anand mahindra
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Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this news. Of course, India is a global force in shooting, but most of our success has come in rifle & pistol events. Trap and skeet have always been much tougher to crack, demanding a very different ecosystem of ranges, coaching and competition. That’s what makes Neeru Dhanda’s victory so special. To win an ISSF World Cup gold in trap is one thing. To do it at Lonato, which is one of the sport’s most iconic venues and a place every shotgun shooter reveres, is another. Clay target shooting has long been a European stronghold and is a discipline many Americans proudly regard as their own. Which is why Neeru’s gold feels like such a breakthrough. Congratulations, Neeru. May this be the first of many more podiums. 🇮🇳
anand mahindra945,260 views • 6 days ago
Winning against the Chinese. In China. At the Asian Relay Championships. Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay. Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment. But above all, teamwork. This clip has it all. I’m watching it on loop. More of this please. 🇮🇳
anand mahindra1,291,484 views • 24 days ago
They nicknamed 80 year old Irishman, Caron Rawnsley, ‘Paagal Saab’ for his obsession with cleaning Jodhpur’s Bawris & Jhalaras. Fortunately, today, you don’t need to be either ‘paagal’ or ‘phirang’ to devote yourself to reviving India’s stepwells. Earlier this year, I had posted myself about Chand Baori and how well it was being maintained. Across the country, pioneers like Rajendra Singh and Kalpana Ramesh, organisations such as Tarun Bharat Sangh and Project Bawri, & countless local volunteers & village communities are restoring these extraordinary structures as living symbols of both heritage & water security. But I still want to salute Paagal Saab Caron, for his love of Jodhpur and his selflessness and passion for our heritage. May his work never cease… 🙏🏽 Diya Kumari
anand mahindra245,033 views • 8 days ago
Fifty off 11 balls. Incredible. But it isn’t only that statistic which I applaud Because after the earlier match’s on-field confrontation, he could have carried that baggage into this game. Instead, he carried his bat & let it do the talking. Talent is a gift. But Temperament is a choice. It’s the temperament that will make him a star 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
anand mahindra773,984 views • 27 days ago
When I started Project Nanhi Kali nearly three decades ago, I never imagined it would become a movement of this scale. Today, thanks to all those who joined & shaped the initiative, it has impacted nearly a million girls while creating an ecosystem of communities, corporates and individuals committed to changing what it means to be a girl in India. What I love most is that the team keeps reinventing. Its latest innovation is using football to build confidence, teamwork and leadership. With over 2,350 girls’ teams, this year’s Toofaan Cup mirrors the FIFA World Cup, with teams representing all 32 participating nations. The girls are learning far more than football; they’re discovering the world. My salute to the thousand-odd Skill Associates and the all-women Game Changers and coaches, and to the people who have shaped this journey: Sheetal Mehta, Swati, Rohini Mukherjee, Lisa Murawsky, Radha Varadarajan, Seema, Devu and, of course, the irrepressible Manoj Kumar! May this tribe continue to Rise…
anand mahindra152,521 views • 7 days ago
Yes, we had a disappointing weekend in cricket. But at the same time, I often find myself rubbing my eyes in disbelief at India’s growing competitiveness in sports where I never imagined we’d even be globally competitive. Volleyball. Fencing. Gymnastics. Rowing. Athletics. The list keeps growing. Yes, we’re far from the top step of the podium yet. However, something’s clearly changing at the ground level. Years of effort by governments, both state and central, (outstanding example being Odisha) along with private sector organisations like OGQ and many others, may finally be starting to pay off.. But it is the individual sportspersons, this new generation of champions with grit, resilience and self-belief, who are my #MondayMotivation.
