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Indra's Drishtikona (Viewpoint) http://drishtikona.com My online journal with thoughts, opinions, comments and more.. Thu, 17 May 2012 09:03:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 Indra's Drishtikona (Viewpoint) http://drishtikona.com/images/favicon.gif http://drishtikona.com en Why is Bihar a state with most poor? http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003051.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003051.php#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:06:17 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003051.php poverty in India decreased by 12.5% between 2004-2005 and 2009-2010. Bihar government under Nitish Kumar has earned or managed a good media reporting about the significant developments in the state. Nitish Kumar also claims reduction in migration of Bihari labour to other states. I couldn’t appreciate Nitish asserting in a recent Delhi’s rally to celebrate the centenary of Bihar: “Delhi will come to halt if Biharis stop work.” Every Bihari who lives and works outside Bihar has an additional responsibility of not doing anything that undermines the image of the state in any way. Nitish Kumar must help in making Biharis a little more responsible. Why should the locals in metros look at Biharis the way the Britishers used to see the immigrant Indians in UK. It is unfortunate that Bihar and its government do neither educate sufficiently nor train its employable population to get an honourable job. They go out as raw human resource to work as menial worker or for higher education to become employable. I don’t know in such a condition how the government or its chief should take credit for those working outside. Why can’t the government train a large number of its poor even as drivers so that they don’t start as cleaner or khalasi and wait for years to get trained as drivers at the mercy of their employers or co-working drivers? The government has hardly taken any initiative to create productive jobs in the villages, when in reality a large number of jobs have vanished because of the use of machines in farming such as tractors and even harvesters. And interestingly, the operators of these machines come from outside the village that owns them. Why are the young men and women not interested in taking up the milk business in the villages of Bihar even with all types of assistance? The government would have started vocational training for the boys and girls in every school or every panchayat to make the rural human resources skilled and encourage grassroots entrepreneurs to become vendors organizing the skilled women in working groups for the traders and marketers of the state as well as for those of other states. Why wheat should is ground or paddy is dehusked only in big mills in towns? Why should some village men not get trained in repairing of the agricultural machinery or other appliances in used in plenty these days in the villages? Why should not the pickles or fluffed rice be produced and sourced from rural regions? The state ministry of rural development must work for creating work for all those able bodied men and women in the villages instead of thinking about engaging some in only MNREGA projects. The state has neglected the higher education, both in quality and quality, which makes the educated youth employable inside the state and outside. When all other states such as Andhra Pradesh and very recently UP have created huge capacity with large number of professional colleges of engineering, medicines, and law, Bihar has not made any attempt in that direction. And that was the reason of the growth of IT industry in those states and today that is the reason that Bihar can’t employ the professionally educated youths even after their education. Bihar will remain poor and the poverty will not reduce, if the government doesn’t change it way of looking at the problem in very innovative way. The migrated labour will keep on remitting money for the sustenance of their family members, and the other members in family will keep on living at the mercy of middle men and getting some government doles. With the farmers of Bihar working hard to reach the global yield benchmarks of paddy and potato, it is the government and entrepreneurs must come out with ideas to add value to these outputs and create employment right in the villages. Food processing must reach every village for value addition. I don’t think Bihar will ever be able to reduce its poverty figure with MNREGA mentality and if the chief minister keeps on raising the figures of the poor families in the state to get more aids from the centre. ]]> poverty in India decreased by 12.5% between 2004-2005 and 2009-2010. Bihar government under Nitish Kumar has earned or managed a good media reporting about the significant developments in the state. Nitish Kumar also claims reduction in migration of Bihari labour to other states. I couldn’t appreciate Nitish asserting in a recent Delhi’s rally to celebrate the centenary of Bihar: “Delhi will come to halt if Biharis stop work.” Every Bihari who lives and works outside Bihar has an additional responsibility of not doing anything that undermines the image of the state in any way. Nitish Kumar must help in making Biharis a little more