NETWORK MARKETING - The DARK side

Almost a year and a half ago, I felt honored writing about the validity and beauty of NM as a profession in the form of 3 articles:-

1) NETWORK MARKETING- A world of ENDLESS opportunities

2) NETWORK MARKETING- A paradigm shift in the Indian culture

3) Busting NETWORK MARKETING Myths

Though someone who actually made me believe in the validity of this profession was Eric Worre through my "Go Pro Academy" membership and another bunch of people working with an Indian company called M-Care. I gave almost a year and a half of my life to this profession and overall it was quite an eye-opening experience.

The purpose of my article is not to vent out my frustration of my failure in the profession nor I'm doing it from a disgruntled mindset in order to discourage NM-professionals to work in this area. I'm only articulating my experiences and observations about the profession and request the readers to be non-judgmental while reading, and be absolutely decisive after finished reading as this article isn't a personal satire for M-Care or Eric Worre but these two will be my points of reference all the time as they are the primary source of my exposure to the profession.

I observed a VIRTUAL pyramid in M-Care

I'll talk in terms of my upline and their monthly incomes and reach the top. 

• My maximum monthly income from M-Care was 6000/- majority of which was taken away by my upline.
• My Upline Mr. J Singh has max monthly income of 1 lakh INR.
• Mr. J Singh's Upline Dr. S has a maximum monthly income of 3 lakh INR
• Dr. S's Upline Mr. M Ch has a maximum monthly income of 6 lakh INR
• Mr. M Ch's Upline Dr. S Bh has a huge monthly income of around 60 lakh INR
• Dr. S Bh's Upline Mr. SAM's monthly income is completely UNKNOWN to the world.

Mr. SAM doesn't have an upline as he's the BIG boss of M-Care and completely owns this company worth almost INR 1000 crore (US$ 139 million) and it doesn't end there because besides M-Care, he has an empire worth INR 63000 crore (US$ 9.2 Billion). Hence, it looks like a system controlled and manipulated by an Indian billionaire whereby the exponential growth a any individual is ultimately at his discretion.

Absolute duplication impossible

This isn't M-Care-specific but a general concept for all the NM companies. Whatever the up-line does to expand it's business be it home meetings, seminars, event organization, it expects down-line to adopt it quickly and practice it the way up-line does. But in reality, people have their own individuality and their own ways of thinking and somehow their creativity is snubbed to make them more stereotypical like the up-line and become like a monotonous radio set playing the same old song time and again.

Moreover, in case of M-Care, it is impossible for any GBD (Top title holders) to duplicate the ways of Mr. SAM as all the GBD's are by default the down-line of Mr. SAM (by virtue of his inheritance) and the GBD's will have to stay at his down-line for the entire life and then die and take another rebirth in some family of economic elites like Birla, Tata, Ambani or Adani so that they can finally reach the level of Mr. SAM also by virtue of inheritance.

Residual income projected as stable monthly income

Income in any NM company is directly proportional to the business volume (BV) generated by any professional. If BV rises income rises, if BV falls income falls. Hence, income generated in this profession is completely unpredictable, unstable and the residue of BV generated. It can easily get down to zero if the BV is also zero.

Income from other sources projected as income from the company

NM profession makes a person thick-skinned and over-ambitious due to continuous rejection and humiliation. Hence, in order to project one's success in the profession, people have the tendency to misguide the prospects about the source of their incomes e.g. I came across a case where the spouse of  a Class 1 officer projected her success by flaunting a vehicle earned exclusively from Modicare income without telling the truth about the contribution of the other spouse.

Concealed identities and superficial talks

This is a profession whereby people have the habit of projecting themselves as more qualified and intellectual than they actually are. A couple of funny instances in M-Care happened in my cross-leg whereby Mr. J S calling himself a proclaimed surgeon turned out to be the assistant of some other proclaimed surgeon and in reality J S doesn't even have an MBBS degree. Another quickly growing leader in M-Care compares himself to the super-intellectual and super-sophisticated class of Indian Administrative Services by creating a team with the same initials.

Existence depends completely on performance

Most of the NM professionals lie to the nascent prospects about the easiness of the profession and a cakewalk towards success and glory. Though entry and exit is completely unrestricted but the amount of fortune you make in this profession is to perform, perform and perform. The only way to perform in NM is finding different ways to reach out to new people and get rejected and humiliated by 90% and then take 10% of fake-believers along with in order to completely shatter their self-belief in the long run.

