Mr. Raman waited impatiently in the lobby of the office. Six
years, it took him six years to get this
investor interested in his product. For a fifty-year-old
man with a terminal illness, this was a very long wait. He had
invested his life into this product.
“This invention will be the end
of us” His wife would warn him with a frown. But he turned a deaf ear to her
and continued to work on it. Year after year, experiment after experiment and
finally he had something of significance. His name would be in the lines of
Thomas Edison and Einstein. He smiled nervously. He looked at the clock. The uncertainty was annoying. He picked up the
newspaper to get over his nervous fidgeting. It was crowded with the campaign
ads for coming election candidates. A full page picture of Mr. Kailash Chadda
stared at him in the face.