• Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • FAQ
  • Testimonials

Your Story Club

Read, Write & Publish Short Stories

  • Read All
  • Editor’s Choice
  • Story Archive
  • Discussion
You are here: Home / Poetry / Processing “hard-grain”

Processing “hard-grain”

Published by pragyansharma polavarapu in category Poetry with tag engineer | India | technology | US | work

 

PART ONE

America (that is US) produces  special “hard-grain”

Processing “hard-grain” from the US is such a huge industry.

India is a specialist and has mysterious giant factories.

The factories process the US  grain day and night.

Such processing of US hard-grain is done

In many  other countries  too but India is the  the best .

This work provides thousands of jobs and  generates

Billions of American dollars every year for all concerned!

@@@

Some Indians millers decades ago sent their engineers to the  US.

The engineers soon mastered the new “hard- grain” technologies.

It was all silent machines and streams of 010101.

The work seemed at the same time extremely simple and extremely hard.

Though it was outwardly all  zeroes and ones and nothing more!

@@@

The Indian millers accepted the foreign hard-grain

Even though the bags  came in midnight hours in  midnight ships.

The bags were further carried in midnight trains and  midnight planes

And the hours- long messages came in midnight radio waves

It was all a mysterious work though it showered money on all!

The Indian millers made the flour in newly- built mills in India.

From the American grain merchant’s view the wages

The  amounts paid to Indian engineers and workers were  low

And so very large profits could be retained.

@@@@@

But from the view of the Indian engineer and worker

The wages were “very high” and at unheard-of level.

The  work in the grain mills of  India became a great  industry!

Engineers and workers joined the Indian factories in large numbers

And the streams of people coming to the indian hard-grain factories

Became a big flood never before seen in other factories.

The Indian engineers and workers worked very hard

And completed the daily grain-processing very efficiently.

@@@@@

They collected  their “high wages”

Wearing broad ,very broad smiles on their faces.

(Some  millers both Indian and foreign

Must have laughed in their sleeves).

However,seriously speaking from Indian angle,

There was real joy as quite good money was coming

Into pockets of the engineers and workers of the hard-grain factories

After the American hard-grain processing started in India on a huge scale.

@@@@@)

But soon there grew a great difficulty of an entirely different type!

The difficulty was so visible and so deeply felt by all.

In India, the Indian “engineers” and Indian  workforce—

(It included a large number of women)–

Had to sit awake all through the night to complete their work.

(India and US were opposite sides of the globe).

At the  special factories  processing the hard- grain

They had to sit  controlling the processors, counters,

Number  keys  and alphabet keys,

And the “secret pointers” pointing to the “secret storage cabinets”.

They had to keep control over many layered costly machines

Code-named by engineers as TCP/IP and such other secretive codes.

The late sitting for workers in the factories in the nights

Was also a clear opportunity for criminals

To tease and trouble innocent helpless women.

But such anarchy was always crushed promptly and mercilessly

By the factory manager in every city of the land.

There were problems of health due to long night hours

And about looking after children and little babes.

@@@@

In the old days too the US farmers and   Indian millers too

Provided great facilities for the workforce working in India .

They provided work places of great  comfort

And provided travel and rest facilities

And protection never before heard  of.

But the arrangements were made both by the foreign merchants

And Indian millers from their selfish view .

The profits were very high  every quarter of the year !

@@@@@

The workforce in India too were more than satisfied.

The workers   worked hard into late nights  for the sake of their families.

They could purchase cars and neat concrete- and- glass houses.

They were such simple innocent souls!

The foreign millers knew that if they process the hard grain

In the big mills in US employing  the US engineers

They should pay high wages cutting into their profits.

Sending the grain to  faraway India  even by the costly midnight ship

Saved  lots of money  as they paid far less wages in India

Than they would have paid to US engineers.

 

PART  TWO

It was but natural that as the decades passed

A few energetic  Indian businessmen  with help of Indian engineers

Developed super- powerful hard-grain processors.

They constructed new giant hard-grain factories in India.

The Indian farmers  too were no less energetic.

They produced  the US  type hard- grain in the Indian fields!

The yield was sometimes greater than in the United States!

Then every one in India , engineers, managers and  governments ,asked

Where is the need to get the hard-grain from the US ?

@@@@@

A  new business situation  developed in India.

As the  new thinking developed among  the big brains  of  India.

A new hard-grain  consumption situation developed .

The millions of bags of flour from the Indian hard-grain

Was now fully consumed with in India itself.

(The country had  more than a hundred billion mouths.)

The flour made out of the “Desi”  hard- grain

Was being  consumed  in Indian hotels and Indian homes

In  Indian banks,Indian offices and Indian business houses

In hostels of Indian schools,colleges and universities,

In Indian labs, Indian trains and airplanes,

In Indian ships,Indian submarines and other war machines.

The Indian hard-grain flour was very tasty and the dishes cooked in oils

Or  made into  tasty sweets became  favorites of entire country

And were much liked even in  foreign lands.

(That the sweets and fat would cause illness  is another thing!)

@@@@@

Thus there went up the new argument in most

Of the Indian  business houses ,Indian banks and Indian hotels–

“Why import  foreign hard  grain  in midnight?”

And why not grow the hard-grain entirely in India

And establish more hard- grain processing  mills in India itself ?

Then all the profits will be hours as petrol, electric power (“the juice”)

And the costly Internet travelling on costly Radio Waves

Will all be saved and as all things will be of indian-make.

@@@@@

Then most work will be in day-light hours

Just as in any  other  office  or business house in India.

It will be just like any other   business work done  in  Indian  towns”.

The Indian millers and Indian growers of the hard-grain

Argued further with  a new spark in their eyes .

“Using the  world’s  best hard- grain technologies

Sufficient masses of the new flour

Can be supplied  to all the millions in modern India.

We can even export and earn huge profits”.

@@@@@

“We can create good and luxurious working conditions in India too.

We can avoid midnight ships from foreign lands.

We can retain all the money and pay good wages.

Our  engineers and workers need to  work only in the daylight hours

And can go home before sunset

As do  people in every other office, factory, bank and business house

Anywhere in India  or in any foreign land”

“They can also have an hour or two of free time

In the morning and the evening time.

Life can then become normal as in the old days.

Life of the hard grain processing engineer and factory worker

Would be  very similar to that of people of other professions

Whether in India or in any foreign land” .

-END-

Read more like this: by Author pragyansharma polavarapu in category Poetry with tag engineer | India | technology | US | work

Story Categories

  • Book Review
  • Childhood and Kids
  • Editor's Choice
  • Editorial
  • Family
  • Featured Stories
  • Friends
  • Funny and Hilarious
  • Hindi
  • Inspirational
  • Kids' Bedtime
  • Love and Romance
  • Paranormal Experience
  • Poetry
  • School and College
  • Science Fiction
  • Social and Moral
  • Suspense and Thriller
  • Travel

Author’s Area

  • Where is dashboard?
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us

How To

  • Write short story
  • Change name
  • Change password
  • Add profile image

Story Contests

  • Love Letter Contest
  • Creative Writing
  • Story from Picture
  • Love Story Contest

Featured

  • Featured Stories
  • Editor’s Choice
  • Selected Stories
  • Kids’ Bedtime

Hindi

  • Hindi Story
  • Hindi Poetry
  • Hindi Article
  • Write in Hindi

Contact Us

admin AT yourstoryclub DOT com

Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Linkedin | Youtube