others I find it difficult to bow down. I was always treated by my senior, Padmabhushan Amrut Mody as equal. I consider it as my good fortune. I have acquired a habit of retaining a feeling of equality while working with others and I feel proud of it. I have also seen that very few have that attitude in their life. They carry the office walls around their 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.
1am 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 43 �
