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 established. It is the cross-hair that settles the true point. Many of our inventions and theories are self-sustaining assertions. When they are challenged then the baser part of it vanishes and any truth remains. Then only the truth shines and you get a Darsana of truth. Karl Popper says that where falsification is not possible you have to accept the statement as statement of faith are not scientific truthsor have no basis in evidence.

I have benefitted in my personal life because of such realisations of truth. I have realised that however strong my belief in my truths I may have, I must be ready to challenge my beliefs from time to time. My conclusions, beliefs, could be wrong and therefore I must check my facts and conclusions again and again. My faith in this dictum is strengthened day by day.

The world changes and my understanding of it changes all the time, and I have learnt this in a very direct way. Once you accept the necessity of everchanging nature of reality around you, then it becomes easier to take tentative positions. Many of my colleagues used to think that I was a coward and I did not take firm stand on issues before me. I have heard them say so. I have heard such comments about the managerial decisions that I took. It may be true also. But I did not think so at those points of decision making. Those who have made agreements with me, however, consider me very firm and unchanging at times. I have done a lot of bargaining in making industrial agreements. But I do not suffer from the illusion that I alone am right.

Reality is reality. It has no need to be true according to any logical or fixed framework. It simply exists. My knowledge, my descriptions, my roadmaps, have to be true to scale Frameworks have to be logical. Reality is not obliged by that limitation. What you consider as impossible has often happened in actual life of people. This is my knowledge based on reading several autobiographies. Those facts would not have been acceptable as fiction. It would have been labelled as untrue. But often it has happened so. My professor's advice to read autobiographies as instead of fiction has helped me.

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Thave experimented with another example of social values. When I worked with Unichem, from 1974 to 1979 the local Union of workers was affiliated to Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha headed by Shri RJ Mehta. It was a recognised Union under the Act. Shri RJ Mehta was a very dynamic, influential and aggressive leader of the Union. I experienced many aspects of his personality and important amongst them was his capacity to understand Balance Sheets of business. He was very clear about the business position of the units under his control. He hailed from

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