others I find it difficult to bow down. I was always treated b i Padmabhushan Amrut Mody as equal. I consider it as my good fertume i have acquired a habit of retaining a feeling of equality while working wii others and I feel proud of it. I have also seen
eel that very few have that attitude in their life. They carry the office walls ail a thinking all the time.
Land of Rajapur has given me this grounding or the feel of Equality and therefore I do not get carried away by any event or person. I have seen many big People with their feet of clay. However I have avoided being Cynic. Once you give in to cynicism, you become incapable of any positive work. Your entire behaviour starts getting a stale smell of futility. I find this futility or non-productive nature in many a Politician. Many Maharashtrian intellectuals, writers, and thinkers make me wonder about their anti- production bias. I find their writings unhelpful and pure noise of the sterile variety. Someone who starts a business, produces goods, becomes less important to them than someone who instigates the employees to go on strike, and abandons them to their fate while becoming a hero. This I think is a major problem in my society.
Do not disturb or misguide anyone who is doing some productive work is the message of Gita, and in the heart of my heart I am fully convinced about it. Wherever I had a difference of opinion I left the job or post but I did not do or say anything against the Institution. I made no unproductive move, I always remained in favour of productive people. For that reason I have not bothered about being labelled as a lackey of Capitalists. I have also tried to keep the management pro-production. When that attitude changed I left the job and entered Vanaprasthashram on my own volition.
I find efforts devoted to creating the Cake very important. In any economic activity we have to generate some added value. This value-added is the justification for starting the business in the first place. Any business which does not generate value-addition has no economic justification for existence. This is called a Cake in labour-management discussions. There should be equitable distribution of gains of Industry between the factors of production in my view, since all of us are connected by a common thread. I find this assumption very valid and socially relevant, but my first priority is baking a cake. Distribution should take second place. Since I have worked with several people and their groups, I know that instead of adversary Positions it is better to have bilateral agreements and settlements.
I am fully convinced that in Social life, if you have no Work, you have No Worth. A person’s achievements in the society are decided by work. It is my need that I should get to eat: it is not a need of the Society. It is therefore my responsibility to earn my bread: it is not responsibility
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