responsible. Why should the locals in metros look at Biharis the way the Britishers used to see the immigrant Indians in UK. It is unfortunate that Bihar and its government do neither educate sufficiently nor train its employable population to get an honourable job. They go out as raw human resource to work as menial worker or for higher education to become employable. I don’t know in such a condition how the government or its chief should take credit for those working outside. Why can’t the government train a large number of its poor even as drivers so that they don’t start as cleaner or khalasi and wait for years to get trained as drivers at the mercy of their employers or co-working drivers? The government has hardly taken any initiative to create productive jobs in the villages, when in reality a large number of jobs have vanished because of the use of machines in farming such as tractors and even harvesters. And interestingly, the operators of these machines come from outside the village that owns them. Why are the young men and women not interested in taking up the milk business in the villages of Bihar even with all types of assistance? The government would have started vocational training for the boys and girls in every school or every panchayat to make the rural human resources skilled and encourage grassroots entrepreneurs to become vendors organizing the skilled women in working groups for the traders and marketers of the state as well as for those of other states. Why wheat should is ground or paddy is dehusked only in big mills in towns? Why should some village men not get trained in repairing of the agricultural machinery or other appliances in used in plenty these days in the villages? Why should not the pickles or fluffed rice be produced and sourced from rural regions? The state ministry of rural development must work for creating work for all those able bodied men and women in the villages instead of thinking about engaging some in only MNREGA projects. The state has neglected the higher education, both in quality and quality, which makes the educated youth employable inside the state and outside. When all other states such as Andhra Pradesh and very recently UP have created huge capacity with large number of professional colleges of engineering, medicines, and law, Bihar has not made any attempt in that direction. And that was the reason of the growth of IT industry in those states and today that is the reason that Bihar can’t employ the professionally educated youths even after their education. Bihar will remain poor and the poverty will not reduce, if the government doesn’t change it way of looking at the problem in very innovative way. The migrated labour will keep on remitting money for the sustenance of their family members, and the other members in family will keep on living at the mercy of middle men and getting some government doles. With the farmers of Bihar working hard to reach the global yield benchmarks of paddy and potato, it is the government and entrepreneurs must come out with ideas to add value to these outputs and create employment right in the villages. Food processing must reach every village for value addition. I don’t think Bihar will ever be able to reduce its poverty figure with MNREGA mentality and if the chief minister keeps on raising the figures of the poor families in the state to get more aids from the centre. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003051.php/feed/ Sorry West Bengal But Wait http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003024.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003024.php#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:25:50 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003024.php many like me had thought of a change coming to West Bengal and for its people and the return of the state’s glorious past. The quick actions for changing Presidency College to Presidency University, the inclusion of Amit Mitra as finance minister, the Industrialists meet were all good news. In leftist rule, the healthcare and education institutions hardly made any significant progress to remain competitive with those in the other part of the country. I thought Mamta would go whole hog on the real issues. However, as it appears Mamta will continue ruling the state almost as the CPM did through her cadre. Recent physical attacks on the principals of the colleges and the gheraos of the managers of the factory can only be reminiscent of tactics leftists' era. As reported, ‘a Trinamul Congress-backed union today held up work at the Mitsubishi plant in Haldia and gheraoed over 120 managers, including 40 Japanese nationals.’ The very same people including many intellectuals, who wished Mamta to win WB and liberate it from the leftists’ menace, are disillusioned. Many among Kolkata's Marwaris, who dominate industry and commerce in the eastern metropolis, are feeling threatened and discriminated against after the arrests of directors of AMRI. Surprisingly,'only the Marwari directors of the hospital were arrested and the Bengali ones allowed to remain at large.' Trinamul Congress is nothing but Mamta’s personal fiefdom and remains one person party. She hardly believes in any internal democracy. As it appears all her moves and actions till date has been showing her one-point programme to remain populist to win all elections of all levels. I don’t know if one can compare her with other two her counterparts in UP and Tamil Nadu. She is certainly honest unlike the other two. Mamta proves herself equally unreliable alliance partner as Mayawati and Jayalalita. Mamta follows almost the similar views on issues of reform for the national economy, be it for FDI for MNCs or pension-related policies. However, the people of West Bengal wish to see her focus aggressively on the development works related to providing them better education, healthcare and employment. She will have to improve the basic infrastructure facilities roads, irrigation and electricity throughout the whole of West Bengal, particularly in rural areas. Mamta will have to simultaneously facilitate some eye-catching projects through the industrialists of the country. She has all the right to keep their wrongs under control but can’t work as Leftists did by following blindly whatever their union leaders advised them. People will also like her to delegate her work to some reliable and efficient party men giving freedom and credit for implementing effectively the projects. Mamta must consider herself honoured to rule over a state that is full with wonderfully experts in various fields, intellectuals, skilled manpower and artisans and craftsmen. It is for Mamta how she uses them for making West Bengal a Sonar Bangla. I know how to judge if something significant happens in West Bengal. We in Noida will see the slowing or drying off of the arrival of the huge number of poor women and men from West Bengal arriving daily in NCR for jobs as rikshapullers or maidservants, as it happened with the similar incidents from Bihar. I wish Mamta undergoes a mind change. She becomes a little humbler and rational. And she succeeds to fulfill the aspirations of the poor people of West Bengal. Many in West Bengal and outside are worried about the way Mamta has acted till date after winning the power. ]]> many like me had thought of a change coming to West Bengal and for its people and the return of the state’s glorious past. The quick actions for changing Presidency College to Presidency University, the inclusion of Amit Mitra as finance minister, the Industrialists meet were all good news. In leftist rule, the healthcare and education institutions hardly made any significant progress to remain competitive with those in the other part of the country. I thought Mamta would go whole hog on the real issues. However, as it appears Mamta will continue ruling the state almost as the CPM did through her cadre. Recent physical attacks on the principals of the colleges and the gheraos of the managers of the factory can only be reminiscent of tactics leftists' era. As reported, ‘a Trinamul Congress-backed union today held up work at the Mitsubishi plant in Haldia and gheraoed over 120 managers, including 40 Japanese nationals.’ The very same people including many intellectuals, who wished Mamta to win WB and liberate it from the leftists’ menace, are disillusioned. Many among Kolkata's Marwaris, who dominate industry and commerce in the eastern metropolis, are feeling threatened and discriminated against after the arrests of directors of AMRI. Surprisingly,'only the Marwari directors of the hospital were arrested and the Bengali ones allowed to remain at large.' Trinamul Congress is nothing but Mamta’s personal fiefdom and remains one person party. She hardly believes in any internal democracy. As it appears all her moves and actions till date has been showing her one-point programme to remain populist to win all elections of all levels. I don’t know if one can compare her with other two her counterparts in UP and Tamil Nadu. She is certainly honest unlike the other two. Mamta proves herself equally unreliable alliance partner as Mayawati and Jayalalita. Mamta follows almost the similar views on issues of reform for the national economy, be it for FDI for MNCs or pension-related policies. However, the people of West Bengal wish to see her focus aggressively on the development works related to providing them better education, healthcare and employment. She will have to improve the basic infrastructure facilities roads, irrigation and electricity throughout the whole of West Bengal, particularly in rural areas. Mamta will have to simultaneously facilitate some eye-catching projects through the industrialists of the country. She has all the right to keep their wrongs under control but can’t work as Leftists did by following blindly whatever their union leaders advised them. People will also like her to delegate her work to some reliable and efficient party men giving freedom and credit for implementing effectively the projects. Mamta must consider herself honoured to rule over a state that is full with wonderfully experts in various fields, intellectuals, skilled manpower and artisans and craftsmen. It is for Mamta how she uses them for making West Bengal a Sonar Bangla. I know how to judge if something significant happens in West Bengal. We in Noida will see the slowing or drying off of the arrival of the huge number of poor women and men from West Bengal arriving daily in NCR for jobs as rikshapullers or maidservants, as it happened with the similar incidents from Bihar. I wish Mamta undergoes a mind change. She becomes a little humbler and rational. And she succeeds to fulfill the aspirations of the poor people of West Bengal. Many in West Bengal and outside are worried about the way Mamta has acted till date after winning the power. