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The IT Cottage Industry

My mom is a brilliant chef! The best there is! She has had about 30 years of cooking experience and she has been at since she was twelve. Similarly, my colleague's father is a master automobile engineer and has been working with vehicles for a great deal of time now. Many of my uncles are profound at their religion and mantras. This is a generation that we look at with great pity, since they did not have the power of information and computing at their disposal. Well, atleast that is what i hear when people talk about them. And it is hilarious to say the least. This is a generation which might not have had Wikipedia or Google at their disposal, but were equally and perhaps more knowledgeable and experienced in certain things in their days than what we are today. They did not have information at their disposal, but rather they hunted it out, and held it close and together even after all these years. That is information you cannot ignore, that is knowledge that we must not let go of. So as i sat about doing nothing fantastic at office, i realised the amount of value, monetary, this information had. You are talking about expertise gained over 30 years, in very specific areas ranging from South Indian cuisine, Motor bikes and Sanskrit mantras. Most of these things from our culture as human beings.

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