Muppvarapu Murali Mohan


Everytime I think about Karna, one person who comes to my mind is Muppvarapu Murali Mohan.
He is a friend from my Inter days in Vijayawada. He is driven by the sense of morality derived from the life of Karna (as shown in DVS Karna). Murali is a huge fan of NTR (the original one), is committed to Kammas, and so on. A typical hard core Vijayawada resident.

I once had a fight going on with another of my classmates for some time. This slowly got escalated and was almost creating trouble at the highest levels known to us those days. At one such time, Murali intervened on my behalf a resoved a very big row. Afterwards, he told me, Even though the argument/fight started justly, at that moment of time, I was in the wrong. He still supported me because I was a friend and my cause did not matter.

That day has passed and so many after that. I think about it a lot of times. I have even faced situations where I was in Murali's position. But the question still remains, were Murali's actions justified? Is that the way we should be?

That is a huge question for me always hanging over me.

Even though I have tried to emulate the same path, it has created a lot of sleepless nights for me. I have never fully justified my actions myself.

BTW, Murali today I believe still thinks the same way. He is now a citizen of Australia and lives a sucessful life in Sydney with his family.