About the Author

The enlightenment of identities of the world is an outcome of the quest for my own enlightenment of identity. As has been mentioned, enlightenment of identity is preceded by a crisis of identity - which has a trigger point – and mine was physical, developmental.

I was born in Guwahati, Assam, India, on October 7, 1968. I was an only child. I spent about the first 14 years of my life outside Guwahati, mostly in the various towns of Assam, as my father, a judge was in a transferable job. Eventually, I and my mother shifted to our ancestral home at Guwahati, so I could prepare uninterruptedly for my matriculation under the State Board.

In my adolescence, the first signs of trouble ahead became evident. Physically, my development was visibly lagging for my age. Although my height appeared average, I was seriously underweight - my muscle mass and skeletal structure was underdeveloped; there was a lack of some secondary sex characteristics as well. General physicians consulted at the time preferred to see it only as a problem of underweight and took a nutritional approach, but to no effect. Eventually the condition became a full-blown crisis for me, once the normal age of development was passed.

Concurrently, I was facing an intellectual crisis as well, correlated with my developmental deficiency. I was beginning to struggle to cope with the increasing demands of academics. Even as I was keen on pursuing a scientific career – I was interested in biology, especially that of the brain – my scientific skill acquisition was not moving apace. My academic performance deteriorated, and I barely managed to scrape through Junior College. Although I enrolled in an undergraduate course in Zoology, my heart wasn’t in academics any more, and I left college for good sometime after.

I was now well and truly at the deep end of existence, where one either sinks or swims. It all does come down to ‘beingness’ itself. Now in the quest to re-find one’s place in the world, everything has to start from scratch, which is a state of regression and reclusivity.

Meanwhile, as a rite of passage toward a re-invented personality, I substituted my erstwhile formal name and settled on my nickname as my formal name. But the search for a true vocation was proving to be elusive. Sometime in the mid-nineties, I began speculating about whether the present time in history had anything special about it – especially with the approaching millennium. And might that have something to do with my future - even as I was aware that being in a lost-to-life situation, there is the danger of grabbing at any straw and be engulfed by ‘delusions of grandeur’.

Gradually I was able to deduce a ‘theory of history’, which, though not a formal work of history and scholarship, is able to make a precise prediction about the immediate future.

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