Don’t assume

I WILL employ somebody to help me do the running around and take a computer course so that I can have everything at the click of a button.” These were my father’s words when I last discussed his business with him. My 80-year-old father ran a small publishing and bookselling business all alone in a small Indian town.

At the time I was visiting him, he was bedridden, as he had been bitten by a monkey. In trying to scare away a gang of monkeys who were spoiling his garden, he got bitten by one. The gun fell out of his hands and he lay on the ground crying for help till it finally came.