Bøger af Neeraj Bhatia

It's a story about ordinary people who get together and do something extraordinary, Life hadn't treated them well, but they decide to take life in their own hands and not only do they manage to change their own lives, they take every common person in the world with them. They create a business model, which changed life of millions and in process they are offered billions, the big question in front of them was what was important? Billions of pounds or billions of people!! Veer Ajmera, a sales manager for an Insurance broking firm in one square mile, London meets Heidi Truman, an American freelance research journalist, who is part of the panel which independently adjudges the awardees for Insurance industry, where he is one of the nominees. She finds Veer the man she always had looked for and thought didn't exist. He finds her much more than what he had imagined his dream woman to be. After couple of meetings with him, she decides to back out of her wedding with a senior journalist Dirk, who she lives with in USA. While he is waiting one day at a station for Heidi, he comes across a homeless person Pukhraj Thapar, who was his biggest client in the past but had lost everything and had disappeared. Dirk is enraged because he loves Heidi even though she never did, and had helped her financially and somehow convinced her to marry him, but when she walks out of the relation, he makes it difficult to even go back and work in USA. Veer, while looking at news of Egypt, London riots, and Arab unrest combined with what Cheryl said. comes up with a unique business idea around creating a social networking site around the issues in the world which could connect people, where a local issue could have global audience, where people could express their opinion on things that matter. A platform where world could come together for a reason, unrest could be taken from streets and pressure could be increased by a global support to a cause. Unique point in his model was that unlike other sites, he had thought about immediate revenue stream for the site. He shared the idea with Pukhraj and Heidi, who got very excited by it, they also decide to get Jonathan, Cheryl and Pukhraj's ex Secretary Jackie, who had worked in city for 15 years in similar roles and was looking for a change as she was bored to death. All 6 of them meet up, discuss the idea and agree to work together on the project. Pukhraj comes up with a unique idea of raising the initial capital through micro financing unit model. The idea is to get it to a stage where it becomes attractive enough for big player to buy them off in 3 years' time. They decide to call the site GSM - Global Social Mission. They are able to raise some money and partner with an Indian IT company to get the site live and also partner with a small, but capable marketing company, which helps them to launch the site with very successful events in Goa, London, and New york. The site starts becoming very popular and in a year, they manage to make it a concept, which even governments can't ignore. Two major super powers decide to use this platform to reach out to people worldwide by helping them, instead of just aiding governments of developing countries in order to use their influence worldwide. Pukhraj also adds another dimension to the site. He realised that most of the issues are due to unemployment, lack of opportunity and corporate monopoly. He launches a global co-operative model, using micro finance model for initial capital, to set small units of unemployed literates coming together to start their own enterprise and also includes support of corporate world and government to it The site gains ground and crosses 200 million users. And finally the day comes when they are offered £6 billion for their exit. Would they exit?

CAGE is third and the last part of the trilogy. The first being ESCAPE and the second being GREY. This is my ECG test of the world which has a heart problem, where I feel bypass surgery would not bring any change and suggest my own heart transplant thought process to try and bring a change. Robinhood aka Robin is an intellectual with business ideas fails to make a mark in the white world and accidently comes up with an idea which makes him reach on the top of the black one. When heat from authorities' sets in he decides to take the responsibility and gets imprisoned. During his imprisonment, he comes across a group of inmates called prison reform group who want the world to become a place without prisons. They induct him in the group and motivate him to use his skills to come out with an idea to achieve their goal on his release. He goes beyond their expectation and gives their goal a perfect multifaceted solution which involves a lot of industry experts. In the process of this journey he realises that the group has a big finance base and support by some very powerful people who have a dark ulterior motive behind it. This story is about his journey from prison to League of Nations and beyond to realise his dream, a dream called Project Cage.

Grey is a story of how intelligence and technology can positively change the world. It is set up in background of current recession and uprising by common people throughout the world. It is to make people believe that if they come together, work together, still there is hope and destined end of world date might bring a new beginning, a real beginning. Muslim world realises that their aim of being accepted as a supreme ideology is failing because of their methodologies. A faction of their core group believes that with their current actions, they are alienating themselves and instead of being accepted they are being hated worldwide. Instead of arms they decide to use economy as the new weapon and burst the so called artificial bubble of western economy and show people that real success is in following ideal way of life. They hire a think tank headed by Neel who has a brain for ideas, eye for loopholes, knowledge of markets and hatred for not being accepted by his family, to implement the plan. Neel believes that a change cannot be brought by a renovation but needs to get rid of the current structure and build a new one. As the existing structure has so many cracks that it cannot be fixed. His employers believe that if and when the people in western world suffer because of downfall of economy, it would create a gap for them to come as saviours by providing those homes, jobs and open up people's mind to accept the supremacy of their ideology. They even buy in a retail bank and football club to reach out to people of the western world and try to be accepted as part of them. But the problem starts when the members of the group start following personal agendas for their own benefits as when power comes it opens up bag of worms Neel has his own plan and group, for him grey or middle class of the society should unite and be empowered to self-govern, for him evolution of human race means self-disciplined individuals who don't need governance, a globe that will be white and won't have colours or borders. His unique co-operative model brings people together, gives them homes, jobs and a will to make their lives better. He plans his own unique model which would give the word democracy its true meaning, where the governments would be by the people, of the people, for the people. A model which would take human race to the next level where in sand of times each individual would leave a foot print rather than a bum print, and would say together we can and we will. A war of wits, weapons and wealth follows which draws blood in the end Will the day of grey ever dawn?

Bracket [On Sharing] considers the historic roots of sharing and their relationship to contemporary models of sharing. Sharing is one of the humanity's most basic traits; we intrinsically recognize the benefits of pooling resources within a community in order take advantage of varied abilities and access in order to fulfill needs. The impact of sharing goes beyond simply satisfying the necessities for survival and extends itself into the social and cultural dimensions of our communities. In constructing an urban commons, composed of collectively managed and shared resources, we shape our physical, social, and cultural environments to achieve some degree of shareabilty--whether of goods, services, or experiences. These historic and evolved cultural roots ensure that sharing is inevitably part of our daily lives. Yet, its central role in how we organize and manage our cities is increasingly threatened. Within a context of increased emphasis on the individual and privatization of the commons, sharing holds much promise for re-evaluating our economic, political, and social relations to equitably distribute resources and services at the scale of both the individual and the collective.

New Investigations in Collective Form presents a group of design experiments by the design-research office THE OPEN WORKSHOP, that test how architecture can empower the diverse voices that make up the public realm and the environments in which they exist. Today, society continues to face urban challenges--from economic inequality to a progressively fragile natural environment--that, in order to be addressed, require us to come together in a moment when what we collectively value is increasingly difficult to locate. Organized into five themes for producing collectivity--Frameworks, Articulated Surfaces, the Living Archive, Re-Wiring States, and Commoning--the projects straddle the fine line between the individual and collective, informal, and formal, choice and control, impermanent and permanent.

Bracket [Takes Action] contains over 28 essays and 15 design projects that are structured into six sub-themes: ReAction, CounterAction, InterAction, FAction, InAction, and RetroAction. The intent of the fourth almanac of Bracket is to unpack the contemporary possibility of action through design.