Dear
cousins,
I write this open letter to you
neither because I don’t have gum (Not take a meaning of Hindi) nor because I
don’t have your address. I have. Indeed being elder brother of yours I should
have. I write this letter because when I tag you to this letter, all of your
friends could see and realise their position in the compass they want to deal
with in future. You all have chosen technical education for your graduate program
and this is true all of you certainly have an aim to become multimillionaire or
billionaire. Ironically, you could not say this to your interview board that
you want to be multimillionaire or billionaire and if you say honestly this to
them there is every possibilities that you would be considered feeble for their
companions ignoring the essence of the honesty. But you have to keep in mind
that you have some social responsibilities and to honour those responsibilities
you need money. Even an old adage says empty belly does not permit for hymn and
thus you have to earn money and it is reality of life. Some would refer this as
materialistic but this is reality. Thanks to the Indians who exerted all their
life to come out of the Hindu rate of growth and referring the manufacturing
position of China and Viyatanam, India certainly would not have such large
manufacturing base and the failures of the Indian companies one after another
are putting the financial systems at risk. To egg on the situation, the current
communal clashes between the henchmen are certainly alarming and the future is
going to be blurred for at least an year.
Many of us approximates that the
essence of education is not to get materialistic nuisance but to achieve some
high moral standards in life. While I do not dispute the second one, I have
some reservations for the first one. There must be some intelligible
differentia. Aims of education certainly include development of the
multifaceted personality of every individual human being. Education needs to
prepare each individual for his/her future and empower him/her to make
effective and creative contributions to the family, society and the nation.
Five aspects of human personality which are intellectual, physical, emotional,
psychological and spiritual determine the objective of your education and you
cannot ignore their very power in acquisition of knowledge, wisdom, skills,
balance, vision and identity. You must appropriate your ability properly to
save the mind, body, property and reputation of every single individual. In
doing so, there shall be gigantic hindrances to distract you created by the
evils of the society. Sometime you will be puzzled to choose the difference
between the good and bad and thus you to develop intelligible differentia. You
need not to worry. You have to close your eyes and see the face of your parents
in your inner soul and believe me you will ably differentiate between the good
and bad.
Our education system is linear and
episodic now a day which is not attracting the best employer of the world on
higher pedestals. Instead the big conglomerate says India better needs to talk
on toilet and sanitation then education. You certainly have noticed that the
idea of nation is defeated by the idea of self-interest, an idea of religious
nationalism and secularism. To put and borrowing the idea from our First Prime
Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, secularism has no proper meaning in Hindi. In
Hindi, we confer that the secularism is to be indifferent of any particular
religion. Some propagates that in India secularism means to be blasphemous of
Hindu and supporting Muslims, Christians and others which I believe, I do
believe that wrong, wrong to the highest degree. Secularism in my sense is
giving true respect to all. To respect all the ideas. To be friendly with the
representatives of ideas irrespective of the fact that the idea is critical to
you. Our first prime minister always behaved like the prime servant of the
nation which in Hindi you better say Pradhan Sevak. He was critical of a
democracy where there is no opposition. He says without opposition the system
is autocratic. To bring two instances in your knowledge, one is we all know the
name of Late Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Yes the same eminent personality from
Hindu Mahasabha. Nehru Ji despite facing blow from the Congress Party, gave
tickets to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee for constituent assembly and Late Mukherjee was
selected. When asked he said Mr. Mukherjee is typical of Hindu ideology and
without giving any opportunity to Hinduism our motto of secularism will be
defeated. Second instance, I give you of Fulpur from where Nehru Ji was being
elected for the lower house of the Indian Parliament. Late Ram Manohar Lohiya,
a former congressman, was very critical to Nehru because Nehru inter alia
opines that the selection should be on merit not on caste and creed. He was
very critical to the British Imperialism who drew deep and dark lines between
the castes of the Hinduism. Even Albaruni and our vedas were misinterpreted by
colonial rulers. Lohia Ji was not of the same view. He once said that merit
should not be the criterion of selection for giving opportunity because if we
choose merit as criterion of selection for giving opportunity, very purpose of
India would be defeated. He was in view of caste based reservation like
Ambedkar. Knowing the fact that Nehru Ji will not be defeated from Fulpur,
Lohiya Ji contested, in boast, and he had to embrace the garland of defeat. Can
you imagine what Nehru would have done? He sent Lohiya Ji to upper house of the
Indian Parliament. Yes, he sent him Raj Sabha because he said Lohiya Ji is
critical to the government and he represents an opinion which should be
respected. Can we not learn from Nehru Ji for welcoming our critics?
