BHELPURI THOUGHTS: On Innovation and Entrepreneurship with Poems and Stories of my times

BHELPURI is a serving of puffed rice in spicy sauces with onion, coriander and other condiments. The interesting ingredient of bhelpuri is the puri (a wafer), which is edible and serves as a spoon. Bhelpuri though associated with city of Mumbai, has found its variants all across India and in fact the globe.

Metaphorically, Bhelpuri can also map to the French word "potpourri", a veritable collection of odds and ends. The ingenuity of the bhelpuri server lies in adding different ingredients into the sauce creating unique flavours. It also could reflects the multitude of activities that is a part of life. Our disordered thoughts when they get manifested and expressed, potentially could be unique, tangy and mouth watering - most important - fulfilling and meaningful.

I hope you will get a taste of Bhelpuri - reading this small book and savor the flavors slowly!

Let us meet

Thoughts that arise inside my mind are so diverse and are influenced by so many triggers that it is impossible to capture them all. Surprise that they became stories and poems over a period of time in my life. Further, many of these started as questions in my professional work as a scientist, researcher in applied software science and then as an entrepreneur and an innovation consultant. Most of these were unplanned - perhaps therefore real and pure - from deep inside me. The small poems that I call thought-snippets are windows to my mind and feelings over multiple years of passing through life. The stories - some of them happened because of specific events, some my mind imagined and created. The articles on innovation and starting up on developing an idea are part of potential ways and means to achieve your goals and ends. The key is these are not straight forward as steps in a process or an algorithm. All these are interlinked in ways that you - dear reader - have to find on your own.

The question is why these thoughts occur and why I expressed them in these articles, poems and stories? It is a mystery and a personal journey to understand myself. Who am I? Why am I? What am I? Why do we exist? Why does the universe exist? The questions remained unanswered to me. Experts were ignorant of my questions

Experts

On War

On everything else And love -

Experts are Ignorant

Mind gets vibrations coming from multiple directions, from variety of events, triggers and experiences. These for me became my thoughts. Then were manifested into multiple artifacts - the articulation form took articles, poems and stories. Looking back at these, it gives a flow of my mind in different dimensions and directions.

Perhaps these will connect with you at some points and paths - lets meet and feel each other's hearts at least once - welcome!

The Book has five parts Part 1 is on Innovation, Starting-up, Entrepreneurship and Global Changes. Part 2, Part 4, and Part 5 are Poems of various aspects and dimensions written over different periods, collated on specific themes or aspects. Part 3 has short stories written during the decade of 1985-1995.