Blog 25.2.09
Obamafever: energy,education and health as priority
Oscar: ‘sound, and sound and sound, i.e. ‘Om’
Obamafever, Oscarfever and cricket fever, everything happen in India and probably India only.
This morning at breakfast news, I saw Obama addressing US Congress at Capital Hill in his usual tone but was surprised by nonstop standing ovation by Congressmen and women and in fact it was initiated by a lady sitting just behind him (maybe the vice president) who was searching every opportunity to stand and clap. One or few clapping in a speech is ok but such non-stop clapping and standing had at least one effect, exercise of muscles which is so much needed in food fad Americans.
While I listened to him apart from recession bell out packages, Obama stressed on energy, education and health services and I think it is not unheard of for any country as priorities that Americans were so amazed.
I was surprised to listen to Obama that US has highest dropout rate from schools among industrialized countries. And it seemed that also low health provisions.
What I feel that US has lost its confidence and it is but natural if the country had lost a sense of spirituality which makes a man only a machine.
I do not feel Obama will make any difference as hyperboles hardly work though he seems to be honest from the hearts and eloquence is due to his age and to the position he has got so early.
I am running under respiratory stress though better but while returning from my clinic I did not watch any special near Dhoni’s residence I cross daily. Was it because he was out early in 20-20.
At my Hospital Office, the clerks asked me as to what was the meaning of Slumdog and they had themselves given several explanations, one of them was that Indians were simulated to a dogs of slums and it was derogatory to us. Probably they were correct.
I read even Salman Rushdie was not happy with the story of SM.
Yet, a film is a film and one can rejoice over the success of Indians and I must congratulate Malyalee Rasul Potthi who said from the Oscar winning address that ‘sound, and sound and sound,’ ‘Om’ is that given by India.. And in Jai ho also the same theme had come for well being of all.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
A Lotus on Jog Rocks
A Lotus on Jog Rocks
When lotus on Jog rocks
Is sleeping
Ensconced, encysted
Waiting for morning Sunrays
Like Jog waits for rains
But I cannot wait
In this night
In this lovely Western Ghat
I saw again your Church
Seen that day
From many angles.
From every angle
I would have liked
To see you Sonia
But in this midnight
I crossed Jog gate
Wide open
My bus is on to Go aa
Ee Fernandes
My little Angelic Guide!
-Dr. Dhanakar Thakur
15/16 Feb.midnight 2009
When lotus on Jog rocks
Is sleeping
Ensconced, encysted
Waiting for morning Sunrays
Like Jog waits for rains
But I cannot wait
In this night
In this lovely Western Ghat
I saw again your Church
Seen that day
From many angles.
From every angle
I would have liked
To see you Sonia
But in this midnight
I crossed Jog gate
Wide open
My bus is on to Go aa
Ee Fernandes
My little Angelic Guide!
-Dr. Dhanakar Thakur
15/16 Feb.midnight 2009
Ladies in AC Compartments I: Indigo Vats to Mithila state
Ladies in AC Compartments I
On 19th Febrary incidentally I interrupted in taks of two ladies and two gents in the II AC coach of Tapaswini Express. One of the male noticed “the train is 15 minutes late,” on which I quipped Wordswoth’s feeling on Time- morning, noon and evening etc. and on obsession and life style diseases in such time specific persons. I was returning from a doctors’ conference and naturally I had many medical things in mind but later we engossipped on many things from religious conversions by missionaries to dharma and religion and Geeta and many things.
One of the lady was a retired professor of psychology and the other was a social scientist, a Dutch from Amsterdam but married to a psychiatrist at Ranchi but knowing the languages of our area. Lady professor offered her Chura(fried grain) and I thought oh! The familial lessons to carry something will never go despite she was widely traveled across Euro countries and US. She had worked on Indian immigrants at France and on many projects in US. She was rather in a teaching mode to the SAIL HRD Bengali Babu from Barrack Valley on sampling methods and errors.
Usually I don’t intervene but when I opened my mouth some words came out and they liked more though I did not take any breakfast item as I would not take before my daily worship.
And then Silchar babu came closer and asked me on many religious aspects. The other one an Oriya Brahmin was more inquisitive of the cause of Tribal conversion and in the genesis of Sanskrit which when I explained that it was not the purview of any caste with my arguments became satisfied on my notes of making it simpler to make it national language.
On tribal conversion and Missionaries’ role Madam Europa was a bit uncomfortable(as I felt and she left the bay to go to her seat and delved in her book).. my talk with SAIL, HRD continued and we reached Hatia with exchange of cards.
Usually rail friends not respond but when I sent Lord Macualey’s original statement to destroy Indian culture, Madam Dutch replied and we had a long conversation to quote some of them:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:15:22 +0530 she wrote
>Dear Dr. Thakur,
>
>Yes of course I remember you and thank you very much for the email. In fact, my PhD thesis (way back in 1990) was on English education in Kolkata (in particular high school education for girls) and the Macaulay argument was known to me.
>
>Which area in Bihar do you belong to? I guess you are from the Maitili speaking region? I have recently visited Darbhanga region (and Dalsingh Sarai area) related to my research on indigo, tobacco and sugar and also met Dr. Hetukar Jha and discussed the area with him? Do you know him?
