Aditya Vikram Thoomati

The 12th Plan is Coming!

“Farmers’ income and agri-land yields need to be enhanced to meet the growing foodgrains demand in the coming years, building on the success of the 11th Plan. Paradoxically, we should not aim at increasing total employment in agriculture. In fact, we need to move people out of agriculture by giving them gainful employment in the non-agricultural sector” <- Hah! Technically correct but logically wrong, Mr. PM & Pawar, especially coming to think of food security.

Now, the ‘only’ hope is to retain the young, pumping in more intellectual capital into the agrarian society. Not sure how that is going to happen with no compliance structure in place.

But then, kudos to the 3.3% Agri boost from 2.4%. Look forward to the 12th Plan now.  

I Work At The Startup Centre

This had been sitting in my drafts for quite some time. So, thought I might as well publish it, with a lot of folks asking me what I do for a living and such.

I guess it’s been one of the best decisions I made so far. To me, life has always been like an Aircraft. An Aircraft where all things get built, tested and reworked upon right from inside. The aircraft took off from a very slippery grass strip, stalled a couple of times and has now landed on The Startup Centre’s very hard asphalt runway and now taxiing at the base. Right now, I’m just at the makeshift Hangar helping other airplanes fly high and safe, fine tuning my own. It’s a phenomenal experience and there is absolutely an immense amount of learning that tags along. Coming to think of what I’m going to be, years down the line, I have no clue. Maybe I just ran out of fuel to re-takeoff. Having dropped out of college is like probably like plugging out the auto-pilot systems but it’s okay. Is it really a necessity minus convenience? I doubt it. All I see is the micron level engineering and precision that goes into an aircraft build. And that’s gonna pay off some day. Pay off so much that I’d fly much higher than Howard Hughes ever did. With that, I’m off to check off the “Correct Altimeter” from my list cuz the pressure is off by a bit within self. ;)