Random thoughts and Rants

"Every day, on the roads of Delhi, some chauffeur is driving an empty car with a black suitcase sitting on the backseat.
Inside that suitcase is a million, two million rupees; more money than that chauffeur will see in his lifetime.
If he took the money he could go to America, Australia, anywhere, and start a new life. He could go inside the five-star hotels he has dreamed about all his life and only seen from the outside. He could take his family to Goa, to England. Yet he takes that black suitcase where his master wants. He puts it down where he is meant to, and never touches a rupee. Why?

Because Indians are the world's most honest people, like the prime minister's booklet will inform you?

No. It's because 99.9 percent of us are caught in the Rooster Coop just like those poor guys in the poultry market."

This is just an extract from a book that I read recently - The White Tiger by "Aravind Adiga".

How truly said... "99.9 percent of us are caught in the Rooster Coop just like those poor guys in the poultry market".

Doesn't this statement fits perfect into every context relative to 99.9% Indians.? It does...

It does because the thing that most of us have been taught or have seen so far is to work for someone as a servant. This is how entire Indian economy works. Isn't it?

Let's just take the example of services Industry in India which is considered and which actually is the true backbone of Indian economy because that's how the flow happens. Service guys are paid, they spend in market and so other industries flourish too and this becomes a cycle. Don't we remember the condition of Indian market before outburst of IT Service Industry?

But what is it actually?? What is this service industry all about, which is creating so much of hullabaloo in Indian market and society during the period of booms and recessions?

If we try to define it in true sense then it's just a place where people in bulk are fitted into small space (physically similar to the cages where the birds are kept in poultry market) and put on work whenever someone sitting as far as 12000KM needs a cheap white collared labor(however if you go to office daily then u must be knowing that your collar seldom remains white collared, thanks to city pollution). In business term we call the guy sitting 12000KM away as client and ourselves as service providers. But the truth is - we are servants and the guy 12000KM away is the owner. We serve him whatever way he wants (sex outsourcing is not far away).

The same applies inside too. We all are sitting and waiting for instructions from one of our bosses who actually is servant to someone else.

This so truly justifies this statement - "The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of entire Indian economy... ".

But what do you think? The guys sitting inside are not willing to move further, they don't want to be richer, they don't want to be their own boss or are they too loyal towards their company and client?. None actually. They all are just scared to break out and are waiting patiently for their turn to be culled.. They are scared to lose their job. They are scared to lose a constant income which is so microscopic that they can't even afford to have a full flight journey from one place to other. They are scared to lose the peace and little leisure of their life. AND they are scared to loose a false image of being settled.The only difference is that, in the market birds are culled at once and have to bear the pain only once while the guys sitting inside the company go through a gradual process and watch themselves and their career being culled everyday.

If ever someone breaks out, he creates history eg: Narayan Murthy, Dhirubhai Ambani.

This is not limited to just one industry or one company but our mindset is like that, willing to serve others...

The situation is very similar to the driver of the car carrying millions of rupees, who never touches the money not because he's honest but because he's too scared to get fucked up.