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The content of the talk sparks from Salman's ideas evoked by his experiences with most of Cambridge managerial staffs, working system, arrangement for graduation ceremony and flaws in the sexual conduct and revengeful acts of the deities and his sense of great wonder at finding his name in a paper as a substitute for Miss Piggy for the 1996 commencement speech to the graduates of Southampton University on Long Island. It was only on the speakers' desire, his first American friend, the former editor for Alfred Knopf- a New York Publishing House, founded by Alfred A. Knopf in 1915, informed him that Kermit the Frog was not but Miss Piggy or even Pig, the author of "Guide to Life", a popular preacher of the philosophy of twentieth century American life. Miss Figgy, Kermit the Frog was popular American author and also a character in Mr. Jim Henson's The Muppet or Puppet TV presentation.

Before Mr. Salman joined the Cambridge University, he did not now even the least of the official procedures of its graduation ceremony. Further, at the hint of an American friend, he is reminded of the episode of how a past university batch was to go on a sit- in at the gate for a protest against Jeanne Kilpatrick, a democrat turned republican, nominated to give a Graduation address. The speaker's graduation speech reveals that he has no respect for conventional wisdom and practice of offering the degree to the graduate only when he falls on his knees before the Vice-chancellor. Though he did so, he felt too humiliated to bow down before the VC to acquire what he earned on his own efforts. He is depressed here for his inability to fight against the infringement of his individual right by the university authorities. He is so sick of the system that takes the university management as a means of control over human liberty. He is also the believer in organized religion as Feynman or Palacio is.

Salman expresses deep reverence for any person who has done the best in service to broad humanity and appreciates all those men and women who have made this world a beautiful place to live amidst mutual affinity. Also, he honors human strength to make and condemns the network of power, the type which compelled him to pay the fine as the scapegoat for the fault of the re decorator to receive the degree from the VC seated in the ceremonial chair quite high above him.