An Amazing Person of a Man

Like films there are genres of people. Few are always exited about nothing, few are perpetually sad for specific reason, few are always confused, some are born nasty and so do they die -nasty. They just have this thing attached to them. And then they become that thing. This post is a promise that I made to myself for no specific reason during the course of interaction with this gentleman. I don't know his name. So the gentleman in contention had amazing attached to his personality and years later the day of discovery came and on expected lines he may have discovered he had become amazing. It just takes time and consistent effort to reach there. Trust me.

If I’m not exceptionally wrong the day was of Makar Sankranti of previous year. It’s afternoon time and by choice we (family) were sleeping (there’s no substitute to afternoon sleep. Like sprinkling Saffron on Biryani). And there’s knock on the door. Upon inspection from the door peephole I woke parents up, as I don’t deal with people not-of my age much. But not to my respite I was asked to socialize. :D

I brought in the tea and snacks and paid absolutely no attention the gentleman. By the way he physically was tall by Indian standards lot of hair (salt and pepper) left on his head for his age. Never tucks in his shirt and usually folds up his sleeves a couple of times. Common man so to say he is. His family structure is rather complex to his simple appearance. Being eldest son among four(or 5) to a army man takes some guts. I'm not sure of number of brother he has but there are quite a lot. I can count four of them. So let us assume 4 for convenience. I think, with I qualify of being called neighbor.

As said I wasn't really attentive towards conversation happening there. But when it turned to politics I was all ears for that. All I remember of that conversation are a few lines. One of them that instantly stunned me was this:

"Either Congress will win or it will not win"

Form the point of view of Congress or any other political outfit there are only two possibilities. Either it may win or it may not win. What's the point in stating the obvious. It not much different from saying either the upper side will be heads or tails in the case of a coin being tossed. His political affiliation was right wing folks. Later in the conversation he mentioned few more things but, nothing matches the mentioned.

Any conversation would be incomplete if you don't ask the young fella of family what he/she is doing at present. So did he and there was a mention of CAT on my side. He happened to be one of those kind of people who don't mind exaggerating things and stretching them. He dismissed my IIM pursuit as not-worth instantly. However, his opinion could possibly draw similarity some what like Manmohan Singh playing Rajeev Masand.

"There's an IIM at Banjar Hills na? Let us go and talk to people out there someday."

There's no IIM its an IIPM. Now if you have some idea of b-schools in India you know the irony in his statement. Then he suggested me a mantra that would help me in achieving my goals, plus a stone of some karat rating. Then he said..

"You can actually do MBA from Mississippi University. You can get the certificate."

The thing with it was it was some b-grade univ. having a affiliation to another c-grade Indian college. Then he asked me why didn't I apply to few universities in Australia.

"Why don't you apply to some universities in Australia? I send that Sharma's son there few months back." Like he paid for his fees and flight ticket. I said, most good universities take people who have prior work-experience.

"What is there in that? I can get you a 3 years work-ex certificate. What is there in that?"

"Hmm"

"Not only that, If you want to marry tell me. What is there in that? I will fix your marriage. What is there in that?"

Making "What is there in that?" his person favorite line. And repeating it for the fourth time. I was bewildered at the tangents that conversation was shaping into. There were moments when everybody present(including him) knew he was exaggerating. But everyone listened. Much later in the conversation came the real deal, he sought a favor from my parents.