Outlook

This is the 5th session in the ‘Find Your Alter Ego’ interview series. He is renowned for his tenacity as well as his potency to amuse people. He is known to the public as a highly spiritual personality. His humble beginnings and the subsequent sojourn-free rags-to-riches story has been inked about quite many a times in the recent past. Nicknamed ‘High Flier’ by the media after witnessing his rapid ascent in the open-air sector, here is Mr. Henry Kite on a tete-a-tete with us.

How are you Mr. Kite? How does it feel to be interviewed mile high?
Kite: I’m good. Actually, I am in high spirits. (smiles)

It has always been under curious scanners. Your early life. Could you shed some light on it?
Kite: Well, I was born in a family of paper kites. My parents had a modest fortune and unlike my friends, I couldn’t sport the precious glistening look. Most of them got bought for good prices while I waited and watched them go places in the sky. Eventually I did get bought by an orphan. He apparently liked me because of the absence of the useless frills and zing on me.

Any upsets, setbacks then?
Kite: Yes. Many. I was being readied to fly by my owner. During the initial attempts I suffered major falls and casualties. I nose-dived. Hit rock bottom. Almost gave up. Gradually I learned to face the tide and be less stubborn. With intermittent falls and calculated risks, I managed to climb the gradient. I wouldn’t be where I am, if it wasn’t for the wind impeding my motion. I grew wiser and starting using it to my advantage.

Have you always been a God-loving person?
Kite: I would say I am spiritual. I have always felt a thin thread-like connection with a supreme being. Someone tied to me. Someone who drives me in the meanest of winds. Someone who helps me seek reason.

What is your biggest fear?
Kite: I fear the rains. My owner hasn’t flown me during one. But I dread it.

Do you have any regrets?
Kite: Yes. My connection, like that of others, with God, has been a real cause of concern. Many of my kind have strayed away to distant lands or rather ‘lost their Gods’ because of filthy attempts by marauding elements, to cut one another’s faiths. I feel, I was indirectly responsible for many such weak threads being severed.

But you still believe in God.
Kite: I do. Without this belief I would be lost in the wilderness, guided by the wind alone. With it, I get a sense of direction.

Hmmm. After gracefully taking to the air and having tasted the sweet and bitter of success, are you still welcome to facing the wind?
Kite: Why not? I love challenges. They help us all inch closer to the chimera of being very high someday. Literally high. And the kites who fail to stand the wind, end up battered and stuck up atop trees. While the others, swing in the air defiantly against gravity.

Finally, any message to our readers?
Kite: Sure. People, it’s tried and tested. Sky is really the limit.

Thank you for your time.
Kite: You are most welcome.

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