Everybody
in this World categorise their ideas into two, viz. something they believe or
agree to and something they don’t. In similar way people choose their friends.
Everyone befriend only those people whom they like and have some common ideas
to share. Exceptionally, it happens such
that you
are in a close knitted strongly bound group and they are not just
friends but like your family members.. then even though you do not agree with
someone’s thinking, you’ll end up having a great relationship with that person.
Same is the case of me and Krishna. I guess no other person in SAS-9 might have
fought with Krishna so vigorously as I did. He used to tell me his sister and I
definitely treated him as my brother. I have slammed (criticised) him every
single time when I disagreed to what he said. Well, Krishna being eldest
amongst us, was definitely more experienced and wise than us and during
the course he has not missed a single opportunity to correct us whenever he
felt us doing anything wrong. Of course most of the times we disagreed to what
he wanted to say but I remember many such instances when I found him talking
absolutely up to the mark. That is why it has been so difficult to write about him. Word does fall short to describe a person whom one doesn't understand well.
Krishna
is very religious person. I’ve seen his religious feeling crossing all bars and
when divinity used to start dominating his head, those were the times when I
felt that he should go to Himalayas and become a sage. He is very different than all of us. Let me confess to the
world “yes!! We made lot of fun of his theological ideas”. I don’t know whether
in all our conflicts and controversies which involved Krishna, we were right or
him. I don’t even know what was right or wrong. Moreover, I am/was not
interested in finding out what was right or wrong but all this never changed
the equation between us. We argued endlessly on almost everything and yet the
friendship remained intact.
Apart
from observing all that with what I don’t agree in Krishna, I’ve seen the
brighter side of him as well. He is very kind at heart. He believes in giving and
he is almost detached from his possessions. He is not at all materialistic and
understands true meaning of life. I completely agree with him on the issues
regarding over consumerism of the people which will effect the global climate
in long run. He is a nature lover and has immense potential to be an
environmentalist. He has idealistic view point in almost everything. Many times
being in conversation with him feels like some historical leader has jumped
right out of the Social Science textbook. I completely believe that if he is
given chance he could be an excellent reformist.
The
most cherish-able memories shared with him were the combined efforts put by us
(me, Dilpreet and Krishna) to save that cow’s life who was lying sick in front
of SAC and Krishna’s contribution in saving the life of our badly injured puppy
at ISRO Residence.
Thank
you, Krishna for being a great support in all those times when we needed you. It
took lot of my efforts to write about you and yet I don’t think I’ve been able
to give any justification to what I wanted to say. I have tried to be honest
and I apologize if any of my words above hurt you.
Meeting
you was an EXPERIENCE of Life and I wish u all the best for all your future
endeavors.
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