Father, We Thank Thee!

You don't forget your father and hence you don't need to remember him. I am yet to believe that my father left us 28 years ago. Such is the presence of his physical absence that I seek for his reassuring shoulders for support every now and then. And, his near-parting words are no less than the much needed support during the times of crisis:
बेटा! याद रखना, किसान के बेटे हो।जो भी करना निर्भय होकर करना।
Unlike many others, he never wanted me to go to the home town for schooling as for him all this was not necessary for a farmer's son. But first it was the Rural National Merit Scholarship that tricked him into letting his son live in a hostel and later the THUG called his son's ambition joined hands with the chain of MAYAWEE Scholarships to keep his son away from him most of the time.

Today I have the strength of his near-parting words as ever 'present shoulders' to rest my head on with the echo of BLOW BLOW THOU WINTER WIND...

Father, We Thank Thee!

(Thank you Dr Sarvesh Tripathi ji for a moving tribute to your father that has brought alive the child in me.)
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The World Yoga Day Vs The World Toilets Day

It feels good to see some people mocking at the Yoga for the sake of Toilets. It shows their concern for the well being of those deprived of basic amenities.
But there are few questions begging answers:

• Do we go to our office with the worst of the available clothes on? 
• Should we start showcasing the hunger afflicting millions and keep doing that at the cost of everything else? 
• What we don't apply to us as individuals, should we do it to the country? 
• Also, is there really a conflict between Toilets Day and Yoga Day? 
• Should there be no investment in the domain of IT , Computers and Space so that there is more money for the hungry and illiterate?
• Is there no difference between celebrating something one should be proud of and something one has to get rid of?
• Should we stop celebrating anything till the last hungry person is fed?
• Why the best folk songs come mostly not from those who are well-fed but those who celebrate life under all circumstances?

The discourse today appears bereft of COMMON SENSE that doesn't demand study, exposure and foreign tours but just the ability to observe and connect the apparently unconnected things. In this sense, the Indian Education is programmed to produce graduates who are copy cat intellectual incapable of looking at things as ENABLERS . They simply revel in limiting themselves to QUESTIONERS.
No wonder, there are few PROBLEM SOLVING TOOLS (patents, social innovations, etc) to the credit of Indian graduates cracking the exams believed to be the toughest (IIT, AIPMT, CS) in the world.

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