DK Kapila The Oracle

  Distractions !! Distractions !! Or Enchanted ! Dinesh K Kapila I was just about to unlock the latch of the gate for my last walk of the day. Scared by doctors, I break up my walk into say three parts of 4000 steps each, at least that is the intention. Noble intention.,Just then Akash, who irons our clothes drove up on his motor bike. Now do note and remember as you read on that what I describe is happening in seconds. One has to know exactly what is happening. Akash had just driven up. As he was driving up, I was stepping out of the gate and turned towards the gate to latch it while stepping out, I noticed a young girl coming from the opposite side. Meanwhile I completed dropping the latch of the gate. Young Akash, around twenty two years old, is dismounting from the motorbike, he sees the young girl in shorts. He is actually looking at her as he smartly unlocks the side stand of the mobike to make the bike and stand and remove the bundle of ironed clothes, yet he is mainly looki...

  Corruption and OJT (Training) and what not ! Dinesh K Kapila The general articles we come across on corruption are centred around its impact and ethics. Serious ponderous stuff. Very few are of the personally experienced types, difficult to believe if you are a citizen here. We pretend we do not know it practically while decrying it generally. Sitting around, I thought why not share a few such episodes, with the OJT - On the Job Training - (OJT) on Corruption and Bribery really giving me a deep insight into the importance of good hands on training and inputs in all walks of life, be it legal, illegal, ethical or unethical. A sort of skill development and empowerment through practical exposure. Professionalism ! This was say three decades or so ago. Our ancestral city of Hoshiarpur. My grandfather’s grand mansion was to be sold, times were trying, we had lost my Tayaji (elder uncle) to terrorists, I do not want to delve into that unhappiness. Well, my father, his brother, nephew a...

  LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF START UPS. DINESH K KAPILA, CGM (Retd), NABARD, Mentor My subject areas today are For a Start Up How to Plan Legal and Ethical Steps. Now this is a somewhat gray area for most founders, they often overlook this. Or leave it to advisors. I am going to emphasise here that my coverage will be based on what I know, perceive and observe, specially as regards Ethics. The typical founder is so involved in raising resources, deploying manpower, meeting investors and fire fighting, that the legal side or aspects get lower attention. Its often delegated to a legal recruit, often with minimal real world legal or court experience.  As about Ethics, we have to be able to balance it against the need for the hustle in business, the need to grow exponentially, the pressure of investors and plain simple greed.   Let  me clarify I am not a lawyer or expert, I just have an interest in start ups and this issue is something I have often encountered in...