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On a Friday evening, a quarter of the city was on the road driving back to their hometowns where they had someone waiting for them. The second quarter was seen entering the pubs of Bangalore to savor the spirits which made Gods go crazy. The city was well known for the indulgence that it can offer and was always popular among the youth. A large chunk of home-loving dads and moms were busy planning the weekend to ensure it ended being busier than the weekday. The little that was left after all the quarters and large chunks, were few homebodies. Adam was a proud homebody who never even in his shortest dream also had a thought that he wanted to step out of his house. He was elated by the Kishore Kumar songs that he was listening on his newfound love Caravan. Adam did know that " aanewala pal jaanewala hai"  and if I said to him earlier during the day that " yeh shaam mastani ", he would have pushed me aside bringing out his handy statistics demonstrating how in last 36...

India was much more poorer in the 1990s when my parents while struggling to get us to the next phase of life, gave me a promise that I can get my pets once we have our own land. What my parents meant is quite obvious to me now but in that teenage it was all about literal meanings. It was a time when teachers could successfully trick us in exams asking whether something is a simile, metaphor or conceit. We poor teenagers would feel all as same. Maybe this lack of understanding or maybe the lack of worldly knowledge, I decided to exercise my boon. Before I get there, it is important to throw some light on couple of other escapades which had me featured in my much younger avatars. It could be maybe when I was thirteen that I once found a snow white coloured puppy on the streets of Kochi while returning from school. As any kid would do, I stopped for a while and played with it having time by my side and no competition of attention from others, the puppy would very happily engage with me of...

Reality: Everyone wants to be rich. The very next person you would meet also would tell you their life goal is to get rich. Some wants to travel the world, some wants to build large mansion, some wants to buy great cars, some wants to buy grand jewellery. Whatever some wants, all wants to be rich definitely. All are not born into large business families, and many don't have any support from previous generations too from a fortune inheritance perspective. And most of us don't win lotteries too.  Employment in India: Over 50% of the India's workforce is self-employed which would include new startups, local grocers to your tailor. The employee workforce is around 22% of Indians. Official unemployment in 2024 is around 3.2% and remaining are all casual labourers and unpaid workers. As per key studies,70-80% of self-employed workforce in India earns lesser than salaried employees. Over 85% of the self-employed business never grow or hire employees. About 15-20% of the self-emplo...