00:12I learned the traditional Angra way to do this, right?
00:17Can you make a fine?
00:35This pimento is a small token of our gratitude for Ramoji's family, enduring commitment
00:42to media, academia, public service, and culture, which continues to inspire generations.
00:52Thank you, Sree Prasadgaru, Sree Rajat, and Professor Karthik.
00:58It's now my honor to invite and request the CH Kirangaru, Chairman Inadu Group, to speak
01:04at this occasion.
01:08Namaskaram.
01:09Good evening and a very hearty welcome to all of you on behalf of the Ramoji family.
01:17And also, if ISB is kind enough, as the future alumni of ISB.
01:29One day I shall be here is one dream.
01:34Let us hope so.
01:36Thank you very much for joining us, Consul General.
01:39And it's a rare privilege to have Rajat Gupta Ji in his August presence in our midst.
01:48And Jeevi Prasadgaru has been a very good friend of the family.
01:52Thank you very much, all distinguished guests.
01:57And the youngsters, I feel jealous of you.
02:00I wish I was about 30 years younger.
02:03And I had probably not chosen to graduate somewhere else.
02:13But anyway, I'll get going here.
02:17So, father was an agnostic management thinker.
02:22He never believed in formal education.
02:25The one thing he used to tell us is that go to any institution in the world, we will send
02:31you there, but then come back, unlearn whatever you've learned there, and then start learning
02:38again in my university, the Ramoji University, and which is what we exactly did.
02:46But he never stood in our way of going abroad or studying abroad.
02:52Neither us or his grandchildren, but a very avid reader of Dale Carnegie and Drucker,
03:07right in the way back in the 1958-1959, very avid reader, and to the last day, he was a
03:15practitioner
03:15of management principles.
03:18Though he never believed in formal management education.
03:24I think the relationship began with Thomas Schmidhaini Center here and Professor Kavil.
03:32Until the relationship began with ISB.
03:35And then, hopefully, it will continue to grow and flourish.
03:40And thank you once again for being here, all of you distinguished guests.
03:46And let's look forward to a very enjoyable evening.
03:54Thank you very much.
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