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Saturday, June 28, 2014

“Life has Become Highly Complex – A Short Story” - Professor M.S.Rao



“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” ― Jean-Luc Godard


For almost six months, I was thinking to pack my excess luggage at home and transport it to my native town. First of all, I was always busy with my training assignments. Secondly, it was not urgent for me to transport excess luggage as it can be done at any time. Thirdly, I did not want to give my luggage to any professional packers and movers who come to home, pack and transport goods to the destination without any hassles. I thought I can do for myself along with my two sons who are still pursuing their engineering education and enjoying summer vacation.  

I was free from training programs for a week. I thought of writing a book - ‘life is beautiful’ Hence, I began authoring the book. At the time of writing the book, I again thought that writing book depended on my mood levels whereas transporting goods to my native place required people, some more energy and time. Since my two sons were enjoying summer vacation, I thought to give it priority as my two sons and I can pack the goods and ship them.  Hence, I stopped writing book and started concentrating on transportation of my excessive luggage.

I found out from my wife about the excess luggage that we had. She said that it would come to around 7 packages. I went to local transport office to find out the formalities and the amount needed and the duration it would take to ship the goods to destination.  I searched scrap shops to get a few empty cartons. Finally, I bought six empty cartons. I enquired the people who could carry filled in cartons to the local transport office. After planning everything, my two sons and I fixed a day to start the work.

We all got up early morning on the scheduled date; slowly collected the items that were surplus and packed five cartons with goods. We called for a local vehicle to carry the goods to the local transport office. My elder son and I took the luggage and booked them by paying the amount. We got the receipt from the transporter and sent it by courier to my relative to pick up the luggage in my native place.  Although it all looked silly to me to do all these things such as coordinating people with my two sons, it took almost six months for me to come out of my comfort zone to ship the goods to my native place. I laughed at myself about the fast changing lifestyle where people don’t find time to do minor tasks. People have money but don’t find time to do certain routine tasks. I felt that life has become too hectic.  


“Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time” – Brain Tracy



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“Empathize with Animals – A Short Story” - Professor M.S.Rao



“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” - Benjamin Franklin


I lived in Jodhpur from 1986 to 1991 while serving in Indian Air Force. I was unmarried and would go to mess by cycle along with my friend to take dinner. Sometimes my friend, Adinarayana would cook food and we along with other friends enjoyed taking customized food as per our taste. My friend was an expert cook and he prepared delicious food once a while. Rest of the time, we would go to a mess in the Air Force Station to take food.

It was in 1988, one day evening when we were going by cycle to food by talking in our Telugu language, a street dog followed us on the way by barking. It was wagging its tail. We were worried that it would bite us. We maintained safe distance with dog and talked to each other in our Telugu language. The dog would wait for us at the same point everyday and follow us by barking up to some distance.  It disturbed our conversation. We were unable to continue our conversation in our Telugu language.  It continued for a few days.

One day when we were going to mess for food in the evening, another new Telugu friend, Kishore joined along with us who was coming to mess by his cycle. When we three were talking in our Telugu language, the dog that waited at a particular place started following us by barking. My friend told to Kishore in Telugu, “This dog barks and follows us regularly and we were fed up with it. It became a nuisance to us and we were unable to continue our conversation. We are also worried that it would bite us.”
Kishore responded, “Don’t blame this dog. It is a nice dog. One Telugu man went to his native place – Vijayawada and brought this dog to Jodhpur. He went to New Delhi as he was posted. He left this dog in Jodhpur. Whenever Telugu people talk, this dog would follow them by wagging its tail. Therefore, don’t blame this dog.”
My friend and I were shocked by listening to Kishore. We told them that we mistook dog as a street dog and it would bite us. Hence, we avoided it many times. We felt guilty for misunderstanding the dog. We were surprised to know that even dog also has attachment towards Telugu language. We both took the dog to our room and reared it. It was with us for some time.  Later it died when we were still posted in Jodhpur. I still cannot forget that incident although it happened 26 years ago.

I lived in Hyderabad from 2008 to 2014. It was in May 2014 I was going by walk to meet doctor in a hurry. The distance was around 2 kilometers from my home. I enjoyed walking in Hyderabad as the way I enjoyed cycling when I lived in Jodhpur in late eighties. A baby dog followed me by wagging its style. It was very happy. I did not notice it for sometime as I was busy going in the traffic to meet my doctor. After walking for some time I realized that this baby dog followed me by wagging its tail. Immediately I recalled my experience in Jodhpur. I empathized with this dog. I was worried that some vehicle might hit this baby dog as I was walking through a vehicular traffic. I kept walking further aside from the main road to enable the dog to follow me by maintaining safe distance from the heavy traffic. I was looking at the baby dog and walking. The baby dog was very happy and started looking at me and also was tense at the traffic and running with baby steps. When I was crossing other side of the road, the baby dog also followed along with me. Suddenly a motor cycle hit the baby dog. It started crying. I felt very bad. I arranged some water from the nearby place and poured on the baby dog. There was no blood but it was still crying with pain. Other pedestrians also came to rescue and poured little water. Then I took the baby dog aside started walking slowly. Again it started walking along with me slowly by limping and crying unlike some time back where it was running happily. I decided to take the baby dog to my home. I carried the dog to my home and reared it.  

There are some incidents that people cannot forget. These two incidents changed my perception towards dogs and life. Dogs are also living things but they cannot express their language except through loyalty and physical movements. The lesson I learnt from these two dogs is to empathize with others. People have their own perceptions about others but they must still look at others with an open mind with empathy.  


“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.  The man will be there to feed the dog.  The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” - Warren G. Bennis




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Saturday, June 21, 2014

“Do Indians need Old-Age Homes?” - Professor M.S.Rao



“As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.” - Clint Eastwood


When I was working as a professor in an educational institution I used to commute in the college bus. Usually I rarely talked to others as I am basically an introvert person and confined myself to reading books. Most of the commuters in the college bus knew that I was introvert and a voracious reader. One day when I was reading the book while returning to home in the college bus, one person cracked a joke, “We all need to join old-age homes in our old age as our children would be busy with their challenges. They will have money but no time to help us physically.”

Everybody laughed at it. I never thought about old-age homes as I was still in my middle age where my two sons were pursuing their education. But I thought for a moment and found there was some element of truth in it as people are getting busier. Previously people did not wear wrist watches but they had lots of time to spend. Presently people wear wrist watches but they don’t find time to spend with others. I felt that the technology has brought lots of comforts apart from separating people physically. I compared my life in my childhood with the present middle age. I found that people are busy with their challenges and rarely interact with others.

I decided to write an article on it so that it would benefit others who are in their middle age to prepare mentally to stay in old-age homes as their children would live elsewhere with their busy schedules. In future, people will have money but less human relations. Hence, people must keep some money aside to stay in old-age homes. Insurance companies can look at it as a potential area and entrepreneurs can look at building old-age homes to serve old people by charging money. It is a great opportunity for them but a tragedy for old people. Is life really great?


“I truly believe that age, if you're healthy - age is just a number.” - Hugh Hefner




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