Abhineet Kumar

I am a big fan of TED . Its videos not only tackle some of the problems infront of us, but they also motivate you to counter them with solutions. For all TED enthusiasts, probably, the biggest TEDx event of North India is here: TEDxDelhi

TEDxDelhi is an independently organized TEDx event operated under license from TED.
TEDxDelhi will feature speakers sharing unique ideas from India and for India – ideas which will spark deep discussion and introspection among the group that attends, those viewing live from across the world, and those who view the talks after the event is over. I like their quote “We speak to enlighten, unite and provoke.” And, I hope I’d win a pass to attend the event. In case, you are also wondering how to win a pass (sponsored by DLF), just head over to this giveaway link:

https://www.facebook.com/TEDxDelhi?sk=app_228910107186452

The list of speakers can be found here. I hope to interact with some of them and share and discuss ideas. Till then, keep following my simple idea of bringing about a change:

I believe that you have the right to take responsibility.Get up, open your eyes, lend a ear, strike a smile. A fellow human somewhere might just need your help

Let’s change the world then.

I really like writing on Notepad. If ever I need to share anything, I use Google Docs. But even then, I do the pre-writing bit on Notepad and then copy the content to GDocs.

Anyway, this wasn’t supposed to be how I wanted to write this post. To be honest, I’m not even sure what this post is going to be about. So, here’s what I’ll do – rather than writing on just one topic, I’ll scribble notes about the last few days or so:

#1 I got a bit enraged at what happened at the American Embassy in Libya today. I’m sure no good human being can think of doing such a thing to anyone for a movie. The people who were responsible were terrorists. We have such people in every religion and every country. But I also agree with this gentleman here, who said:

We, as Muslims, must stand against the extremism and ignorance of those amongst us. They are hijacking Islam and they are the blasphemers.

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Mohamed Daadaoui (@Maghreblog) September 12, 2012

Let’s change people! And by changing I mean, let us try changing the world around us. I know all of you reading this blog are socially aware. But, we probably need to take up more responsibility and help spread awareness around us to the simple unaware folks who are easy to influence and taken advantage of. Much of the hatred happening in this world is manufactured by people who know what they want, and they influence others to do all the bad stuff. Such bastards! Hopefully, twenty years from now, the world will be a better place to live in, but with less of petrol and diesel and more of electric vehicles.

#2 I have been to Select CityWalk quite a few times in the last month, and observed that all the malls function fairly well even though there are three good ones neighbouring each other. On weekends, you’d find them to be full and on weekdays people tend to come for shooping exploration and eating extravaganzas.

I think it’s a good place to hang out with your friends, and has some good brands in there. If you haven’t been there, have a look at the photos here: https://www.facebook.com/selectcitywalkdelhi/photos

#3 And finally, my finance course and GMAT prep has started off on a good note. I have been fairly regular. Kcik hasn’t got much work to do this week – perhaps revamping HnF is on cards. Hope to come with more info on this the next week or so.

I could have written more, but feel I need to go back to my all night study plan. May the force be with me!

I am writing this post during a 5 minute break in between my GMAT prep study session. Yes, like many others, even I’m giving GMAT sometime at the end of this year. I am not too sure how it’ll go as it’s largely dependent on the time I put in (which I haven’t really put). I have two months or so to prepare. Today, I have started with NOVA (a book for pre-stage maths and verbal). I’ll mainly do the maths from it – all the basics mostly.

My plan is to practice Verbal section problems alongwith studying Nova. Hopefully, I’ll be able to finish it off quickly to move ahead with Princeton, SC Grail and so on.

