Leaders should lead from the front

A point to think over, the pointer is sent by Madam Roopa Shah---------------
But the unlucky thing about the masses and the leaders is that ,as Rajnish said, " No leader would try to reform the masses or chance their way of thinking for the danger of losing the support of their followers. " The leaders first check up what their followers want, then articulate their policies and tune up their public stand in confirmity with that trend ! This was the reason why there has not been any change in the thinking of the Hindu or Muslim Societies as no leader would take risk of losing own leadership, they want to keep afloat on the waters . BJP first made an atmosphere for Cow, now it has become prisoner in the stomach of Cow, it cannot go further and become gobar or cannot again travel back to the mouth ! So , it will go on following its own followers.. THOSE WHO WANT BJP TO STICK TO THIS ROAD WILL ORGANISE DEMONSTRATIONS, SLOGANS, CONVENTIONS AND WHAT NOT AND COERCE BJP TO THINK THAT THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACT. MEANWHILE THE MAN WILL BE FORGOTTEN AND PEOPLE WILL FORGET BJP LATER ON !

That way, as per Rajnish, the leaders are followers of their followers and those who remain in the backyard will go on being led by those who are before them ! It is leaders like Jawahar Lal Nehru, Raja Ram Mohan Rai, Ambedkar, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Rajnish, Socretis, Jesus, Muhammad Paygambar , Rajiv Gandhi, C. Subramaiam ( who led to Green Revolution ) who relenlessly tried to change thinking of men and Societies around and far away.Jesus and Muhammad are a class by themselves, who risked their lives tp propagate what they thought and succeeded and the fruits of their purusharth are visible even today , generations after they left.Macaulay will be remembered in India, Pakistan, Ceylone, Burma and Bangla Desh for his leadership in initiating English education in those countries under the British Rule.

Our Teacher Par Excellence Khimji Govindji Parmar

 અમારામાં તો શિક્ષણ એટલુ ઓછુ હતું કે ફાયનલ ( 7 મું ધોરણ પાસ ) માસ્તર કહેવાતો અને એટલુ તો એનું માન કે દિવસ માં અનેક લોકો એને સલામ કરતા ! અમારા કુટુંબમાં એક 7 પાસ કોઇ સરકારી ઓફીસમાં પટાવાળા ની નોકરીએ લાગ્યા , તો એ પણ માસ્તર કહેવાયા ! જો કે ઘણાં એવા પણ નીકળ્યા કે તેમણે અમને કાંઈક શિખવાડ્યુ પણ ખરુ, એ પૈકી ના એક ખીમજી ગોવિંદ પરમાર હતા, એ સવારમાં અમને માછીવાડ ની અમારી ધર્મશાળામાં બોલાવી કસરત કરાવતા, રમતો. વોલીબોલ, કેરમ, શીખવાડતા અને વાંચનની ભૂખ જગાડતા. સામાજિક સંસ્થાઓનવી સંસ્થા કેવી રીતે બનાવવી અને કેવી રીતે ચલાવવી, એ બધુ અમને શિખવાડ્યુ, આ મને વર્ષો પછી ઉપયોગ માં આવ્યુ, જ્યારે હું મારી ગ્નાતિ ના એક મંડળ નો જનરલ સેક્રેટરી બન્યો , એક સંસ્થા પણ " આંબેડકર વિચાર ધારા મંડળ " બનાવ્યુ, અને " દક્ષિણ ગુજરાત દીન બંધુ કોંગ્રેસ નો જનરલ સેક્રેટરી અને પ્રમુખ પણ બન્યો, પછી " સહજધામ હાઉ. સોસાયટી ( 134 સભ્યો ) નો પ્રમુખ પણ બન્યો. આ બધી સામાજિક પ્રવ્રુત્તિઓમાં શ્રી ખીમજી માસ્તર ની પ્રેરણા અને શિક્ષણ જવાબદાર રહ્યા, આજે એ માસ્તર ને અંજલિ આપતા ગર્વ થાય છે. એ ખરેખર માસ્તર હતા. વધુમાં મેં લખેલી પોષ્ટો વાંચી જવ વિનંતિ છે.

