Everyone saw the recent bigfight on TV, newspapers etc. The inheritance in question was a mindnumbing sum running into tens of thousands of crores. If one of them had agreed to even a mere one percent of the sum in question, he would have had enough to last many lifetimes except, of course, that the one with 99% would have all the power and the one with 1% very little – in comparison. So, I guess, it?s all about power.
Yes, power ? that is the one thing all men (or shall I say, most) desire most. Power means wealth, influence, the ability to spread one?s genes far and wide, just as the crafty Chenghiz Khan did some hundred years ago (I forget the actual dates). Yes, he was powerful, wealthy, conquered and controlled large territories and most importantly, sowed his oats with wild abandon, becoming in the process, the most successful man ever ? in the spread-my-genes-far-and-wide stakes.
I wonder, how many brothers today who squabble with their kin and stab them in the back and front, have the balls to do what Chenghiz did. If they can?t do so, their best bet would be to let their brothers, with a similar gene pool, continue to prosper and do well and spread their collective genes.
Boy! I have come a long way ? from brotherhood to fatherhood! I think I ought to stop this rambling right here, before my brother reads this and gets a peek into my mind, claiming all my share of paternal property (or at least, 99%of it).
Is it better to take less and live happily or is it better to fight over the smallest crumbs and spend one?s life paying lawyers, picnicking in courts and filing false accusations against each other? I wonder!
Rajesh Kanoi (Jack) is a published writer, now living and working in China.
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