anand mahindra

Chairman & Team member, Mahindra Group

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Well I’ve always thought he’s a smart man with impeccable taste…
🙂

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

One of the all-time best books I have read.

I highly recommend it.

[ReghuramIyer @ReghuramIyer]

@anandmahindra There’s another book by Daniel Pink called A whole new mind.
His theory is that once we enter the age of abundance, we enter into the conceptual age where we seek experiences, not materials alone.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Once upon a time, brands were about status. Then they became about identity.

Today, increasingly, they’re about experiences.

Pine & Gilmore saw this coming way back in 1998, in their famous HBR article, Welcome to the Experience Economy.

And this young Indian brand, Comet, has clearly got the message!

They’re not just selling sneakers. They’re letting you have a hand in creating them.

Clever. Because the experience becomes as memorable as the product.

I hope they give the established global sneaker brands in India a run for their money.

I’m ordering a pair.

Though I’d better keep a first-aid kit handy in case I knick myself with the knife! 🙂

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

An anti-ageing treatment that is virtuous…

(And the spelling is ‘Pininfarina’.
A @MahindraRise company )

[Octane magazine @octane_magazine]

The original Honda NSX has become the latest 1990s performance car to receive a full restomod treatment, with styling by Pininfaina.

https://t.co/QOohqe6ky9

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

There are very few actors who go beyond their craft & become a sensibility unto themselves.

For example, say “Brando” & you evoke not just an actor, but a whole attitude, a swagger, a way of looking at the world.

Nana Patekar belonged to that rare tribe.

I met him only a couple of times & only at large events, so I cannot claim to have known him personally. But then, you didn’t need to meet Nana to feel you KNEW him.

Because “Nana Patekar” had come to mean something. Individuality.
Authenticity.
A refusal to conform.
And a wicked sense of humour.

He became a character larger than any he played.

Indian cinema has lost a remarkable actor. But Indian folklore has lost something even rarer.

An original. A man who became his own adjective.

Om Shanti 🙏🏽

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Because we wouldn’t exist without it…

[Groww @_groww]

Which Indian company is spending the most on innovation?

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Six months ago, I shared the story of a patent filed by my grandfather, J.C. Mahindra, in 1918, for a two-cycle, opposed-piston engine designed to run on crude oil.

I thought that was where the story ended.

Clearly, the team at Mahindra Research Valley in Chennai had other ideas!

As a labour of love, they decided to go back to that 108-year-old patent, interpret the drawings & actually build a working prototype of J.C.’s engine.

And on Founders’ Day, they unveiled it & fired it up.

I cannot adequately express my gratitude to the team that brought a piece of our history back to life.

But more than nostalgia, I hope this engine serves as a reminder to every engineer and innovator across the Mahindra Group.

J.C. Mahindra was, as my father and uncle used to describe him, a “tinkerer.”

May we never stop tinkering.

May we never stop imagining, experimenting & building.

That would be the best tribute we could pay to our founders.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

My grandfather, J.C. Mahindra, trained as an engineer at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai, & the large part of his subsequent career was in the steel industry, including a stint working at Tata Steel.

During World War II, he went on to serve as India’s first Iron & Steel Controller, building relationships across global mills. Those connections later helped him and his brother, K.C. Mahindra, build a trading business that evolved into manufacturing, bringing in Willys Jeeps and International Harvester tractors to India.

Growing up, I would occasionally hear my father and uncle refer to J.C. as a “tinkerer”… someone who had even held a patent.
But it was always vague, never quite part of the Group’s folklore.

Perhaps that’s not surprising. For decades, we hadn’t systematically organised our archives and memorabilia.

Yesterday was World Intellectual Property Day.

Last week, Vaidehi Mayekar, Senior Manager at our company, who is helping organise the archives, sent me a mail in the context of the forthcoming World IP Day.

While going through all the random boxes of files & memorabilia, she had come across a document about a patent filed by J.C. in 1918… and assumed I would already know.

I didn’t.

And when I learned it was in internal combustion engine technology, I was genuinely stunned.

It may not have been a seminal or earth-shaking patent, but somehow, that part of his story had slipped through the cracks of family narratives.

At the very least, it ought to have been a strong part of the institutional ‘memory’ of a Group that makes automobiles.

Thank you Vaidehi , for giving me a renewed sense of pride & a fresh dose of motivation from my grandfather.

I hope it also gives engineers across the group the motivation to continue a legacy of innovation.

#MondayMotivation

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The world is obsessed with AI that writes, talks and creates.

But perhaps the biggest opportunity for AI lies beyond our screens.

Imagine AI that can operate a blast furnace, manage a cement kiln or orchestrate an entire factory floor.