On Teacher's Day

On Teachers' Day 
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The Indian Express daily had published a supplement on the Teachers' Day yesterday.. I compressed some comments of the powers that be in the schools in and around Baroda and would like you to pl read this part. I .
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I shall publish the second part on receiving the comments on this status.The Teachers open their mind on them selves on the Teacher’s Day.
Dr. Shilpa Dalwadi, M.D. Shannen, CBSE : Any one who educates and imparts knowledge,is a Teacher. School is the foundation of the education system and the teacher holds the responsibility to mould young minds.
Mrs. Rupali Solanki , Principal, Shannen, the World School….. the teaching is the noble profession that shapes the character, caliber and future of an individual.
Mrs. Sangita Pawar, Principal, Sapphire Global school, a quotation , “ School is a destination and teachers are the bridge to accomplish the goals. “
Mrs. Nirmal Tandon, Principal, Shannen CBSE: .. But I want to thank all those extraordinary educators who go out of their way to stay back , take extra classes and spend their personal time to make sure that their students find their way of life….. HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY TO ALL THE INSIPIRERS AND BUILDERS OF THE NEXT GENERATION.
Sharat Deep Mathur, Principal,CBSE Urmi School and Hostel. The teachers prepare us to tackle any situation of life through knowledge and patience . Teachers play key role towards education and students’ life Teachers are equipped with vision , knowledge and experience, which enable to shape their career on the notes of success .
Smita Dinesh, Acting Principal, Navrachna school, Sama . The teachers have to keep ignited the flame of curiosity in the young minds under their care .
TEOPHANE D’SOUZA , Principal, Navrachna International School,, Vadodara . A quotation, “ A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops….” “ A good teacher is like a candle,. It consumes itself to light the way for others”, “ To teach is to touch a life for ever. “
Sonal Verma, Principal, Navrachna Vidyani Vidyalaya, Sama, Vadodara In today’s technology obsessed world of Facebook, Twitter, Google etc, teachers have a more challenging job. They are friends, guides, c ounsellors and facilitators. Playing all these roles requires a lot of dedication, passion, time and energy and they do it with ela, ease and expertise.
Geeta Sikdar, Head MistressNavrachna and Vidyani Pre-Primary Section Good teachers are the reson why ordinary students dream to do extraordinary ! The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say “ The children are now working as if I did not exist. “
Mrs. Poornima Menon, principal, Anand Vidya Vihar.. A teacher takes a hand, opens the mind and touches the heart. !

Zinabhai Darji of Vyara, a tribute on his 10th anniverasary

A Tribute to a Strong man of Gujarat.

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He was outspoken and would call a spade a spade and no less ! He would draw our attention when as Police Officers , we faulted. When I resorted to a heavy lathi charge on the demostrators who resorted to violence across a river on the river bank where a function of Minister Amar Singh Chaudhari was attending. He called me and scolded me for using excessive force and also sent a message to Amar Singh Chaudhari , prob thru me, and Bhanabhai Bharati of villade Indu saying tell Amar Singh that the protesters are his voters ( and may take revenge later on ) .

He did very commendable social service among the Adivasis of South Gujarat and else where also and was held in awe by all the rulers.........

His social work among the Adivasis was so much deep and wide that once my friend Maganbhai Patel of Ena village, of Bardoli Tq and partner in Sardar Cement Company, told us " Zinabhai's work in Adivasis is is so much commendable that if he goes into the woods and shouts , if any Adivasis is not around, even the trees would respond to his call " ! જીણાભાઈ જંગલમાં જાય અને બૂમ પાડે , કોઇ આદિવાસી હાજર ન હોય, તો , જાડવા પણ જવાબ આપે !

. He protested against imposition of Emergency and wrote against it frequently to the PM Indira Gandhi. We knew it and suspected that Indira Gandhi would put him behind bars , but nothing of such things happened and Emergency passed.

