Building life on a platform and purpose

Updated on: Thursday, April 07, 2011

As you enter your new world, you stand on what is called a platform. In its current form, the platform is largely incomplete. Once you have a good and complete platform, you will shift your focus on your purpose. So you have to build your life on two axes – platform and purpose, N.S. Parthasarathy, Chief Executive Officer, Independent Testing and IMTS, MindTree, said here on Sunday.

At the graduation day of Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, he said that there were many ways to build a platform and purpose. There were a few who built them to make parents and teachers proud, while there were others who built them the wrong way.

“There are six personal values on which you can build your career and life. These are caring, learning, achieving, sharing, social responsibility and integrity,” Mr. Parthasarathy said.

Elaborating on learning, he said learning had two dimensions to it – development and innovation. Many thought that once the graduation was over, learning came to an end. He urged them to realise that learning orientation for continuous improvement of skills and knowledge had to be with them forever. Innovation meant thinking out of the box and not being afraid of trying new ideas and having the confidence to take it forward.

Touching upon the personal value of integrity, he said there were breaches of integrity all around. Everyday there was a report of one scam or the other.

“We live in a nation which is one of the most corrupt in the world. It is in our hands to change this forever and young people will play a large role in changing this,” Mr. Parthasarathy said.

A.K. Pattabiraman, Head-Accreditation, Tata Consultancy Services, said the next decade belonged to India and that there was a sea of opportunity awaiting its people.

“The Information Technology-BPO market is opening up. NASSCOM has predicted that the software and services export revenues will grow at the rate of 16 per cent to 18 per cent, while the domestic revenues are expected to grow at the rate of 15 per cent to 17 per cent,” Mr. Pattabiraman said.

S. Thangavelu, Chairman, and T. Dheepan, Secretary, of the college, spoke.

Building life on a platform and purpose

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