Even before i went to take my first class in 2009 when i entered teaching service i was warned by my colleagues of this boy who asked questions. I was shown a bit of a paper this boy had written where he wanted to challenge Einstein’s theory. The first very thought reading that page was recollecting my own foolishness on the same subject when I was fresh graduate.  What time did to me? I did not research for the joy of research rather I researched for the sake of this career, this seat, this world I am in.”

 The boy did not trouble me with any questions in my classes. I guess he realized I was interested in space and time. I quickly learnt that he wanted to go deep into space time geometry and come to a new theory on this. Strange is time that brought the boy to me squared with no hope for doing a M.Sc. project. He was entrusted with simple task of making a theoretical calculation on film thickness and its reflecting properties. He came back to me with matrix formulation on the same with no answer to my question. I judged him to be a boy possessed with a thirst to explore. I let him explore and let him learn.

I took him one day to my lab where I worked making nights into days to reach this very seat I am sitting and writing these lines. He learnt and got the feel of the difference of this world he was accustomed to here and what lay ahead outside. He got selected for a project fellowship from INSA. But then he came up to me to say he can’t go for his health crippled him. Every chance I offered to him he turned down saying his health does not permit him.

With pain and discontent he completed his project with me. The result of the work is interesting and I need to have it published at-least that I should do for this boy who showed me a different perspective of life.

What happened to Jiju?

He is no more. I guess 20 hours earlier he breathed his last. I carry his memory his relentless pursuit of growth. After having completed the course he was the only student who was in touch with me regularly without a break of two weeks.

I feel sad, helpless and pathetic for this life. How much of comfort god has given to us and how much of pain he has given to others. I feel ashamed in front of his soul that strived to reach where it is today. Many have reached there without learning what he has in his short period of time in this planet.