It was much exciting moment for Dr. Ram Lochan Pandey when he was selected for going abroad to join the job. Dr. Ram Lochan Pandey joined his job in S. Korea. It was the matter of prestige and proud for himself, his family and relatives too. Due to the children’s education his wife is living with her father and mother. Once the time came when Dr. pandey’s wife visited to Korea for a short trip to expend the summer vacation and purchase some thing from here. One item was Pasmina Blanket. She returned to her home town and after reaching, she asked and explain very much about the quality of that blanket. Relative also motivated psychologically that this pasmina blanket is really excellent and more cheaper than India. As I believe in India there are also high quality blankets available and, may be in cheaper price comparison to Korea.

We are from Bihar as you know. We have to show some thing especially in SASURAL that I am some thing. In this case wife also support her husband in many manner that my husband is so & so. His living style is so and so. In India there is nothing …in abroad every thing is excellent and fine like that…

After few month, when Dr. Pandey visited India, he got much importance especially on the topic of blanket. There was one order from his relative father-in laws (MAUSA SASUR) to send a blanket from Korea. After reaching Korea Dr. Pandey started exercise to search a more good blanket shop. But price was not supporting when he tried for much good quality. Any way this was the matter of SASURAL so after spending 10 days for this work, he finally compromise and purchased that blanket in 50 USD. Dr. Pandey knows that the same thing is available in Delhi and in Kashmir in 20 USD, but the matter was from SASURAL with special recommendation of his wife. So there was no way to retrieve the promise of Blanket as gift.

After purchasing the blanket the matter came how to send this as soon as possible. He went post-office for parcel the same. The blankets weight was 5 kg and its packets weight was 1.5 kg. So, total cost for its parcel was 50 USD. The matter related to SASURAL so he paid it and sent

to MAUSA SASUR. Then he started to calculate how much the price of blanket. He concluded 100USD. In this price anyone can purchase at-least 3 or 4 blanket in India.

After some time Dr. Pandey asked his SASUR in telephone “How is that blanket?”. He replied it is very good but please purchase at least 3 pieces more as my sister-in-law taken that blanket with her. And there are two three more demand inside family. Everyone wants this excellent Korean blankets. Last week Dr. Pandey also got some frequent phone calls from his close relatives about that blanket to send as gift. The relatives think the blanket is very small thing for Dr. Pandey as he is living in South Korea. He can send it as gift. Then Dr. Pandey understood, he simply told “Due to the loss in business now the Korean blanket factory closed”.

About the Author: Dr. Manis Kumar Jha works as Invited Scientist, Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Research (KIGAM), Daejeon, Korea. He can be reached at: maniskrjha@gmail.com