Soft Diwali question. To those celebrating it today, Happy Dhanteras. Here’s Dr Bhaskar Das and the November 12 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…
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Q. Among other things, Diwali sees the celebration of ‘dhan’ and ‘lakshmi’. What according to you is the greater wealth: health or money in the bank?
A. Very clear choice: health. When health is sound, wealth can be earned. But I would hasten to add that this binary sequence need to be interspersed with dynamic knowledge acquisition as survival probability of knowledge workers in post-industrial ecosystem is higher. So the equation is : physical well-being + dynamic knowledge acquisition = wealth creation.