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003024.php/feed/ आनेवाले के प्रति http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003018.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003018.php#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:59:10 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003018.php जो जाता उसको जाने दो आनेवाले की बात करो लुछ नयी रौशनी लाने की कुछ नयी राह पा जाने की कुछ नयी दोस्ती पाने की कुछ नयी समझ पा जाने की कुछ नया धम्माल मचाने की फिर नए रंग ज़माने की आओ हम कुछ ऐसा काम करें जिसको सब हरपल याद करें हर आता पल अच्छा होगा हर आता कल बेहतर होगा यह नया साल सुखमय होगा जो चाहो तुम वह पाओगे आओ हम उसे मनाये हम| ]]> जो जाता उसको जाने दो आनेवाले की बात करो लुछ नयी रौशनी लाने की कुछ नयी राह पा जाने की कुछ नयी दोस्ती पाने की कुछ नयी समझ पा जाने की कुछ नया धम्माल मचाने की फिर नए रंग ज़माने की आओ हम कुछ ऐसा काम करें जिसको सब हरपल याद करें हर आता पल अच्छा होगा हर आता कल बेहतर होगा यह नया साल सुखमय होगा जो चाहो तुम वह पाओगे आओ हम उसे मनाये हम| ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/003018.php/feed/ ‘Chandragupta Maurya’: a Silly Serial on Small Screen http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002987.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002987.php#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:41:10 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002987.php Chandragupta. Anyone interested in knowing more about him can go through Wikipedia and ‘Chandragupta Maurya and his times’ By Radhakumud Mookerji. Years ago, one Dwivedi produced a serial on Chanakya that was pretty good. I wish the director takes note of it and makes it worthy of the characters. It shouldn’t distort the images of the characters in the mind of the young students of history who are also its citizens. ]]> Chandragupta. Anyone interested in knowing more about him can go through Wikipedia and ‘Chandragupta Maurya and his times’ By Radhakumud Mookerji. Years ago, one Dwivedi produced a serial on Chanakya that was pretty good. I wish the director takes note of it and makes it worthy of the characters. It shouldn’t distort the images of the characters in the mind of the young students of history who are also its citizens. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002987.php/feed/ Meeting Old Friends and Missing Some http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002984.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002984.php#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:17:49 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002984.php

I was surprised one day, when I saw AK Mukherji in Bansal’s chamber in Hind Motor. Mr. Bansal was from the first batch of IIT, Kharagpur. We didn’t talk much on the day. Later on, Bansal told me that Mukharji was working in CK Birla’s Nigeria unit. One day after many years, KM Agrawal who was a senior from IIT itself and had worked in Nigeria with Mukherji and had returned, informed me that Mukherji was killed in Africa by the local police mistakenly when a group of burglars had attacked the colony where the Indians lived. Ravi Mukherji and Nazimuddin Ahmed from electrical worked for TELCO Jamshedpur. I met Ravi in some conference in Calcutta. He was unhappy about the company promotion policy. Thereafter, I kept information about him through some friends in TELCO. Lastly, he headed the important department of industrial engineering and was happy. And then one day I heard that he was no more. I met Nazimuddin when he had called me without knowing that I was from his own batch for conducting a two days training course on gear manufacturing for the managers and supervisors. And later on I heard the sad news of his demise one day. Shrikant Singh and I had one thing in common. Maternal uncles of both practiced in the Sasaram court when we were in IIT, Kharagpur. He was in mining and RK Hall. Sometimes we used to meet and talk. For his rural background and simplicity, I liked him. One day I heard from someone that he was no more. It really shocked me. PK Singh was also from mining, but a little snobbish. He was from a place near Arrah. In Rajesh’s marriage he was an invitee of Janardan Sharma, Rajesh’s father-in-law in Sitarampur near Asansol. I met him for the first time after the IIT days. Interestingly, Janardan was also in mining. One day Janardan informed me that he was no more. Deshbir Singh invited me to work for Harig Crankshafts after I retired from Hindustan Motors. During IIT days, he always used to be in our group because of the proximity of letters in our surnames. After my by-pass surgery I left Harig, I started living between Noida and Salt Lake. And then one day a colleague at Harig came and told me about his untimely death. And yesterday when I was going through Times of India- Crest, I came to know that Praveen Chaudhry who was from metallurgy and did brilliantly at IBM, USA, is no more. I have not been great in maintaining the contacts with my friends, acquaintances and even relatives. But I loved their company whenever it was possible. TR Mulrlidhar visited us