Loss of self-confidence owing to windfall rewards/profits
GRATITUDE FOR WINDFALL BENEFITS Higher expectations with lack of self-confidence makes people to run after babas, sadhuus and samtus. Every bureaucrat/politician cannot get what he wants. This is because, there will be at least 10 rivals vying for the samething. There is no natural line or sequence of success or succession in bureaucracy/business/public administration. The person who gets the lucky lottery, therefore, will not have self-confidence. He believes that some divine/superhuman force is helping him. Late Babu Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, was one among several equal rivals, any of whom, could have easily fitted to be the President. Nehru, for his own reasons, chose Rajendra Prasad as his mate. I do not wish to comment on the abilities or lack of abilities of BRP. I am, yet, tempted to believe that this elevation made him a greater believer of ochre-robed persons. Guljari Lal Nanda, the former Acting PM of India had a fetish for ochre-robed per...