Name: An Insight Into Navodaya Number of pages: 128 Language: English Writer: Navjeet Singh Sandhu
The book describes the life of the students, teachers and all other concerned with one of the biggest and most successful schooling system of India. It’s not a story of an individual but an image of the system itself. It tells how the students are groomed in the institute, the obstacles they face, the struggle they do and the voices they raise. Book enables the reader to visualize the scenario of the schools pointing out the reasons of failure and success of the system. It’s the very first book of its kind giving out firsthand experience of growing and learning in the prestigious institutes.
For more information, please contact Navjeet. His mail id navissandhu@gmail.com
I have been requested from some of my dearest nearest friends to start some shero – shayari on blog. Keeping their words in mind, I am putting this post here, and all are invited to post your shers and shayaries from dil se as well as thoda dimag se.
Shayri is a unique poetic language to express yourself. And jo sabse jyada or sabse achhe shayaries yahan shabdon ka safar mein dalenge, unhe ham surprise gift denge. Now, feel free to share your shayaries or poems here and let’s have fun and bring out the emotions in this महफ़िल-ए-मुशायरा…!
Notes : Rules ye hai ki her ek ko apne se pahle wale sher ka jawab dena hai!
Here I am starting and here it goes…अर्ज़ है -
जज्बातों की महफ़िल है
रखना कदम संभाल के,
शब्द भी सफ़र पर हैं
देखना, बिखर ना जाए
कहीं आँसू मोती बनके…
Let’s keep the ball rolling…where should we go next?
It is a story of a struggler which will inspire any common person. Many people fail because they just give up. He faced many problems since his very childhood time, but this ‘navodayan’ never gave up. ‘Kamlesh’ belongs to a small village in eastern UP, India. He has become a role model for thousands of navodaya children as well as for his village children.
For his mother, it was her faith in the power of life that got her through some of her darkest moments. I would give most of the credit of his success to his mother who by her courage, shear hard work and perspiration made her son to climb the ladders of success. This proves the age old truth that mother’s sacrifice never goes in vain. ‘Mother’ means the whole world to me.
I would like to share a video with my readers- “Kamlesh Shares his journey of 25 years”.
I am quoting his few words for the readers who dare to fight with struggle to achieve their goal, no matter how difficulties they are going to face!
* कमल को खिलने के लिए सुंदर तालाब की ज़रूरत नही होती है, कमल कीचड़ में खिलता है!
* हर इंसान के जीवन मे समस्याएँ आती है लेकिन उनको फेस करने के लिए जिन संसाधनों और लोगों की ज़रूरत पड़ती है, सब मिलते हैं, बशर्ते आप अपने आपको उसके लिए पात्र बनाए!
* Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached. (Swaami Vivekanand once said)
After listening about his struggle I am inspired. I love to read such success stories and such extraordinary circumstances which give a boost to my strength. And at last I would say “do not lose hope, do not lose faith, beacuse at the end of the tunnel it’s burning bright!”
Until recently, I used to feel very inspired when I saw the growing literacy curve in India or when somebody working for literacy campaigns reported success in terms of such benchmarks. But slowly I have come to realise that literacy is not enough (or is it even necessary to this extent?); the need of human being is education, not just literacy, and literacy is not education.
One can be literate but not educated or one can be educated though not literate!
I feel literacy is a small tool in helping one getting educated. Literacy is just a tool to read, write, count and calculate, but it doesn’t directly address the need of the human being. The basic need of human being is to understand oneself and his/her relation to every other entity in the existence which differentiates him or her from an animal. If literacy helps him/her to understand and express his/her understanding, then it is a virtue otherwise if it only helps fill on’s stomach then it is needless as animals can also fill their stomach without being literate, and if it helps exploiting others be it human or the rest of nature, then it is a vice. We can see that today we literate people are more responsible for the damage of this planet than the illiterate, so today it has become a vice for us.