anand mahindra303,255 views • 19 days ago
I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it. It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing. That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents. So how does anyone make money on this? Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province. It wasn’t always there. But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally. Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container. It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter. His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking. But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong. His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi) None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants. Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear) That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI. I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006. Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people.. But I admit that we need to think differently. A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole. I think that’s the work ahead of us now. Not just more factories, and not just more parks. Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood. Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles. We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore. We need to do it on purpose
anand mahindra448,365 views • 1 month ago
The MOVE Conference in London is one of the world’s leading conferences on the future of mobility and transportation. What’s unique about it is that it’s not a traditional automotive show, it’s a cross-industry event where automotive, energy, software, AI, infrastructure, and transport leaders come together to discuss how people and goods will move in the coming decades. We took part in the conference earlier this month & had the BE6 on display. Couldn’t resist sharing the reaction of Robert Llewelyn, who’s the leading journalist out there on all things EV…
anand mahindra98,986 views • 9 days ago
Yeh ladka bahut talented hai. Kya woh abhi bhi Nainital ki sadkon par kaam kar raha hai? Main na sirf uski padhai mein madad karna chahta hoon, balki jaadu mein uski dilchaspi ko bhi badhava dena chahta hoon. Kyon na woh duniya ke behtareen jaadugaron mein se ek bane? Kya koi mujhe usse aur uske mata-pita se sampark karne mein madad kar sakta hai? (Video: courtesy 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙞 𝙉𝙖𝙞𝙣 )
anand mahindra505,931 views • 1 month ago
This clip went viral a while ago. An American vlogger discovers a Ph.D candidate running a food stall, part-time. What struck me as truly special, however, was the end, when he picks up his phone & the vlogger thinks he’s going to show him social media mentions of his stall—but instead, he proudly shows him online the research papers he has authored! Incredible. Unique. Indian.
anand mahindra5,617,372 views • 1 year ago
I’m not sure why I paused on this clip when it appeared on my timeline. I don’t even know the name of the dance form (apparently it’s from Saurashtra) but it shows a grandfather teaching his grandson the steps. Yes, the dance itself is wonderful. Full of energy, joy and life. The kind that makes you want to join in. But what really drew me in was what this clip symbolised: the passing on of tradition, rhythm and memory from one generation to the next. In today’s uncertain world, I found that strangely comforting. That not everything around you will change. It was a reassurance of continuity. #MondayMotivation
anand mahindra448,539 views • 2 months ago
Complimented the team at Mahindra Group for this powerful Father’s Day experiment. Those featured in the film are real Mahindra associates with their fathers and children. I couldn’t help being moved. It brought back a flood of memories of my own father. A man who never put himself at the centre of his life. Everything he did was in support of those he loved and those he called friends. No fireworks. No grand gestures. Just the quiet constancy of being there, with seemingly limitless reserves of love and support. To me, that was the essence of fatherhood. He was always a powerful source of motivation. And the film also left me with a lingering regret: all the opportunities I had, and lost, to know and understand him better. If there’s one lesson in it for me, it’s this: don’t wait. Ask the questions & have the conversations. Get to know your parents while you still can. #MondayMotivation
anand mahindra167,017 views • 26 days ago
In Kerala, apparently you can now call a coconut harvester the same way you book a cab. A uniformed professional arrives on a cycle, equipped, trained, and ready to work. We often speak about India’s services economy in terms of IT exports or global capability centres. But we’re digitising even our most traditional, hyper-local services. There was another detail from this video that stayed with me. The young man who climbed those trees was from Chhattisgarh. When I began my career in our Group’s steel business, many of of our associates working in our furnace and foundry shops had come from states like Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, travelling far from home in search of opportunity. Today, it seems those same aspirations are finding avenues not just in heavy industry, as in the past, but in new-age, tech-enabled services. People moving, adapting and rising are a powerful economic force. And also a force for integration. As long as they’re welcomed by the host states!
anand mahindra584,639 views • 3 months ago
This is apparently a village in Palakkad, Kerala. Shared by Akanksha Parmar to depict a ‘South Indian Village Morning.’ It’s not a tourist destination, nor is it trying to be. But at its best, travel awakens us to moments that are authentic, experiences that endure in our memories. And today, as a #SundayWanderer, I found myself wishing I could step into this village and become a silent participant in its rhythm, simplicity, and grace. The perfect escape from the relentless pace of modern life.
anand mahindra1,394,768 views • 9 months ago
