Sunday 23 July 2017

IT IS JUST NOT ENOUGH

If you divide 22 by 7 what will you get? 3.14285714………. Mathematicians tell us that this (value of pie) can never be answered. Similarly can you answer how much money you need? And even if you have imagined a number, think would that be enough or shouldn’t it be slightly more… Fact of the matter is that it is just not enough….Cut a cake into exactly equal pieces but the one that you will get will never seem to be the largest!!!

Laxmi Lal is a daily wage labourer. He lays brick on brick ,add cement to lay a wall and make a house, and, himself lives in a shanty , the construction of which do not follow any laws of architecture. Manages to earn around Indian Rupees 5,000 per month. He rues that he doesn’t have enough money to ensure that he is able to have, may be not protein rich and fat free but some sort of three meals in a day, every day. Occasionally if a bottle of country liquor, in the night can be there, it will be wonders. Sometimes, when Laxmi Lal manages to have a drink in the night, invariably, lying somewhere outside his shanty, he gets awaken by a cab, at 3:00 a.m. in the night, dropping a BPO employee Bharat Kumar…

Bharat Kumar works for a BPO firm who services their client customers which are based outside India. Though he got very poor grades in his mother tongue Hindi language subject when in school, yet now speaks with an accent which is more American to Americans even.Bharat earns around Indian Rupees 15,000 per month and rues that he doesn’t have enough money to ensure that he is able to have a bike of its own and not depend on call centre cab. Also a secret desire, that bike is costly and impressive enough, to have on the back seat of the bike, beautiful daughter of his next door neighbor Raja Malhotra.

Raja Malhotra is a mid level manager in a private limited company dealing in courier and logistics. For almost all his life he has worked as a slave in this company. Manages to earn around Indian Rupees 60,000 per month. He rues that he doesn’t have enough money that he can start his own business and will not have to work for any other person. Like any other salaried person he feels that he works more but earns less and is indispensable. But the universal truth is that this is never true. Raja has joined “art of living “course and among his friends there is Shalin Gupta

Shalin Gupta is a trader of vegetables and earns hordes of money by hoarding stocks of onions, tomatoes and releasing on premium. Doesn’t like to follow any law of the land, including as complex as jumping red light and as simple as evading taxes. Manages to earn around Indian Rupees 5, 00,000 per month. He rues that he doesn’t have enough money that he can buy a house in the very posh locality of his city of residence. Dreams of living in this area, building a temple and spending his retired life in the company of the real rich classy people like he saw a photograph of Vidyapati Singhania.

Vidyapati Singhania or VS as he was popularly know has recently won “Business Magnate of the Year” award for his path breaking model of low cost mobile phones. VS managed to earn around 50,00,000 per month, however rued the fact that he doesn’t have enough money to have a private premium jet of his own….Anyway was building a premium villa for himself and Laxmi Lal was one of the labourer working on the site…

It is just not enough!!!

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