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  “Sorry papa but I’m not going to join the family business as I’ve made up my mind in doing something new and unique.” Navin straightway declined his father’s offer of joining the family dairy business and he walked out of the room. Navin’s family had a dairy business and it was the most renowned dairy firm of the town. The business was started by Navin’s grandfather with just 2 cows and 1 buffalo and later his father took the charge and got the business to new heights and made it the top dairy firm of town with 150 cows and 125 buffaloes. Navin’s father and grandfather were looking at each other and were clueless after hearing Navin’s decision of not joining the family dairy business. Grandfather understood the intensity of the situation and knew that this cannot be done forcefully so he called his grandson back to the room. “Son, why are you not willing to join the business?” Grandfather asked his grandson. “I want to do something new and different, I do not want to get ...

  It was raining heavily one evening, Kabir was walking down towards one of the nearest metro station. He was returning back from his coaching institute where he just enrolled himself few days back for the MBA entrance preparation. He was under umbrella and he was puffing his cigarette, walking down on the streets of Calcutta. Suddenly he found someone trying to get into his umbrella, it was a girl who was almost wet due to rain and trying to get under his umbrella. “Excuse me, can you share your umbrella up to the metro station, I forgot to carry my umbrella and since I’ve to attend a family function I need to catch the metro as early as possible so I cannot wait for the rain to stop.” The girl asked Kabir. Kabir barely gets along with others as he remains in his own world and he is barely concerned about others. He was a very career oriented boy and he wanted to complete his post graduation from one of the country’s finest MBA College.   He was completely engrossed in hi...

  It was a dark night and the rain was raining heavily, Mahesh was returning back from his training camp. Mahesh was a trainer in a sports academy and his job was to train the amateur sports enthusiast to professional sportsperson. He was driving down back to his house, all of sudden he realized someone standing on the bridge and attempting to jump. He called for that person who was standing on the bridge as he thought that the person might be attempting a suicide. Mahesh started honking his car to divert the mental status due to which he might stop and not jump down the bridge. The trick worked and Mahesh found that the person stopped and he did not jumped from the bridge, Mahesh quickly grabbed that person and got him down from the railings of the bridge. “Are you all right?” Mahesh asked him and he got the person inside the car and switched on the cabin light of the car. Mahesh was quite surprised when he found that it was Rakesh’s son Jeet. Rakesh was neighbor and a very ...

  Uttam was a very sharp child and he was a quick learner too. He always accompanied his father in his work. Uttam’s father was a carpenter and he use to do all his things under a big banyan tree near to his house. After finishing his school Uttam use to come and watch his father creating various things out of a normal wood and he was very much fantasized by his father’s wooden artwork. Days passed by and Uttam became a grown up lad, and now he was taking care of the wooden artwork business and his old father started spending most of his time taking rest at home. The passion for learning things made Uttam an excellent carpenter and he became very famous across the town in a short period of time because of his fine craftsmanship. His fascination towards the wooden artwork business got himself to new heights. The work place shifted from the sheds of banyan tree to a proper shop in the central market of the town. Uttam use to mix the newness of his generation with the sharp craf...

                                                    Monday blues is a common syndrome with every employee and so is with me, but one Monday this syndrome reached its peak and forced me to think for bunking the office. I was working with a food distribution agency and Monday and Saturday are two days of the week wherein the work load is very high in comparison to other week days and taking an off during these two days is very difficult. I got up from my bed and sat on the sofa in a relaxed mode as i was getting ways to find out a solid excuse for my boss so that I can avoid the office today. “Are you not getting late for your work?” My wife asked me “Not exactly, as I think my body needs one more day of rest.” I replied She came near to me out of concern and placed her hand on my forehead to check the probability of fever but t...

  It’s a story of small town boy Vicky who has a dream to play in Indian cricket team and this story also tells that if you really desire something from the heart and soul, all the universe conspires you to achieve it. Vicky was a highly talked cricketer of his town, his batting skills and scores were always the talk of the town. His fame was immense also because he was highly skilled but an economically underprivileged boy. It was very difficult for Vicky to manage his livelihood but despite all his problems he maintained his self-esteemed and he use to never take help of others in any way. He always believed that hard work and strong determination can make anyone achieve anything. Vicky was all alone as his parents passed away due to illness and left Vicky to struggle all alone in this cut throat competitive world but Vicky was a person who not only loves his struggle of life but he always take it as a sense of pride. Vicky use to practice cricket in the early morning time ...

It was a Friday evening and we all were planning for the evening party. My gang was all excited for it. We arrived at our routine venue and waiter took our routine order. Our gang had me and 2 other Nakul & Vikash we all three shared the same office and flat space, the bond was a bit stronger as we all were from the same engineering college. As usual the office gossip started along with the drinks and food, I did not like it as it somehow sounded boring. “Enough of office talks guys, let’s talk something else.” I interrupted in between. Nakul paused and he joined me by saying “Ya, you are correct.” “Hey guys I was thinking of a road trip, can we plan something of that?” Vikash added. “Yes, its a great idea, let us plan a road trip we would start it by tomorrow as tomorrow is Saturday and we would return the by Saturday night only so that we could take rest on Sunday and join back the office on Monday, let us start by tomorrow morning.” I added in the conversation. We al...