THINKTANK DAYALNATHAN'S VIEW ON RICHNESS

HOW MUCH ONE SHOULD BE RICH

THINK-TANK,

MR. DAYALNATHAN'S

CONCEPT ON RICHNESS AND ITS LIMITS

Needless to say that the intellectual capital of India, the city of Chennai is brimming with persons of factual and revolutionarily enlightened minds and Mr. Dayalnathan is one among the unknown thousands silently adding glitter to the process of thinking while he manages his own business satisfactorily. The other day when I met him for a leisure talk, my parting away from his office made me a few more kilograms heavier than ever. He asked me how much I would need to spend to enjoy a life if I were to spend a day in a five star luxury hotel anywhere in the world - be it in the Big Apple in the US, Ueno Prefecture or Kanda in Tokyo, Japan or the White Fields in Bangalore. I hesitated to answer as I was well aware of a break in our talk due to my answer that could drag him into a new area to think differently. So, I kept quite.


Then Mr. Dayalnathan started to write on a paper splitting the amount for room rent, food, drinks, entertainments, shopping and all the likes an average person who often travels like me incurred. It came out to be Rs.10, 000/- (US$ 5000) and nothing more even to include a chauffeur driven air-cooled car for travel. Beyond that, even if one tried hard to spend on him, it would be difficult to find a passage to do so in 24 hrs minus a minimum required duration of time to sleep for 8 hrs doing nothing lying on bed alone - or- even with a chosen partner rented for purpose!


Then Mr. Dayalnathan started his calculations adding up to a grand total for 365 days. If one could possess or inherit that sum of money for a perceived period of his / her life of 75 years, or work up to accumulate it through hard working when his / her body enabled to achieve that target, Mr. Dayalnathan categorically said “that was it” and nothing more in any currency ever required by anyone. As I raised my eyebrow, a smart think-tank in Mr. Dayalnathan has immediately came out with an answer to a question I was left with no alternative but to swallow that before I gave vent to it inquisitively. Mr. Dayalnathan told me that one needs to work, slog or labour to own such a huge amount with definitely the support of his educational qualifications, professionalism, training, self or service oriented employment. He even has admitted that with all that as assets and weapons, one needed to spend a better part of his life to achieve it. My inquisitiveness enlarged.


Mr. Dayalnathan picked it out from my blank face held up staring the ceiling of the room where my eyes were transfixed.


“Look at me, Sachidananda. I know and I can also read what is going on in your mind about those multi-millionaires who have amassed wealth to last for a couple of dozens of their generations from them". – He said.


"Yes, indeed. I was just thinking on them alone", I muttered faintly.


"No. The rest of the money is of no use to them at all as a person who toiled for it. They simply dig out more for others to sit on it. They thereby create a generation to inherit laziness, nonchalance and no innovative thoughts".

Mr. Dayalnathan was explaining me so.

"Remember one more thing, Sachidananda......"-

Mr. Dayalnathan was showing his index finger at me as though I should give more attention to what he would say further than what he had already said.


"What?" - I asked him looking at his finger pointed towards my face.


"Not one among the millions of billionaires who have amassed wealth beyond the required proportion of money to lead such a life as I have mentioned above have ever remembered by this world including Warren Buffet, Rockefeller or Sultan Hasnan Bolkia of Brunei" –

Mr. Dayalnathan delivered his words as though I were one among those rich people holding a Himalayan heap of wealth. His tone was admonishing. I kept my tongue tight expecting more from him.


"But, Sachidananda, it was those people like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Kattabomman and Abraham Lincoln.....APJ Abdul Kalaam....." –

Mr. Dayalnathan seemed to make a beeline of people even a 5th standard schoolgirl in India would be aware and could write an essay in a competition to get awards for that.


"Between Warren Buffet and Abraham Lincoln, tell me, whose name is lasting long in memory for generations to remember and emulate?"

That was hitting me like a hammer though Mr. Dayalnathan has modulated his voice to the sweet lullaby our Tamil mothers lament to their infants left to sleep while they rock their cradles. I really felt that comfort as he asked me.


"That must be the reason why Bill Gates has become a philanthropist and donating his extra wealth to establish institutions of knowledge in Amethi, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad where talents from among poor young students swarm with a lust to become rich!"

-I was reasoning out so within me. Rather than investing big amounts of money in a rich countries like the USA, England or Japan, wise men like Bill Gates nurture nations where people are plenty to perpetuate their memory beyond the period of their life span. The Chosen Land for the likes of Bill Gates to perpetuate their name in fame.


"Extra money cannot give any extra comfort. The reach money could yield in comforts has definite limits. Beyond that, it is always a burden to yield adverse effects as problems."

– Mr. Dayalnathan was philosophical now as he has transfixed his eyes to the ceiling of the room.

The think-tank in Mr. Dayalnathan and his concepts on variegated topics and his views on subject matters is really an asset to Chennai.
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