early this year with his wife and so did Dr. Kailash Narayan Singh of Agriculture department. I keep on talking with Dr. BB Pandey of Civil who is still with IIT, Kharagpur. Pandey lost his wife this year. Jialall Sharma, GR Gupta and Shikhar Jain are in Delhi, but we hardly talk or meet. It has become so difficult to move out at this age. Deshbir, Shikhar, Kailash and GR Gupta tried to get into business and succeeded to a great extent. Dr. Pandey got the Distinguished Alumnus Award 2011. But many just worked in private or public sectors and have settled down for a retired life. We know so little about our friends. How many of us know the pioneering work done by some such as Dr. Praveen Chaudhari who engineered the rewritable compact disc (CD), but wrote out the patent for IBM for a fraction of the billions Big Blue, Sony, Phillips and other corporations got from the invention. We were told to believe in ‘Yogah Karmashu Kaushalam’ and we did our karma following the Bhagavad Gita's advice karmanyevadhikaraste, maa phaleshu kadaachana (do your duty without regard to rewards). Can't we think some way to keep the memories of 1961 batch mates alive for the future generations? But the memory of the four years at IIT, Kharagpur is still one of sweetest. One can’t just relive it again. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002984.php/feed/ Nalanda International University: Brawl over VC http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002976.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002976.php#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:06:34 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002976.php writing about NIU for a long time. My only wish was that Bihar would get an international university grand and academically excellent enough to attract the best brains of the world both as teachers and students as the ancient Nalanda did. I expected NIU to have schools of many contemporary subjects along with some dealing with the ancient philosophy, culture and religion. I never expected that the university will focus and specialize on the Buddhist studies that even other institutes existing in India can do. The ancient Nalanda was also the seat of studies of various branches of humanity, science and mathematics. The news of the controversy raising question about the qualification and suitability of the Vice=Chancellor Gopa Sabharwal and her associates was just shocking and disturbing. It may delay the project and tarnish its image. As I could understand, Ram Chandra Guha and Bhanu Pratap Mehta didn’t join the university simply because it would have demanded a hard long hours of work and that too in a remote place such as Nalanda that may not have all the basic infrastructures for them to keep in touch with the type of lifestyle they are used to. I get reminded of Sir JC Ghosh, the first director of IIT, Kharagpur and the sacrifice he would have done to station himself in Kharagpur, far away from Calcutta. I was amazed to know about the salary drawn by the new Vice Chancellor and even her associate. I am sure that the remuneration fixed for the Vice Chancellor by the Nalanda Mentor Group could not have been deterrent to attract the best available candidate. As reported, Dr Gopa Sabharwal draws a salary of Rs 5,06,513 per month as Vice chancellor and Dr Anjana Sharma, an Associate Professor in Delhi University, who has been picked up as the Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) draws Rs 3.30 lakhs. A blogger questions, "How come Dr Gopa Sabharwal, a Reader of Sociology in the Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi University), who heads a department of three teachers, and has two published books to her credit got catapulted to the position of Vice Chancellor is a secret best known to the Nalanda Mentor Group (NMG) or its head viz. Amartya Sen." A website of Bihar has also raised the issue. I could not understand why the Nalanda Mentor Group did not explore the possibility of finding the right candidate from participating Asian countries or from the institutions abroad, if it failed to get one in the country, and also why Nitish Kumar and his man in the Mentor group couldn’t notice the drawback in the selection of the present Vice Chancellor if it was not right as now claimed by some today. It hurts me and so must it many who wanted to see a great institution taking shape to commemorate the past glory of Nalanda and Bihar. Instead, media smell a scam right at start. The refusal of Kalam who was one of the initiator of the idea of establishment of the NIU, to be associated any more with the university makes one like me suspicious. I myself don’t know about the Vice chancellor much beyond what is available in public domain. She was a head of the sociology department of a college in Delhi. Has the controversy been born of personal envy of some individuals with vested interest or is it a real serious issue requiring consideration and solution? As reported, ‘the governing council of the Nalanda International University has given a “free hand” to vice-chancellor Gopa Sabharwal in making the institution operational by next year’. I wish Amartya Sen, the head of the Mentor Group, clarifies on the controversies. It is again unfortunate that he is associated with many projects of importance