Once upon a time in a jungle, wealthiest among all, lived a tiger. The king health was waning, and the tiger started gaining power. His rise was attributed to teasing and sending away of poor animals who came from neighbouring jungles and those who did not supported the law of the powerful. The Lion never knew the tiger would become so powerful that he would undermine the Lion. The Lion himself encouraged the tiger for his smaller benefits. The tiger’s thirst for power was insatiable. His followers grew in numbers, and his policy were echoed throughout the jungle. The tiger became the real KING.

Time went by, and the tiger became weak. Other animals slowly realized his policy was not good, and on the other hand those poor animals helped the state only. The larger cause was being sacrificed for the purpose of the jungle.

The tiger had two sons. One of the son got estranged from the family an with his supporters restarted buzzing out poor animals with a new vigour. The chote tiger seemed to be the next bade tiger. Now to gain control, the bade tiger had to do something. He started driving out poor animals again. But, chote tiger garnered as much publicity as he could with that. That idea was passé.

And he came to an idea. Why not oppose the game of the people. The game of the people was very popular in the whole forest. Bade tiger issued fatwa against people of rival forest taking part in the game. There live a famous goat- the target, who was loved and admired over all the jungles, not only friendly but also rival jungles. His “may- may” was acclaimed throughout the world. The goat family had a great history, his father being a fighter against the oppressors. Bade tiger charged him with heinous crimes like anti-forest, of belonging to rival forest; while the goat only promoted peace. But the goat raised his voice and in the jungle also, he garnered support. The animal did not want another publicity gimmick by bade tiger…………

The story is still waiting for the end. But now it is our time to act. It is our time to realize whom we support. It is our time to be judicious. It is our time to decide whether we want another tiger to rise again. It is Our Time..

p.s-
• No brownie points for guessing who the characters are.
• The article was not written to offend anyone.
• Comments are welcome. Feel free to post.
• The writer is still a noob and is honing his skills.

Hello, Helllo,Halo, Hallo, Hellllllllooo

Nothing wrong in saying a hello, right? If I say there is a m then does it rings a bell. Read forward the whole alarm will start buzzing and you won't snooze that.

To make it clear, I am not opposing 'hello' based on cultural or religious grounds but on a background which everyone denies but is raison d'etre for everything - money.

Digest there facts:

1.543 million mobile customers in India.

2.37 million wireline customers in India

3.Around 200 mn per-paise customers in India.

On an average 5 calls are made by a user, then there are 1900 mn calls made by per-minutes plan users and 1000 mn by per-pase plan users. For you to say a hello, and te other caller to revert back it takes approx 2 seconds.

Now consider this for per paise plan users-

· 1000mn calls a day

· 2000mn seconds a day

· 2000mn paise a day

· 20mn INR a day

· 7300 mn INR a year

Now for per-minute customers , speaking hello in not that injurious as they could be used to fill the pulse. Chance of a call being carry forwarded for the next pulse is 1/30.

· 1900 mn calls a day

· 63 mn calls being forwarded a day

· 31.5 mn INR lost in day (50p for each call)

· 11500 mn rupees a year

So by saying a hello, we are losing 18300mn INR. Never thought a single word could be so costly. And the most beautiful part of this is we can go without hello. I wonder why Caller Identification was made!!

P.S.

· All the relevant statistics and facts have benn taken from internet. Writer is not responsible for the authenticity of sources.

· Writer don’t give a damn, if you still don’t stop speaking hello. Its not his money you are wasting

· Writer is also slowly giving up thehabit of speaking hello. Old habits die hard.

Rohit Gattani