The words of a Hindi film song fits apt to the post I am about to write about.. "Mehangai dayan khaye jaat hai" (The witch of Inflation is eating us up).
The way things are shaping up in India, the witch of inflation is not far from eating us up. Its the 26th day of December of 2012. We have proved the Mayans wrong and we are moving ahead towards the beginning of 2013. What will that year bring for us? Peace? Happiness? But the way things shaping up, its gonna bring more Inflation !!
Sorry guys, even though I have been a commerce and economics student for so so long, I still cant explain how does the Indian Govt manage to do this. Prices are rocketing. Few years back when I rode a bike petrol costed Rs43/- Today it costs Rs80/- Almost 100% increase.
Why do we go back few years, lets take the difference of just a year. Examples may show just a Rs1-2 increase but the percentage jump shows it all. My shared auto went up from Rs7 to Rs10 in 1yr. 50% increase. My ironing guy hiked rates from Rs3 to Rs5 per clothing. 66% increase. My roadside dosawala hiked rates from Rs15/- to Rs20/-. 33% increase.
Gosh where are we heading? Are incomes increasing? NOOO
I feel I am more than comfortable in what I earn. As of now I only have to feed myself. No wife no kids. If I am feeling the pinch of this mammoth jump what about that guy who earns Rs10000/-, who has a wife and two kids, who also has to support his old parents, his kids are in class 10th and 12th and he needs to fund their education. He needs to save for his old age, he needs to save for his childrens college fund, he needs to save for his old parents health needs. Does he manage it? NOOO
One gas cylinder which costed somewhere arnd Rs350-400 now comes for Rs1000/- in the black market thanks our government.. Our Prime Minister, God knows what do we need to do to get him to speak.. He is the personification of the line " ek kaan se suno and doosre kaan se nikal do" and better still " tension lene ka nahi, dene ka"
Chalo, chhodo. No use complaining. Rehna toh yehi hai. So lets back to working, lets back to slogging, and lets back to getting the government to earn through those LOVELY taxes. Hamara kya hai. Jee lenge, kaat lenge.
The way things are shaping up in India, the witch of inflation is not far from eating us up. Its the 26th day of December of 2012. We have proved the Mayans wrong and we are moving ahead towards the beginning of 2013. What will that year bring for us? Peace? Happiness? But the way things shaping up, its gonna bring more Inflation !!
Sorry guys, even though I have been a commerce and economics student for so so long, I still cant explain how does the Indian Govt manage to do this. Prices are rocketing. Few years back when I rode a bike petrol costed Rs43/- Today it costs Rs80/- Almost 100% increase.
Why do we go back few years, lets take the difference of just a year. Examples may show just a Rs1-2 increase but the percentage jump shows it all. My shared auto went up from Rs7 to Rs10 in 1yr. 50% increase. My ironing guy hiked rates from Rs3 to Rs5 per clothing. 66% increase. My roadside dosawala hiked rates from Rs15/- to Rs20/-. 33% increase.
Gosh where are we heading? Are incomes increasing? NOOO
I feel I am more than comfortable in what I earn. As of now I only have to feed myself. No wife no kids. If I am feeling the pinch of this mammoth jump what about that guy who earns Rs10000/-, who has a wife and two kids, who also has to support his old parents, his kids are in class 10th and 12th and he needs to fund their education. He needs to save for his old age, he needs to save for his childrens college fund, he needs to save for his old parents health needs. Does he manage it? NOOO
One gas cylinder which costed somewhere arnd Rs350-400 now comes for Rs1000/- in the black market thanks our government.. Our Prime Minister, God knows what do we need to do to get him to speak.. He is the personification of the line " ek kaan se suno and doosre kaan se nikal do" and better still " tension lene ka nahi, dene ka"
Chalo, chhodo. No use complaining. Rehna toh yehi hai. So lets back to working, lets back to slogging, and lets back to getting the government to earn through those LOVELY taxes. Hamara kya hai. Jee lenge, kaat lenge.
