Lesson 3

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I mentor students from the poorer classes. Due to Corona Lockdown, I have taken to YOU Tube Postings, increasingly. Lesson 3 is placed below.

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Innamburan

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Knowledge, Care and Fervor

Knowledge, Care and Fervor

India, as a Nation-State, can take long and powerful strides towards Leadership, among the Comity of Nations. First and foremost, her citizens should acquire the knowledge that leads to wisdom, cultivate the trait of caring for others and learn to value patriotism, social welfare and uplift of the downtrodden.

The Indian Constitution grievously erred by relegating universal primary education to the wish-list in the Directive Principles instead of installing it as a legally enforceable right under the Fundamental Rights. As a result , three generations of poverty-stricken Indians have been deprived of access to the ladder of Knowledge and their progeny is rolling in the mud of Ignorance. Sarva Shiksa Abiyan, a belated and half-hearted initiative is marching ahead at a snail’s pace. One social initiative could be that of elders, who have a fund of experience and knowledge and have time at their hands, is this: they can take the mentorship of some children. Housewives have a lot of time in their hands, once children are grown up.  They can volunteer to teach some children. The first rule here is that you do what you can, without waiting for government initiative. Needless to add, this voluntary and self-fulfilling endeavor should be rendered free. It is desirable to be modest and humble, as those attributes encourage the students to approach you. சிறு துளி பெருவெள்ளம்.

Caring for others is, fortunately, an in-born trait among all sentient beings. The more you care, the better soul you become. We have to make Care purposeful and target-driven. I mention two examples in passing. You are witness to a traffic accident. Apart from motivating others, you can render direct help, if you had been taught first aid in the school. One can easily learn the basics today, whatever be your age. By rendering first aid, calling the police and ambulance, you render a service to humanity. I know of lives saved that way and also about those lost because the people were clueless. Our Indian villagers act with compassion and practical wisdom on such occassions.  We can improve upon it.  The other example is about hospital visits. I am aware that many an indigent patient and some rich,but, neglected patients wait for the stranger’s visit with  child-like eagerness, because he/ she brings cheer unto them.

Fervor is a trait, which has emotional overtones at the societal level. Patriotism and regional pride co-exist comfortably. We, Indians, have an advantage in the sense that the struggle for freedom was and is the learning curve for nationhood. Regional frenzies have, I concede, have torn the fabric of Mother India. It is, however, possible, to regain the lost Paradise by the knowledgeable and the wise among us traveling the extra mile to lead the people of India towards Knowledge, Care and Fervour.

I borrow this set of words from the British Medical Journal in an article on patients’ role in medicare. I thank them for triggering this idea.
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