I had stumbled upon Coursera when it was in its early phase Then there were only a few courses, and I had a feeling that this startup could change the way we study. And, perhaps it is already doing some revolutionary stuff. If you don’t know, it has raised around 16 M $ to make quality education to all of us for free. Now, I am a student to Coursera’s Introduction to Finance Course taught by Prof Gautam Kaul. Here are my views about the course:

• I especially like the fact that I can attend any lecture whenever I want to, and that I can sleep in between without the fear of losing on an important topic. In fact, I have slept quite a few times already in my short time as a Coursera student
• The quality of the course is really good, and perhaps it is the most important factor which brings me here. I am doing the same course at Amity University, and found that quite a few things were lacking. One was the lack of doing practical, real-world problems, and the other was use of MS Excel to showcase the problems. In the online class, I am able to attend all the lectures, understand all the concepts and implement them to practical probelms at hand.
• I especially liked Mr. Kaul’s style of teaching. I think he tries his best to engage you in a discussion around finance, even though I’m in an online lecture, i feel the urge to find out more about the topics he teaches. This guy surely knows how to inspire you to know more about finance. As he says, he is crazy about finance, and it really shows!

Finally, after the first few lectures, I feel sure about two things:

• I’ll do more courses at Coursera, especially the ones related to Finance and Business.
• I’ll try understanding each and every aspect of finance before my third-year at Amity finishes. I think I have 1.5 years in hand, and it’s enough to understand the basic concepts thoroughly. In fact, I hope Coursera, EdX, Udacity, Venture-Lab, etc have more finance courses from which I cam learn from.

For all those who wish to understand finance, and feel their college curriculum isn’t sufficient, I’d suggest the Intro to Finance course at Coursera. It surely has inspired me to explore finance in-depth. Hopefully, by another year, I’d be good enough to tell you about my exploits in finance. Cheers!

What do you do when your staff do not actually want to work and they still want their pay and annual list of holidays? What if the patients do not want to pay a single penny out of their pockets for their treatment? Well, that is very much the case in most of the hospitals and Nursing Homes in Bihar. Consequently, there are very few well-maintained hospitals and nursing homes in Bihar. One of them is run by my parents in my hometown Gaya, Bihar. Guess what? It has my name: Abhineet Nursing Homes and Laporscopic Centre Pvt Ltd.

As a result, I have always been intrigued by healthcare dynamics ever since I was a small kid. Part of it was because I was involved in so many dinner conversations about ill patients, operation procedures to be performed, unwillingness of people to pay, stupidity of the staff. So, when dad asked me to look after its management, I naturally said a yes.

In this post, I’ll let you know of the first big problem I noticed: Managing the Human Resources at my nursing home. It indeed is tough in a town like Gaya where the healthcare ecosystem needs to improve considerably. And when people are not used to perfecting their job, it is indeed tough to train them to be awesome at their job. But, I have always cherished challenges, especially ones being close to my heart. I’ll keep you updated as to what all problems I encountered and how I went on to solve them sometime later. Need to go for dinner right now!

Before you start reading, have you checked my startup ContentMate?

Now read on:

While I have blogged before for a media publication as well as my own blog for startup news and resources, I felt I should have a personal blog to convey what I think as an individual. Here are the top 2 reasons why I made this blog:

• Gives me an online identity – If you’d search for my name on Google or for that matter any other search engine, you’d find whatever I have written for Hungry N Foolish, or for Penn Olson (now Tech in Asia). But somehow all the posts written were either only on startup news or on internet/software. With this blog, I’d be writing more personal posts as to what I’m upto these days and how you can get my help!
• I have a Tumblr but it’s mostly been dormant till now. And, I think Tumblrs are not a very interactive platform to know a reader’s opinion. WordPress is better! You can check my personal website as well as my Tumblr. Go. have a look!

Sometimes, I wish to write on just about anything – so subscribe to this blog’s RSS if you want to read my ramblings about life. You can also follow me on Twitter – I’m @abhineetsays, or subscribe for my Facebook updates.

I mostly talk about startups, developing this place into a better world, the books I read, the people I meet and about my work experiences with different clients I work with.

In case you want to talk to me in length, just say a hi on abhineet@hungryNfoolish.com. Meanwhile, I will configure the design and the content of this blog as to how and when I get time. Cheers!