UNDISMISSIBLE

This is what the Indians called Jacque Kallis in south park, Cape Town. What else needs to be said praising a batsman on a pitch even a school going Zimbabwean kid would turn a ball? The man survived it all. The one thing that stood between India and history was Kallis, undismissible. Unconquerable. This is how greats are born and legends made. If I write the whole article on the epic cricket series, the fairer sex which seldom likes the game might not like the writing too. Being cautious of that, I wish to draw parallels between the great men who made the news this century. As the times change, so do the challenges. As the challenges become difficult, men are compelled to raise themselves up to tackle them. The first decade of the 21^st century has come to an end. What lies ahead is infinite opportunity says an optimist. The world will shrink and end one day, says a pessimist who likes to stay in the dark. Choose who you are, and c’mon let’s get some basic things right.

Instead of talking hypothetical things and wasting the print space, let’s get into some ponderings over our education first. Since it is the primary opening of a man toward sanity, I believe education can alone make an ordinary person, great. If you understand the above sentence, the way I do, you would find it too ambiguous and non sense. Let me clarify. We are accustomed to think that education is school and college education. It need not be. I can give you a thousand examples of people achieving their goals without going to school. Education is whatever a person learns over his life time. The totality is called education. When you get the difference right, you are half way through in achieving your goals. In the present times, more and more intellectual filth is getting added to the society. Being responsible citizens we should be the crusaders against this. In this case, the best way to fight is to defend yourself.  The next thing is to help others defend themselves, because, the filth is here to stay.  It can’t be taken out of the world and thrown out into unknown space. For leaders are born in times of crisis. Come out of the cocoon and start saying- “I am more than my engineering degree”.  If you believe you can, you will.

I write to light the fire inside people. The fire to rekindle their spirits. In all sanity, I believe every person has got a fire to achieve. That comes from the fire to wake up and live through the next sun shine. There is nothing that strikes as much as the issue in hand. The issue in hand when you read this article might be the placements. For it is the purpose of our engineering degree. A job would turn a boy into a man. I have already written about the difficulties of getting a job in today’s world. Let’s not talk about it again. The agenda here is totally different- The idea of inventing a job rather than finding one.  That is what Mark Eliot Zuckerberg did in his Harvard dorm. That is what Larry Page and Sergey Brin did in their Stanford Dorm. That is what Steve Jobs did in his attic. Congeniality never made a man. These are big names in the IT industry who defied the odds. In the world where in cross cultural and cross breeds have become so very popular, it only indicates that it is ready to absorb anything new you give to it. Deep Joshi, a MIT ian, came back to Bihar and started uplifting the lives of the poor. It needs a split second, a lightning to realise what you want to do with your life. Muhammad Yunus left the lucrative job of teaching economics at Stanford and started microfinance in Bangladesh. It helped improve the economy of the whole country. I can go on. But, I strive to drive home a point that you should find an ideal for your life. You should make a difference.  

By rule of nature everyone can’t be an entrepreneur, because you need labour to run your business. There are people with varied mindsets and varied goals. But what is common in all of us is that fire, the same fire that makes me to write this and you to read. There is an urgent need of men who can stand up and deliver for the world. A world where there is respect for every person’s work.  Those who have got the fire inside of making it big one day, I request you to e-gnite it. If this appeals, the world is waiting for you. Wake up! There is nothing that can stop you in achieving this. It’s only adversity that has bred brave soldiers.

On an ending note: I chose to write this because I felt this is the right time to talk to you about this. There is nothing that strikes as timing. In the process of change, we are left behind. The worst part is without even being known. The typical mindset of engineer, engineering degree should change. Be convinced of yourself and your goals. Don’t get bogged down by external pressure, like parents and peers. Believe me; the world is in need of men, who are true to their backbone. Your perseverance is tested all along while the doors of greatness open in front of you. Let’s wait for that, e-gnited.