Hidden expenses besides narrow range of expensive products

This is where I may have to completely disagree with Mr. Eric Worre, the products are definitely over-priced and only those who have established networks enjoy it for free. Moreover, the product range and variety is limited. Continuous use of the same product though of a high quality makes life completely hackneyed.

Also, home meetings, seminars and celebratory events come at a cost borne by the up-line. A huge portion of the company payouts goes in spending on celebration events ultimately making the working professional feel like a money-less monkey dancing on the tunes the company and yelling "My company" "My company" or "M-care" "M-care" amidst a mad-house full of people doing the same bullsh*t thing.

My personal expenditure or Income from M-Care yet

No idea but the expenses far exceed the income hence discontinuing it. But ask a successful NM professional he'd also say "No idea about my real income or expenditure but continuing to do it because I don't know what else to do ?"

M-Care restricted to India

I think I'd like to work with some other company in the long run which has a wider scope and doesn't feel like a mad-house. I've quit M-care not because I'm not a prod Indian, it's because I think I can perform better at the multi-national level because speaking "English" is more or less a sin in M-care.

Final Conclusion

I think if someone in the world makes me believe about some positivity in NM profession is Eric Worre and unfortunately nobody from M-Care be it Dr. XYZ, M Ch, Dr. S Bh or the big daddy Mr. SAM. My purpose of writing this article is not to disgrace the profession nor to discourage NM professionals, my purpose is only to promote and stand by critical thinking and if any NM professional in the world thinks that critical thinking is wrong he/ she is an a**hole. But if any NM professional thinks and believes in their profession to be beautiful and profitable, I'd welcome a counter-article form such professional who gets in a position to fully understand and give a written reply to my article.

On a serious note NM profession needs to be made more organized and lesser hackneyed to ensure its grown and survival because word-of-mouth may have existed since time immemorial but money-driven word-of-mouth advertising gives you more rejection and humiliation and much lesser money.

Busting NETWORK MARKETING Myths

It is really important to write down this article before I forget my state of mind till 8 Nov 2017, the day I joined Modicare to pursue a career in NM industry. Before I completely transform myself into a Networker and put on my "Big-Boy shoes" on, to show my mettle in the field, it's my duty towards the upcoming networkers to bust some of the most common myths that hold back a layman to become a proud NM professional.

1) It's a SCAM
Majority of the uneducated or lesser educated individuals consider MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) business model as a scam where a company is out there to make some easy money and con the innocent masses. This notion is completely wrong and NM industry is a very lucrative opportunity for the budding entrepreneurs.

2) It's Unregulated
Absolutely not. Every country lays down some legal, governmental constraints within which these MLM companies operate. The regulating body for them in India is IDSA (Indian Direct Selling Association) and one must choose to work with only that MLM company which is registered with IDSA.

3) It's a Chain of Members. If Chain stops, you're DEAD
Please see MLM companies are neither "chain-based" nor provide membership like some government organizations or NGO's. Any person associated with some MLM company is either a "Customer" or a "Distributor", there are no MEMBERS anywhere, neither they have to make a chain to entangle others. It's about formation of a network with the right structure to ensure effective distribution of products or services. The monetary gain is directly proportional to the structure of network and the quantum of flow of goods and services.

4) Only those at the top make money
Everyone makes money despite their position in the hierarchy. Income can be increased by creating a network structure with optimum WIDTH and DEPTH where WIDTH represents the profitability and DEPTH represents the security.

5) Up-line is in a comfort zone making money while sitting idle
In fact, the more you go up, the more insecure you become. Up-line has to stay active all the time and do regular recruitment to deal with deserters and inactive people who're proving to be a polite burden in the organization by being inactive.

6) Down-line earns less than Up-line
Payouts are directly dependent on your efforts and energies you put in to create your organization. Regular rank advancements, achievement of the foundation rank and a proportionate network structure are the major determinants of payouts. An efficient down-line often out-earns an inefficient up-line and people at the same ranks get different payouts due to the concept of differential income.

7) It's an Idler's profession
Actually, this profession is meant for those individuals who're out there to defy the faulty and predatory employment model supported by the traditional elite and imperialistic governmental regimes. NM professionals are a great source of ENVY to the traditional elites who've made it big in their lives either through real-estate or their ancestral lineage, hence, NM is highly condemned by them to see a new class of middle class people rising and defying their supremacy. The term "Idler" used by the traditional businessmen comes completely out of frustration out of their inability to assert their supremacy over the NM professionals.

