One honour and one insult
Yesterday was an eventful day for me.
Yesterday morning, one of my regular readers, offered me a research grant to help with the funding of my books travels and so on. I was honored and delighted. As much as if I had won a major scholarship or medal.
Yesterday evening a writer, a pseudo intellectual, who has trouble identifying his father and forefathers, who has been needling me for years came and lectured me that I should be writing like Chetan Bhagat, instead of wasting my life. (BTW, I have read all of Chetan Bhagat’s books., so this is not about Mr. Bhagat.) It is about that writer, who deliberately and knowingly insulted Sri Rama, Sri Krishna and their divine mothers in my presence, with an intent to hurt me. He has no concern for truth or for authenticity, no respect for national heroes or for God and certainly no respect at all for my feelings or pain.
So one honour and one insult. A little emotional, I am, right now and a little introspection I will do, and in some way I will change.
Mr. Som Mittal once told me that I should focus on opportunities and not on problems because, I have limited time, energy and resources. I do hope that I will be stronger, calmer and focus on my work instead of on my pain. I hope that I will focus on those who offer me support and encouragement, rather than on those who do the opposite.
I hope that I shall never have to write about negativity again.
BTW, there is a nice programme on Fox History called ‘the story of one’, which shows how Indian Numerals set out and conquered the world.
atrNe patito vahni swayamEvOpas’amyati…
Jai Sri Ram!
