Vineeta Singh takes Rs 1 Crore

........Am back yet again.... on this seldom balmy rather hot fore summer day of January to drive my sleep away following which I need to take nose dive back into my mundane work. Well just now this news hit me once again after a few days as was just going through one of those worthless magazines in the office. Vineeta Singh takes the highest ever salary of Rs. 1 Crore that an Indian Management Institute has witnessed. Brilliant!!! I said to myself. This lady is just in the fore noon of her twenty's and what an achievement. kudos woman. Well there do you see why there is a reason that no one wants to be a history professor? I guess off late this attitude has crept into people that their effort persistently and perennially is to become an inveterate money maker. I concede that money is absolutely essential to live a life but it is not mandatory after all. Anyways if this is the trend I fear that there would be a day to come where my kids wont have a history professor to tell him what happened the previous day or an Science teacher to tell me him what are micro organisms and what's the difference between a micro organism and and an unicellular organism. Come what may " you have to be a consistent billion maker for your existence on the face of earth or you will perish"
he would be thought at school. What a dreadful thought.... alas my mind doesn't remain always sane.....but this thought could well come through good.

Recently I was here in the office during an anomalous graveyard working hours and talking to one of my agents while having a break. He is just 20 years of age. The conversation was something as below

Me: Hey what's your age man?
Agent: 20
Me: How come you have started working so early in life?(thinking of some crisis endured at his home)
A: I want to make money.
M: what does your Dad do?
A: He works for the income tax department.
M: Then why would you want to earn?
A: I want to buy a pulsar for myself. You know all my friends have bikes earned out of their own money.
(Lightening struck me. I was dumbfounded)

M: What happens to you education man?
A: Let's see. It isn't necessary for me to be educated after all.

Lightening struck me again. There was a crack on my scalp. I left and said to myself what the hell would you be telling your kids what to do in life?Another revolutionary money maker.
I keep wondering was it the same way how my parents lived their youth? Were the relentlessly struggling their whole life to just earn money?

What a shame todays world of money makers put humanism into? There isn't equality of humans by the virtue of humanity. Obviously the best earned are the most humane!!!
But is this for what the kids are being brought in an environment that is most hostile to the beautiful life out there in the beautiful world. Has any kid been invoked with a passion of being a fundamental researcher or an archaeologist or a historian or a musician for a matter of fact. Recently I was talking to my sister's kid who studies in Grade IV. I asked him what do you want to grow up to be? says he Software Engineer ....... my eyebrows raised instantly..... probed more into him why he wanted to do that. says he again "big car togobeku"(i want buy a big car)
And as usual my ghosts of thoughts started haunting me - Am I being anachronistic? it all seemed more like a insolvable knot of network. I definitely know he wouldn't be able to say that to me all by himself. As i said if that has to be the mantra for his existence that has been shoved down his throat rather shoved up his brain by his folks it better be true, again am i being anachronistic? again while i am doing this my thoughts get back to Vineeta Singh, is that one crore of rupees that she earns is an achievement of her life.... soon she would be lost in the world of corporate jungle, of course a few like me who collect these kinda obscure facts would still remember her but who else? alas the biggest irony of this blog is that I myself am pursuing an PGDM degree..... 1000 profound apologies..... yet again i came across one more of my kinds and ended up in a conversation ....says he he's doing his MBA to earn more money.... sounds like "apna sapna money money" what ever happened to those hard core civil services aspirants amongst us..... is there still a dearth of the talent for the national pool of resources??? why aren't our people other than the money makers being recognized globally...... (hope they are atleast recognized locally). I dont know what the world around me is going to? would there be a day ever when the folks would tell their kids to enjoy life.... enjoy the beautiful world ever again like before. Would there ever be a care free world to live life to the fullest?? well I still dream of better days....

will write back soon again

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