The morning came with the afternoon sun. At 11.00 am almost, with my neighbour waking me up. 'I think you had a talk to attend, Ajit Balakrishnan.' Looked at the watch and realized the benefits of being battle-ready for such eventualities. Sleeping with your jeans on and having a pack of mint nearby can crunch the 'getting-ready' time to less than five minutes.
The talk was not worth a miss. Came with a quite a few doubts about the future of Indian BPO. But that calls for a separate post altogether. This post is about something else. It's about the possibilities that an Indian mind is ready to explore, sometimes with not the most honourable of intentions. Anyway, as I entered my room and picked up the toothbrush, my eyes lazed away to the day's anchor in TOI.
The lazed glance quickly metamorphosized into paper-grabbing interest. Hazy memories of recent times fought their way up, cutting through a mindful of wasteful thoughts.
"These coins are so heavy, you could make a profit if you just sell the steel!" I could remember my father's comment, though neither he nor anyone else quite accepted it as a practical business proposition. And whaddya know! Someone really turned into a business proposition. This is one cost of inflation I have never found in any macroeconomics textbooks. Of governments losing money by actually making it!A fine example of entrepreneurship if there ever was one. Of making possible what the mint of UK believes to be a frightfully difficult task for the common man. Of course, it also more than underscores the respect we have for stability in the current processes.
To actually capitalize on this stray thought process also tells us of the eager anticipation with which we look for holes in the system. Any and every way of governance and societal existence is open to total and unconditional exploitation. Sometimes, this leads to random sequences of ill-defined, unrepentant growth. On most other occasions, this effort at entrepreneurship ensures the preclusion of logical comforts which a human being should be entitled to enjoy. While I do not dream of Utopia, rightly known as the land which does not exist, I do wish for some laws which allow one the right to exercise an iota of judgment. Regulatory authorities being already aware of the general directions of the predisposition of this leniency, already acquire a non-surprising reluctance to provide any leeways from the bureaucratic juggernaut.
[Don't exactly know what I had in mind while writing this post, but I guess a publishing a half-written post is better than not publishing one. Dunno if the ending line is what I really wanted to say, but what the heck1 ]
To think we are proud of having the largest constitution in the world. Does it not, atleast in one sense, indicate that we are also the least law-abiding citizenry of the law-abiding world!
The talk was not worth a miss. Came with a quite a few doubts about the future of Indian BPO. But that calls for a separate post altogether. This post is about something else. It's about the possibilities that an Indian mind is ready to explore, sometimes with not the most honourable of intentions. Anyway, as I entered my room and picked up the toothbrush, my eyes lazed away to the day's anchor in TOI.
The lazed glance quickly metamorphosized into paper-grabbing interest. Hazy memories of recent times fought their way up, cutting through a mindful of wasteful thoughts.
"These coins are so heavy, you could make a profit if you just sell the steel!" I could remember my father's comment, though neither he nor anyone else quite accepted it as a practical business proposition. And whaddya know! Someone really turned into a business proposition. This is one cost of inflation I have never found in any macroeconomics textbooks. Of governments losing money by actually making it!A fine example of entrepreneurship if there ever was one. Of making possible what the mint of UK believes to be a frightfully difficult task for the common man. Of course, it also more than underscores the respect we have for stability in the current processes.
To actually capitalize on this stray thought process also tells us of the eager anticipation with which we look for holes in the system. Any and every way of governance and societal existence is open to total and unconditional exploitation. Sometimes, this leads to random sequences of ill-defined, unrepentant growth. On most other occasions, this effort at entrepreneurship ensures the preclusion of logical comforts which a human being should be entitled to enjoy. While I do not dream of Utopia, rightly known as the land which does not exist, I do wish for some laws which allow one the right to exercise an iota of judgment. Regulatory authorities being already aware of the general directions of the predisposition of this leniency, already acquire a non-surprising reluctance to provide any leeways from the bureaucratic juggernaut.
[Don't exactly know what I had in mind while writing this post, but I guess a publishing a half-written post is better than not publishing one. Dunno if the ending line is what I really wanted to say, but what the heck1 ]
To think we are proud of having the largest constitution in the world. Does it not, atleast in one sense, indicate that we are also the least law-abiding citizenry of the law-abiding world!