>
>With kind regards,
>
>K.S.-K.
I replied her,
Dear Dr. K.
Thanks de Maila!
Nous attituda de non-British Europeana differenta!
Je me appreciata vous une Inde (by msarraige).
Excusez moia Me intervena de talk deuz ladie en compartmenta ,ce vous est plez!
> We feel though being English educated our access to world is better, we in fact lost in the field of education where everybody was literate before the advent of British(and Moslems).In fact, English could teach their pupils by Monitor system prevailed in India( so that person's grave in UK has a tombstone, with an Epitaph,” The Founder of Madras System of Education." and thereby they could overcome the lack of teachers in UK.
From Madras Medical college in 1875 passed out first Eurpean lady doctors!(maybe a wonderful news to you!).
>
>Anyway, your guess is absolutely write that I belong to the Maithili speaking region ,north of Darbhanga, Madhubani district, world famous for painting!(Where every women is a painter!)
Previously Dalsing Sarai was in Darbhanga district ,now in Samastipur district .
In my childhood I had seen indigo vats at Forbesganj(my birth place in Araiya district, some 70 km north of Purnea) and was playing in those in 1960s, in those abandoned vats of Indigos of very big size. The town is still named on AJ Forbes, an indigo planter. I have described in my autobiography,The Autobiography of an Unknown Medico," awaiting any publisher to print though availabe in CDs(Page Maker 7).
Madam, Indigo planters did a lot of atrocities and Mahatma Gandhi's protest at Champaran and his fame and name and gradually independence is a story of that but according to one economist the Mithila region became poorer since then because investors became afraid of the local public.
Yes, tobacco is abundant in and around Dalsing Sarai area 9just like Vijaywada-Guntur area of AP) and so is capsicum ..
Tghough sugar too (nearby Hasanpur had one of the best variety of sugar) but for sugarcane again my Madhubani district was more fertile- I use to see three chimneys - Rayam, Sakri, Lohat in and around 8 kms of my village..
Well we Madhubanites are sweet like sugar(madhu means honey)and so our women paint so beautifully..
Though I have not met Dr. Hetukar Jha , I have heard of him- he is of my caste group Maithil Brahmin and he must be knowing me as I am leading a movement for separate state of Mithila, out of Bihar, in India.
Maybe I write a memoir on you people ..(quoting the parts of this)
I tried to write a few words in French (after 1977 I learnt)..Maybe with the help of my old book, I may write better... don;t mind then I used to write French to my girl classmate of 20. Now I am 53 and no one should be scared of!
>With kind regards,
Dhanakar
Dear Dr. Thakur,
Thanks for this interesting information. I admire your French but will not be able to reply in French myself. Pardonez-moi!
I think had like to read your autobiography. How to get the CD? You feel that foreign investors became scared after the indigo problems yet still the Imperial Tobacco Company (British-American collaboration) established a "factory" (leaf buying establishment) in Dalsingh Sarai. But indeed they left the place and preferred Gunthur.
I am now searching historical evidence for this hypothesis that they left the place because of fear of the locals. Would you know where to find this evidence? (apart from oral history which I along with my research asst. already carry out). We also have looked into the Patna and Kolkata archives but do not find much about tobacco yet a lot has been written on indigo/sugar in Champaran (less on indigo/sugar in Tirhut/Samastipur/Pusa area).
We are looking for local (village) histories. What is the exact name of your village and in which block is it located? Where in Forbesganj are these indigo vats to be found? Are they still there? I have seen indigo vats in other places like Pupri, Pusa, Dholi, etc.
By the way: how do you think a separate state will help the Mithila region?
Thank you once again,
Kind regards,
K.
And then I repled her in a more familial way putting my points”
Seems you are on net and let me reply your mail and post my blog if I can today on "Ladies in AC Compartment. Don’t worry. I may treat you as wife of my senior(I am 53 years) as you are a wife of a doctor and married in my state..
Dear Bhabhi!(my sister in law), though my French is not admirable I do not know Dutch.. Pardonez-moi!
I would be glad to send my autobiography. I will send someday or take a copy from CD. Initially I wanted (but could not get) some lady author of repute to writes its preface(as I am a wife-deserted man and faced a lot described in one chapter, of course that is probably 30 pages only out of 368 pages, I wrote in between 1989 to date..being updated off and on..)
Though I am a writer but basically a doctor(MBBS,MD Gen.Med., DCH and editor and being a student of science have hardly as my " feel," and I base my logic always with due references.
It was said" that foreign investors became scared after the indigo problems," by an author Dr. Shailendra Jha who teaches at DS College, Katihar and has written a book, Economic Heritage of Mithila," which I have quoted only.
"yet the Imperial Tobacco Company (British-American collaboration) established a "factory" (leaf buying establishment) in Dalsingh Sarai," though was not known to me as simply I use to say in my lectures about tobacco, capsicum etc. it has strengthened my views.
"But indeed they left the place and preferred Guntur," is other testimony of the experiences of mine (I am probably the most widely travelled person in country- not by flights or AC coaches but by general compartments of railways. since 1977, I am wandering, of course for some social organisations,not NGOs but Voluntary organisation.
