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  Introduction Today’s world has become totally commercial. Nothing is free and every transaction is conducted for making a profit. A child also trades ‘his’ or ‘her’ valued possession, for a more worthy one. The government collects taxes to make profits, announces popular schemes to gather votes, and even supports a few initiatives that are against their own principles, to go along with the ‘mood’. Everyone wants to make a profit and the only decent, as well as legitimate manner of doing so is through business.  As a matter of fact, every –third-person on Mother Earth wishes to become the next billionaire. Regardless of nationality, culture or religion, everyone nurtures two types of greed; Greed for fame and greed for money.  Let’s be frank. No one wishes to work for other individuals, organizations or corporate houses. Not even me. But circumstances force us to toil and slave, while the latter make fortunes. All of us aim to be something on our own; stand on our own ...

  At a traffic junction in a busy city area,   11 a.m.    There was a traffic jam at the junction with all sorts of vehicle blaring their horns loudly. The signal wasn't working and there was a mess up of vehicles in the middle of the road. No policeman too was seen. Though a traffic constable's attire and other stuff were visible at the check post in the centre of the junction, the constable was nowhere around. A school bus too was locked in the jam. One young boy saw from his window in the bus what was going on. He noticed the absence of any traffic constable. So, he got down from the bus and walked up to the check post. He adorned the traffic constable's attire and handled the traffic efficiently. Also passing through the traffic was a minister's car and vehicles of his escorts. The minister on seeing such a young boy at the escort came up to him and asked him why he was doing this, when he had to go to school.   The boy replied, “The constable w...