I read a sarcastic and slightly caustic report last month on a leading website about Capt. Gopinath’s failed venture, Deccan 360. One of the people quoted in the article said the serial entrepreneur failed because he lacked financial discipline. Another said the first-generation businessman was guilty of not having the right people in place to realise his vision for him. The pseudo-sympathy when the article mentioned that he stands to lose his house, was hard to miss. The article left me feeling disgusted. We would do a lot better if we could just cut back on the moralising and the fake sympathising and learn to report a failed venture as just that. Was this country built on the successes of a handful of industrialists? No. It was also built on the toil of the ones who dared to dream and couldn’t make it. For every successful businessman, there are a couple of hundred more, who tried and failed. We are who we are because of them too. Why are we as a nation, so eager to pan failure? It