I listened to about ADRI's researches through lay presses off and on and will be glad if sometime I can get an opportunity to talk on this platform on the development of my area(Mithila) which is ravaged with perennial floods of Koshi and many other rivers..
And I may be able to convince any audience that we are economically salvageable by the genuine efforts of state, nation and world level organisations and for many priorities and data we need our separate state which was till late(1329 Gia -Suddin Tugalque, a traitor Muslim offender gave Bihar word otherwise it was Mithila and Magadh from time immemorial..
Dear bhauji(sister in-law, we are not Biharis.. we live in north-eastern parts of Bihar and in fact also in southern part of Nepal Terai. which was vivisected in 1816 by infamous or famous Sugauli Treaty..
If possible, I will help you finding in your " search historical evidence for this hypothesis that they left the place because of fear of the locals." I hope that book and author may be consulted as well as other markers..
No jute, paper mill came up.. sugar industry died up..and so on..
Madhubani is not only Painting but have Fish, mango and Makhana (only availble in that latitude till right side to Arariya..)..
True, Patna and Kolkata archives will not tell miseries of Mithila-- Patna has been antithesis of Mithila...
Tobacco has been a taboo but grown as a cash crop still.
And so important became indigo/sugar in Champaran (less on indigo/sugar in Tirhut/Samastipur/Pusa area) due to Gandhi, the Mahatma, as eponym med by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Thakur but sugarcane we grow in Mithila and can grow to the quantum if proper set up is done to compare with the sugarcane lobby of present State of Maharshtra which decides who will be next CM there?
I belong to village Samaul ,7 km before Madhubani- the village had initailly the Bridegroom conclave(which was shifted to saurath later).. the village had greates mind ever India produced, Vachaspati Mishra II in 15th century(still the highest degree is conferred on his name.. Vidya Vachaspati for D.Litt, Aayurvigya Vachaspati for MD like me Kanpur University awards)..
But now my village has only a ruin of that great person's house..(even a small person like me has same dilapidated house my late mother constructed who turned to a farmer from an urban housewife when partition amopg six of my uncles had in 1960s)..
It is in Rohika block though located in Madhubani PS itself.
Dear bhabhi Forbesganj is overnight journey form Patna- by 348734/88(probably) Seemanchal Express recently introduced Delhi-Jogbani train..only 10 km before Jogbani, the last outpost before Nepal's second town Biratnagar..take a flight to Kathmandu from there if you wish so..
Most probably those indigo vats were soiled to make 'concrete jungles' like anywhere in the country.. but take it a truth that I have seen even condiments like peppul on the vegetations around those vats-my childhood playgrounds.. which were full of indigenous medical herbs which i was collecting being son of an erudite Ayurvedic doctor..Oh! those tamarinds around and shrubs..
There was a grave of a dog too around of those English Indigo Managers on which I have commented on modern ladies’ rearing up of dogs is not new fashion.. and also of one little Angelic girl (like on one I had written a poet you read just now) ..I hope graves must be there..
The grave of Forbes is at Purnea or Darjeeling.. Big Sultani Tank is there..
You have seen indigo vats in other places like Pupri, Pusa, Dholi, et and many more we the Indian have not seen . Thanks for your interest in this part of the world which in any time past has shown light to the world in the form of Vedas..
I think you can arrange a lecture on ," a separate state will help the Mithila region," and I will speak on datas economically how we are denuded- Patna has 30000+ Rs. per capita income and my Arariya only Rs.3000?
Only yesterday GOI had announced new central Universities- one in Bihar and one in Jharhand-- had Mithila a state it would have one somewhere maybe Madhubani or Saharsa I wanted a Women's University on the name of Bharati.
.And likewise one AIIMS, IIM and IIT in Mithila which we deserved and not everything in the capital town of Patna which utmost can be converted to the Union Territory of Patna.. and remember I will ask at least half of it like Berlin/ Chandigarh..
Every year a Mithila district oozes its blood like whopping Rs.18 crores( 180 millions) to Patna where is only a VOTE industry for the name sake…and PAIRAVI trade for being High Court and Secretariat and Examination Board,
Well I was born in Bihar but will die in Mithila.. though today I found my BP was high(150/100) and I as a doctor know the salt restriction and walking. I am a foot walker(a long Foot Marcher) in Mithila area(my experience in "Yeh Madhubani hai" book by District Administration on it..
Thank you once again ,Dear K. bhabhi..now I have to go to my hospital but on Monday surely I will complete my blog on "Ladies in AC compartments. wait for jokes..)
Dhanakar
On 19th Febrary incidentally I interrupted in taks of two ladies and two gents in the II AC coach of Tapaswini Express. One of the male noticed “the train is 15 minutes late,” on which I quipped Wordswoth’s feeling on Time- morning, noon and evening etc. and on obsession and life style diseases in such time specific persons. I was returning from a doctors’ conference and naturally I had many medical things in mind but later we engossipped on many things from religious conversions by missionaries to dharma and religion and Geeta and many things.
