Ganit Kamat

Entrepreneur | Dreamer | Social

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

You inspire all of us to be a startup’s of even these day’s.

[Ajai Chowdhry @AjaiChowdhry]

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.

#AjaiChowdhry #JustAspire #HCL #50yearsofHCL #Nostalgic #Founders

[Dainik Bhaskar @DainikBhaskar]

डॉबर के कई प्रोडक्ट की बिक्री पर रोक लगा दी गई है। इनमें शहद और गाय का घी भी शामिल है। ये प्रोडक्ट 100% शुद्धता के दावे के साथ बेचे जा रहे थे।

पढ़ें पूरी खबर- https://t.co/h4sz1NzQzn

#Dabur #FSSAI #foodsafety

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

@AnanyaBirlaX - You are doing a great job big thanks. Every life, every human deserves the kind of help you are doing.

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

Why knowing Sanskrit is cool?

Because through it you discover, apart from many other things, that what we have been attributing to Pythagoras all along existed in Bodhayana’s Sulba Sutras centuries before Pythagoras.

दीर्घचतुरस्रस्याक्ष्णया रज्जुः पार्श्वमानी तिर्यग् मानी च यत् पृथग् भूते कुरूतस्तदुभयं करोति ॥

Sulba Sutra (appendix to the Vedas), Chapter 1, Shloka 12, Bodhayana

Translation: the area (of the squares) produced separately by the length and breadth of a rectangle together equal the area (of the square) produced by the diagonal

A child who grows up believing every great idea came from somewhere else learns to imitate. But a nation that knows it has created before finds the confidence to create again!

And confidence is the birthplace of innovation and entrepreneurship! And that is cool!!

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

My editorial in @IndianExpress on what Education means to @Wangchuk66 and me!!

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

#NewProfilePic

[The Lallantop @TheLallantop]

CJP Protest में Irfan ने People of India के लिए क्या मैसेज दिया? सरकार से क्या सवाल पूछा?

पूरी रिपोर्ट: https://t.co/xWNMbnrDuJ

@vikasvermaindia @justrashiddd

[News Pinch @TheNewspinch]

Assam में आई बाढ़ के बाद एक वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो रहा है। बाढ़ से घर में पानी भर जाने के बाद एक छात्रा अपनी भीगी हुई किताबें और कॉपियां धूप में सुखाती नजर या रही है, देखिए वीडियो-

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

बहुत हीं दुखद घटना है । हम अपने इकॉनमी बढ़ाने के चक्कर में ये सब देख हीं नहीं पा रहे है और ना हीं कोई एजेंडे में है। भूख से मर जाए कोई ये तो कलंक है समाज पे ।

[Dainik Bhaskar @DainikBhaskar]

बिहार के खगड़िया में भूख से 55 साल के शख्स की मौत: पत्नी राशन लाने बहन के घर गई थी, 2 दिन डेड बॉडी के साथ रही चंदे से अंतिम संस्कार; देखें, पूरी रिपोर्ट

पूरा वीडियो देखने के लिए लिंक पर क्लिक करें- https://t.co/Onkr25CaOw

#BiharNews #HindiNews #Khagariya

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

Everyone is demanding educational reforms.
Excellent idea.
But can we begin by reforming the media first?
Today, our biggest influencers are not our teachers but TV studios, WhatsApp forwards, YouTube channels and social media trollers. Some of them teach us to hate before we understand, react before we think, and choose narratives over truth.
Whether we call ourselves andhbhakts or wear any other political label, we've all been conditioned to become more partisan and more narrow-minded.
Forget educational reform. Reform the media first. A nation that is fed propaganda every day cannot be educated. It can only be conditioned.

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

President Droupadi Murmu has accepted Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation from the Union Council of Ministers. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi has been assigned additional charge of the Ministry of Education.#DharmendraPradhan #PralhadJoshi #EducationMinister #CabinetUpdate

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

We won 👏🏼
आशा है बांकी की मांगे भी पूरी हो जाएगी ।

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

I was there in solidarity today. No space at jantar mantar even there was approx 1km line from janpath to the stage area. also the surroundings are houseful from jantar mantar to CP inner circle to janpath to karela house area.
#NEET #jantar_mantar

[Saurabh Bharadwaj @Saurabh_MLAgk]

False Report by @DelhiPolice

There are around 30 K persons in and around Jantar Mantar. The movement is growing and there are more cockroaches than yesterday.

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

इस दिन के वोट किए थे? हमारे टैक्स का कितना मिस्यूज करोगे ? ख़ुद कमा के करो ।
#NEET

[kalu mali journalist @kalumal07102891]

पिछले 54 दिनों से कलेक्ट्रेट के बाहर आंबाराम मेघवाल धरने पर।
@BJP4Rajasthan @RajCMO @SSKharaBJP @RavindraBhati__

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

ye to sabse bada wala h.
humare Tax ka paisa kheera ke rup me kha rha..

[भारत समाचार | Bharat Samachar @bstvlive]

ब्रेकिंग न्यूज़। नई दिल्ली।
खीरा सब्सिडी स्कैंडल के बीच गंगवार को शिक्षा की कमान।
केंद्र सरकार ने राजस्थान कैडर के 1994 बैच के IAS अधिकारी नरेश पाल गंगवार को शिक्षा मंत्रालय में सचिव नियुक्त किया है। यह नियुक्ति ऐसे समय हुई है, जब उनके परिवार को सरकारी बागवानी योजना से ₹1.16 करोड़ से अधिक की सब्सिडी मिलने का मामला सवालों के घेरे में है। जून माह में प्रकाशित इंडियन एक्सप्रेस की पड़ताल के मुताबिक गंगवार की पत्नी, बेटे और मां को पांच वर्षों के दौरान जयपुर में खीरा उत्पादन की तीन परियोजनाओं के लिए कुल ₹1.16 करोड़ से अधिक की सब्सिडी मिली। पत्नी की परियोजना को ₹24.36 लाख, बेटे की परियोजना को ₹46.49 लाख और मां की परियोजना को ₹46.03 लाख दिए गए थे।
#NewDelhi #NareshPalGangwar #EducationMinistry

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

END OF HUNGER... BEGINNING OF ACCOUNTABILITY...!
Sonam Wangchuk ends his fast after 26 days upon getting assurance from the government and members of parliament of all political parties that the issue of accountability in the failing examination system will be discussed on the floors of the Indian Parliament. The government also gave assurance that families of suicide victims in the recent NEET examination paper leak will be given adequate compensation and that there will be no cases registered against the peacefully protesting students and youths.

Watch full video on YouTube Channel: Sonam Wangchuk
Sonam's videos have no copyrights; can be shared freely.

[Ganit Kamat @iamganit]

इरादा नेक हो और मन में भय ना हो और ये तब हो सकता ह जब आपको ये विश्वास हो की आप सही रास्ते पर हो तो सबकुछ मुमकिन है ।