Hey! it's been a while since I came up with an article on my blog. Perhaps i was waiting for the right issue to jot down my opinion about. So here it is 'Roman Saini'. I believe i am obsessed with this particular person or say smitten by his sheer exemplary smile. I was awestruck on learning more about his background. Let me brief you about him -
Roman Saini, an adroit at achieving his goals in the very first attempt. Yes ! he is a graduate from the very prestigious institute AIIMS and cleared the entrance at the age of 16. Further more at the age of 22, he cracked the civil service entrance standing 18th in the country. He became the youngest person joining the civil service with a combination of degree of being an IAS and doctor. To add a cherry on the cake besides all this he has a degree in guitar from TRINITY college, london. This was not it, what blew my mind was the fact that he decided to quit his lucrative job and pursue his vision of providing free education to the budding IAS aspirants via Unacademy. It is an online portal co-founded by Roman Saini , Gaurav Munjal and two others, which provides educational content to civil service aspirants.
Dr Roman Saini and Gaurav Munjal Co-Founders of
Unacademy.
I was so impressed probably because it was not a stereotypical way of moving on with ones career. I thought it as a new way to close the mundane, humdrum chapter in ones life and try something unconventional. However when the adrenaline rush mellowed in me, I started to contemplate and interact with various people and asked their opinion. I didn't expect to listen to criticism from the other end. I was taken aback by knowing their perception over this issue. Most of them said " jyada dimaag hone se, aise ulta seedha kaam karte hai log ". I couldn't reciprocate to that cause i thought otherwise. Likewise the rest said he is a fickle minded person who wasted the government's money, it invested on his education and training. The educated business part of the society saw a profit motive in it, as Unacademy was gaining a lot of publicity effortlessly. And lastly people thought that if making quality education accessible to a large part of the student population was his dream, he could have done that by even being at IAS officer. So why quit the job and paint it as a social entrepreneurship venture.
There was so much chaos in my mind and i wanted to clear this quandary. I sat and mulled over their opinions and perception. After being in a pensive state for a while I could still only see the positives behind the step he took. Yes, I agree many people have the same goal of a better education system, infrastructure and so on, at the end only to see a better nation in the future. They all have disparate ideas to go about the situation and Roman Saini chose this path, which is clearly the unorthodox way of dealing with it. When people call him fickle minded I ask them " what about those people who study science for most of their student life and end doing an MBA cause apparently that's the way to set ones career in fast track and settle down ". We never question those people, on the contrary drill the minds of the people who are giving up so much for the betterment of the coming generation of the nation. Lastly coming to the publicity stunt, at the end of the day they are running an educational business and publicity is an indispensable part of running a successful business. The choice he made has not been detrimental to the interest of the people. Therefore I strongly believe he is well on the track.
Life is all about finding the inner peace which lies in oneself, and if this is the path he chose then there is no conventional or unconventional part, there is only RIGHT PATH , the path to inner peace, happiness and contentment in life .