One of the lady was a retired professor of psychology and the other was a social scientist, a Dutch from Amsterdam but married to a psychiatrist at Ranchi but knowing the languages of our area. Lady professor offered her Chura(fried grain) and I thought oh! The familial lessons to carry something will never go despite she was widely traveled across Euro countries and US. She had worked on Indian immigrants at France and on many projects in US. She was rather in a teaching mode to the SAIL HRD Bengali Babu from Barrack Valley on sampling methods and errors.
Usually I don’t intervene but when I opened my mouth some words came out and they liked more though I did not take any breakfast item as I would not take before my daily worship.
And then Silchar babu came closer and asked me on many religious aspects. The other one an Oriya Brahmin was more inquisitive of the cause of Tribal conversion and in the genesis of Sanskrit which when I explained that it was not the purview of any caste with my arguments became satisfied on my notes of making it simpler to make it national language.
On tribal conversion and Missionaries’ role Madam Europa was a bit uncomfortable(as I felt and she left the bay to go to her seat and delved in her book).. my talk with SAIL, HRD continued and we reached Hatia with exchange of cards.
Usually rail friends not respond but when I sent Lord Macualey’s original statement to destroy Indian culture, Madam Dutch replied and we had a long conversation to quote some of them:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:15:22 +0530 she wrote
>Dear Dr. Thakur,
>
>Yes of course I remember you and thank you very much for the email. In fact, my PhD thesis (way back in 1990) was on English education in Kolkata (in particular high school education for girls) and the Macaulay argument was known to me.
>
>Which area in Bihar do you belong to? I guess you are from the Maitili speaking region? I have recently visited Darbhanga region (and Dalsingh Sarai area) related to my research on indigo, tobacco and sugar and also met Dr. Hetukar Jha and discussed the area with him? Do you know him?
>
>With kind regards,
>
>K.S.-K.
I replied her,
Dear Dr. K.
Thanks de Maila!
Nous attituda de non-British Europeana differenta!
Je me appreciata vous une Inde (by msarraige).
Excusez moia Me intervena de talk deuz ladie en compartmenta ,ce vous est plez!
> We feel though being English educated our access to world is better, we in fact lost in the field of education where everybody was literate before the advent of British(and Moslems).In fact, English could teach their pupils by Monitor system prevailed in India( so that person's grave in UK has a tombstone, with an Epitaph,” The Founder of Madras System of Education." and thereby they could overcome the lack of teachers in UK.
From Madras Medical college in 1875 passed out first Eurpean lady doctors!(maybe a wonderful news to you!).
>
>Anyway, your guess is absolutely write that I belong to the Maithili speaking region ,north of Darbhanga, Madhubani district, world famous for painting!(Where every women is a painter!)
Previously Dalsing Sarai was in Darbhanga district ,now in Samastipur district .
In my childhood I had seen indigo vats at Forbesganj(my birth place in Araiya district, some 70 km north of Purnea) and was playing in those in 1960s, in those abandoned vats of Indigos of very big size. The town is still named on AJ Forbes, an indigo planter. I have described in my autobiography,The Autobiography of an Unknown Medico," awaiting any publisher to print though availabe in CDs(Page Maker 7).
Madam, Indigo planters did a lot of atrocities and Mahatma Gandhi's protest at Champaran and his fame and name and gradually independence is a story of that but according to one economist the Mithila region became poorer since then because investors became afraid of the local public.
Yes, tobacco is abundant in and around Dalsing Sarai area 9just like Vijaywada-Guntur area of AP) and so is capsicum ..
Tghough sugar too (nearby Hasanpur had one of the best variety of sugar) but for sugarcane again my Madhubani district was more fertile- I use to see three chimneys - Rayam, Sakri, Lohat in and around 8 kms of my village..
Well we Madhubanites are sweet like sugar(madhu means honey)and so our women paint so beautifully..
Though I have not met Dr. Hetukar Jha , I have heard of him- he is of my caste group Maithil Brahmin and he must be knowing me as I am leading a movement for separate state of Mithila, out of Bihar, in India.
Maybe I write a memoir on you people ..(quoting the parts of this)
I tried to write a few words in French (after 1977 I learnt)..Maybe with the help of my old book, I may write better... don;t mind then I used to write French to my girl classmate of 20. Now I am 53 and no one should be scared of!
>With kind regards,
Dhanakar
Dear Dr. Thakur,
Thanks for this interesting information. I admire your French but will not be able to reply in French myself. Pardonez-moi!
I think had like to read your autobiography. How to get the CD? You feel that foreign investors became scared after the indigo problems yet still the Imperial Tobacco Company (British-American collaboration) established a "factory" (leaf buying establishment) in Dalsingh Sarai. But indeed they left the place and preferred Gunthur.
I am now searching historical evidence for this hypothesis that they left the place because of fear of the locals. Would you know where to find this evidence? (apart from oral history which I along with my research asst. already carry out). We also have looked into the Patna and Kolkata archives but do not find much about tobacco yet a lot has been written on indigo/sugar in Champaran (less on indigo/sugar in Tirhut/Samastipur/Pusa area).
We are looking for local (village) histories. What is the exact name of your village and in which block is it located? Where in Forbesganj are these indigo vats to be found? Are they still there? I have seen indigo vats in other places like Pupri, Pusa, Dholi, etc.
By the way: how do you think a separate state will help the Mithila region?
Thank you once again,
Kind regards,
K.
