THE PACKED LUNCH-BOXES OF OUR TOMORROWS
Pic.: Fr. Reginald Pinto “What you give, will be for you; what you hoard, will be for others’; Do not remember or regret what you give… For, that will be the packed lunch-box for your tomorrows.” S arvajna was a great Kannada poet and philosopher. He was famous for his Tripadis – simple three-lined poems. They were easy to remember and recite… and, they were loaded with meaning. And, the best thing about all his Tripadis was: they ended with ‘Sarvajna’! So, though we kids in school were bad in memorizing Sarvajna’s Tripadis , we were brilliant in creating our own Tripadis – with colloquial fun. Oh, we would come out with a fresh one every second morning… yes, just like our young-kids do, today, in their FB factories! Frankly, I had completely forgotten, both, Sarvajna and his famous Tripadis . And, this morning, when I was talking to Mr. Rao, a senior citizen – who, like me, had done his schooling in Mangalore (and much ...