"JOURNEY OF THE DULLEST LAD TO THE TALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA"

A personality that passed through endless trials and tribulations, hurdles and hardships, paved his way towards carving a castle for himself.  His chapter of life started from his birth in a middle class family with five siblings.  Being a mischievous boy, he did not achieve much during primary and higher primary education. 

His father’s retirement from the Railway service made him return to his native state of Karnataka.  His timely hard work got him through the tenth standard with the least percentage.  This was the first shock given by him to the people.

One of his classmates was an expert in Yogasanas who boosted his confidence to perform them. Meanwhile when a Karate master opened a school, he joined the classes.  He ameliorated his defensive skills. During this period, he added another feather learning Kalari, i.e., Indian Kung fu, from a Keralite Master.

At this juncture, his zeal to study sprouted and to overcome his Achilles heel, he approached a man who was good at English phonetics.  He agreed but on one condition, that is, he would teach him English phonetics if agrees to play the Mandolin for his orchestra. 

This undesired opportunity made him welcome to the world of western music.  After a couple of months, he realized that he ought to study the theory and practice of the guitar.  During his stay in Andhra Pradesh, his sworn or blood brother had influenced and introduced him to the singing skills.

He became a cynosure of the people around him. But his fate had planned something for him.  Suddenly his father was severely ill, and was confined to bed.  Thus he was unable to continue his studies.  After a gap, the enthusiasm to study made him join English Typing and Shorthand classes.  After the completion of these courses, he resumed his PUC by choosing Arts’ stream.  Pre-University education heightened his academic skills and he obtained the sixth rank.

His fate favoured him when his friends supported financially and they forced him to join the Karnataka University in Dharwar, pursuing the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.  His optional subjects were Urdu and Persian. 

Being a time-conscious person, he attended French and Russian Evening classes.  Unfortunately, he had to drop Russian.  During his five-year stay at Dharwar, he learnt the Sitar also from a Maestro Ustad Bale Khan.

He graduated with flying colours—again the sixth rank.   His post-graduation was done in Linguistics.  He proved his mettle in the post-graduation by acquiring the second rank.  With all these laurels, one of his distant relatives had offered him a chance to work in Dubai but luck did not favour

Being the eldest son, he had to look after his single mother and five siblings.   He shouldered this responsibility.  He was at the crossroads—in the state of a dilemma.  At last, he determined to do simple stints like teaching English, French, guitar and Karate.  One fine day, he accompanied his friend who was running a school in Hassan

His stayed in Hassan district for twenty-six years provided him with a wide range of knowledge and experience in the skills and arts he had learnt.  He was very much interested in music and to ameliorate his music skills, he thought of obtaining guidelines of Maestro Ilayaraja who sent him to his own tutor of Western music, Master Joseph who was in Bangalore as the Band Master. 

Under the instructions of Master Joseph, he studied the theory of Western Music for three years.  After the completion of this training, he studied German and French through British Institute, Bombay.

He tried his hand in the art of translation too.  He has many books to his credit.  He has compiled books on English Riddles, English grammar, French Made Easy, German Made Easy, English Collocations Made Easy and Guitar Learning Made Easy in three grades.

Beginning from Holenarsipur (Hassan), after his marriage, he continued his career at Islamia Arabic College called Mansoora. 

            He has three daughters.  He went to Gulbarga for their education and at last, he was destined to come back to his native district of Bellary.  From then onwards till today, he has been reaching great heights.

I feel I have never seen a person like him who hailed from Telugu Medium and became a master in English.  From the dullest lad, he proved himself to be a scholar.  He knows nine languages: Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, English, French and German.  In his leisure, he writes in Urdu, Kannada and English.

His struggle for survival taught him many lessons.  Loaded with different duties and responsibilities, he still learns to be innovative.  He is always a student who teaches English, German, French, and Guitar and translates, improves the language of the articles and paper presentations
written by others.Owning these multi-talents he is popularly known as TALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA. 

I would also like to say that not every person is born brilliant, its all about the struggle to succeed as we clearly understand with this life story of Mr. Ghouse.

He is my ideal, Teacher, Guide, Philosopher and nevertheless….MY BELOVED DAD.

I conclude that all heroes are not on the Silver Screen but a few real heroes are off the screen also, like Mr.Ghouse.