And then I repled her in a more familial way putting my points”
Seems you are on net and let me reply your mail and post my blog if I can today on "Ladies in AC Compartment. Don’t worry. I may treat you as wife of my senior(I am 53 years) as you are a wife of a doctor and married in my state..
Dear Bhabhi!(my sister in law), though my French is not admirable I do not know Dutch.. Pardonez-moi!
I would be glad to send my autobiography. I will send someday or take a copy from CD. Initially I wanted (but could not get) some lady author of repute to writes its preface(as I am a wife-deserted man and faced a lot described in one chapter, of course that is probably 30 pages only out of 368 pages, I wrote in between 1989 to date..being updated off and on..)
Though I am a writer but basically a doctor(MBBS,MD Gen.Med., DCH and editor and being a student of science have hardly as my " feel," and I base my logic always with due references.
It was said" that foreign investors became scared after the indigo problems," by an author Dr. Shailendra Jha who teaches at DS College, Katihar and has written a book, Economic Heritage of Mithila," which I have quoted only.
"yet the Imperial Tobacco Company (British-American collaboration) established a "factory" (leaf buying establishment) in Dalsingh Sarai," though was not known to me as simply I use to say in my lectures about tobacco, capsicum etc. it has strengthened my views.
"But indeed they left the place and preferred Guntur," is other testimony of the experiences of mine (I am probably the most widely travelled person in country- not by flights or AC coaches but by general compartments of railways. since 1977, I am wandering, of course for some social organisations,not NGOs but Voluntary organisation.
I listened to about ADRI's researches through lay presses off and on and will be glad if sometime I can get an opportunity to talk on this platform on the development of my area(Mithila) which is ravaged with perennial floods of Koshi and many other rivers..
And I may be able to convince any audience that we are economically salvageable by the genuine efforts of state, nation and world level organisations and for many priorities and data we need our separate state which was till late(1329 Gia -Suddin Tugalque, a traitor Muslim offender gave Bihar word otherwise it was Mithila and Magadh from time immemorial..
Dear bhauji(sister in-law, we are not Biharis.. we live in north-eastern parts of Bihar and in fact also in southern part of Nepal Terai. which was vivisected in 1816 by infamous or famous Sugauli Treaty..
If possible, I will help you finding in your " search historical evidence for this hypothesis that they left the place because of fear of the locals." I hope that book and author may be consulted as well as other markers..
No jute, paper mill came up.. sugar industry died up..and so on..
Madhubani is not only Painting but have Fish, mango and Makhana (only availble in that latitude till right side to Arariya..)..
True, Patna and Kolkata archives will not tell miseries of Mithila-- Patna has been antithesis of Mithila...
Tobacco has been a taboo but grown as a cash crop still.
And so important became indigo/sugar in Champaran (less on indigo/sugar in Tirhut/Samastipur/Pusa area) due to Gandhi, the Mahatma, as eponym med by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Thakur but sugarcane we grow in Mithila and can grow to the quantum if proper set up is done to compare with the sugarcane lobby of present State of Maharshtra which decides who will be next CM there?
I belong to village Samaul ,7 km before Madhubani- the village had initailly the Bridegroom conclave(which was shifted to saurath later).. the village had greates mind ever India produced, Vachaspati Mishra II in 15th century(still the highest degree is conferred on his name.. Vidya Vachaspati for D.Litt, Aayurvigya Vachaspati for MD like me Kanpur University awards)..
But now my village has only a ruin of that great person's house..(even a small person like me has same dilapidated house my late mother constructed who turned to a farmer from an urban housewife when partition amopg six of my uncles had in 1960s)..
It is in Rohika block though located in Madhubani PS itself.
Dear bhabhi Forbesganj is overnight journey form Patna- by 348734/88(probably) Seemanchal Express recently introduced Delhi-Jogbani train..only 10 km before Jogbani, the last outpost before Nepal's second town Biratnagar..take a flight to Kathmandu from there if you wish so..
Most probably those indigo vats were soiled to make 'concrete jungles' like anywhere in the country.. but take it a truth that I have seen even condiments like peppul on the vegetations around those vats-my childhood playgrounds.. which were full of indigenous medical herbs which i was collecting being son of an erudite Ayurvedic doctor..Oh! those tamarinds around and shrubs..
There was a grave of a dog too around of those English Indigo Managers on which I have commented on modern ladies’ rearing up of dogs is not new fashion.. and also of one little Angelic girl (like on one I had written a poet you read just now) ..I hope graves must be there..
The grave of Forbes is at Purnea or Darjeeling.. Big Sultani Tank is there..
You have seen indigo vats in other places like Pupri, Pusa, Dholi, et and many more we the Indian have not seen . Thanks for your interest in this part of the world which in any time past has shown light to the world in the form of Vedas..
I think you can arrange a lecture on ," a separate state will help the Mithila region," and I will speak on datas economically how we are denuded- Patna has 30000+ Rs. per capita income and my Arariya only Rs.3000?
Only yesterday GOI had announced new central Universities- one in Bihar and one in Jharhand-- had Mithila a state it would have one somewhere maybe Madhubani or Saharsa I wanted a Women's University on the name of Bharati.
