Thank you Kishore Biyani!

As I read his book IT HAPPENED IN INDIA, I am reminded of a story of
a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn
in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something
interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the
farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors
when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the
reporter asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up
pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If
my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily
degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must
help my neighbors grow good corn."

He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot
improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves.

So it is with our lives.

Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live
in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live
well, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

The lesson for each of us is this.....

If we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good
corn.

Kishore Biyani has done exactly the same with this book. He has given
away those very seeds that he used to create the retail empire. In
time to come these seeds would go a long way in creating Indian
Retail Miracle.

Soon India would be also know for THE GREAT INDIAN RETAIL TRICK; on
the lines of 'Great Indian Rope Trick'. I can not say much for
the 'Rope trick' but this 'Retail Trick' would work and be real and
long lasting one. By 2010 India would lead the world in 'The Art-n-
Craft of Retail'.

Thank you Kishore Biyani for telling it all; in such an interesting
way.


It's time they start calling you KISHORE !