Mr Rajesh Sinha contributed this for my page.
Once upon a time in a village, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs 10.
The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at Rs 10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.
He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs 25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs 50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs 35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs 50.”
The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
Then they never saw neither the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!
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Morning 31st Dec 2006.
The ending of each year is really enjoyable for newspaper readers. There are less and less general news and more special articles of comparisons between the bests. Reading the articles is really fun. Especially if the end is a Sunday, then it is supplemented by the more papers. Today when I went through the Sunday article one article really fascinated me so much. The essence was every successful woman has dependence on some man for her success and there is no exception. Till now I believed every successful man has a woman behind her success. Reading the article was really fun. According to the author the woman always depends upon some man and their genes are made by the creator in such a way.
However there is only one exception, while the sucess of a man is through the inspiration of a woman, the women grew through the assistance of a man.
Like other normal day I reached home at around half past eight from office. However unlike other days the colony was not silent. There were no change in normal crowd in the outer, but the voices from TV were abnormally louder. The houses which otherwise were silent, were booming with TV sound. Incredible, I thought people are preparing for New Year before two days, Dito at my own house.
What I found out was really shocking and horrified. Police have recovered skeletons which may range from 6 to 15 wrapped in gunny bags from the backyard of a house in Noida. The worst conditions of human behaviour. I can not understand how some one is so brutal. The most of the children were just 5 or 6 years old. How can someone kill the innocent childrens who were yet to see the world . The person has been doing the same for such a long period without notice. Had it been for a single child we would have blamed the person only. The as the children were belonging to poor villagers, the police took it granted that they don’t deserve to live in a world which is full of reach people like them. Consequenty they never acted when the first missing report was filed with the. Doubts are even created even to count the number of children murdered, As police have never lodged the FIR of missing childred for most of the cases.
When we were viewing the news my four year old son asked,”Papa what is Kankal”. He was aware that some one has taken away many children of his age, may be a child thief. I answered “Beta Hadi”. It was so difficult to make him understand that why the person killed so many. In the night when he was reluant to ear his super his mother told him, Eat other wise the person will take you. Would he take my Didi also, No, Her mother replied. She has taken her super. Then with whom I will play there. You know I don’t like to play with others, was his question. We don’t have an answer.
The life has been never changed for common people. When civilisation was premitative and we were living in jungles, there were animals and we were unprotcted. Now there are such people and we are protected by a special force called police. life will go on in the same way. India is really Incredible.
So many years of loging into T V programmes. However I could not develope a habbit of searching for news programmes on TV, Except very special hot news. I am really addicted to the TV but my addictation is limited to the films, family operas, Nationa geograpjy, Discovery, animal Plant and some times Cricket or World cup for football. I never relied on TV for news. the News chanals are so much commercialised that we see less news but only advertisemens on TV. The idea if flashing headlines during the whole day just make me bored.
Yesterday also I missed the news.
Morning when I saw the news of Mamta breaking her Fast i got relieved like som many of others. I do think that Mamta must have been relieved. She would never had imagined that har fast would have streatched so much long. It was a publicity shunt she made and which could have taken her life had Mr Dasgupta been more uncomprismising. I really appreciated Mr Dasgupta, thet during the whole period he never made any statement for rolling back of the project. Any way people of West Bangal must have been brathed smoothly yesterday.
Though there are many hick ups for TATAs, but they can go ahead somewhat smoothly now for their dream project and people of India for their promised ONE LAKH CAR.
Today morning when I went through the news of yesterday, there were two special news which attracted me. let be the good one. The Ruias are biding the Hutch components of their joint venture for some thing like 14 million dollars. Great news.The editorial of a premire daily gave this news much emphasis as it shows the financial institutions have given Indian industry a very optimistic look,Other wise how can Ruias who have delulted for making instalment payment for their other mega projects could mope up such a huge amount of finance with their dubicious back record. The financials institutions are ready to lend them money with bad records is shows the instutions faith in Indian economy not Ruias, thats what the daily told.
Now the bad one Mamata Didi has reached 24days of hunger strike and her health is detorating very fast. Even she was administrated oxygen. I don’t visualise what the three parties i.e. Mamta along with BJP and Left trade Unions, Ruling Left pary along with Congress and thirdly Tatas are been looking for. Should any one from the three parties withdraw form the fight the decision be made in a way. Every one is losing some thing with the fight. For Tata’s the delay will enhance the project cost and ultimately the same will affect its bottom line, even if the project goes through the same will be very trubled one in long run as there will ever be suspision between the tatas and local people. For other two parties it is a presige issue and hence it will never have an end. Even if they were in the opposite positions Mamata ruling and Left in opposition the fight ought to be there. In fact I agree with Prime ministor that if we fought for such a small project how can we attain the growth.
These fights will go on until we get matured.
Happy new year to you all
Once during a non-formal chatting some one told me a story of a misunderstood genius. The person was a doctor with rare caliber. However his problem was he used to take his profession as a cause been bestowed upon him by the god. He would often make treatment of poor without any consideration. He was famous and people would respect him as a representative of god. He was meant for that.
Like a normal man he also got married. The things changed dramatically after his marriage. As any normal person his wife was also hooked to generation of the wealth and she was from a well to do family. The sole intention of getting married to a famous doctor was money and fame. But slowly she found her dreams scattered, she became frustrated and behaved like so. Their clinic was adjacent to the house. And she would often spill buckets of water in to the cabin or such things, which will embarrass both her husband and the patients. Slowly the rich stopped coming to the clinic and went to the other doctors as they can easily afford it. The poor people who also stopped coming, in fear of his wife. The doctor lost both fame and the ways of earning the money. It was the story of a person captioned behind every unsuccessful genius there is a woman
A few Days Back I was going through old articles of news paper the incident of Baba Ramdev surfaced. Baba was always favorite of intellectuals, but common man like me was never concerned about it. There is no doubt that Baba was a genius and his command on the yoga is really praise worth. However till a year back he was never darling of the masses. He was adored by only the intellectual class and his influence was limited to their drawing rooms, as a show piece of their knowledge. Only the persons who are sick and could not find and solace from the traditional diseases would visit Baba for his yoga and traditional medicines. How ever the things changed dramatically after Ms Karat complained about the presence of bones etc in the medicines and she questioned Baba's contribution to the mankind. The intention of Ms Karat was still unknown to me. May be it was instant publicity stunt, let what ever be the reason and what she had achieved from the same which is still unknown to us. Baba came out from drawing room of intellectuals to the masses. People have started following him in a big way to change their life. They are believing that simple living combined with yoga can enhance the life in both qualitative and quantative way. The caption behind every successful man there is a woman perfectly suits him