.And likewise one AIIMS, IIM and IIT in Mithila which we deserved and not everything in the capital town of Patna which utmost can be converted to the Union Territory of Patna.. and remember I will ask at least half of it like Berlin/ Chandigarh..
Every year a Mithila district oozes its blood like whopping Rs.18 crores( 180 millions) to Patna where is only a VOTE industry for the name sake…and PAIRAVI trade for being High Court and Secretariat and Examination Board,
Well I was born in Bihar but will die in Mithila.. though today I found my BP was high(150/100) and I as a doctor know the salt restriction and walking. I am a foot walker(a long Foot Marcher) in Mithila area(my experience in "Yeh Madhubani hai" book by District Administration on it..
Thank you once again ,Dear K. bhabhi..now I have to go to my hospital but on Monday surely I will complete my blog on "Ladies in AC compartments. wait for jokes..)
Dhanakar
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
“BHU: The Cambridge of East “A day at Varanasi 29.1.09
“BHU: The Cambridge of East “A day at Varanasi 29.1.09
Varanasi maybe called the oldest city of the world and it is said to be on the Trishul of Lord Shiva. Varanasi is between two rivers, Varuna ‘ and Asi.
Kash is on the bank of River Ganga and near Gaudaulia Chowk is Dashshwamedha Ghat where I had taken bath thrice before also. My brother Shubhakar, a superintendent in DLW was with me and I had a bath and puja there.
Kashi Vishwanath is the most important Jyotirlonga and I had occasions to have darshana at least 4 times- first in 1977 which is fading in my memory when I had gone there for founding a national organization of medicos (NMO on 5.11.1977 this founded); second time I had been there for long when Dr. Lal Chnadra was student of MD there; in 2003 to attend APICON when my train was 25 hours late and I could have a Pradosh Puja in the temple and fourth on 29.1.09. I had gone in the queue in December 2008 also but ex-PM, DeveGowda had come there and after sometimes I returned back.
Second time when I had gone I had a query for JnanVapi and when I asked a policemen where that mosque was ,he chided me that it was in fact the true Temple of Vishwanath. This time also a Madam Police helped me and hinted me to enter the que and my time was saved.
Then I had gone to Annapurna Mandir also and finally on that Thursday puja of Guru Brihaspati too in the temple on the roadside.
The whole temple complex is very congested. The streets of Varanasi is famous. Sometimes I imagine whether it would be ever possible to relocate all shops in distant multistoried buildings by an ordinance to make free Baba Vishwanath without hurting anybody.
After Darshan we had food and incidentally we met a Maithil shop vendor there who was from village jajuar of Mithila. He told me that Neelkanth was quite near where I went to meet some Maihtils of Maithil Seva Samiti who wanted to have a dharmashala there and are celebrating an annual function every year. Once long back I had visited there the Sanskrit Scgool had visiting students for 1-2 hours and teachers are sitting on gaddis full time 9 to 5 and in between people come for satyanarayan puja, grah shanty etc. The atmosphere was Maithili there. I also contributed a little for the function and came out.
I had to meet a person Dr. mukund Lal D-56/37 K-A Meer Bagh, Aurangabad, WHICH IS IN Varanasi itself. Varanasi-10 not in Bihar or Maharashtra! He had sent me a speed post few days back reading a pamphlet or membership form of the NMO his friend had given him 12 years back. He wanted to know whether the address was still relevant. I got the letter on my changed address and had written a postcard also and sent a copy of Aayurvigyan Pragati also and desired to see him personally. Though it was quite near from temple area I could not go for paucity of time.
I had to visit BHU for meeting some Maihtils.
Prof. sushant Jha whom I had informed had to go Madhubani for some urgent work and had directed Prof.jay Shankar Jha. I went there in the department of English where came Pawan Singh of Ranchi who had done Linguistics course . he could not come to receive me at station though last time he had come and was with me full day.
With Prof. Jha I went to the Department of German where Prof. Abhay Mishra talked with interest and I hope soon BHU will have a unit of the AMP.
We talked a lot on Maithili and Mithila’s problems.
I once more had the glimpse of University which always looked me live and active. True it is so. With pawan, I strolled the campus. I had to got o meet Dr. Vijayendra in the IMS’s Child Surgical Ward and in the way I saw the Herbal Garden. I entered into that and had a memore of my childhood days for herbal collections. There the gardener told that they have Nag keshar also and I went near the tree but could not recognize the same which in childhood I was plucking flowers in huge quantity for days and weeks in the vicinity of Forbesganj, my birthplace!
There was Chitra and many others. Many years back I was in such a garden of Tirupati Ayurvedic College. I had been in the Ayurvedic hostel of the IMS also and I knew Dr.Udupa’s name who was originally an ayurvedic physician on his hame I saw au auditorium this time.
I also from the outside saw Hindi Bhavan and Mahamana Malviya’s house once more which is preserved as Museum.
He was great. He established BHU but became its vice chancellor later on.
