Boss is always right

In politics and business, boss is always right. Contrary to this popular belief, our Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi trusted to his inner consciousness and came out with some tough measures like increasing the passenger fare across classes in the current railway budget, and the precarious outcome of this “country first, party last” adventurism has landed him in an almost job-loss situation. Irrespective of huge praises from both Prime Minister and Finance Minister on his “forward looking railway budget” Dinesh Trivedi could not able to garner a single brownie point from his boss Mamata Banerjee, instead he fell prey to her direst ire. As the rumors are doing rounds, Mamata would certainly teach him a lesson for not complying to the thumb rule of politics – boss is always right. And the writing on the wall is even more clear and concise, sooner he will quit of his own or he will be axed, given the pressure from Mamata is mounting on Prime Minister. 

When this country needs a series of pragmatic measures in every field, the political bosses think diametrically opposite and often take the populist route to woo the voters without even thinking twice what people really want from them. Maybe, Dinesh Trivedi has turned out to be a mere pawn in a larger political conspiracy or at the least a self-proclaimed messiah, the lessons here are even more rhetoric than conclusive - we are living in a relativistic world and truth is always difficult to decipher. 

Whatsoever be the outcome of this political drama, the hard facts in today's world are driven by established norms of society. No matter how smart, intelligent and learned you are, the bottom line of your success is largely scripted by your boss. When you score low in boss' calculation (read loyalty), you are out on the road. And this animal instinct of “ruling the ruled” is well deep in human blood. Mamata Banerjee is no exception. Even the corporate world, which is supposed to be guided by the ethics of “profit and loss”, is also not free from the ego tussle between an employee and the boss. We all are from the same Darwinist genetic semblance. The more we become an independent thinker, the faster our annihilation being prominent and predictable. But yes, there is also a silver lining to this dark thought, an independent thinker dies once, and the subjugated many times. What's your take?