A public Meeting was held on the outskirts of Vyara to be addressed by PM Indira Gandhi and he sat on the ground in the fffront row , Indiraji climbed on the dais and saw him sitting with folded legs, and announced from the microphone asking " Jinabhai aap yahan aaiye " and he sat along with Indira ji on the dais, only were there on the dais

When I was transferred from Vyara, he came to see me That was the greatest matter of happiness for me. I told this incident to my friend Addl Dist Magistrate Vasant Parmar of Surat Dist, and he exclaimed that " Zinabhai Darji coming to house of a Police Officer to see him on transfer is itself a matter of great credit. I lived in the same Brahmin Colony where he lived, a distance of hardly 50 feet.

He came to see me in SRP Officers' Flats in Lal Baug , Baroda where I was posted as Vice Principal Police Training School, and we dined together. Similarly, Amar Singh Chaudhari also came to see me at the same flats in Baroda.

Both of them could not do as much as they could because the bureaucracy in Gandhinagar and Delhi was highly dominated by the Brahmins and I had to suffer on account of my intimacy with Zinabhai , but I feel proud of my intimacy with him on his commitment to the amelioration of the SCs and STs and I belonged to that class.

I salute his commitment to the cause of the Scheduled castes and the Scheduled tribes..

But then those were the days .

Andhshraddha

27 May 2013 · 

હું એ સમયે ભરુચમાં હતો ,એકવાર ખેરાળુના બાપુ હાયવે થઈને ભરુચ આવેલા, લોકોની એવી ભીડ હતી કે અમારે પ્રાઈમમિનિસ્ટર જેવો બન્દોબસ્ત ગોઠવવો પડેલો. એટલામાં ભરુચ સીટીના અમારા જમાદાર મીર્જા આવ્યા તેમને મારા માને વાની તકલીફ હતી તેની જાણ હતી એટલે એતો ફુંક મારેલી પાણીની બાટલી આપી ગયેલા, જો કે એ પાણીથી કાંઈ ફાયદો થયો જ નહીં, પરંતુ ભારતીય જનતાના વહેમ અને ગાડરીયા પ્રવાહનું એક વરવુ સ્વરુપ જોવા મળ્યુ.
હાયવે પર જયેન્દ્રપુરી આર્ટ્સ કોલેજ હતી , તેના અતંત વિશાળ મેદાનમાં હજારો માણસો પોતાનાહાથમાં જે વાસણ , ડબ્બા વિગેરે આવે તે લઈને બાપુની ફુંક મરાવવા આવી ગયેલા ! મેં તો મારા આક્હા ડીવીઝનમાંથી ફોજદારો, ઈંસ્પેક્ટરોને બોલાવી પોતે બન્દોબસ્ત કરેલો !અમને થયું આના કરતાં ભરુચને પાણીનો પુરવઠો આપતી ટાંકી ને જ ફુંક મરાવી લઈએ, બધાના રોગ, રડીયા તાવ તડીયા દુર થઈ જાય અને બધા જ દાક્તરો નવરા થઈ જાય ! પરંતુ તેમ ન થયુ અને ફુંક મારવા વાળા બાપુને જ જન જાગ્રુતિની ફુંક લાગી ગઈ અને તે જ નવરા થઈ ગયા. !

પણ એક વાત માટે તેને ક્રેડીટ આપવી જોઇએ, ગુજરાતને ખુણે ખાંચરેથી બસ સેવાઓ ખેરાળુ માટે ચાલુ થઈ ગઈ, ઘણી તો હજી સુધી ચાલે છે સુરતના આંતરીયાળ કસબા નિઝરની બસ તો હજી ચાલે છે ! , તેને બાપુની ફુંક હજી લાગી નથી! 

Rawalpindi ---- Anand Baxi

रावलपिंडी
ये मेरी जिन्दगी से गइ
मैं यहां आ गया वो वहां रेह गइ
कुछ ना मैं कर शका देखता रह गया
कुछ ना वो कर शकी,देखती रेह गइ
लोग कहते है तकशीन सब हो गया
जो नहीं बट शकी चीझ वो रेह गइ
याद पीडी की आती है अब किस लिये
मेरी मिटटी थी ,जेलम में बेह गइ
इन जमीनो ने कितना लहू पी लिया
ये खबर आसमानो तलक है गई
रास्ते में खडी हो गई सरहदें
सरहदो पे खडी बेबसी रेह गई
दे गई घर, गली, शहर मेरा किसे
क्या पता कीस से बक्षी वो क्या केह गई

