Man Maid

Old bollywood movies always had a Ramu Kaka – armed to eradicate dust with his trademark shoulder towel. Ramu kaka would open doors for the new memsahib, have a tray of 'chaai paani' ready, wipe the villain's white shoes, would never be seen asking for a raise, drink once in the entire plot and cry, and in most cases, be hit by the bullet protecting his 'sahib'.

If movies are inspired from real life, those who were or are blessed with a Ramu kaka are lucky.

For the city living women of today, there is 'Bai'. Every morning the modern (working/non working) memsahib (now called 'mae-dum'), anxiously waits for the doorbell to ring, runs to open the door (at times like me, even breaks her leg in this act) for her Bai.

She has the regular conversation of time and 'mehangai' with her Bai while serving the morning tea. She follows Bai’s trail to point out dust, keeping her eyes on the watch, running around the wet floor while getting ready for office or preparing and packing Tiffins.

Doing 'jhaadu', 'poocha', 'bartan' is a back breaking task, for every women and only 'Bai' (and electrical appliances to some means) comes to rescue. The important part is that Bai is always a women. And for the mae-dum 'Bai' is the most important person.

To conclude Bai who is a 'Mausi' or 'Amma' offer to help

The interesting thing to note is that Bai is always a 'Mausi' or 'Amma'. And she reports to a Mae-dum or Didi never a Bahiya or Uncle (except for some bachelors) .

It is only women who help women :)

This blog is dedicated to all men who think they are most important in their women's life. Just for you to know, women are more important to women

An entrepreneurs story

The other day, on TV, I saw an old woman who was telling a story about voodoo and black magic. In the story, an evil Witch would stab pins on the voodoo doll of a woman and make her do things that she did not want to, making her unhappy.

Voodoo may be one way of controlling others life. In today’s scenario, our lives are controlled by so many things or people. One major is the boss and work sheets.

In the corporate world, there may not be dolls and pins, but there are work sheets, KRAs and appraisals by which the evil manager makes one’s life miserable. These %age achievements of targets (similar to pinches on the doll) make some weak and some tough (skinned). And then, there are a 3^rd category of people who break these hackles, free themselves of the daily drill and become entrepreneurs.

I have read about entrepreneurs who were unhappy at their jobs. They did not find it interesting, exciting or satisfying enough to continue with what they were working on/for. They jumped the chasm, took the risk and became their own boss.

Once upon a time, a young man entered the shining building called corporate office. It was made of glass and was sparkling clean. He had a job there. He loved going there daily.  He thought he was a part of something big.  

Little did he realize that it was all a bubble that would burst soon.

The young man was passionate and always came up with creative ideas. He felt dejected when none of them were considered.  The stab became worse when the same idea, when presented by an external agency, got approved immediately. He felt dejected.  Earlier he had idealized his boss, wondering how he knew so much, only to realize later that it was all 'google gyaan'.

He was made to work on things that didn't have meanings. He was asked to make multiple reports, format paragraphs, do spell checks. The Boss would not even read the documents he presented as the fonts were is Ariel and not Calibri or there was more margin space.  The boss rejected all ppts as he wanted the images in the ppt to be 14.5% happier.

One night the young man had a dream where he was drowning in spreadsheets and his boss was a zombie who wanted to eat his brain. He jolted and woke up to realize what he really wanted to do. He did not want to format ppts, write pitches, or just keep adding keywords. The next day, he put down his papers and broke the voodoo charm. He took the risk, and went ahead to set up his own firm. With his creativity and intellect, he is now following his dreams, Happily. Ever after. 

True story

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