I guess most of the people are lietrate but not educated. One can live a hi-fi life but that doesn’t mean that the person is educated because life is all about “how we can live happily with secure mind”. Needless to say, the way literate people are behaving with each other living in so called educated society, should not be considered as educated! People are able to get as best as degrees but these degree don’t prove that they are educated. So I suggest we should now start working for education in true sense of the world, and not just limit us to literacy. Again, this doesn’t imply that one should abandon programs of literacy but rather complement it with human consciousness to make the earth a better place to live in.
I think we should have a good discussion on the topic “what is Education?”…and “what is the difference between education and literacy?” Are we educated?…or just literate! I would like to know the views or opinion on it from my dear readers and commentators. Your comments are most welcome here.
I was talking on phone and because of the network problem I opened the door and came out of the room. Finished my talk. I felt relaxed. I am happy, excited, completely clear with my feelings and feeling confident of the direction I have chosen. I saw in the sky. When I saw the clear sky full of bright and dim stars that I hadn’t seen for a long time, then I thought of taking a walk!
It was a new moon night. I was silently walking on the street in little moonlight. While walking on the street I was just thinking…a secret smile…a thought of love…a silent wishper that took me closer, and I felt, I am walking with…??…Aahaa…I realized that someone is listening to those silences!
It’s difficult to put in words what has happened to me?…should it happen?…will it really happen?…is it right?…am I just being stupid? No; nothing happend. Don’t worry. Trust me, I am absolutely fine! It is actually a state of my mind, and the wave of my heart is breaking the silence singing the song “मैं चली मैं चली, देखो प्यार की गली, कोई रोके न मुझे, मैं चली मैं चली….!”
Aah!! This is where my words end! You should understand in real sense…I wonder if those words could define my feelings…!
वक़्त का एक टुकड़ा
जाने कब गिरा
तलहटी के सन्नाटे में
और, तुम्हारे शब्द
हवा में बिखर
इधर – उधर
मुझे पुकारते रहें!
अचंभित दिशायें,
तुम्हारे शब्दों में उलझ
तुम्हें तलाशती रहीं!
ज़िंदगी की गुत्थी
सुलझाने की
गहन कोशिश में
ना जाने कब, कैसे?
हालातों के इस राह में
खुद ही फ़स गयी!
और, अब वक़्त के
आपा धापी में
मुट्ठी भर रेत लिए
भटक रही हूँ
इस गली से उस गली,
कभी इस शहर से
उस शहर तक,
कभी पागल
पूरवइया के साथ
पगडंडियों पर!
उसी चौराहे पर
पहुँचकर अब
थका उदास मन
एक बार फिर से
बेचैन हो उठा
और, रो पड़ी
अखंड प्रवाहिनी…!
शर्म नही आती इन राजनेताओं को अपना राजनैतिक उल्लू सीधा करने में! अपनी मातृ संस्कृति – सभ्यता की बोली लगाने में! अपनी ओछी महत्वकांक्षा की पूर्ति के लिए धर्म को हथियार बनाने में! देश भक्ति के नाम अपनी ग़लत शक्ति की मनमानी करने में! वेश्यावृति करने में, और अपने पुरुषत्व पर! अरे हाँ, मैं भूल गयी थी कि इनके पास सारी संपत्ति तो है, लेकिन लज़्ज़ा की संपत्ति के मामले में कंगाल हैं! “बोया पेड़ बबुल का तो आम कहाँ से होये?” ये संपत्ति ना उधार ली जा सकती है, ना ही दी जा सकती है. इसे तो अपने बुद्धि – विवेक से अर्जित किया जाता है, और यही परिपक्वता है समाज़ की, राष्ट्र की, व्यक्ति की, और पूरे विश्व की!
