Nograpo walked slowly, his tail tucked between his legs. He was deep in thought. Nograpo was a fox. He was the wisest and the strongest among the foxes in the island. His world was the island- almost. There were nearby islands. It was an archipelago. He knew that other foxes existed in other islands. During […]
Work- and Happiness.
Sailesh was a colleague of my cousin’s. He was a software professional employed in the same company for the last twenty years. He was good at the particular domain in which he was working. He had become a specialist in that particular branch of work. By his early forties he was drawing a fivelakh salary. […]
Notes and Receipts- and the serrated edge of the Coin -A brief history of money
After an hour of standing in the queue, I got it. A coloured slip of paper. Mahatma Gandhi grinned purplishly from it. The Rupee symbol and the number ‘2000’ featured prominently. This was one of those things which people would die for. If not for one, many might, for a stack of them. On Gandhi’s […]
Money and Happiness- Issues Black, White and Grey:
It was 2002. I was in Trivandrum after I had just passed my MS and become a qualified Surgeon. Trivandrum was a place crawling with specialists of all disciplines. I got a job as junior surgeon in one of the private hospitals. They gave me ten thousand rupees a month. I went to a conference […]
The Black money that works in mysterious ways:
Personally, I have to continue cautious support to Modi’s initiative. But one probably has to watch and wait for the full process to unfold. As such, unaccounted money is an evil. It is a continuing process, which makes many of us, unwitting participants in a criminal process. Anyone who has had opportunity to deal with […]