Bravery

Leave all stories of tiger-fighting and fighting 5 goons single handedly. See what true bravery is.

Ankola is a small Taluk in Karnataka famous for its native breed of mangoes called ishaad. Raghunath Aigal resides in a village over here. He quit his BSc to join the Indian army and served for some years in the Madras Infantry. After retirement, he took up a private job in Goa. Raghunath left this well paying job ( which must have been damn hard, Goa after all) to become the watchman of a crematorium in his village. He takes responsibility of respectfully cremating the bodies that are never claimed/identified.

The stud can stay underwater for more than six minutes and has saved the lives of many from drowning. He lives on meagre wages given to him by the crematorium and occasional gifts of money/liquor given to him by the villagers.

Raghunath is a brave man. It takes balls to leave a comfy job in Goa of all places and come back to a small village to do the duty he does. Specially when the society views this to be as the duty of the lowest castes and the downtrodden.

In fact, his life has more purpose than thousands of others with nauseating amounts of money. In fact, at this point of time, considering the fact that I do nothing to benefit the society, his life has more purpose than mine.

He may not be Barack Obama bringing Nuclear Disarmament around the world, but he is one of those few brave souls who realise that they must utilize their gift of life to serve the society in any way possible.