Translations : 6 May India be Powerful

The author recounts their most challenging travel experience in 1986, traveling from Pune to New Delhi for a high-stakes M.Phil examination at JNU. Despite being selected, the author describes the anxiety of financial uncertainty that eventually led them to return and continue a career in teaching. The piece concludes with a translation of a Marathi poem by Sane Guruji, which focuses on national service and unity.