On that most auspicious day, 15th August 1957, when all of India celebrated her tenth birthday….
He/(Author) was not born
but summoned into breath and bone,
A flicker in the womb of time, shaped,
Few by silence more of storms
Childhood was not of years, but echoes—
The first fall, the first fire, the first question of life that refused sleep.
Indeed, it was-
Despite the onslaught of extreme poverty, a poor environment, and inherited family feudalism, he was welcomed by
Parents, and
he grew.
Experience parallels the flow of life—ever-changing, like the river,
as beautifully quoted
“You cannot step into the same river twice”
Life’s chapters unfold their narrative in black and white.
The chapters read as
The years of “Breath of Becoming”—1957–1962
The Years of Learning: 1962–1983 and Graduating MBBS in 1981
Through ten years of government service in Odisha’s health and family welfare department, working as an Assistant Surgeon from 16.04.1983 to 26.05.1993.
Over the years of struggle, he resigned from his post in protest against excessive political interference in service sector and the fight for institutional survival.
Shouldering family responsibility and establishing a private clinic in a remote corner of Odisha to serve the community and generate income, from 27.05.1993 to 19.12.2003
Re-entering job on 20.12.2003—life blended with joy, trauma, stress and challenges, each shaping the journey through
the structured path of service: learning to adapt and grow with each promotion until retirement.
from the rank of Additional Director of Health Service on 31st August 2019.
Through years of relearning, entering a new chapter of life—writing and reading—as destined
for- “in the same chapter of life,
wisdom may sit beside relearning not as rivals but as
companions in soul’s unfolding,”- 2019 and continuing——-
Returning from the discipline of service life towards an inner horizon, where the essence of being is sought through silence, wisdom, and service to the community—offering professional skills in dedicated service.
“Life can only be understood backwards;
But it must be lived forwards.” – Kierkegaard