Business touches our lives even when we’re sleeping, opines entreprenuer and author Subroto Bagchi, referring to his fourth and latest book MBA at 16.Known as the co-founder of MindTree Inc, but also popular for his books titled Go Kiss The World: Life Lessons for the Young Professionals, The High Performance Entrepreneur and The Professional, Bagchi says that his fourth book is very different from the previous ones.“Although the common thread to all my books will be that they talk about the success formula, MBA at 16 is something else,” explains Bagchi, who is very clear about the fact that it is not a self- h e l p book.“It will fall under the category of young-adult. However, anyone who wants to feel young can read my book,” he smiles. More from the author: MBA at 16, the ideaThe idea of writing this book struck Bagchi when he realised that the current 16-year-olds will transform into young professionals in probably four or five years and enter the real world.“I thought that if we talk to them when they’re 16, an age at which one is young enough to be imaginative and old enough to understand, it will be easy to converse with them about entrepreneurship and more,” recalls the author. So, even though Bagchi had begun writing the manuscript for MBA at 16, he decided to pause half-way as he realised that the book is about 16-year-olds and he has not met one in a long time.“It hit me that I will need to get into the mindset of a 16-year-old to know how and what they think to be able to write this book,” he adds. That’s when Bagchi decided to take the help of a few teenagers. Turning to 16-year-olds“I took the help of 31 teenagers (16-year-olds) from three schools of Bengaluru – spent time with them and tried to understand what goes inside their head – how they perceive business,” says Bagchi, who then rewrote the book with the insights he gained by spending time with them. The book is all about intelligent conversations, points out the author. “Conversation is the dominant theme of this book. You will find interesting and intellectual conversations between students, student-teacher, child-parent, and many others.” So, is this book fiction or has anecdotes from the author’s experience? To which he explains, “The characters in the book are the children I spent time with.But, there are a lot of instances that are fictional.” Spending time with childrenFor Bagchi, spending time with the 31 teenagers, opened up a whole new perspective to things.He shares, “The time I spent with them left me with a thought that if the policy-makers of our country spend four to five days in a year with children (not their own children), then I don’t think anyone can go wrong with their decisions.” He believes that these children who have so much hope in them and depend on adults who do or decide important things, will ensure the right of the world.“Their hope will ensure that no one does anything wrong – they will not be able to,” he adds confidently before signing off.
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