Sunday, November 25, 2012

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's visit and her divinity..the experience continues!

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certain elements of her eloquence in my speech- I envisage myself on the International Nobel Podium and try to utter the same words as she did when she received the Prize and delivered a speech- I am still only 'trying' to get it right. And then once, within the past one week itself, I realised, it is not the prize or even the hysteria of getting it that must have made her so eloquent- It was the pain! The smartness of speech just does not come 'without' undergoing all of that. House Arrest, Husband's Death, The handicap she must have felt on not being able to be with ther kids and watch them grow from “boys to men” and the uncontrolled pain seeing her country going to the worst hands!!
What stands as a prize or the glamour of getting honoured by one's alma mater in this grand way for me is definitely not what and how she sees it.
My achievements, may lie in clearing entrances or some other exams; hers lie in some real goals and freedom for Burma.

I salute her from the bottom of my heart. It takes something to be her! It requires to choose what your instinct guide and not the world. She had a happy life and could have ignored her country for the sake of her children and husband whom she had lost touch with. She did ignore - not her country but her personal pleasure. Only for the sake of her people!

And from the welcome event, what pleased me a lot, other than Mr.Shashi Tharoor's good speech, MG's Speech and Ms.Geeta Chandran's well choreographed Dance was, Daw Suu Kyi's words when she said,” This College is my College...And the Girls are 'My girls' “

Yes, I saw her. And I felt her! She touched me...totally!

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