When I was a student in a college and later as Assistant Professor in many colleges of Union territory of Pondicherry,I never thought that one day I would ever enter into a university as a faculty. I hardly ever had any ambitious dream in my life. Everything in my life came just like that. Good parents, entry into primary school at a very very young age, double promotion soon after that , in the very standard first,fantastic school education , thanks to one great headmaster and his team of teachers, good education at undergraduate and post graduate levels in two coastal towns of south India , a descent job as Assistant professor soon after the completion of education, early marriage, two precious daughters, in a span of three years, who were later outsmarted by another girl, born a decade after, M.Phil, PhD pursuits at the prestigious Gokhale Institute, I can go on and on.
Because of those three letters P, H, and D, that I could obtain aftr a great time lag I could not resist myself or rather say ‘No’ to my student colleague, who wanted me to apply for the university job. Because of that I find myself now in one of the fastest growing universities, which wants to become a world class university !? A charming wife and three beautiful daughters were the bonus of my life and wages of my labor in my previous birth. Life was pleasant and ugly, blissful and mysterious, hot and cold, invigorating and frustrating, but they all belong to yesterday’s yesterday. When I look back and ruminate over all the good things that have chained me, I can only remember an interesting quote; “Even God’s smallest plan for us is bigger than any dream we could ever hope for.” Gentlemen of the jury, please remember I hardly had any dream and the benevolent supreme had a master plan for me and I could smell it and feel its sound when I got the coveted first rank in my higher education. I am thankful to the Lord for all the blessings and failings in life.
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