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What Really Brings a Person Down

English book, p. 52

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

What Realy Brings a Person Down 5 1 year-old Mr. P.V. Venkateswaran was the chief marketing manager in a government organization. It was the evening of the 29th of May 1982. He had attended a meeting, which was held on the eighth floor of a building in Delhi. After this, he stepped out of the office, and, along with his colleagues, went towards the elevator. He saw that the elevator door was open. He thought that the elevator had arrived, although actually the elevator was on the ninth floor. Mr. Venkateswaran went towards the elevator door. He was very pleased with the decisions that had been taken at the meeting. He put one foot out, meaning to enter the elevator. But since it was empty, he went crashing down all the way from the eighth floor! His doctor was present then, but at this time all the he could do was to rush down and see his corpse and announce that he had died. Mr. Venkateswaran was a very successful officer. A government journal described him in these words: A thoroughbred professional and a dashing, innovative manager with fire in his belly and ideas in his mind, an astute general.

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