02.11.2025
S: It is those with the talent that save the world.
A: And the talentless?
S: They consume the world with their greed and ignorance. They destroy.
A: You have talent?
S: Who can deny it? I am The Tiger. Born and raised to be a hero. It is those with talent that have a destiny.
A: Tell me a story about talent.
S: There is an Indian film I was thinking about this morning, ‘Papa the Great’. How I have remembered, it is impossible to tell.
A: Yes?
S: There is a meek and submissive man. But his son worships him. The son does not know that his father is a coward and a non-man. But then, one day, the coward comes up against a gangster, the gangster’s crimes. Will he fight for justice? For truth? Can he become the hero his son believes he is? Or will he disappoint his son and become a non-man?
A: What has that to do with talent?
S: The meek man has two talents. One, he is Indian. The land of The Tiger. Two, he has love. The love of his son. That love that asks him to be a warrior. To fight the good fight. It is that love that my mother has bequeathed to me, desired from me.
A: You submit to the desire of the mother?
S: It is the way of India and the way of The Tiger. Still, there lives and breathes this big gangster. The world bows before him. He dishonours all. But not The Tiger’s mother. Not The Tiger. When you have self respect, you have everything. The son looks at us. He is the future. And the future has only one demand. Bravery.
diary of a lone man 