resort to buying a subsidised packet of fish and chips, the cheapest available resort to a meal, to pull him through till Monday
His only luxury was a second-hand bicycle given to him by his Marmaji, using which he proudly completed his schooling, MBBS, M.S. and even carried hone his loving wife Kamal Ajwani on it, "I married her because a girl getting married to a cycle owner must really be in love with him and seek nothing ebe other than his honest companionship", he chuckles, "And now she holds my heart unconditionally and my finances too".
If you fall behind, run faster .if you fall down, rise up. if you fail, don't give in. You only getone life, don't complain, show gratitude and never surrender
He was an adept cricketer and represented his university as an opener batsman but his immediate concerns of providing for his family forced him to leave the sport at an carly stage. "I was the asset of my family which my father dearly invested in and now I wanted to contribute at the earliest by earning sufficiently"" said. His first salary that was one thousand four hundred and thirty-three rupees in 1981 which he delightedly handed oner to his father and prnrd his usefulness to the family
Dr Ajwani is watermarked by simplicity which is a true impression of an absolute life. No matter where one's head is, his feet should always be firmly rooted to the ground. This philosophy got transferred in his two daughters Anita and Anusha, who never got to know how much their father is earning. Anusha after her P.G. joined him in his Ajwani Eye Hospital". Only then she got a glimpse of her father's worth. No preferential treatment or privileges, projecting financial superionitics were extended by this sparing father to IS his children, who were made to live a life of the commoner in sincere humility His family were made to avail ground level lacilities and the children were extended basic allowance, in order to make them realise the value of hard earned money
An epitome of perseverance, a fierce warrior battling hardships and adversities, in the war against tribulations, Dr Manohar Kumar Ajwani is a real life Phoenix who was burnt down in paucity and rose from those ashes in his Parsuit Of Happyness. This little aspirant pulled his studies in impoverishment, sometimes under a street lamp post or in candlelight. "For me to study peacefully, my empathising neighbours wouuld turn down the volume of their radios and my family would instantly go quiet, to make a congenial emvironment", he reminisces.
His hero was his father, a just man, who would work hard as a helper, picking up heavy sacks on his back the whole day in small shops to run the family and yet, get up at 3:30 in the morning, to make tea on his kerosene stove, serve his son a small loaf of Pau Bread' with it. From four till seven in the morning he would just be in the
presence of the Almighty in meditation, irrespective of any possible deviance, for every single day of his life, after which he would begin his regular day carrying his loads for his children.
He was born in a family with terrible financial constraints. Deprivation taught him many lessons and insufficiency reassured his ambitions. His ability to walk a tight disciplined path, saving every penny, at times even at the cost of staying hungry, shows his iron will. He recalls the stipend that he would get in London, where he went to for his higher studies. It would barely cover for his weekly expenses, excluding his Saturdays' dinner and Sundays' food. Rarely could he manage to save an extra pound and a half, as an emergency fund. So a regular wcekend would remain a foodless one for him. Only and only when the heat of his hunger overwhelmed him immensely, would he
