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The optimism of Indian businessman dates long long back. Here is the anecdote to prove it.
The story goes back to mughal era, when Akbar was the ruling monarch and always on toes to expand his kingdom. In one of this pursuit he lost very badly in the battle which almost emptied his treasury.
Worried, he went to Birbal, his finest advisory of all, soughting out a relief plan. Birbal, after giving a thought, humbly advised him to go to the richest merchant of the kingdom, Mr Dhaniram for help.
Mr Dhaniram was the filthy rich man and possessed more money than royal treasury too. Akbar was curious to know how he did that. While going through Mr Dhaniram tax records and other official papers the administrative officer of the Akbar ministry found it to be’ kaala dhan’ or Black money or illicit money earned through slipping over taxes and fudging over the annual income records for years.
Well the king was furious but since Mr Dhaniram money came in as god send saviour for the kingdom, therefore king was mild in his punishment for Mr Dhaniram. Instead of putting him behind bars he put him in cows stable to work in knee deep dung.
And thereafter, king went back to his fighting ways for his kingdom expansion mission with new found finances. Three years later, the history repeated itself and king was bankrupt again. Helplessly he went to Birbal for advice but surprisingly he was again asked to sought help from Mr Dhaniram, who was spending days in cows stable.
Well taking Birbal advice seriously he went to meet Mr Dhaniram.
Surprise, Surprise in three years time Mr Dhaniram is richer than what he earlier was.
Akbar was like, how the hell man?
Well as the story goes, Mr Dhaniram smelled a lurking business in the cow dung stable in just week’s time. According to the Hindu scriptures, cow dung is considered pious and people used it for sweeping their houses, making fuel out of it and also for medicinal purpose too. So he started the dung for pennies business and those who couldn’t pay but in need of cow dung were allotted as the care taker of the stable and they provided sweeping facility in return of the dung. So he saved money that administration provided for care taking and appointing the employees, which he was already getting it done for free.
With that saved money he got good quality and quantity of fodder which improved the quality and quantity of milk supply almost to triple to the one it was once. The surplus milk from the milk revolution he created earned him more bucks and filled his accounts which were now overflowing with gold.
Akbar was furious but again went lenient as it was de- stressed money for his treasury and secondly Mr Dhaniram found a new avenue to generate money for his treasury.
This time he posted Mr Dhaniram at the sea side and his only business was to count the waves and keep their record according to time, date and climate, that set and the administration would pay him minimal expenses for his survival.
King went to his fighting ways and again as a fixed pattern lost everything. But instead of going to Birbal this time he went to his stable business which was generating gold under Dhaniram's time. Expecting great returns from there but king was disappointed. Instead of earning profit the business was going into ruins even though the cow stable makeover was nothing less than a luxurious palace in itself with state of art facade.
And as the vicious cycle he went to Birbal again only to be send to Dhaniram for the monetary help.
But this time Dhaniram was adamant only to help the king if he promises not to remove him from this post of his counting waves job.
The curiosity and the need both pushed Akbar to promise Dhaniram his wish and as another successful rag to riches story of Dhaniram made to daylight. While in the tide counting task he could see a burning business. He maintained the log of the high and low tides and from it deduce a perfect science that could help the navigators, merchants and fisherman in their daily business. He could rightly predict the best time of catching fishes and also when it is the possibility of the sea going rough. He was nothing less than a live weather department for the people whose living depended on sea. It earned him a name and a business of the advisory. No one in town took his ship or net in the sea without consulting him and in due time he was richer than ever he was. His popularity spread like a jungle fire and he was the most famous consultant of the country. Along with his due payments he was also showered gift from his merchant clients too.
Akbar was so highly impressed by his bone deep business sense that he made him the advisory in the financial sector and along with his wave counting business; he gave him back his cow dung selling business too.
Moral- roadblocks and calamities in our life are actually the key to grand success. So either YOU GET BREAK OR YOU GET A BREAK THROUGH, that entirely depends on you.
But as for now,
JAI HO INDIAN BUSINESSMAN KI!
Come what may, they will never be out of season.
Regards
Hare krsna!
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