आनंद बक्षी
असल तो रोमन लिपि में यह गझल थी ।मैंने आनंद बक्षी साहब के जनम दिन पर रेडियो पर उनके बेटे की टेलीफोन पर बातचीत सूनी और उनके बेटेने यह गझल बोली थी । मेरी बदकिस्मती से मैंने वो बातचित ओडियो पर रिकोडॅ की थी । और ओडियो फेसबुक पर रखा नहीं जाता । मैं ने इक दोस्त को लिखा अगर वो यह बात चित फेसबुक पर रख शके लेकिन उनका कोइ जवाब नहीं मिला ।यकायक वो गझल मुझे गूगल से मिली ।ईसलिये मैं गूगल का शुक्रगुजार हूं ।फिर भी मूशकिल आइ ।वो तो रोमन लिपि में थी । तो मैं देवनागरी लिपि में उतारने बैठ गया और इक घंटे की मेहनत के बाद यह काम पूरा कर शका ! क्यों कि वह टाइपिंग मोबाइल पर करनी थी । आप ज्यादा तादात मे पढोगे तो मुझे लगेगा कि मेरी मेहनत रंग लाइ है ।

Had the British stayed up to 2000

A post from Munawwar Hussain
--------- Being honest and upfront were not the only qualities needed to build a successful nation, my driver is very honest man, can we make him PM?... Jinnah failed to realize that his people were not competent enough to run a country, Brits were developing the country's infrastructure, they had all the technology to build whole India much better than what we did after 1947, these leaders stopped that development and prosperity for 400 million people, which could have made lives of the masses much better, imagine if it had continued till 2000, we would have been even better than Canada or Australia

3Subhash Bhatt, Munawwar Hussain and Nilesh Hedamba

Comments

Munawwar Hussain Sir thank you for posting my comments and thoughts

Bharatbhai R Pandya Acp I agree. In British Raj communalism was absent, we could find number of Muslim and Christian Officers and Judges. The Brahmins displaced them all and fixed themselves in their posts. ...... Casteism was there as the British were dependent on the spying of the Brahmins over the Indian population, that is why they did not touch casteism of the dominant castes of the Hindus.But after the exposition of Ambedkar, they might have been forced to eliminate this notorious inhuman casteism the Hindus.................The Brahmins willingly inherited the Super Human mentality of Nazi Germany and it continues even today .......Naxalism is not all about the Adivasi lands but a revolt against the atrocious Caste System...........You are right when you say India could have been more prosperous and advanced had the British stayed up to 2000, but Gandhi and Nehru and other VarNvyavasthavadi Congress leaders wanted power at the earliest in their hands . This stretegy was adopted much earlier by them when they maltreated Jinnah in the Congress Convention in Nagpur. Pl read my posts on the incident. Author Wolpert has vividly described the incident in his book " Jinnah of Pakistan ". Congress dominated by the Princes and Casteist and communals did not want to share power with Dalits of Ambedkar or Muslims of Jinnah.They wanted to swallow the entire laddu ( sweet balls ) themselves only.The disparities in economic and social areas are due to this power hungriness of the casteist and communalist forces in India ( I think Pakistan has more or less same problem as when we see politicians exhorting people on religious lines, we feel they want to divert the attention of their people from stark realities of Economic Degradation and Social Discriminations to religion. here ram mandir is nothing but that exercise on a grand scale.And the orthodox people will never build Ram Mandir, otherwise their great mobilising mascot  will vanish ! This is the crux of the dilemma.------------------------------------------The trouble arose from the all embracing mentality of the Brahmins here and the Punjabis in Pakistan.They did not set their aims on 1. Spreading education in masses 2. They did not concentrate on increasing production  and Productivity of the labour classes 3. They did not concentrate on improving health, amenities of living , (  toilets etc ) 4. They did not set on course of improving lot of the farm labour (  They could not do this as in India  most of the rural leaders were big big Zamindars and they wanted exploitation of the dalits continued. For continued exploitation of farm labour , it was necessary to keep them away from education and keep them in perpetual abject poverty. Pakistan faced same problems there Big Zamindars like Bhutto b Family became PMs, and Generals were also absent farmers  !