06 Education

1985.

I was grown to 18 and admitted at St Xaviers College Palayam Kottai. I chose Chemistry as major subject and became top scorer.  The college days were very interesting and I earned good friends. God blessed my studies abundantly. It was His Grace and His plan on me.

Post to the science graduation, I got admission in B.Tech Instrumentation Engineering at Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) the only institution gave a hope to Science graduates to become Engineers. Dr Abdul Kalam, the eminent Scientist who served as the 11th President of India, was my Alumni.

  

Government of India merit scholarship covered my educational fee during graduation at MIT. Canara Bank respected my merit in B.Sc graduation and sanctioned an amount of Rs fifteen thousand as educational loan with moderate interest rate and that covered the remaining expenses.

In the summer holidays, I went and worked as a daily wager with my father in the brick kiln. I never revealed my holidays’ entertainment to any of my friends inside the campus.

I got a high score in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-91), and my post graduation expenses were sufficiently covered through GATE stipend.

But, I was not loyal to my nation! The Government gave splendor support to bring me to do higher education. But, as soon as the completion of my post graduation, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) hired me as a software analyst trainee.

And soon I entered into a materialistic world, focused only on work and gave less importance to the human relations and stayed away from spiritual world. Environment and situations changed my life style very fast. Corporate transferred me from place to place for their business achievements as per their plan whether I liked it or not but everything complied with the appointment terms and conditions. Still, I was under God’s direct sight because I was selected for His work. 

When I was a child I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love (I Corinthians 13: 11-13)