One of my fantasies since childhood was to own a bicycle and the same was true for my father. Both of us were unable to fulfill it. My father was not in financial ease to fulfill this dream for me and his father was unable to make out its significance.

But the uncommon thing among us is that when I was in 2nd year of my graduation I was given a scooter but I hadn’t even tried a bicycle ever. This filled a frustration in my head and I went to my maternal uncle to seek help. I devoted two complete days to learn riding a bicycle/ The cycle that I tried was high enough so that it was impossible for me to sit on the seat and pedal it simultaneously, I inserted my feet across its bar and drove it almost hanging to it.

Anyhow due to the time constraint, I came back to my home and tried myself on the scooter which was five times heavier than the cycle. In my very first trial, I crashed into a wall and lost its headlight with a lot of scratches on my scooter as well as on my body. At one time I somersaulted almost twelve feet down the road along with my scooter and maternal uncle.

But he was not discouraged by all this. There was a moment when I was so low that I thought that I would never learn to ride it. He was the one who told me “It is now or never”. I made it within a fortnight’s time. This was one of my greatest achievements.