Some excerpts from webs on BHU:
BHU was established by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1916
Banaras Hindu University is an internationally reputed temple of learning, situated in the holy city of Varanasi. This Creative and innovative university was founded by the great nationalist leader, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, in1916 with cooperation of great personalities like Dr Annie Besant, who viewed it as the University of India. Banaras Hindu University was created under the Parliamentary legislation - B.H.U. Act 1915. It played a stellar role in the independence movement and has developed into the greatest center of learning in India. It has produced many great freedom fighters and builders of modern India and has immensely contributed to the progress of the nation through a large number of renowned scholars, artists, scientists and technologists who have graced its portals. The area of the main campus of this premiere Central University is 1300 acres, having well maintained roads, extensive greenery, a temple, an air strip and buildings which are an architectural delight. The Air Field of the campus was started for military training for flying during the second world war.
Another campus of the university at Barkachha , in Mirzapur district, covering an area of 2700 acres is coming up. The university comprises 3 Institutes, 14 Faculties 124 Departments, 4 Inter displinary Centers a constituent college for women's and 3 Constituents Schools, spanning a vast range of subjects pertaining to all branches of humanities,social science,technology, medicine ,science, fine arts and performing arts. It has 6 centres of Advanced Studies, 10 Departments under Special Assistance Programme and a large number of specialized Research Centers. Four Degree Colleges of the city are affiliated to the University. Bharat Kala Bhavan, the reputed museum of the university, is a treasure trove of rare collections. The 927 bed hospital of the University is equipped with all the modern a menities. The university provides a wide range of facilities for sport and hobbies, has large playgrounds, a big auditorium, a flying club and many auxiliary services and units like Printing Press, Publication Cell,Fruit Preservation Center, Subsidized Canteens, Employment and Information Bureau, Security etc. The University family consists of about 15000 students belonging to all streams of life, castes and religions and races, about 1700 teachers, and nearly 8000 non-teaching staff A large number of students from foreign countries like the U.S.A, the countries of Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa etc., come to study here. The university has taken a leadership role in promoting new ideas, the spirit of integration of the world, and cultivation of intellect and culture. Banaras Hindu University is small Virtually the universe in microcosm.
VICE CHANCELLORS
Dr. Sir Sunderlal 1.4.1916 - 13.12.1918
Dr. P.S. Siwaswamy Aiyar 13.4.1918 - 8.5.1919
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya 29.11.1919 -6.9.1938
Dr. S. Radha Krishnan 17.9.1939 - 16.1.1948
Dr. Amar Nath Jha 27.2.1948 - 5.12.1948
Pandit Govind Malaviya 6.12.1948 - 21.11.1951
Acharya Narendra Dev 6.12.1951 - 31.5.1954
Dr. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyer 1.7.1954 - 2.7.1956
Dr. V.S. Jha 3.7.1956 - 16.4.1960
Shri N.H. Bhagwati 16.4.1960 - 15.4.1966
Dr. Triguna Sen 9.10.1966 - 15.3.1967
Dr. A.C. Joshi 1.9.1967 - 31.7.1969
Dr. K.L. Shrimali 1.11.1969 - 31.1.1977
Dr. M.L. Dhar 2.2.1977 - 15.12.1977
Dr. Hari Narain 15.5.1978 - 14.5.1981
Prof. Iqbal Narain 19.10.1981 - 29.4.1985
Prof. R.P. Rastogi 30.4.1985 - 29.4.1991
Prof. C.S. Jha 1.5.1991 - 14.6.1993
Prof. D.N. Mishra 8.2.1994 - 27.6.1995
Dr. Hari Gautam 2.8.1995 - 25.8.1998
Prof. Y.C. Simhadri 31.8.1998 - 20.2.2002
Prof P.Ramchandra Rao 20.2.2002-19.2.2005
Prof Panjab Singh 03.05.2005-07.05.2008
Prof D.P. Singh 08.05.2008 to.....
Yesterday I read, Allahabad University as ‘Oxford of East,” which if it is so BHU ,I will like to call, “Cambridge of the East.”
By 3 Pm Vijayendra had left department though he had told me that he wil be till 5 pm.Anyway who waits for a simple man like me? I was tired and Pawan bade me bye in an auto where a passenger from nearby Sasaram was having trace of albumin in urine and Nephrologists of BHU could not convince him the matter and treatment. He asked me whether I knew a homeopath?
I explained him the process of investigation but I could not take up the case in the auto.
Question is whether a high institute can come to the expectations of a common semi-literate Indians?
Whether BHU can come to the desires of Mahamana?
Can it bring leaders in different fields in India not only in the Purvanchal it had discussed in Alumni association going on when I visited?
Varanasi maybe called the oldest city of the world and it is said to be on the Trishul of Lord Shiva. Varanasi is between two rivers, Varuna ‘ and Asi.
Kash is on the bank of River Ganga and near Gaudaulia Chowk is Dashshwamedha Ghat where I had taken bath thrice before also. My brother Shubhakar, a superintendent in DLW was with me and I had a bath and puja there.
Kashi Vishwanath is the most important Jyotirlonga and I had occasions to have darshana at least 4 times- first in 1977 which is fading in my memory when I had gone there for founding a national organization of medicos (NMO on 5.11.1977 this founded); second time I had been there for long when Dr. Lal Chnadra was student of MD there; in 2003 to attend APICON when my train was 25 hours late and I could have a Pradosh Puja in the temple and fourth on 29.1.09. I had gone in the queue in December 2008 also but ex-PM, DeveGowda had come there and after sometimes I returned back.
