True Training Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

A Surat-based diamond merchant
Owner of a 6000 crore company
With a presence in 71 countries
Said his only son to go to Kochi incognito
And survive as a migrant labourer
To understand life
And how the poor struggle
to get a job, money, food and shelter
He gave his son three conditions …..
He will not work at a place for more than a week
He will not use his father's identity
And he will not use any mobile phone
Also he will not use Rs.7000 given to him
It's for emergency only.

The son aged 21, a student of MBA in US
Accepted the challenge
And came to Kochi in his holidays
Just with three sets of dress
He lied to the employers and said
He is a class XII student
Born in a farmer's family in Gujrat
For five days he did not get any job
And proper place to stay
Rejected continuously at sixty places
And finally got his first job in a bakery,
Then he worked at a call centre,
A shoe shop and a Mc Donalds outlet
After completion of training went back to Gujrat

While going he said
in one month of struggle
I learnt that part of lesson
Which is not taught in any school, college
Or university in the world.