There is something witchy about discipline. Like a stern father, it provides with its order and authority both security and an irresistible urge to rebel against it. People do not generally pay attention to any rules. That’s why in traffic, people in cars run red lights and people on motorbikes run red lights and people on foot run red lights. This is as acknowledged and ignored as oxygen is acknowledged and ignored. That’s why we are obsessed with rules but attracted to leaders who break them best.
Vijay Srivastava, the Big Jefe at GA Insurance knows all about rules. He grew up under a strict father, he became the apple that stuck at the base of the tree. He is trying, he says, to be a “cool” guy. He is a grandfather now, discarding the parental straitjacket, and “living a little” as children these days would say. The correct term is of course, YOLO—You Only Live Once—but Vijay seems to be the kind of man whose idea of “cheat day” is to wear a t-shirt on a Monday.
