We are one year old today

Happy Barthday Wonder Grass!!!!

One year in operations – October 2’ 2007 – October 2’ 2008.

Wonder Grass is precisely one-year old today. It was the 2nd october’2007 that we initiated the activities of Wonder Grass in a formal way.

We were partly lucky that we could actually start working from out first office at Bangalore from 2nd October, officially, and so we decided that may be this is the most appropriate day to start with.

The date of 2nd Cotober, has a very symbolic significance to what we have started out to develop as an enterprise or a venture under the name of ‘Wonder Grass’.

The vision is to bring bamboo based building systems in the mainstream of construction industry. This will ensure that the building-industry will have an option or a choice of using a building-material that is sustainable, ecologically sound which also creates spectrum of economic opportunities for a wide spectrum of society, specially in the rural and semi-urban areas.

This will in part ensure some movement of money to the rural economy.

One more reason why we believe that 2nd October probably is a fitting coincidence, is that we believe in the spirit of innovation. Innovation ins every aspect of the enterprise and all the dimensions of the enterprise, some are tangible some intangible.

Mahatma Gandhi, we think was and still is one of the very creative and innovative individuals in the Indian history. From political strategies, spiritual discourses, socio-economic movements, lifestyle adoption, he constantly innovated.

The spirit was to continuously evolve, to look at the situations from a fresh perspective, the problem was an opportunity to put in action yet another of the innovations in practice. There was at the same time openness to change, to except the failure and work on it to refine and evolve.

This is the spirit which if Wonder Grass as team, organization could inculcate and internalize will make our journey a lot more wonderful and interesting.

We shall take a look at the progress of Wonder Grass in the last one year in the subsequent post.