Marwaris refer to a community of entrepreneurs who originally belonged to Rajasthan, particularly, regions of Marwar and Jodhpur; and certain other adjoining areas. The community of Marwaris originally belonged to certain specific pioneer social groups, which included -:
Agarwals(Mittal, Killa, Birla, Jatia, Khetan, Mour etc)
Maheshwaris (Sodhani,Mundhra , Bajaj, Somani, Biyani, Taparia)
Oswals (Kankaria,Bengani, Bothra, Baid, Kothari, Bhansali , Giria)
Khandelwals (Sarawagi etc)
The ones highlighted are the two breeds that these two Marwaris belonged too.
The bank was on a growth path and hence recruitment was on a high even for cost centers,like the one that I worked in. This recruitment brought in many people but two of them were very different from the others .The only difference being that one was an Agarwal and the other an Oswal.
Mr Agarwal was a perfect salesman and from the first time I interacted with him I felt 'what is he doing out here,he should be their in the market selling apples and pears'.On the other hand Mr Oswal resembled a pot bellied 'halwai' who had been told to wear a shirt on his way from the sweetshop to the bank.
Mr Ags(blame it on England to get me in a habit of cutting names short) was a true megalomaniac. His holiday plans would be of 30 day trip through Europe in a personal jet liner which included stopping on the way at Ibiza,enjoying the finest wines in the French Breweries,relaxing in Slovakians hot water baths,mingling around with the Swedish beauties and then sleeping in the royal bedrooms of the Queen's palace. By the time he ended we would have seen it all..but the pilot of this imaginary jet liner would always break our dream shouting ' get back to work you bastards',and so we would all get out of it with a jolt. But Mr. Ags never got this jolt ,maybe because he wasn't dreaming!
Mr Oswal on the other hand was a true Marwari. He would walk back home to save 20 rupees,withdraw the minimum amount that the ATM could vend and always ask me with a baffled look on his face 'Why doesn't the ATM dispense coins?'. He was a true believer in maximising utility when things came cheap and minimising it when it came at a price. A true believer of 'free lunches' which most Eco Grads wish to be this guy went a step ahead and practised 'free snacks' along with 'free lunches'.Had the Bank served dinner too then it would have got extended a step further.
Both of them had their own dreams,their own set of objectives and a path they had drawn that would lead them to achieve them.
Mr Ags was never going to be satisfied with the job he was given. Given the kind of plans he made he should have been recruited right below the CEO as the CDDO or the 'Chief Day Dreaming Officer', with a special mention of the fact that 'rest of us just cant beat him on that'.
Such were his plans that his colleagues listened to him carefully till he spoke about anything but work, Yet,he was confident of giving his plans a true shape if not in this creepy bank then somewhere else.
Mr Oswal was a result oriented person who believed that the mantra for success lied neither in hard work nor in intelligence but in your luck which in his word was 'Babu,kaam karne se aaj tak kisi ka khuch nahi hua,Sab Mathe kaa Lakeer Mein hai'. Having said that he would gave me company when I worked late in office listening music on his 'Desi' i-Pod while munching either peanuts or pop corns.
Aren't they different but they had one thing in common.They wanted to make the maximum money in the shortest time and that was the all important node that brought them close to each other. We roamed around together and as i started to loose my interest in working for the Bank which these two Gentlemen had lost one week post their recruitment we started to spend more 'quality' time together.
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