Yesterday I read a news that a political leader has made a public statement that he is going to 'attack' all the retail-store chains in the city selling vegetables. His opposition is principally to the stores named 'Fresh' owned by the Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu. The argument is that the opening of these kind of shopping places is effecting the small traders and making a hole in their business. And so this leader thinks that he has a right to strike these shops. He is the same person who once said he would, along with his supporters, break down a dam in some place in Andhra Pradesh. He is the leader of a party that wants a separate Telangana state so that he can become its chief minister. I wonder why he wasn't arrested for making such statements publicly.
These kind of leaders say they want the poor to make progress and no doubt they target the voting rights of these people and try to have them in their favor. I wonder what they would do once they have helped all the poor make progress and there are no more poor men! These politicians want people to be poor so that they can use their helplessness and rule them making them even poorer so that they always remain in power.
Coming to the business of the small traders that is being hampered. We all know that farming is a profession carried over generation to generation in the families in villages. They have been into the same profession for decades. They didn't grow. They stagnated, kept away from education and never considered doing anything new. This is the price they have to pay for staying dumb. And the traders - if they are deserving, they will do good in any business. There are still thousands of small traders in the city and they are doing good. If they thrive to grow in their business, they will stay in business. But if they think that they can continue and keep earning what they are earning now in the years to come, they are destined for an eradication. Simply put, it is the survival of the fittest.
Sometime back I wrote in my blog that if we are not growing, we are bound to fall down. And that if we don't make progress continuously, a downfall is just around the corner. It's all apparent from the news I have discussed above. The beauty of free enterprise is that a person willing to take risks, do some hard work, put the right brains and keep his ethics neat will definitely find cash coming his way. A country's GDP, per-capita income, several growth indices including the sensex are largely dependent on the big companies that have billions in the market. It is the duty of the government to encourage more individuals to come up and become entrepreneurs. More jobs are created, infrastructure is developed and more foreign trade takes place only when the government comes out of its socialist mind-frame.
I remember reading a quote, the exact words of which I have forgotten, which I can explain here. It says that there are men who try and adjust themselves to this world. They change themselves to adapt to this world. There are other type of men who try to make this world adjust to them. They attempt to bring this world in accordance to their ideas and beliefs. And so, all the progress the world makes depends on this second type of men.
So many times I get lachrymose thinking about my grandfather. I wonder if I will ever get a chance to meet him again after the end of this world. I would tell him how much I missed him and how much I loved him. This Ied was empty without him. I remember the last Ied when he told he might not be with us the next year. Every time I go to meet my grandmother, it reminds me of everything related to him. The furniture in his room has been displaced but his presence is still felt.
My theory externals start on 7th and my preparation will begin only from tomorrow. All these days I was spending time for CAT and I am satisfied with it. I am a little worried about the quantitative section but inshAllah I will manage. I have come to a point from where I find many things in DI very simple and English easier than DI. I have understood what questions I must not attempt. Not attempting is a thing of more importance than attempting.
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