8) I'm too YOUNG/ I'm too OLD for it
The beauty of NM industry is its barrier-free entry or exit, time & money freedom, no qualification restrictions and flexibility of working hours. If someone wants to deliberately create a mental lock regarding his/her age, that would be completely a personal limiting belief system which needs to be changed immediately. No one would be surprised to see a youngster in early 20's not being successful out of overconfidence and an elderly person in 60's doing exceedingly well out of self-discipline.

9) There must be a hidden crook to limit one's growth
NM industry provides with unlimited potential. Any limiting belief of an individual is completely out of lack of education and understanding of the Industry.

10) Better products can be procured from "Mom & Pop" stores
It's a completely useless exercise to try to locate the products from "Mom & Pop stores" in comparison to those provided by MLM companies as they're neither supported by money-back guarantee nor can match the quality and class of those provided by MLM companies.

This is my third article on Network Marketing and I'm sure many more are yet to come. My previous two are:
1) NETWORK MARKETING- A world of ENDLESS opportunities
2) NETWORK MARKETING- A paradigm shift in the Indian culture

NETWORK MARKETING- A paradigm shift in the Indian culture

Though I've not had a very long stint with Network marketing yet but something that empowers me about writing this article is my glorious struggle with other professions and my exposure to the real life situations which aren't too pleasant or fantasized. In short I'm a REAL person who loves to be himself and always appreciate those who help me get more real. In my last article I hinted about my experience in the IT industry and how people like Munish Chopra help certify the fact that a career in Network Marketing outshines a career in the IT industry by all means. This is the link to my last article:-

NETWORK MARKETING- A world of ENDLESS opportunities

But in this article, I'd rather dare to compare this profession with some of the most glorified professions in India and clearly state how Network Marketing stands out, not to prove my writing prowess as an author but rather to show that reading and writing is almost a lifeline for me and I just can't live without skimming some literature, scribbling the notepad and playing with the keyboard. Let me start with the comparative analysis in the order of their glory.

Cricket
Not everybody is born to be a cricketer, though most of the Indian boys dream to be the same during childhood. Cricket isn't just about skills, fitness and luck, it also has a dark side of political interference during selections. Thanks to first class cricket leagues like IPL that cricketers have started feeling financially secured who otherwise would've struggled to get placed in government job after playing the Ranji trophy if they didn't qualify to become a part of the Indian cricket team. Network marketing would even welcome a retired cricketer in it if he couldn't make it big in his career.

Bollywood
9 out of every 10 Indian youngsters are "wanna-be-actors" not because they have great respect for the art, but simply because they are too allured by the glamour and stardom an actor enjoys in his life. Though there a few chosen-ones who made it big in this industry despite their humble background, not everybody is lucky enough. There's a dark side to bollywood too. The casting couch mystery and prostitution rackets employing failed or struggling models or actors aren't much of a respectable things about Bollywood. Moreover 6-pack abs and size zero waists that the actors promote on screen are neither permanent nor healthy. Hence, Network Marketing makes sure the bollywood isn't the only way to fetch someone a celebrity status.

Civil Services
That executive part of the government which claims to be a permanent part of it would look pretty secured and a glorified line of career for many idealistic and studious Indian youths but the harsh realities of the same would not be easy to digest. Keeping aside a faulty reservation policy and a selection process, I just want to get personal as I've devoted quite a few years of my life preparing for Civil Services exam and in the process, interacted with many successful candidates too who feel that a temporary bonhomie is created for year or two after clearing the exam where everyone is respecting and inviting you to be a part of their lives but ultimately they get a bit insecured about the same people taking undue advantage of their powerful positions. The idea of sufficing to somebody else's vested interests and kissing the butt of a political boss never suits the same bureaucrat who was once an idealistic youth and hence at the social level they find it pretty safe to isolate themselves. Ultimately by the time of retirement, these bureaucrats become powerless, though qualified professionals whose only big achievement in life was cracking the Civil Services exam. Network Marketing doesn't entertain such superficiality where a person has to pretend to be wiser than he/ she actually is.

Politics
Power allures everybody and not just young people. Even an old saintly man with a grey flowing beard thinks that he'd be a better Chief Minister than an incumbent one and youth finds it a right outlet for their energy and muscle power. Ultimately, the saddest picture is that people with an aim to sit on those Ministerial thrones end up becoming petty workers of a political party shouting out "Zindabaad-Murdabaad" slogans and taking the blows in the lathi-charge and facing water cannons to put some other other people in power who're sitting comfortably in their offices or SUV's watching the whole thing. Network Marketing people know that everyone is for himself and not for others so false promises aren't entertained in it.

