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Q. Out of curiosity, how does Covid vaccine and geo-politics work?
A. It’s not a question of curiosity, we are a highly populated nation so
today if you look at the world population India will be close to 12 to
15%. So our challenges are different if you have to vaccinate the whole
nation and twice and now we are talking about booster dose. There
are also people who don’t believe in vaccines, so I don’t know how
to educate these people because, by taking vaccine you are helping
yourself because there is no negative thing and if government is
giving you free dose, I don’t understand wisdom of not taking the
dose.
So, the moral of the story is Covid is an unknown enemy nobody
knows what will happen, nobody knows if there is going to be a
fourth wave or 5th or 6th where this has to happen, the only way to
protect ourselves is to increase our immunity, hence immunity can
be increased by many things one of the strategies vaccine in addition
to that there are so many other things.

Q. How will IT help Tier 2, Tier 3 cities and rural India get connected to
the mainstream or benefit through Hyper connectivity?
A. See firstly thanks to covid and work from home and work from
anywhere so moment you are talking about work from anywhere.
now, thanks to internet, professionals can choose where they want
to work from, can be Indore or Kolhapur or any other place. This is
where competitiveness comes, I will choose to operate from a city
which costs lesser.
Not only expenses then there is one cost concept of native where
you have relatives and known third thing is what you mentioned is
connectivity, now we have a big challenge there like literacy unless
technology goes with it, Norway was the first country in 20 years
back which announced Internet as a human right so unless and until
we consider Internet as a human right then all 1.3 billion Indians
should get it and 6G, high bandwidth, so unless or until this happens
and I see a big roadblock in this process because unfortunately
technology is coming only in urban areas.
Technology providers think that market exists only in urban areas
there is no market in rural India if there is no money then like
freebies and 2G scam, the technical sector got killed because of
this lowering of claims because they themselves become bankrupt
because they didn’t have profits, if you don’t have profits where will

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