In real life, there are very few
instances where we support an idea which is contrary to our nuisance. While
working, please do not think you are the boss. The day you start thinking you
are the boss, the same very day you will lose your commanding respect and shall
begin to put weight on the demanding respect which must be condemned. You
behave like colleagues. Get involved with their problems. Do participate in
cracking their problems. Your colleagues will certainly need your company. The
day you begin to hate your critics, you will be slightest by the company
because your will lose you fine tunes and the tread will cut from the very point
which cannot be articulated.
During British Raj, the studies of the
students were nothing more than subject race whose ultimate goal was to serve
the interests of the rulers. During the General Election campaign in 2014,
Indian opposition party leader emphasised that job creation is dismal and the
government is curtailing the jobs in government. I was very much critical to
that view. Amitosh and Animesh, in my life, I have seen only 4 (four) gentlemen
who are really the brilliant students and they are My Papa, My uncle (the elder
Fufa Ji) and My Uncle (My Mama, your Father) and Manish only one businessman
who is my uncle i.e. you father. I do not mean that they top the world and no
one is having intellect and IQ more than they possess. I mean in our family
these people are having outstanding presence of mind. There are several people
who have acquired the knowledge to the degree beyond imagination, to name a few
is our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Damodar Das Modi, our Hon’ble
Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jately, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, our opposition leader
Mr. Rahul Gandhi, and the great Scholars, APJ Abdul Kalam, Esq., Vehla Swaminathan
Banda, Esq, Sam Pitroda, Esq, etc. If I go to enumerate everyone, possibly my
whole time will drain out and I will reach nowhere because India is a place of
Intellectuals.
I think you do not have any iota of
doubt on this view that the India is the mother of intellectuals. In that
circumstance, you all have the fierce competition. You have challenges which
you cannot dare to ignore. You have to do the best of your ability. Now
question arises, how to find out the ability in yourself? You would better know
the answer and I want to add that find what you have! Find what you have and be
happy with that. Find what you have and strain all your ability to excel the
same. You are graduating in technology and thus you are able to excel what you
possess. Do not hanker after anything which you do not have but your known
have. It is their asset why should that be with you? Time you devote in getting
what you have and you do not have will be wasted and instead you will get
mastery over your ability by devoting the said very time in what you have. You
must be philosophical in life.
At the end, your study shall be
converted into philosophy. Philosophy is everywhere. Studying mathematics leads
to philosophy. Studying physics also leads to philosophy. Without philosophy,
there is no success, so, when you study, you correlate the same with your life
and that is why case study is given in all the higher education. Now, you have
to choose whether you want to be a student of subject race or you want to be a
student of practical life. It is your choice. I will not succeed in helping you
choosing any one of them. You know why? Because, you are master of yourself.
You will do only such job which your conscience allows you to do and, I am
certainly not your conscience. Neither your parents are your conscience nor
your teachers. It is your intellect who is the conscience. In life, first you
learn to say “NO” then “YES”. Remember you cannot do all the things alone. You
have to delegate the same and that is why you need to learn saying “NO”. You will
find a number of examples around you who are yes men. They say yes to all and
ironically you will find they are getting applauds for the same but at the end
of the day you will be the happiest man if you learn to say “NO”. Remember “NO”
to those which you cannot do. If
possible, try to be entrepreneur.
I know you are surprised to hear that
I say to be entrepreneur. Just a moment ago I told you to listen your
conscience and now I am imposing to become entrepreneur. No brothers, no. My
idea is not imposing rather I am giving you some guidance oozed out from my
experience. Listing and heeding is your entire job. I will not insist you to do
exactly what I say. I am giving an idea to become entrepreneur is based upon my
research on economics and contemporary public finance. Leader of opposition is
having view that India cannot be a manufacturing giant as China is. You know
China is undisputable leader of manufactories and US-Europe are the
undisputable leaders of Value Added Services. India’s big strategic partner is
USA, as you know. Yes, that USA about which, let me share an incident, Lohiya
Ji once said, when democrats candidate of US President Mr. Kennedy would be
elected, two voters would be very happy. Do you have any guess who are the two
voters? Let me narrate ahead. According to Lohiya Ji, they are Nikita
Khrushchev; yes that gentle statesman of Soviet Union who led the Soviet Union
during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of
Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964; and Pt. J. L. Nehru. You can imagine
the level of mercury in the sarcasm of Lohiya Ji. Lohiya Ji was critic of
everything but had goal of nothing. He is beyond my understanding because I
find no rudiments in his though. He even criticised United Nations for the
reason unknown to me so I am not going deep into his thought. You may read him
and if want you can either purchase his books or borrow from me for better understanding.
Coming back to our discussion, USA would never want India to become a hub of
large manufactories and China would never want to become a giant of value added
services. Amitosh and Manish would probably better know the definition of value
added services because they are pursuing their goal in IT sector. Here value
added services means services in telecommunication sector and IT sector. Are
you surprised for the reason I am saying USA and Europe are still pioneer of
the VAS? Do not be. They are. It is not India as Thomas Freedman once said in
his book the World is Flat; a book you all should read at least once. Again you
can purchase it or borrow from me.