Armed Forces
Without being unfair and too maverick in my writings, I want clarify the fact that discipline and integrity isn't a prerogative of only the men with the weapons. Yes they're important for the safety and security of a country but the inherent bias, politicized higher positions and threat to life during an internal or external violent outbreak doesn't make it a best option for those who want to live life to the fullest. I have full respect for soldiers who lay down their lives in counter-insurgency operations but the ultimate orders of deploying or not deploying them in the hands of an Army General or Defense Minister does raise a suspicion over the integrity of the armed forces. Network Marketing would happily accommodate anybody whose served the armed forces out of their discipline and the fighter spirit.

Aviation
Those who like to be airborne for their whole lives know it very well that it's never going to happen. All the pilots know they have a limited career as long as they maintain physical fitness, mental alertness and adhere to the company policies/ authorities they work with. Even many air-hostesses and flight stewards don't like to be servile to the passengers on board for a fat pay-check. Air-hostesses sometimes even complain of molestation by unruly staff and passengers. Network Marketing does give you an equally good pay without going through the expensive courses required to work in the Aviation Industry.

I could even comment on another evergreen industry called RELIGION to be out-smarted by Network Marketing, I'd rather prefer to take a more sugar-coated way to put it in a perspective. Network Marketing Industry does ensure a huge paradigm shift in the socio-cultural and political culture of India as very less often you see a collectivity/ group of people having an honest opinion about money and providing a support system for others to earn it. In a sermon usually, money referred to a "Moh-Maaya" is often considered evil and in the political rallies, public-money is often projected as a bone of contention between a party/ alliance in power and the other party/ alliance that wants to topple it, but the real fight is to make that "public-money" private. So the sermons and political rallies always deny the flow and role of money behind the scenes that made them possible. And in our Network Marketing events, people just worship money for being the GOD that it actually is. So who says Network Marketing sucks ???? Bring it on....

NETWORK MARKETING- A world of ENDLESS opportunities

Imagine a life full of struggle and tumbling through it out of parental and peer pressure, financial constraints, burdened expectations and obligation to pay-off your bills and liabilities. This is a part and parcel of every middle class person's life. But the most delusional part is that we all hope that it's going to be all over one day and there will come a day when I'll happen to live a life I deserve. Network marketing is an industry that gives us a chance to live such a life full of abundance. It has proven its mettle in the west but slowly and steadily gaining a stronghold into the Indian facade. Though keeping aside the minute facts and figures I'd like to stress more on the larger picture of why it is the BEST career option in today's time and why you need an emotional connect and a few inspirational stories to get going in your professional life.

Like majority of the traditional Indians, I too had a negative view about the Network marketing industry and somehow felt imposed upon to join it but as I dug deeper into it, I realized it was a calling that I'd been looking for my whole life. A neighbor of mine in his mid 40's introduced me to Modicare business and said that he having 13.5 years experience with the industry guarantees me to change my life with this business. The claim seemed quite hollow and superficial in the first instance but having a critical mind I wanted to study the details first before I could take the first step as my mind is completely programmed to play safe with money. So it took me a while to start and today I repent wasting that first month of detached involvement into this business. Today I wish I had thought BIG from day 1 and today I'm into this business for over 100 days and I feel I'm onto it completely as it's too addictive and the positivity is just contagious.

In the network marketing community, it is believed that when you make choice to pursue this business, you simply choose a life of abundance and with my last 100 days in this business I can say with all the conviction and belief that:- "Though I haven't made a huge financial gain yet in this business but I feel proud of myself having made a decision to work in the industry." Here are a few people and stories that make me feel proud of my decision-

Mr. Munish Chopra, Global Black Diamond in Modicare, having a monthly bonus cheque of over 5 lakh INR. The former IT professional faced a financial crunch to the extent of his daughter becoming a fees defaulter at a reputed school despite his Project Manager level job in an IT major like Infosys and also having a spouse working in the same industry. The last 3 yrs 8 months of Modicare business has completely changed his life to an extent of having regular foreign recreational trips, a luxary villa in Holy city, Amritsar and a flashy SUV worth 35.5 lakh INR. He really makes me proud of my decision of giving up my job in the IT industry way back in 2008 of which my dad still tries to make me guilty about.

