Swim Against the Current

Necessity is the mother of invention. Qualities and the character of a person are already determined and destined for delivery in one’s life time, the day he or she is born into this world. Challenge against the odds or adversities is the keystone of the success of an average or the first-time achiever in a given society, group, community or the region. A  real hero is the one who would consistently like to swim against the current and achieve the unachievable or unthinkable feat of making a different approach, process and / or finding solution in the form of a successful alternative to the existing knowledge, thinking and action in human endeavors. There lies the crux and a kick that paves the way for one's extraordinary intention, interest and goal.

Every field of activity has its own set of rules and regulations, a system of functioning, a set of characters or personnel who operate it and become participants with a view to ensuring their own survival and promotion first as also their avowed and the overt goal in the guise of services to the targets in hand.

Change is undisputedly has its own charm, warmth, context and significance in every human action. For instance, Gautam Buddha’s decision to renounce his crown and kingdom for the emancipation of human beings from the shackles of their sufferings and death, Jesus Christ’s birth as a human being for the salvation of individual souls, Mohammad Nabi’s efforts to teach the essence of brotherhood to his followers, French Revolution which ignited and introduced the concepts of liberty, equality and fraternity among mankind for the first time by breaking the new ground in Europe, New Revolution that established the United States of America, Freedom struggle under the leadership of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Indira Gandhi’s resurrection after the emergency era in India and Barack Obama’s success in becoming the first Afro-American President of USA are the illustrations and events that come to our mind immediately on the first reading of their history and biography.

A normal and ordinary soul in me too tried in a humble way to question the existing order and the system in governments and departments wherever I worked and tasted the results with distinct advantages as well as disastrous consequences at times which I would refer to and discuss at the appropriate places and at the relevant time as I proceed further with my narrations in the days to follow.