The Professor of righteousness

It was 6^th of January of the New Year, 2009.

I’m not excited about PS-II anymore as I’ve been in this business for about a semester now. It was New Year’s Eve and hence celebrated with parents at Hyderabad and landed back in Bangalore with a hope and wish to learn more and new in this New Year. Everything started again, like a sequel to an action movie. Rushed to BITS PDC and got registered for the II semester of PS-II. Was little disappointed as my previous instructor, with whom we had a good rapport has left to Germany. At the same time was apprehensive about the new professor, after having learnt that it was A N Pant, got my tensions multiplied! Prof. A N Pant! Everyone knows him as a strict disciplinarian and as I have never been closely associated with him, had to follow others in believing that he really is a martinet. He spoke like a usual PS faculty of threatening students on the very first day about the Grades. Everything was fine; he seemed to me like a cool man.

Days passed. I always believed in punctuality and being sincere to what ever I took up, which made my manager speak a bit high about me in front of the professor - which was soothing for his ears. He started showering faith and we were a bit special to him compared to his remaining 28 students. Whenever he told us that he likes us more than his other students, we used to feel ecstatic and wanted to do everything possible to gain his confidence and never let him down. We’ve always been faithful to him as we were to our parents. We regarded him with reverence and worshipped his good words. He spoke about building up good personality and traits that make one attain the greatest heights of success. He taught us about the importance of character and passed us his noble thoughts about the four pillars.

It was an unfortunate day that I had been to Hyderabad on a weekend and was returning back to Bangalore on a Monday morning, when my train got delayed by 2hrs. I did not inform my professor about my going late to office that day. Usually affable professor, showered rage and I realized how hard it would be for someone to digest the fact, that someone special, whom you trust, has now backstabbed you, grabbed your confidence in him and crushed the good will. I felt guilty and could not look straight into his eyes. Time passed and he regained the confidence and faith in us. Professor helped me in many ways and conducted the PS-II program in the spirit in which it has to be conducted.

Now, although it’s hard to part and go away, its time to implement the things learnt from the professor and put them into action. I’m highly grateful to him for giving me superb guidance in just 6 months time and making me a man out of a boy. My venerations towards him are far beyond words and I would never forget such a professor who walked into my life and lit up a candle of faith and good behavior and walked away. As long as I live, I would never forget my professor who has taught me lessons beyond what text books could capture. His principles & his ideals are worth carrying forward. Jai Ho!