Indian Premier League, an
entertainment sports league has a recognisable visage of glamour and
tinge of corruption through match fixing. However, under all those
headlines hogging incidents it is also a platform for unknown
sportsmen to showcase their passion and who else exemplifies it more
than a young man in his forties. Praveen Tambe or PT as fondly
called by his team mates.
Let's rewind three decades in past
to maidans of Dadar, you could imagine two teenagers sweating to
sharpen their cricketing skills, probably unknown to each other's
existence. One of them has natural abilities gets noticed as prodigy
and is recruited in national team. He proves the faith shown in him, earns respect from all greats of game, accolades from world over and
love from every cricket crazy fan, he goes on to be the jewel of the
nation. The other not so lucky, but passionate no less, he keeps
knocking the wood and waiting for opportunity for three decades
before the lady luck similes at him.
Parallel to those two stories
there is another story unfolding in same city at same-time. A young
ophthalmologist is diagnosed with a kidney aliment. The young doctor
is advised a prognosis of little over one year and suggestion to get
life insured. I am sure a furor of thoughts ran through his mind,
questioning the gods for whatever they would be, worried thoughts for
his ageing parents and so many others, which I can't even imagine.
But in those times of adversity he
finds the fire in corner of his heart and he makes a conscious
decision to conduct free cataract surgery for poor and needy, as long
as he exists. A decade pans out, the aliment is long behind him and
in his hands a world record hundred thousand cataract surgeries. Dr
Tatyarao Lahane, goes on to be the dean of prestigious Sir J J
hospital in Mumbai.
Three stories of passion, one
story goes through the road of glamour, love and recognition and
yet staying honest to his inner passion. The second stories travels
through misery, hardship and probably being ridiculed, yet the theme
of story is about staying honest to his inner passion. The third is
an extra-ordinary story about fuelling the inner fire of passion in a
personal tragedy.
The spectrum of passion is wide,
it can ignite early in a prodigy or test a late bloomer, from knowing
what you want to getting ignited by a turn of life at a cross-road, but what passion needs is enough fuel in belly. If you
believe in your passion, keep fuelling it, keep living it.
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