Today is birthday of Mahatma Gandhi – the man who brought freedom to
India by following an ideology of non-violence. As kids we were taught many a
lessons from Mahatma’s ideology, lifestyle and practices. One of the stories that we were told was about
the statue of three wise monkeys that he used to keep. The first monkey has both its eyes covered
with its hand, the second monkey has both its ears covered with its hand and the
third monkey has its mouth covered with its hands. Basically, they say use your
GOD gifted senses wisely. The 3 monkeys convey
the message that we must “see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil”.
Imagine if these three wise monkeys decide to work as a team
and collaborate with each other. As per the formal definition, a group can be
called a team if the skills of its members complement each other, i.e., one
member’s skills makes up for the missing skills in other member. So if these
three monkeys work as a team, then they can overcome all constraints without
making it obvious. As a team they have all the senses. They will see evil, hear evil and speak evil and yet to the
world it would appear that they are the same three wise monkeys.
This is how we manage to find loopholes. This is how we are beating the system today.
