Monday, August 10, 2009

Shoes

Lets start with the invention of shoes.. its not rocket science or invention of wheels, or fire, or something like that, but pretty important anyway..

An old saying goes that raja "Hobuchandra" ordered whole of his kingdom to be covered with leather, as people used to feel hot walking barefoot..

then his prime minister "Gobuchandra", who was supposedly a big visionary(his other discoveries include portable Helicopter and many other things) thought of an IDEA (rem: an IDEA can change your life: If you dont want to change your life, just stick to reliance or vodafone etc.) The IDEA was nothing but-- I know u are thinking about shoes, but not yet.. in those days they did not have Adidas, RBK etc, not even BATA. What he thought was, dont put your foot to the ground, instead just carry a couple of banana leaves. put 1 on the ground, then stand on it, then use the other one to go next step.

U see.. this was one of the ways to go, but was too slow.. even slower than turtle.. then by continous improvements(called KAIZEN by some stupid people) and radical thinkers(like JHAJI) shoes came into existence. well that was about shoes.... but not all about them.. obviously.

3 comments:

  1. BOKA BHOOT what a description.....

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  2. sala kaizen ka naam kharab kar diya..

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  3. Do keep writing. If nothing else, your words will live on as testimony when times will have changed. I was searching for Hobuchandra, and realized that very few people of the generation after ours will probably have any idea what Hobu and Gobu are all about. A beautiful metaphor that will be lost forever.

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