like children.”
“We are tracking everything you do.”
“The people of Bharat will teach them a geopolitical lesson they fully deserve.” 🔥
The Most Shocking Thread👇
Leave everything and read this thread now. It will take just 5 minutes, but you will remember it forever.
1. So, the US court has dismissed the case against Adani.
But let me tell you a few shocking details 👇
You would look a LOT more attractive if you massaged your scalp and jaw muscles regularly.
When the scalp and jaw muscles are tight for 90-99% of the day (due to muscle clenching of the jaw, you're always worried about other people's opinion of you, chronic stress etc) - crucial blood vessels, nerves and lymphatic vessels in the face become COMPRESSED causing loss of circulation,drainage and increased scalp tension.
This means that your hair looks thinner (due to elevated scalp tension and loss of circulation to the scalp), the area under the eyes is perceived as darker (due to poor drainage and circulation) - you get dark circles under the eyes and you feel anxious/stressed because the nerves of your face are literally COMPRESSED by muscles (the pterygoids in particular).
The solution is simple:
- Massage the area behind your earlobes with your index finger for 30 seconds in a circular motion (this will hurt a LOT - you can press this point in others to induce severe pain)
- Massage your masseter and temporalis muscles in a 30 second circular motion to reduce scalp tension
- stretch your jaw daily by opening it as wide and far as you can.
You will feel relaxed as scalp tension and nerve compression (especially the large trigeminal nerve) reduces - your hair quality will also improve as the scalp muscles relax.
You will look better as blood vessel and lymphatic vessel compression of the faces reduces and circulation and drainage of the face improves.
It's easy to do - 3-5 minutes daily to get ahead of most people.
There are 173 major crops cultivated on our planet.
Out of these, India grows 114 crops!!
India is the top producer of 25 of those 114 - like mangoes, chickpeas, jute...
Bharat is a blessed land for feeding humans 🙏
So much hungama about how media in India is sold out and they only sing paeans about Modi. So many legacy brands are anti Modi: The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Indian Express, Telegraph, Caravan and more. And there’s a whole lineup in digital: Wire, Newslaundry, Scroll, Quint, The Print and so many YouTube channels, Instagram content creators like Faye. Not to mention foreign media like NYT, BBC, Al Jazeera and many others. So all the anti-Modi audience in India have enough and more outlets which validate their beliefs. Yet the usual suspects will go on about ‘sold out media’ which do not present the ‘truth’.
Hair loss / male pattern baldness is an inflammatory condition often driven by excess histamine - and antihistamines can regrow hair.
This first study that looked at the antihistamine cetirizine for regrowing hair.
This is the same ingredient as Zyrtec allergy pills - just applied topically on the scalp.
They did this for 6 months.
After 6 months, the antihistamine substantially improved hair growth.
◈ Total hair density: +1000% improvement
◈ Vellus density: +650% improvement
◈ Terminal density: +500% improvement
◈ Hair diameter: +25% improvement
On the top you see their hair prior to treatment.
On the bottom you see post treatment.
Some really good changes.
Follow up studies have shown similar results.
Another article showed that after 6 months, about half of people taking cetirizine saw improvement,
whereas no one in control did.
Histamine is produced by immune cells called mast cells.
The balding scalp has more mast cells than healthy scalps do.
This also scales with severity: the worse the hair loss, the more mast cells.
This can be up to 8x as much in severe cases.
What's even more interesting is that activated mast cells accumulate in the areas of the scalp that bald in male pattern baldness.
This is likely due to a molecule called prostaglandin D2.
This is a metabolite of polyunsaturated fats that, when activating its receptor, can directly halt the growth cycle of the dermal papilla cells that grow hair.
Histamine increases the production of PGD2.
Hair loss / pattern baldness are systemic health issues and not isolated genetic problems.
Focusing on optimizing your overall health is what will help.
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