[emily]

On a long flight back to Germany from Shanghai with four stopovers I found enough time to think about your comment. I came to the conclusion you may be absolutely right. However, many aspects relating to the subject went through my mind.

Nature had always created everything unequal and if everything was equal this world would be so boring to live on. What part did God play in all those creations of this world?

Digging deeper into this I can not help but assume God has been extremely unfair in dispensing intellectual abilities only to a selected a few and they too had to travel to, far off Harvard and Stanford to develop their skills to describe their experiences in their own words. God has certainly been very cruel to the majority.

On the other hand I found astonishingly many Brahmins and even a number of Dalit existed in Tamil Nadu that have made their names as great writers though they never have been fortunate enough to go to Harvard or Stanford.

I wonder from where they could have obtained their abilities. In another post I would write about them. But none of them seem to have made their way into Chennai forums. A few that came left without much noise. Am I a lone rebel with a cause to enhance the intellectual value here?

It was very long ago a joke was doing the rounds that doctors from The US, Germany and Egypt met to discuss the advancement their countries had made in the medical field. The American proudly said they could now transplant a failing human heart with another. The German said well! We could even replace a defective heart valve with new one. The Egyptian doctor laughed at them and said that’s all nothing compared to our achievement. We managed to transplant a donkey’s brain into a human being.

The doctors from the US and Germany being surprised by this achievement simultaneously asked if the switch over really worked? Most certainly it has because he is now the president of our republic.

The story is about a man’s oafishness, a son of a minor government employee who never really wanted to become the president of his country.