As a child, I learnt, as we all do, that convention and what everyone else thought, mattered. Then, I unlearnt it. " i will die a thousand deaths than lead a jelly-fish existence and yield to every requirement of this foolish world.", The fearless Monk thundered through the years into my consciousness. No wonder, I was more of a difficult to handle nonconformist than what any teen with a dozen tattoos, eyebrow piercing and purple hair could have been.