Go Offline for value.

The future of fiscally sustainable businesses not dependent on venture funding will be offline, and relationship oriented. Anything which is easily available will not build a payer centric business. Everyone is a content creator now days, however it is a low entry barrier business. High end solutions will always be boutique, and scale is not always a profitable outing. Business is a value creation enterprise.

Think essential services.

Bangla in Venice.

Arabic is an international language, Dr Amitav Ghosh in the Jamia-Wits Talk on writing the Oceanic Imagination. Bangla has the same number of speakers however it is not an international language but a language of intimacy. Bangla in Brooklyn to Venice to Dubai to Singapore. It is a global language.

Durgapur Diasporas.

Yesterday, on my flight to Singapore i found two skilled insulation works technicians aka migrants workers from Kolkata speaking in thick Bardhaman dialect of Bangla which is very familiar as a part of my family comes from Birbhum/Asansol belt. They are a part of a rising trend from mofussil Bengal from Hindu agrarian families to take up work in Singapore, in parallel to their cousins from across the border.

Malda and Mushirdabad has long held diaspora networks in the Gulf.

It is interesting to note these transnational migrant worker networks which are taking root in West Bengal. Bengali diaspora is more than the standard categories of the East Coast Presidency College Grad Student and the West Coast Jadavpur IT grad.