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Think of all the stories from the 80s/90s we tell (or hear) when a car (read Maruti) was considered a luxury or the only way most people saw an airplane was when it roaringly flew overhead. When the summer vacations meant nani ka ghar and eating out was maybe once a month and that too mostly chaat , idli-dosa or chowmein. When we played chhupam chhupai, ikkal dukkal, gitti phod, kanche and flew kites. When we spent most of the time at home with our families or when we physically visited people to meet them. When we bought new clothes only at Diwali / Eid / Christmas and if we were nice then for the birthday as well. When a camera roll could only snap 36 pics which even how hard we tried to carefully click would end up with 5-6 out of focus or over exposed. When the starting salaries, even for IIT / IIM graduates, were just Rs 5,000-10,000 a month. When buying a house to live in was the prime goal. When SENSEX was about 500 while most people invested their savings in FDs which d...

It was 15 billion years ago when the Big Bang happened and I have no intention of getting into any debate involving the scientists and the theists and whether the Big Bang originated from Higgs Boson or was is the initial blasting of the furnace when God started His manufacturing process. Compared to that, human race came into existence just yesterday, about 500,000 years back. So, God (or whatever anyone calls Him), took 14999.5 million years to manufacture the universe before dropping us on this planet and the effort shows. Since then, the Sun has continued to do its job with, I am sure, better that the six-sigma standards, planets have religiously revolved and rotated and closer to home, our good old Earth continues to produce natural resources to ensure our survival. So why was God in so much of a hurry to create us? Actually now I know where we got this trait from? Straight from God. Don't we also, while executing a project, spend more than the required time on the first ha...