In the Backdrop of World War III

When Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei thundered a day back, "We will make the ZIONISTS regret this crime of attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria and other crimes like this, by God's power and strength," now the stage is almost set for the World War III.

- Krishna Kumar Mishra

When I heard this message I recalled a great man who is fondly remembered by his deeds.

At times, we all worry about the people we are close to but we also get depressed and mentally shattered when we lose someone we have never met. People we know from the newspaper pages, television screen and history books, not necessarily only those who have been extraordinarily successful in their lives.

Unfortunately, the truth is the whole world worships false Gods. In the history of time immemorial heroes have always been in fact the few and even those are, in most of the cases, unknown to a larger population of the world. The man lovingly called the British Schindler and the much-honoured creator of the Czech Kindertransport Sir Nicholas Winton was one of them. He is my hero. Born on May 19, 1909, in Hampstead, UK and died at a ripe age of 106 in 2015, his heroic deeds are absolutely unmatched.

I was unaware about his existence like the whole world was during my Madras days when I was deeply immersed reading the making of World War I and II. I've a list in my diary the name of the books I read and it's really a long list - 43 to be accurate. I was very fortunate to meet some people who provided me all those materials, the books, the pamphlets, the handwritten diaries. It was early 1980s and my hero was living a quiet life, a common man. No one knew him except his friends and relatives. The books I read only talked about the great rescue operation Kinder transport. It was only in 1988 that the world came to know the man behind the mission. I immediately fell in love with this great man. And you'll too, dear readers, when you read this piece.