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very much in love with me, so they put me on their managing committee. This principal -- I had completely forgotten about him. Ten years is a long time, and in ten years I had been expelled so many times. There had been so many principals and vice-chancellors that I had been fighting and fighting; but it went on helping me to become more and more solid, confident.
This principal had lost his job; his was a private college, and the managing committee decided to throw him out, so he applied for this new college. I had no idea. I was on the committee to interview principals and professors for the college. When he came up -- his name was Principal Paranjape... when he came up and saw me sitting in the place of the chairman of the managing committee he started trembling.
I said, "Principal Paranjape, don't be afraid."
Then he said, "Forgive me. What I did with you was absolutely unfair and wrong. Please forget about it."
I said, "There is no question... I cannot forget it, I am going to reward you for it. You are chosen as the principal for this college because you expelled me. Now I cannot in any case not choose you because that would be simply, in your mind, revenge. Although you are not the best candidate -- there are more qualified people than you -- I have to choose you.
"Do you remember, I had said to you that one day things can be just upside down? That day you were sitting in the chair and I was standing in front of you. Today I am sitting in the chair and you are standing in front of me.
"Life is a very strange drama... but I appoint you to be the principal of this college, only because you expelled me. How can I forget it? Forgive?, that is perfectly okay -- I have forgiven you long ago because no harm has been done to me -- but forget?, that I cannot do. If I forget it you will not be appointed. Now tell me, should I forget it? -- then you cannot be appointed. There are far better candidates, you can see. This is the list: there are Ph.D.s there are D.Litt.s -- you are only a double M.A.
"Your only qualification is that I remember that you expelled me without any reason. Now being the principal of this college
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