Cartoons Help Business

Let us learn a lesser known fact of life which is obvious, yet oblivious to most busy bees engaged in the non-stop money earning motion either for self or for their company.

At the outset, let me make it clear, I’m all for making money which is a dharma, not a sin. But, when we realize the human body is fundamentally a machine fueled by thoughts, and it calls for repairs and maintenance, one must pause and listen around.

Scientific proofs abound on the mellowing influence of art and culture. Music, natural scenery, painting, humour, cartoons, games and literature (book) enhances one’s sensitivity to surroundings and sharpen creative thinking.

And, in Bangalore city of India, is a living proof who, having conquered the super-competitive US tech field says, the secret of his good health and high productivity is his daily helping of melody and cartoons. A sense of humour, a hearty laugh and an earful of melody kill the strain in business and refresh his mind the same way a bicarbonate soda drives out the poisonous gas of the stomach in a magnificent eruption.

Not to hold the mystery any longer. Ashok Kheny, whose company Nandi Infrastructure Corridor enterprises (NICE) builds the Mysore-Bangalore route is the chief patron of India’s first Cartoon Academy and gallery that encourage the rib-ticklers around the vast country of India to come out with the daily dose of laughter. “My sense of humor and the ability to enjoy a good laugh at my cost or at somebody else’s makes it easier to cope with the daily challenges,” he says.

To those Kheny does not ring a bell. Imagine a fibre optic cable network between Washington D.C. and Jacksonville (Florida) spanning some 1,250 km laid in three months flat. Or, building the first and only people mover transit system using linear induction motors in Detroit. Better still, imagine building the first trans-Atlantic fiber network between New York city and Los Angeles alongside the railway line. Behind all these projects was the giant brain of Ashok Kheny from Karntaka India.

The US administration recognised Kheny’s contribution and in 1987, President Ronald Reagan honored this little giant with the ‘Outstanding Businessman of the Year of a Minority Community Award’.

Kheyny says he scans the newspapers and magazines everyday for a cartoons and caricatures to refresh his mind. A grueling day lies ahead where shouting, mooing, trouble-shooting and heart-burning are the daily chore. But he braces for it all with a dose of good old melody–both Indian and Western, a cartoon and a couple of good jokes, to be savored with the BF and dinner.

It works, really. Or you try and tell me.

One Response to “Cartoons Help Business”

1. Nitish M Poulose says:

   August 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm

   Hi,
   True. The sense of humour makes one face the world with a lighter heart. Living is a serious business, we don’t need too much gravity to add to the woes. An entertaining film, a good book, a cartoon makes life more pleasant than otherwise

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