That’s the promise of Physical AI. And I believe it could prove to be one of the most transformative applications of this technology.

What excites me even more is the prospect of India helping lead this transformation.

@AI4ProdOutcomes’ Physical AI models, working alongside @tech_mahindra’s AI agents, will now be put to work in some of the world’s toughest & most demanding industrial environments.

We’ve long celebrated India’s prowess in software and digital technology.

Perhaps the next significant chapter of our technology story will be written not just in lines of code, but on the factory floor.

[Tech Mahindra @tech_mahindra]

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[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

“UK ma riksha aavi gai chhe…

Mahindra ni chhe, aapda”

🙂

(Imported by a hobbyist)

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

🙂

[Alok Mishra 🖌️ @Sralokmisra]

@anandmahindra For the last 50 secs, I was watching him in action and cheering him as if he could hear me. My wife stared at me when I suddenly stood up from my chair. What a great match. I watched the highlights at least 5 times that day.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Forgive me for still having an Asian Games hangover, but as I start this week, one story from the Games keeps coming back to me.

Sujeet Kalkal was 9-2 down with less than a minute & a half left.

Most of us have an inner voice that does the maths at a moment like this.

I certainly admit to having such a voice.

It assesses the odds and tells us when the rational thing is to accept defeat.

Sujeet clearly has another voice. One that says: Not yet.

He kept going. 9-2 became 10-9. And an Asian Games gold.

The lesson goes well beyond the wrestling mat.

When I look back, I realise that some of my key successes in business came when I listened to my other voice that fought the rational one and simply refused to throw in the towel.

There are times to listen to reason. And there are times to tell it to wait.

It ain’t over till it’s over.

#MondayMotivation

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

And if you happen to be in Mumbai this Sunday, you probably should head out to Bandra…

@arakucoffeein

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

👍🏽

[sahil jain @443Sahil]

@anandmahindra I was there couple of years back. It is remarkable and definitely worth visiting. Drone shot video doesn’t justify the scale of those structures. It’s huge.

Kota and Rajasthan tourism needs to do better job of promoting it.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

My first reaction on seeing this was: AI.

My second reaction, after checking: Good grief. It’s real.

This is the Chambal Riverfront in Kota.

For most of us, the name Kota probably brings to mind its huge coaching industry. And, sadly, the controversies around the intense pressure on students there.

But this is a side of Kota I had absolutely no idea existed.

2.75 km along both banks of the Chambal. Ghats, promenades, fountains and some fairly spectacular public spaces.

And apparently I’m not the only one who hasn’t discovered it. The riverfront is reportedly attracting only around 1,000 visitors a day.

Why haven’t we heard more about it?

Credit to Shanti Dhariwal, then Rajasthan’s Urban Development Minister, who drove the project, the Kota Urban Improvement Trust and architect Anoop Bartaria.

Judging from these images, it certainly deserves to be better known.

Kota just went on my Wanderer list.

Anyone been there? Does the reality live up to the pictures?

(Video & pic courtesy @ind_whitepill )

#SundayWanderer

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

What a Founders’ Day experience at Chakan, Pune, yesterday.

It’s our largest automotive plant. 25,000 associates. And with their families there, probably over 35K people thronging the campus in a wonderfully festive mood.

The first time I’ve seen any of our facilities adopt the Republic Day format, with a parade and floats using our diverse range of vehicles to depict our culture.

They even had me riding in a vintage Willys, generously loaned for the occasion by our well-wisher Ratan Singh.

And I daresay some of those floats could have rivalled their Republic Day counterparts!

But as always on Founders’ Day, the limelight was stolen by the children.

And what’s remarkable is how many of them remember the experience well into their adult lives.

I’ve often run into accomplished young people, now established in their careers, who unexpectedly tell me their parents worked at @MahindraRise & they still remember meeting me when they were children on a Founders’ Day outing.

That, for me, is the real magic of Founders’ Day.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I bow low to our intrepid sportspersons, who truly clawed back our dignity with this outcome…

🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

And now, for the next edition of the Asian Games, we need a “Mission 3”:

To make sure we finish ahead of Korea.

And then, on to greater summits. 🙂

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

🇮🇳 INDIA FINISH 4TH IN THE MEDAL TALLY AT THE ASIAN GAMES 2026!

21 GOLD 🥇27 SILVER 🥈 37 BRONZE 🥉

TOTAL - 85 MEDALS

A campaign filled with Olympic quotas, historic moments, heartbreaks and disappointments.

But surely, one that we’ll remember for a long time.

After a disappointing start, finishing 4th in the medal tally is some achievement!

Thank You, Team India 🇮🇳🙌