The Funny Face of Indian Banking

M.Rama Mohan Rao

Everyone joins his first job carrying lots of dreams and expectations. One will be blessed if such dreams and expectations turn to a reality with a matching working environment. But life is a paradox and more often than not one is compelled to shed his dreams and expectations in order to survive for livelihood by adjusting to situations running contrary to ones expectations. The adjustment becomes easy if one has abundant sense of humor and a bit of philosophy to face an adverse situation. This sense of humor works as an armor and protects the self to come out unbruised. The pain and hurt gathered melts and washed away in the ocean of light hearted humor adding back life to the individual to bounce back with more vigor and vitality.

‘The Funny Face of Indian Banking’ is a book in that direction. This is a compendium of recollections of such serious encounters and observations in the life of a retired banker who converted them into funny anecdotes and jokes. Each anecdote is spiced with light humor and satire to make the reader laugh heartily even at those people who constantly try to make other’s life miserable with a touch of sadism. After all Life is too serious to be taken seriously and the best option for anybody is to laugh it away so that one can enjoy every moment of life. After reading the book the victimized if any would feel light and strong, the victimizers rethink on their approach towards others and the general reader collects wit and wisdom through plenty of laughter all the way.

Indian Banking is unique being partly in the hands of omniscient politicians, sadist and selfish executives and recently has even gone into the hands of non-banking business people emulating the west with borrowed thoughts and forgetting the fabric of Indian culture and economy. This situation gives rise to many incompatible policies and decisions changing the understanding of the banking terms and confusing the honest people in the Industry. These are brought out by the author as ‘Banking pinch lines’ to pinch the wrongdoers. The reader is made to laugh and at the same time think seriously on each subject. He therefore calls it as a laughingly learning experience. Enjoy heartily.