including one of Presidency University, Kolkata. But I appeal to the intellectuals living in Patna and New Delhi or anywhere in the world to take interest in NIU and facilitate in getting the dream project take shape with positive contributions. ]]> writing about NIU for a long time. My only wish was that Bihar would get an international university grand and academically excellent enough to attract the best brains of the world both as teachers and students as the ancient Nalanda did. I expected NIU to have schools of many contemporary subjects along with some dealing with the ancient philosophy, culture and religion. I never expected that the university will focus and specialize on the Buddhist studies that even other institutes existing in India can do. The ancient Nalanda was also the seat of studies of various branches of humanity, science and mathematics. The news of the controversy raising question about the qualification and suitability of the Vice=Chancellor Gopa Sabharwal and her associates was just shocking and disturbing. It may delay the project and tarnish its image. As I could understand, Ram Chandra Guha and Bhanu Pratap Mehta didn’t join the university simply because it would have demanded a hard long hours of work and that too in a remote place such as Nalanda that may not have all the basic infrastructures for them to keep in touch with the type of lifestyle they are used to. I get reminded of Sir JC Ghosh, the first director of IIT, Kharagpur and the sacrifice he would have done to station himself in Kharagpur, far away from Calcutta. I was amazed to know about the salary drawn by the new Vice Chancellor and even her associate. I am sure that the remuneration fixed for the Vice Chancellor by the Nalanda Mentor Group could not have been deterrent to attract the best available candidate. As reported, Dr Gopa Sabharwal draws a salary of Rs 5,06,513 per month as Vice chancellor and Dr Anjana Sharma, an Associate Professor in Delhi University, who has been picked up as the Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) draws Rs 3.30 lakhs. A blogger questions, "How come Dr Gopa Sabharwal, a Reader of Sociology in the Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi University), who heads a department of three teachers, and has two published books to her credit got catapulted to the position of Vice Chancellor is a secret best known to the Nalanda Mentor Group (NMG) or its head viz. Amartya Sen." A website of Bihar has also raised the issue. I could not understand why the Nalanda Mentor Group did not explore the possibility of finding the right candidate from participating Asian countries or from the institutions abroad, if it failed to get one in the country, and also why Nitish Kumar and his man in the Mentor group couldn’t notice the drawback in the selection of the present Vice Chancellor if it was not right as now claimed by some today. It hurts me and so must it many who wanted to see a great institution taking shape to commemorate the past glory of Nalanda and Bihar. Instead, media smell a scam right at start. The refusal of Kalam who was one of the initiator of the idea of establishment of the NIU, to be associated any more with the university makes one like me suspicious. I myself don’t know about the Vice chancellor much beyond what is available in public domain. She was a head of the sociology department of a college in Delhi. Has the controversy been born of personal envy of some individuals with vested interest or is it a real serious issue requiring consideration and solution? As reported, ‘the governing council of the Nalanda International University has given a “free hand” to vice-chancellor Gopa Sabharwal in making the institution operational by next year’. I wish Amartya Sen, the head of the Mentor Group, clarifies on the controversies. It is again unfortunate that he is associated with many projects of importance including one of Presidency University, Kolkata. But I appeal to the intellectuals living in Patna and New Delhi or anywhere in the world to take interest in NIU and facilitate in getting the dream project take shape with positive contributions. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002976.php/feed/ छोटी चाची- कुछ यादें http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002968.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002968.php#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:03:07 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/uncategorized/002968.php

गत २७ अगस्त को मेरी छोटी चाची चल बसी | मेरा बचपन चाचियों के साथ ही कटा| मेरी माँ ननिहाल में रहती थीं| छोटी चाची बिरलापुर में भी आई| मैं उस समय पढ़ता था IIT में खड़गपुर | खाने के मामले मैं बहूत अलग था | जल्दी सोने वाला, रात में जग कर खाना मांगनेवाला- रोटी बारीक करा दूध में खाना प्रिय था | दादी भी थी, पर चाची ही सब फरमाईस पूरा करती थीं| नॉएडा में रहते भी जब भी गाय बच्चा देती मुझे फोन कर कहती, 'बचवा, आ जा, गाय के फेनूस भइल बा'| पढाई में अच्छा होने के कारण सभी मेरा अत्याचार सहते थे ख़ुशी ख़ुशी ही| संयुक्त परिवार की यही अच्छाई थी और आज हम इसकी कमी महशूस करते हैं | मार्च २५ को हमारे साथ ही अशोक चाची को ले नॉएडा आये थे गाँव से होली के बाद| उनकी तबियत ख़राब चल रही थी | उनकी इलाज के लिए बड़ोदरा दूसरे दिन ले गए| चाची हमारे साथ केवल रात भर ही रही थीं| वहां अशोक रेल में अच्छे पद पर हैं और रेलवे का एक अच्छा हास्पिटल भी है|