Another inspirational character in the story alongwith Munish Chopra is Dr. Shakti Kumar. A physiotherapist by profession earned quite a fortune with his 3.5 year long stint with Modicare, though has a bit of a negative experience with some other company. He really inspires the way he's broken regional and language barriers to prove his professional prowess as he originally belongs to Bihar and has one of the strongest networks in the business based in Punjab. Having a monthly bonus cheque worth 2.5 to 3 lakh INR, Dr. Shakti enjoys great respect and prestige among the networking community out of his purely self-made persona.

On top of the list of inspirational stories, stands a lady whose personality and monthly bonus cheque seem to be quite a mythical mismatch and a hard to believe reality. The topmost lady in Modicare India, Dr. Surekha Bhargava has a monthly income of over 55 lakh INR and below is the picture of her publically being felicitated with the bonus cheque last year besides her monthly cheques.

A typical Indian lady who is actually a doctorate by her qualification but besides that thought of household chores as the ultimate calling stayed a homemaker for a long time in her life. This hardcore Modicare loyalist has a 32 year experience of network marketing and her journey to the top demanded some supreme sacrifices that she made with all the grace. Her husband Mr. Arun Bhargava left for the heavenly abode after staying paralyzed and wheelchair-ridden for quite a few years and she left no stone unturned to provide all the love, care and medication to him until his last breath and ultimately, the iron lady had to submit to the will of the almighty. But her success is really worth it and inspiring.

Though majority of the established leaders in business stress on the fact that it's an emotional dream-driven business and encourage those who're new to have a dream and go public with it but I don't know why, the course of my life has made me voracious of sounding professional and rock-solid logical all the time but I think I have a long way to go in this industry and I'll have to welcome some changes in myself to go ahead and accomplish my dreams in it.

Though I don't consider myself an expert yet but the amount of work, study, trainings and R&D I've been able to do in the last 100 days in this industry have helped me verbalize my opinion in a very structured way about the productivity timeline in the industry and what makes people hate or scare this industry. I spoke about it in a facebook live-stream today and here is the link:

Facebook Video: Why people hate or scare Network Marketing ??

With this, I'd like to wind up this article here and would like to give a message to my fellow network marketing professionals in India- "I have a habit of verbalizing my mind through videos and articles and I'm sure as the time goes by, my articles will begin to make all the more sense to you and will definitely be more than useful to our entire community. Just keep acknowledging !!"

Mild force and parenting with Autism

Parenting has always been a full time thankless job but it becomes all the more challenging if your child has a medical condition like Autism. I do not want to sound like a completely thick-skinned and an insensitive parent but I have always been a strong supporter of pragmatism and like to practice and preach whatever is logical and practical. Though many child psychologists and clinical psychiatrists may not agree with my line of thought on this but I find it completely rational and justified with proven results that mild force works in reducing the deviant behavior in an Autistic child and definitely helps in better conditioning of the child's behavior. I know as a parent, your child means the world to you and it's never easy to use force on him/ her but its for the good of the child that you have to make yourself a bit thick-skinned as your excessive emotional sensitivity may be diminishing your own confidence in parenting and further deteriorating your child's condition. I simply advise you to be practical and use force to control your child but the usage of force should be subject to various clauses:

1) Keep it mild and not brute
The age and physical strength of the child are a major factor to be considered. If the child has outgrown his/ her formative years and reached 20's then mild force may not apply. But children below 10 can be controlled very well with it.

2) Don't make it a shortcut
If the child starts responding well to mild force and starts complying with the command of the parents, it is very obvious that the parents will be tempted to make it a shortcut to get each and everything done from the child what they expect him/ her to do.

3) Fix the threshold
Patience of the parents cannot be made threshold of using force but the threshold needs to be fixed w.r.t the behavior of the child as autistic children could even do unnecessary exaggerations despite understanding. Temper tantrums could be natural or self-induced by the child. The pattern of these temper tantrums need to be closely monitored before resorting to force. Precisely, only parents can understand their child inside-out.

4) Effectiveness of the traditional parenting model
It's not a tough thing to comprehend that the traditional parenting model was much less formal and analytical but much more effective and practical. Just remember the days when we were being brought up by your parents, we'd always live in a fear of being beaten up by our father or being slapped by our mother if we do something wrong and that fear definitely made us better and more disciplined adults. Absence of parents' fear could have made us spoiled brats and even anti-social elements.

