Return nature's call, network can get iffy

For those who need a public figure to make an otherwise-considered banal, even scatological, fact, worthy of being taken seriously, there's former Finnish president Urho Kekkonen whose wise words we should consider. Loosely translated, Kekkonen had said Yoda-like, 'Whenever you get a chance to pee, you should go for it. Because you never know when you're going to get another opportunity.' If this sounds like a great business tip - and you do know that IPOs are falling these days like confetti - it is. That apart, it's also a bio-behavioural mandate. For, in this department, the ultimate martyr is - no, not Morarji Desai but - Tycho Brahe.

Brahe, the Danish 16th c. nobleman-astronomer - who bankrolled Nicolaus 'Guys, the Sun doesn't revolve the Earth, it's the other way around!' Copernicus - clearly didn't much care for Kekkonenian laissez-faire towards micturition. Brahe, a nobleman hosting a dinner in his fancy pad in Prague, repeatedly received the equivalent of desperate WhatsApp messages from Nature. Unfortunately, with some strange notion of maintaining aristocratic etiquette, he refused to answer Nature's call. He contracted a bladder or kidney ailment, and died 11 days later, on Oct 24, 1601, at 54, painfully. So, whether in the boardroom or the restroom, we strongly advise that you listen to Kekkonen's call to heed Nature's.