Now another question arises what is
the future of India then?! Let me quest for the answer. If you remember, from
2005 there were four major policy decisions taken by the Govt. of India. Wait!
Let me enumerate! (1) MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act), (2) Right to Information Act, (3) Right to Education and (4)
Right to Food. All of them were severally criticized by USA. You know why? Let
me answer! Because India was going to be a decoupled economy (Decoupling is the
occurrence of returns on asset classes diverging from their expected or normal
pattern of correlation). And thereby, you know we developed ourselves the world’s
most consumptive economy. Chinese Markets and US value added services were heavily
blown by our brain. While world was going into deep recession since 2007, our
economy albeit lost its pace of growth but kept growing above 5% of the rate
i.e. we broke the barriers of Hindu rate of growth even in a time of great
recession. We developed our domestic market and imported up to the extent of
our need. Hoarding was somehow vanished and we became the world’s third largest
economy at the end of 2013 in terms of Purchasing Power Parity which is better
known as PPP. You know for becoming such a giant, we took only 70 years much
faster than almost all the country of the world. The miracle happened because
we have faith in our democracy. We changed our government as and when required.
We never let anyone to become autocratic. We never become Bhakt and Chamcha. In
2013, Sh. Ramchandra Guha, prominent historian, said Congress has chamchas and
proving him wrong we limited the congress for only 44 seats. This is the power
of our success. We never take time to respond. We are quick though arrogant
which we must not for later. Now time has come to become responsible. We are at
crossroads. Yes, crossroads. Because it is the time to retain our position
otherwise China, USA and Europe is there to usurp. I am not scaring you, I warn
you. And this could happen only when we develop an entrepreneurship in
ourselves. Some days ago, on social media, Sh. Rahul Gandhi was trolled for the
reason that during his family rein in India per capita income growth was
substantially lower than the world average. I took inquisitorial procedure and
found that Indian national household data suggests that the rate of decline in
poverty has not accelerated in 1993-2005, the period of intensive opening of
economy compared to 1970 and 80s. It means, before MGNREGA, per capita
consumption in India was miserably low despite per capita income surged, if any.
When asked, Rahul Gandhi said, all the
govt. of India failed to create job opportunities since independence. Though
daring but bitter truth. You tell me should you still find a job? If you get
its good but becoming an entrepreneur is better. You should find your
opportunity in medical field. Rahul Gandhi emphasises that there should be
Right to health. What does it mean? It means that access of good medical
facility should be equal to all. Most of the states in India have already
improved its infrastructure. To name a few is the medical colleges in all the
four metro cities. According to him the synchronisation of medical data is the
future. You are free to confer whether his party would form government or not.
I am not going deep there for discussion. I rely upon him because he is
opposition and any government would certainly do the same thing. You would have found that the idea of connecting
MRIs is ridiculous but I say it is not ridiculous. What he meant is to go
paperless and all your medical history would be stored in a place and any
doctor could easily analyse your medical history. He rightly took the example
of pilot who are now a day not a pilot but system engineers as the aeronautics
is now a day becomes robotic. He wants the medical should be on the same
pedestal. You could delve into the medical field and find opportunity there. No
wonder you may face a big competition from me. Because my idea of nationalism
is not self-interested but is painted on broad canvass and I might get failure
but you may be successful. So this could be your area of interest. If you want
to alleviate poverty, you need to eradicate social barrier, you need to be self-independent
first and then your cause would be free of corruption otherwise corruption
could take a birth in you. You would have seen that most of the corrupt
officials have roots in lower economic strata of society. It is because he has
never seen money and acquiring power he tends to be affluent in money.
Never give any chance to corruption in
your life. You may face your senior’s doing which is not legal i.e. illegal or
ethical. Immediately raise a concern and even if you do not have sufficient
proof but you sense corruption, quit your job. Never think what will happen
after that. Nature shall cure you. You are there for good cause and thus is the
nature. Never think of supporting the evil of the society. Possibly you
remember I left my job when I had only 3 (three) years of experience. You could
imagine how tough was the decision but I took no time and left. Now, I can
enjoy my life with what I have. I shall conclude my penultimate lines with the
words of Mahatma Gandhi, “There is something radically wrong, especially for a
nation so poor as ours, when parents have to support so many grown – up
children, and give them a highly expensive education without the children
making any immediate return.” Never forget you are Hindu who believes in
principle of equality, as popular adage describes, “one who curbs social evils,
annihilates his own bad qualities, and punishes the wicked”
ihnsait
duirtaina ihnsait dugau-NaM
ihnsait
duYTM [it vaa saa ihndu:.
(Hinasti
duritani, hinasti durgunan,
Hinasti dustan
iti va sa Hinduh.)