अगर उम्र के पड़ाव को पार करने से ही परिपक्वता आती है, तो मुझे खेद है कुछ हिन्दी ब्लॉंगर्स पर जो उम्र के अवसान पर हैं, लेकिन इतना भी संज्ञान नही है कि वो अपने ब्लॉग में क्या और कैसी चीज़ों को तस्वीरों के साथ परोस रहे हैं! वो ये कैसे भूल जाते हैं कि उनकी पीढ़ियाँ भी कल उनका ब्लॉग पढ़ेंगी? कितने शर्मनाक तरीके से पोस्ट लिखे जा रहे हैं, और बहिष्कार कर रहे हैं. बहिष्कार कीजिए! शौक से कीजिए! लेकिन थोड़ा लिहाज़ करना भी ज़रूरी है! कलम में समाज को सशक्त बनाने की ताक़त होती है, कृपया राजनेताओं की तरह संस्कृति की बोली मत लगाइए, बल्कि युग निर्माण में सकारात्मक भागीदारी निभाएँ.
“नाच न जाने आँगन टेढ़ा!” अपने व्यक्तित्व का निर्माण तो कर नही सकते, और चले आते हैं राष्ट्र निर्माण का राग अलापने! इन्हें किसने हक़ दिया है क़ानून को अपने हाथ में लेने का? समस्या है तो समाधान भी है, लेकिन ये किसी का अधिकार नही बनता कि वो किसी पर हाथ उठाए. बंदर की तरह उछल कूद करने से अच्छा है कि एक सभ्य इंसान की तरह, सभ्यता की राह पर चलकर भी हालातों को बदला जा सकता है!
मेरी समझ से मुद्दा ये है कि समाज में कुछ ग़लत हो रहा है, और उसमें कैसे बदलाव लाना है इस पर कोई बात नही हो रही. क्या एक ग़लत कदम को रोकने के लिए फिर दूसरे ग़लत कदम का उठाया जाना ही समस्या का समाधान है? जिन्हें इस बात का आभास है कि वो समाज़ को एक नयी सकारात्मक दिशा दे सकते हैं, अगर वे समस्या के समाधान पर पहल कर सकते हैं तो मैं उनके विचारों को आमंत्रित करती हूँ!
The story I am about to tell you is true.Actually my office time is 6:30am since I work according to Korea time. Sometimes I listen bhajan in office using my headphone. One day, one of my colleagues came to me as she had to see some documents. She asked me that “Rewa, what song you are listening right now?” She put my headphone on her ear…but suddenly, she kept the headphone on my desk. I asked her, what happend? She told me that “girls are not supposed to listen this!” She said, ”we shouldn’t chant this mantra”. She also said that in her family ladies are not allowed to chant this. I was shocked at that time.
ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात्॥ – Meaning of mantra
I was listening Gayatri Mantra! Then I asked her, “who told you that we should not listen this?” She replied me saying “we girls are not allowed to listen this mantra.” She also added “only guys are allowed to chant and listen the gayatri mantra”! I asked her that could you please tell me “why girls are not allowed to chant the Gayatri Mantra?” She said, “the Gayatri Mantra has the power and it may create some problem for others!
However, I always follow my heart and mind, so I didn’t stop listening it. She again asked me, “Didn’t anybody stop you?” I replied her, in my home since childhood we use to do pujas and chant Gayatri Mantras, and nobody stopped us. I also said that as I remembered when I was a child, “we all sisters and brothers have been taught to have breakfast only after taking bath and performing prayer (chanting gayatri mantra and surya mantra) at our home.” And I still try my best to follow the same routine. This time she was surprised!
After coming from office I discussed the same with one of my friend on chat and we reached to the conclusion “भगवान सबके लिए एक बराबर हैं, इसलिए सभी को अपनी इच्छानुसार पूजा व मंत्रोच्चारण करनी चाहिए!” By the way, anybody can chant gayatri mantra as it is considered a very powerful Mantra!
Anyway, her statement made me to think that why people even is forbidden from chanting gayatri mantra? Why can’t women chant “Gayatri Mantra or all Vaidik Mantras”?
