How does it feel - working for the Central Bank of a country like India - 1

The RBI Office at New Delhi

On 24th September 2010, one would be completing 20 years of life's journey in the Reserve Bank of India - India's Central Bank.

Thinking back, 20 years ago, one had never thought that one was getting wedded to the Bank (with a capital 'B' as we insiders affectionately call it). The first images one recollects about the Bank are those of some kind of a mammoth building and piles of currency notes. It felt good to be inside the building but nothing great about the piles of currency notes - they were not yours and you looked at them (or were at least expected to) as though they were piles of paper.

At a personal level, long, looooong ago, in the early days of these twenty years , one almost thought of oneself as the Almighty's ultimate gift to the mankind - (almost) tall dark and handsome, a singer, software expert, a great administrator, a psychologist, writer etc. etc. Though one was not sure about the order in which the adjectives, nouns etc. in the previous sentence should be used to aptly describe one, one reasonably felt that the Bank is not a place for one to be in and that, perhaps, one would fit more smugly into the role of an actor, creator of a new operating system or (during humbler feelings) that of a rookie administrator / HR guy in a Fortune 500 company. Sometimes during more humbler of humble feelings one tinkered with the thoughts of being in the IAS.

However (it's a favorite word amongst us in the Bank), 20 years down the line, while one would still insist on the gift-mankind part , one, slightly more wiser, mainly due to the passage of two decades, now realizes that destiny had decided that the Bank would be testing the truth behind most of the adjectives, nouns and sentences used to describe one in the previous paragraph. While one shall describe, in further posts, the 'ways and means', the Bank used to carryout the aforesaid testing, one can never be sure, if the Bank would have found the use of all the adjectives, nouns or verbs too superfluous.

Keep waiting for more account of one's life with and within the Reserve Bank of India.