The lion and the mouse, is a short allegorical narrative by Aesop.
State Bank of India is a lion in stature., but with the smallest heart.It has grown enormously, but the stimulus is negative.It talks much and does little. It boasts of being genuine, but in terms it is pretentious. It expresses affability,but it practises animosity. It reveals that it goes by principles, but in shadow it breaks all norms.
Its balance sheet propounds details of companies that have not repaid their loans. They amount to billions. The accounts of these companies propel enormous irregularities. The sanction of loans had been effectively prompted. The repayment schedule has been purposefully adjusted. The aberration in settlement of dues have been cleverly camouflaged. These propositions have been voluntarily facilitated , as they belong to the elite, who are running the bank and the finance ministry , in defacto.
Meanwhile, an entrepreneur, of modest means and sincere records, fails in his procedure of payment, the officials catch hold of his collar, prod and incite his equanimity,and render him pshycologically irrelevant.
The broken man , after great struggle,makes the payment as called for.
The Bank’s hunger is not appeased, it wants more. The officials , once again start their merciless drive.This time,they intend to kill him both physically and morally
The entrepreneur rises up and seeks legal remedy.
There is a saying in Tamil.
“sadhu mirandal kadu kolladhu”, meaning,”if a genial person is provoked , the entire forest will be set ablaze”
Like the mouse, this man is sure to come out of the entanglement , by using his prudence and goodwill.
The Lion, here metaphorically ,the great Stae Bank ,will be entrapped by its so called VIP constituents . It has to be pulled out from the maze by the genuine entrepreneur.
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