INDIVIDUAL vs INSTITUTION

This was an email forwarded to me by my dear friend and brother Ramesh Masthipuram. It was one of the most beautiful and absolutely inspiring mails that I have ever received. The protagonist in the narrative below, embodied the truly indomitable human spirit and also emphasised that it's nothing but the 'will' that makes anybody or anything stronger. Kudos to that spirit. Cheer up and keep it up.
Yes, it is the "institution" that is always supreme rather than the "individual."
The Satyam-Ramalinga Raju saga might well prove this right, yet again.

JUST ANOTHER DIMENSION TO LOOK AT LIFE... MAKES A HUGE IMPACT. TRUTHFULNESS APART, JUST READ ON...

I (SATYAM employee) am deputed at a client location and came across a very interesting conversation in the cafeteria yesterday. One of my co-workers, also deputed with the same client through some lesser-known two-room company, mustered guts to ask me sarcastically in front of the entire team, "So, Satyam is gone! What are you guys planning to do now?" In normal circumstances, I have a habit of not replying to loose talk, but in front of the entire team....I thought I need to fix this guy's thought process. I asked him -- as my military training has imbibed in me the habit of fighting till the last breath -- "Who says Satyam is gone when I am very much alive here and committed to create value on behalf of my company?"
He shot back, "Hello Mr., your chairman has resigned, you guys are facing financial turbulence and you still have a face to say that Satyam is not gone!" At this juncture, I thought of replying to this guy in his own language. I asked him, "Tell me, what will you do and where will you go if our country India was not there?" He was not prepared for this level of thought and asked back, "What a stupid question! How can India be gone, it is a country?"
I asked him back, "Country! What makes a country? Land? Economy? Our Prime Minister? Our President? Our Geography? Or the PEOPLE? If our PM resigns, will you say India is gone? If our economy faces a slowdown, will you say India is gone? But yes, if the people of a country are lost for any reason, we may say that country has no meaning. Who cares of vast land of Antarctica today which has just one permanent resident, Father Georgy? Which country does it belong to? Why does it not have any government? Why does it not have any economy? Or, how many countries were there when humans used to hunt for food in pre-historic times? Countries, Wealth, Infrastructure and booming economies are nothing but creations of efforts of PEOPLE, and they do not have any existance on their own."
And the final blow was, "When one man can create SATYAM as an organization of 53,000 people, why cannot 53,000 committed people rebuild one SATYAM?"

HIGHLY INSPIRING, ISN'T IT?