He was Shiv Khera!!

  I was chatting with friends in camp...suddenly I heard an appealing voice containing some relevant thoughts over social problems...I came out of the camp and saw a man with spectacles hanging over his neck, was addressing the crowd while moving on the stage...He was very influential and his thoughts were so spellbinding...I asked some guy about the person...He told me," he is Shiv Khera"...I couldn't believe on my eyes that I was watching the great management guru, Mr. Khera from a distance of 20 feets.

  He spoke over one and half hours, covering a wide area of social topics...He exaplained problems using real life situations...like how a child starts speaking lie over telephone that his father is not in home due to fear of his father...He also provided solutions to each problem and more than that he inspired everyone to be a nice human being and then to be a great Indian face in the future.

  Do you remember the movie "Halla Bol" directed by Rajkumar Santoshi? The last roadshow played in that movie was inspired by a famous quotation of "Shiv Khera"...watch it!!...Basically, he presented these views before us:-

1. be a human       2. be an Indian (not a Bengali or Gujarati or Marathi etc.)        3. Say 'no' to Dowry system 4. Say 'no' to reservation 5. Help the needy, not the greedy   6. Say 'no' to secularism   7. Say 'no' to Child labour etc....You can get these thoughts in websites...But the way he explained was so touching that someone who have heard him once will hardly forget these values in the lifetime.

  

  After the end of speech,we discussed a lot about it in the camp...I read 'You Can Win' by Mr. Khera later in BIT...It's really thoughtful and encouraging...But here I would like to present some reality...I've seen these thoughts dying at every corner where life turns, for selfish reasons in which we are deeply indulged...I agree that nobody can be totally selfless but keeping some of these values intact are under our control...We can at least try to revive these values up to certain extent...People like Shiv Khera,Amartya Sen are doing it, they are fighting for this world, with this world and see how successful they are!!...They are also humans like us...If they can, we also can!!

we need a local bus!!

   On the way to BIT from Jamshedpur after Holi vacation, I found there was so much rush in government bus this time...they were local passengers from the villages across the highway and were going to their schools and colleges which of course were far from their place...But what disturbed me was the way they stopped govt. bus...I generally sleep during my journey nowadays but these hooligans awoke me...Generally all the passengers would have felt the same way I felt...But this was my mistake.

   There was a lady sitting diagonally opposite to me in the front row...she was very concerned about those locals...she told driver to stop the bus and told everyone to come inside...almost 40 guys entered...she told those people to meet S.D.O. for commencing a new bus for locals...She took them in confidence(she works for previous CM Babulal Marandi) and some of them got interested to go with her to meet S.D.O.

   I want to point out a very simple problem which locals are facing which have a very simple solution, a separate bus for locals...But we need mighty people like her...India is such a big country full of highways and every highway have a lot of villages across...villages have a lot of people...some of those people are students like us...they must be having the same problem as these people.

   Tomorrow when we will be sitting somewhere in the bus with prosperity and we will see students dealing with such a pathetic condition for having primary education...and we won't be able to do anything for them as most of the passenger in govt. bus couldn't do this time...This will be shameful...so please wake up!! 

My journey in NSS,BIT Mesra

This is one of the saturday of my life...when all my friends have gone to Ranchi..and I'm alone in my room...thinking about the bygone days...three years of hardship in NSS,BIT Mesra...I remember the day when we prepared for NSS viva in the way to NCC ground...we discussed if we will do camp then we will be having more chances of becoming secretary like Amit Bhaiya...this was the first time I decided to become NSS secretary...It was a dream.

  I attended camp in winters...The experience with new friends was exhilarating but the experience with authority was painful...I never had problem with authority earlier during my school life...I bunked many events during camp, sitting in the hostel...I decided to be in tune with authority for marks concern...seriously speaking I worked in none of the activities conducted in N.S.S. in first semester...

Second semester came...I was given a lot of responsibilities because I was in the eye of secy...I worked and got excellent...No altercation in that semester...But during summer, I got interest in V.B. programming...I made one simple application and decided to improve the application...

Third semester, I studied a lot of books on V.B. and improved my application...completely isolated from N.S.S...It was Blood donation camp...programme coordinator argued with me...I never like insult on unethical background...I formatted my laptop that day...application gone!!...I decided to change things...It was the turning point...Dream became a need...I did a lot of work after that incident...

Fourth semester, I got magazine project...I came in contact with lot of people and got to know a lot about organization...Then I was given an opportunity to attend Delhi camp...Rahul and I attended the camp...It was a blast.

Finally fifth semester...executive body was formed...It was the time when dream came true. But now it was the challenge to work in an organization where things were casual, everything was a joke for everyone but we were serious...We wanted to do a lot about NSS but there was so much of inertia...people told me that the way I was dealing with things, was not right...We organized all events successfully in a much better way...I felt something changed, I felt some spirit in volunteers...Believe me with Josh and Junoon, difficult can be made easy...But I was having  a lot of problems regarding my present studies and future ambitions...It was not due to NSS public but it was due to authority which says you to have three signature for allocating a single room no. 221...finally I resigned.

We are in such a place and time where people will always make humour of serious thoughts…but It’s very important to empower ourselves…crucial time going on…Do something…May God will enlighten your path…All the best!!