Frugal Innovation

What is frugal and what makes me to write this topic?

It is basically a mantra of “DOING MORE WITH LESS RESOURCES” i.e. we are cutting down the cost and non essential parts without compromising its quality of the product.

Why we should act in frugal manner?
To fight against decrease in resources, we need to introduce greener, efficient and reliable products which cause zero impact on our environment. And the solution to this problem is frugal engineering.
Frugal engineering is extensively practiced in developing countries like India, Brazil and China. Since the per capita income is very less in emerging markets, frugal engineering can widely cultivated here. Today many of sectors like industrial automation, consumer electronics, oil giants and construction houses are practicing sustainable ways to become frugal. Jaipur leg, solar cells and mobile banking are common glimpses of it.

Tata nano, the Indian middle class car is the beautiful reproduction of frugal engineering.

And it is possible because of Mr Ratan Tata, who transformed the dream of a common man’s 3 seated scooter into a roof covered 4 wheel vehicle.
His journey from Singur to Sanand was not at all comfortable. His project was a miracle of market study. Designing, making changes, deleting errors and simultaneously keeping in mind the cost, quality and safety of the passenger was a “tremendous effort undertaken”. When the product was completed, it was declared as a “challenge of dreams”.

To sell a product, you need to appeal customers. And for a country like India, “price comes first after quality”. Thus the manufacturer should keep an eye on the changing life style of the Indian customer.

If we talk of nokia, we can notice how it has degraded. When companies were busy investing in their R&Ds to make products much faster and multitasking enabled, nokia was happy with its old symbian os. Gradually its downfall opened the markets for various handset makers like Micromax,Lenovo and asus.
However from this post, we can say “competition is frugal, frugal is quality”. With the launch of FDI and free flow of cash exchange, India can be the arena for investing giants like US , Uk and Europe.
Today consumers are budget constrained and demanding, so it is very difficult to fool them. Therefore there are lot of challenges and limitation in the path of frugal. But with the advent of low cost _quality products, there is a greater possibility of technology mutation.

Sleep with it…wake with it…live with it

Roti ,kapra and makan

The three basic needs for human existence.

However my poor sixth sense says “we have four”, i.e. food, clothing, shelter and cell phone.

Cell phones are like sensory organs. They teach us how to change, what to change and when to change! It is what you wake up and fall asleep with.
Whether it is text, call or updating status we always hook around for 22 times in24hours.
Just look at me; I walk and talk, check online prices, change tracks, play games and watch movies whenever I get bored..I even check my facebook likes and whatsaap messages while studying, going to bed or talking with someone.

Typically it begins with an hour long daily activity consisting of internet, gaming and social media _which spirals into obsessions and consumes 8 to 9hrs a day. We try not to work and study, avoid friends, family outings, food and sleep. And when we are not a part with it, we get aggressive and outraged.

These are however “the synchronized addicts of today’s generation”; the people with no public relations, the people with stress and frustrations; the people with uncultivated brains..
Some of the common glimpses that you face daily;
Your mom always says, “You are on it for a long”, and you get defensive, claiming that you expect calls and texts from matters regarding studies...But is it so? Or you get a chance to fool your mom.

You are convinced that you cannot do two things at the same time; text and study or call and drive. You never switch it off unless the battery dries off: and make sure that it is in your pocket or bag.

I have acquired a habit of sleeping with it.

I check the last notification at night and wake up impetuously cancelling the snooze button.

After saying so many things, I admit that, “I cannot live without my cell phone”.

Mr. X

The most versatile and ‘highly suspicious’ letter in English alphabet is ‘X’.
From solving simple mathematics to high school problems, ‘Mr. X is the mysterious man in demand’.
           However, it is the blessings of “counting goddess Seshat” who tied a knot with alphabet X for creating mystery in mathematics. This less known highly anticipated alphabet has abundant quench for accepting numbers, variables and data.

My reminiscent thought recapitulates the childhood days of finding ‘X’.
        My father used to squeeze my ears like “toothpaste tube” whenever I failed to find the square root of x^3, There were innumerable other occasions when ‘x’ tried to bully me in his style. Not only me, it is the story of every Ram and Rita, who scratch their head twice before "finding the unknown value of ‘X’’.

 Mathematics would have been less interesting if there were no Mr. ‘X’.

Everyone hates his mischievous nature. He is at times cool and at times unruly. His best friend is ‘Y’ and his distant neighbors are ‘w’ and ‘z’.
Our dependence on grey cells is highly enhanced if Mr. X is with us. He is perhaps the master key that opens every lock.

           Although, above praises makes no sense unless you are stuck by a problem. At that moment, he tries to replicate complications by increasing step complexity. His malignant brothers keep "the trouble on the go" by injecting variables at multiple places.

             Despite his strange behavior, I imagine him as  "ups and down" of human life.
All of us are running for a stable value of ‘x’.  In this process our life is succumbed with x amount of pain and x^2 amount of happiness.
          When our value will fall to x=0, nobody will remember us then...  At that time we may rise up again, enduring all values of pain and move towards the “unknown value of ‘x” ’…..