Interviewer said, "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy thought for a while and said, "My choice is one really difficult question." "Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this.
"What comes first, Day or Night?" The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the Day sir!"
"How" the interviewer asked.
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a second question!"
This boy is said to have been chosen for IIM in an Indian Institute. It is this sort of brilliant approach that we consider to be hall mark of excellence. All over the world we struggle to insert similar experts in key positions with a belief that it is the number of such persons that make a nation great.
Sometime back, I happened to read the story of a Librarian from Tamil Nadu, Mr. Kalayana Sundaram. He worked as a Librarian for thirty years. All his service life, he continued donating his full salary to help the needy. He didn’t spare even his pension amount of Rs. ten lakhs. He met his personal needs from the work he did in a hotel nearby. In recognition to his service, United Nations Organisation adjudged him as one of the outstanding People of the 20th Century. I’m sure that such people move not only the heart of a nation but also the brain of the world.
But, do such passionate souls like Kalyana Sundaram alone make a powerful nation? I think, India never believed in a compromise and that was the prime reason for India easily falling prey to foreign invasions in the past. Now, the age is absolutely digital and there is enough of compromise everywhere. Is not our present fall greater than the worst in the past?
Joseph Mattappally
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