Happy Diwali to ALL my readers ❤️
Diwali’s are fun. You’ve got people making fancy rangolis. Dressing up to click good photos. Cleaning up the house. Bursting crackers. Buying new clothes. Or cars. It’s a time of universal happiness and celebration. A time, when we forget about the darkness in our lives, and choose to radiate with the light all around us.
Plus, you get some holidays to take a break.
My diwali is extra sweet this year — because of you. Every single person who has subscribed to ‘Investing in India’ — I want you to know that I am grateful for your presence in my life. You keep my passion alive. You are the reason why I look forward to the weekends. To engage in research and discover new businesses. Without your support, all of this becomes less fun.
So, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for placing your trust in me. In reading the content that I write. I will continue to search for new opportunities in the market and strive to serve you the best I can.
I wish you and your families a very HAPPY DIWALI 🪔
Diwali wishes are quite generic. You get a standard greeting, wishing you lots of success and happiness. Most of it is forwarded, so you know that the person has not really made an effort while sending the message. And that’s okay.
That’s how the world works.
But I don’t believe in forwarding messages or greeting someone, without any effort. I want you, to become the best version of yourself. Happiness. Success. These are all by-products.
One of the movies, that has greatly influenced the way I think is The Dark Knight Trilogy. And there’s a particular scene, that really stuck in my mind.
It’s from the first movie in the franchise ‘Batman Begins’ — when Bruce Wayne is in a prison, trying to learn about how the criminal world works. He has had a fight with a group of prisoners [as practice] and is locked in solitary confinement, when Ducard — a member of the League of Shadows visits him. What he tells Bruce Wayne, changes his life forever.
Ducard: Are you so desperate to fight criminals that you lock yourself in to take them on one at a time?
Bruce: Actually, there were seven of them.
Ducard: I counted six, Mr. Wayne.
Bruce: How do you know my name?
Ducard: The world is too small for someone like Bruce Wayne to disappear, no matter how deep he chooses to sink.
Bruce: Who are you?
Ducard: My name is merely Ducard, but I speak for Ra's al Ghul, a man greatly feared by the criminal underworld. A man who could offer you a path.
Bruce: What makes you think I need a path?
Ducard: Someone like you is here only by choice. You have been exploring the criminal fraternity but, whatever your original intentions — you have become truly lost.
Bruce: And what path can Ra’s al Ghul offer?
Ducard: The path of a man who shares his hatred of evil and wishes to serve true justice. The path of the League of Shadows.
Bruce [laughing] : You’re vigilantes.
Ducard: A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But, if you make yourself more than just a man. If you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can’t stop you — then you become something else entirely.
Bruce: Which is?
Ducard: Legend, Mr. Wayne.
What I’m trying to tell you here, is that each of you — has unlimited potential. You have no limits. There’s a fire within you. A drive, to achieve great things.
So, try new things. Engage in new experiences. Dive into new perspectives. Embrace failure and use it to propel yourself higher. Become a beast. Chase excellence. Write your own story. Rewire your subconscious. Uplift other people around you. You create your own destiny.
I’m rooting for you 💕