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Heroes and hero worship reminds us of the faces of celebrities who live on big screens! Look around us to discover the real heroes of life, the kernel and epicenter of the house from which everything flows out and to which everything returns. Our parents!!!  The tedium of a long journey is felt once the vehicle comes to a halt. They have waded through a mechanically inclined professional life of compromise, sacrifice and selflessness to nurture their family. Running round the clock oblivious to striking from twelve to twelve and back has come to a solemn stillness expectedly unexpected. Now that the hitherto unheard ticking of the Big Ben is found often harmonious with the heartbeat indicates that it is time to be at ease on the 'easy chair'. "I can't rest, until I rest in peace", Gabrial Garcia Marquez asserts. Though the lively customarily followed life shall not be the same after retirement, novelty shall be assured, a new beginning.  This is when you notice th...

  “An upstart crow beautified with our feathers”, I would add, Robert Greene’ is not of his times but for all times. His attack on William Shakespeare for his fame despite his 'disqualification' of not being a university educate, is timeless. Literary figures including Shelley, Byron and Keats too have faced music and been addressed as the members of 'cockney school of poetry'. What one becomes or unbecomes does not entirely depend on one’s academics. My being a post graduate from a “non standard” university through distance mode has often been a matter of laughter, mockery and under estimation among the peers at workplaces. These ‘University Wits’ being proud for their accomplishment, marginalize and victimize these poor ‘Shakespeares’. (I did not mean that I am Shakespeare). It would be better if one looks back and find how far the possible number of exposures are availed while pursuing their academics in reputed universities. A similar disparity is faced by the p...