Inspirational stuff..
Dec 31st 2011
India had just lost the boxing day test match, with a day to spare. Star News was deciding who was the ‘Match Ka Mujrim’. Others were wondering when Sachin will finally score that created in the boardroom, 100th hundred. If an alien visited India around that time and switched on the tele, he/she would have thought our world started and ended with cricket.
Pretty sad, considering an event that slipped completely under our radar.
Dr Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, affectionately called the ‘MetroMan of India’, bid adieu to his 56 year long career of creating 21st century monuments. His exit was a reflection of how he lived; simple, elegant and completely inconspicuous.
Just pause for a moment and think.
56 successive years, in a single job, without a break.
56 Years.
In other words, Dr Sreedharan, worked continuously for a duration, in which an average Indian generally goes from…
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People. Places. People-lings. 
Interesting. I’ll be honest, I don’t understand it all, but interesting none the less.
I agree that it is a little difficult to understand, I agree. Things are different in my country where they clamour for giving honours to actors and sportsmen but no one cares about a simple, down to earth, hardworking man who has done so much for the nation 🙂