V. R. Vinod Kumar Venkat, an investment banker, and Nikhil Akali, a senior executive in a captive BPO, both college mates, meet for dinner at one of their favourite restaurants. Nikhil doesn’t seem to be in his usual cheerful mood. Venkat enquires, “You appear bit dull today, what’s the matter?”
Nikhil speaks in a hazy voice, “It’s about the dollar-rupee thing again, with one going down and the other going up. Everybody in my industry is worried and all kinds of horror stories such as salary cuts and slow growth are floating around…I am not sure what’s happening.”
“I think this is something we must learn to live with. Today countries are so closely united and one man’s meat is becoming another man’s poison,” Venkat says philosophically.
