Back to Basics - II
"I have money. It's people I can trust that I need". It's not the first time you've come across such a line, is it? Yes, as the title suggests, this is an (attempted) sequel to one of my previous posts. Of late, most of the people I know are saying it over and over again. Money and property or borrowing a phrase from philosophy, "materialistic pleasures" are now giving way to belief, friendship etc., I guess it all started with the IT boom in our country, which showed how even the lower strata of our society could afford the then luxuries. It could be something as trivial as coffee culture, going up to shopping the latest in fashion and watching football at sports bars with "mates". Everyone wanted to eat junk at McDonald's and get drunk at some bar just to get high. Soon, this lifestyle was the norm. Engineering colleges mushroomed everywhere in the country and every student wanted the corporate lifestyle; work hard on weekdays and unwin...