....And how much does a quirk of fate matter... in History or for that matter everybody's life?
Can you imagine what would be the history of India had a wild and aimless arrow from a clueless soldier not suddenly hit the Great Hemu's eye and snatched victory from almost a certain defeat by Akbar whom we now acknowledge as the greatest of the Mughal kings?
Or for that matter, what would have happened if Columbus had not believed that world is round and he could reach India but travelling west instead of East? Probably the American continent would have not been explored for the next couple of hundred years!
Can you imagine what would be the history of India had a wild and aimless arrow from a clueless soldier not suddenly hit the Great Hemu's eye and snatched victory from almost a certain defeat by Akbar whom we now acknowledge as the greatest of the Mughal kings?
Or for that matter, what would have happened if Columbus had not believed that world is round and he could reach India but travelling west instead of East? Probably the American continent would have not been explored for the next couple of hundred years!
Fate?? What is that???Is there really something like that?! How often have we heard this? Deep down in our hearts probably all of us have some lingering doubts
But even as we hear this, even the most atheist of us have at one point or other given up the happening to the destiny or fate.
Let me tell you my own experience with quirk of fate- and I am sure if you dig into your deep hole of faded memories you will have one tale too many to tell of your own!
If I am not mistaken, it was the year of 1991 . My life was meandering like an aimless mountainous spring - full of energy but with no idea where it will end up. My parents had gone numb trying to imbibe some sense of responsibility into me- " be serious in looking for your career, else you will end up begging on the streets" kind of statements failed to evoke any reaction from me. I was more interested in the beautiful girl who had just joined the college instead of these heavy stuffs.
If I am not mistaken, it was the year of 1991 . My life was meandering like an aimless mountainous spring - full of energy but with no idea where it will end up. My parents had gone numb trying to imbibe some sense of responsibility into me- " be serious in looking for your career, else you will end up begging on the streets" kind of statements failed to evoke any reaction from me. I was more interested in the beautiful girl who had just joined the college instead of these heavy stuffs.
Going with the flow of the times and just to stop hearing long lectures from my elders, I started filling up the application forms for MBA entrance exams - IIMs, XLRI etc ...even though the normal MBA courses hardly interested me at that time! One day in the college one of my friends asked - did you fill up the BHU Management entrance exam form? They have also started an International Business programme! My eyes went wide- International Business ??!! That is the thing which actually evoked some interest in me ! But, I didn't have any idea of this course! He said that he had seen the advertisement in the news paper some time back but did not have the paper cutting! I went back home and started looking into the newspaper- I found it finally - in the "Times of India" of about one month back! I quickly went through it- Alas! the last date for filling up the form had already passed - it was 31st January ! Nothing left but to rue my lack of alertness! I started to go through the advertisement again...I noticed a line in very small letters at the end of the ad- the forms can be filled till 15th March with a penalty of Rs 20! Hope! This was still about 10 days to go! I immediately ran to the bank to make the draft (with the fine off course!) and sent the form duly filled and draft the same day!
As luck would have it, the entrance exam had one paper of International Business awareness- probably the only thing which I diligently read in the news paper apart from the sports news! That was the only paper apart from logic reasoning where I must have scored in the entrance exam- good enough to be declared as the topper in the Entrance exam!
If this isn't a quirk of fate - what is??
