Education
Father an Inspiration, Says Afzal Guru’s Son
Sometimes, life comes in all tough forms. Yet, the one who’s determined to live, lives it with pride and happily. Here’s Ghalib Guru … the son of Afzal Guru … determined to lead a successful life!
Ghalib Guru is the latest rage in the country. We hope no one would now ask us who Ghalib Guru.
Well, for those who have just logged in and are not as Internet-savvy, Ghalib Guru is the son of the alleged master-mind behind the attack on Indian Parliament, and who has now been hung.
And why is the rage? Ghalib Guru, who has cleared his Class 10th Board under Jammu and Kashmir Board, has done it with flying colors. The boy scored as high as 95%! Ghalib and his family have high hopes for his future. He wants to revert back what his father had done to the country and earn a good name for his family. He wants to be a doctor.
His mother, the widow of Afzal Guru, who had tough time fighting the adversities, too has dreams for her son. Other than facing the wrath for her husband’s deeds, she also had to raise the child single-handedly. Today, watching her son succeed makes her happy after many long years. She says that though Afzal wanted him to become an Islamic scholar, she wants him to do better and be a neurologist or else a cardiologist.
Ghalib today comes out clear that he had no idea why his father was so much on TV till he was executed. All that his young mind could think of was believing that his father might have killed someone in family rivalry. And then when he was executed did Ghalib come to know that what his father was convicted of was a lot more graver than what he had imagined and wondered why exactly was he left alive when all other attackers were already executed.
As per reports coming in from PTI, and as the rest of the country must have already imagined, the young boy was much perturbed by whatever was happening to his family. He was facing what not even grown-ups have the courage to, he calls them ‘tensions’, at an age when his friends were busy playing with toys.
What disturbs us yet more now is the way he can smile and say, “If I had (access to) sedatives those days, I would tried it.” A bright student could have been lost.
Lost to what?
Lost to what his father did to the nation, lost to what he couldn’t even understand for his entire childhood, lost to what he was never aware of …
Yet, the child dedicates his success to his father. Ghalib says that it was his father who taught him to fight all kind of adversities and to pray, which gave him courage enough to continue his studies with dedication.