5) Negative motivation is equally important
The best example of positive and negative motivation can be given in terms of motivating a child to study hard and get good marks. Positive motivation will sound like, "Get good marks and I'll buy you your favorite game." and Negative motivation would sound like, " Get good marks or I won't take you to a vacation this year." What better negative motivation could there be for an autistic child than,"Behave yourself  or you'll get beaten up." But this can always be supplemented with a positive motivation as,"This is your favorite chocolate for your good behavior."

6) Force is omnipresent and in our natural instincts
It is very important not to live in denial mode as we see that force persists as an omnipresent phenomenon and there's no family, organization or even government regime established without the usage of force and even you always want to use it. It is just the superficiality of today's culture that has actually made us synthetically courteous. Moreover, excessively curbing your natural instincts can disturb your energy centers.

I was really shy and reluctant initially to use force with my son but when I saw my son indulging in self-injurious behavior I simply figured out that something is definitely wrong with his or my energy centers. But when I started using force on him his self-injurious behavior absolutely vanished because when I or his mother hit/ slap him, we don't physically injure him the way he injured himself. So, I simply want to conclude that my line of thought may not be universally applicable but it has definitely worked things out for my son. Being a strict parent is never bad as I believe that good parents will not only teach love to their children but also fear. 

Unbelievable freaks of nature

I just felt like making a collection of a few videos on internet that left me completely shocked and I was so much awe-struck that I couldn't get these things out of my head so I decided to make a collection of these videos and the cherish them as the wonders of nature. I guarantee if u watch all these videos you'll be surprised to see God's creations and will turn into a mystic for a while.

The GOD in my life

Undoubtedly, the GOD in my life is my DAD. I have a million reasons to quote why he's a God in my life, but I encourage my viewers to look at his photo and ask some questions to themselves. Doesn't he look like a GOD ?? Isn't his face radiant ?? Doesn't he look like a divine being ??

Now, all my readers know that I'm a rational being who relies on logic and also an emotional being who believes in the power of love. If you continue reading my article, you will find both love and logic in it and why I have all the reasons to look up to my dad.

Probably, I don't even need to say it that many face-readers would've figured out by now, that he's basically an Alpha-male who likes to assert his will on the rest of the world..... But do you want to know what "rest of the world" means, it means his Son i.e me.. I mean the WORLD for him and I know it, though, he has never told the same to me.

A self-made man who has risen from rugs to riches, is a die-hard fan of Amitabh Bachhan and Dharmendra, though they're not a fan of each other and feels no hesitation in calling Shah Rukh Khan a "boy", "a Proud boy". He is the only reason for me to like our incumbent Prime Minister Mr.Modi because he said that, "I can empathize with this man of my age who has risen from poverty. Just imagine how he made ends meet by just being a tea-vendor and he gradually became a Prime Minister" and finds another example to quote in front of me about doing something good in my life.

Professionally, he started a business undertaking, way ahead of times, 40 years back and that too out of circumstantial compulsions and still quotes that, "Even if a young entrepreneur wants to start a Drinking-bar of his own today, his parents will never allow him. I started it in my youth because both my parent had left me by then."

He's an ardent critic of politics and politicians and always wants to keep a distance from them but I feel that he resembles the Chief Minister of Punjab i.e. Capt Amrinder Singh because both these Singhs have a same style of tying their beards i.e. by using a net. So whoever becomes the next Chief Minister of Punjab, he's always been, and will always be the Prime Minister of our family :)

A man who taught me to respect religion and not question it by saying,"Shut up and respect religion because you don't know what GOD is capable of doing", and thanks to his words that I gradually started respecting and loving my religion.

A typical Indian who loves to watch cricket and abuse an Indian cricketer by saying, "Bh*#nch*d..... Saale ne match haraa ditta.", whenever India is on the verge of loosing a match, and then adoring him by saying, "This guy makes a lot of money. No Amritsari businessman makes as much...."

Above all, he is the man who provided me with food, shelter, clothing and security even before I knew the meaning of food, shelter, clothing and security.... Forget about their value !! So now I don't have to worry about achieving much in my life and setting an example for my son, because whenever my Son questions me, after growing-up, about what I've achieved in my life, I'm going to advise him to choose the right role-model and point to his grandpa... "Dada jaane, pota jaane..... Main wich kaun hundaa'n ??"

Every Son finds a God somewhere in his Dad, I don't know whether my son would write something similar for me some day ??  I'll be proud if he does :)