Two days ago I sat there in the famous Scudder auditorium listening to a childhood hero speak. As he spoke on the history of the hundred years of Christian Medical College, the many years of struggle and the many achievements my heart was filled with an immense honour and gratitude to be a tiny tiny part of this huge organisation.
Dr. Johnny Oomen, the childhood hero spoke on the various stages of an organisation and how from the stage of struggle there has to be a stage of consolidation. And lest we stagnate after the consolidation stage we taper off in to oblivion said he.
Even as I was contemplating the 100 years of CMC, It stuck me that India as a country is entering its own milestone. 72 years of Independence! Not a mean achievement. The world wrote us off. Everybody predicted a violent end to this huge experiment. Not many gave India a chance to survive this many years. But we have hampered on. Crawled. fell down. Got back up. Took a long breath and crawled again. But have not stopped yet.
For India as a country the struggling stage had been quiet long. We had struggled through partition and the wars. The social structure of the country, the ugly casteism, is still going mighty strong. Poverty, homelessness, lack of health care and proper education still stare at us. And after the early 90s another nail in the already swollen leg has gone deep inside. The nail of inequality. And of late the divisiveness of polity is hampering the crawl as well.
Where do we go from here? How long will we struggle? When do we consolidate? And when can we actually look at that freedom and praise it to be heavenly as Rabindranath Tagore sang?
I believe for India to take the next giant step, we will have to come out of our false identities and fake masks and embrace truth. Truth in polity. Truth in our discourse. Truth in our thinking and truth in our personal lives.
For truth shall set us free!
In to that heaven of freedom, with truth as its fulcrum, my father, let my country awake!
Happy independence day!
Dr. Johnny Oomen, the childhood hero spoke on the various stages of an organisation and how from the stage of struggle there has to be a stage of consolidation. And lest we stagnate after the consolidation stage we taper off in to oblivion said he.
Even as I was contemplating the 100 years of CMC, It stuck me that India as a country is entering its own milestone. 72 years of Independence! Not a mean achievement. The world wrote us off. Everybody predicted a violent end to this huge experiment. Not many gave India a chance to survive this many years. But we have hampered on. Crawled. fell down. Got back up. Took a long breath and crawled again. But have not stopped yet.
For India as a country the struggling stage had been quiet long. We had struggled through partition and the wars. The social structure of the country, the ugly casteism, is still going mighty strong. Poverty, homelessness, lack of health care and proper education still stare at us. And after the early 90s another nail in the already swollen leg has gone deep inside. The nail of inequality. And of late the divisiveness of polity is hampering the crawl as well.
Where do we go from here? How long will we struggle? When do we consolidate? And when can we actually look at that freedom and praise it to be heavenly as Rabindranath Tagore sang?
I believe for India to take the next giant step, we will have to come out of our false identities and fake masks and embrace truth. Truth in polity. Truth in our discourse. Truth in our thinking and truth in our personal lives.
For truth shall set us free!
In to that heaven of freedom, with truth as its fulcrum, my father, let my country awake!
Happy independence day!
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Sam I know u are getting sick of 'miss you's. So i dont want to say that. Just that you will be 'sorely missed'...Many Blessings and much love
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