Second time when I had gone I had a query for JnanVapi and when I asked a policemen where that mosque was ,he chided me that it was in fact the true Temple of Vishwanath. This time also a Madam Police helped me and hinted me to enter the que and my time was saved.
Then I had gone to Annapurna Mandir also and finally on that Thursday puja of Guru Brihaspati too in the temple on the roadside.
The whole temple complex is very congested. The streets of Varanasi is famous. Sometimes I imagine whether it would be ever possible to relocate all shops in distant multistoried buildings by an ordinance to make free Baba Vishwanath without hurting anybody.
After Darshan we had food and incidentally we met a Maithil shop vendor there who was from village jajuar of Mithila. He told me that Neelkanth was quite near where I went to meet some Maihtils of Maithil Seva Samiti who wanted to have a dharmashala there and are celebrating an annual function every year. Once long back I had visited there the Sanskrit Scgool had visiting students for 1-2 hours and teachers are sitting on gaddis full time 9 to 5 and in between people come for satyanarayan puja, grah shanty etc. The atmosphere was Maithili there. I also contributed a little for the function and came out.
I had to meet a person Dr. mukund Lal D-56/37 K-A Meer Bagh, Aurangabad, WHICH IS IN Varanasi itself. Varanasi-10 not in Bihar or Maharashtra! He had sent me a speed post few days back reading a pamphlet or membership form of the NMO his friend had given him 12 years back. He wanted to know whether the address was still relevant. I got the letter on my changed address and had written a postcard also and sent a copy of Aayurvigyan Pragati also and desired to see him personally. Though it was quite near from temple area I could not go for paucity of time.
I had to visit BHU for meeting some Maihtils.
Prof. sushant Jha whom I had informed had to go Madhubani for some urgent work and had directed Prof.jay Shankar Jha. I went there in the department of English where came Pawan Singh of Ranchi who had done Linguistics course . he could not come to receive me at station though last time he had come and was with me full day.
With Prof. Jha I went to the Department of German where Prof. Abhay Mishra talked with interest and I hope soon BHU will have a unit of the AMP.
We talked a lot on Maithili and Mithila’s problems.
I once more had the glimpse of University which always looked me live and active. True it is so. With pawan, I strolled the campus. I had to got o meet Dr. Vijayendra in the IMS’s Child Surgical Ward and in the way I saw the Herbal Garden. I entered into that and had a memore of my childhood days for herbal collections. There the gardener told that they have Nag keshar also and I went near the tree but could not recognize the same which in childhood I was plucking flowers in huge quantity for days and weeks in the vicinity of Forbesganj, my birthplace!
There was Chitra and many others. Many years back I was in such a garden of Tirupati Ayurvedic College. I had been in the Ayurvedic hostel of the IMS also and I knew Dr.Udupa’s name who was originally an ayurvedic physician on his hame I saw au auditorium this time.
I also from the outside saw Hindi Bhavan and Mahamana Malviya’s house once more which is preserved as Museum.
He was great. He established BHU but became its vice chancellor later on.
Some excerpts from webs on BHU:
BHU was established by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1916
Banaras Hindu University is an internationally reputed temple of learning, situated in the holy city of Varanasi. This Creative and innovative university was founded by the great nationalist leader, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, in1916 with cooperation of great personalities like Dr Annie Besant, who viewed it as the University of India. Banaras Hindu University was created under the Parliamentary legislation - B.H.U. Act 1915. It played a stellar role in the independence movement and has developed into the greatest center of learning in India. It has produced many great freedom fighters and builders of modern India and has immensely contributed to the progress of the nation through a large number of renowned scholars, artists, scientists and technologists who have graced its portals. The area of the main campus of this premiere Central University is 1300 acres, having well maintained roads, extensive greenery, a temple, an air strip and buildings which are an architectural delight. The Air Field of the campus was started for military training for flying during the second world war.
Another campus of the university at Barkachha , in Mirzapur district, covering an area of 2700 acres is coming up. The university comprises 3 Institutes, 14 Faculties 124 Departments, 4 Inter displinary Centers a constituent college for women's and 3 Constituents Schools, spanning a vast range of subjects pertaining to all branches of humanities,social science,technology, medicine ,science, fine arts and performing arts. It has 6 centres of Advanced Studies, 10 Departments under Special Assistance Programme and a large number of specialized Research Centers. Four Degree Colleges of the city are affiliated to the University. Bharat Kala Bhavan, the reputed museum of the university, is a treasure trove of rare collections. The 927 bed hospital of the University is equipped with all the modern a menities. The university provides a wide range of facilities for sport and hobbies, has large playgrounds, a big auditorium, a flying club and many auxiliary services and units like Printing Press, Publication Cell,Fruit Preservation Center, Subsidized Canteens, Employment and Information Bureau, Security etc. The University family consists of about 15000 students belonging to all streams of life, castes and religions and races, about 1700 teachers, and nearly 8000 non-teaching staff A large number of students from foreign countries like the U.S.A, the countries of Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa etc., come to study here. The university has taken a leadership role in promoting new ideas, the spirit of integration of the world, and cultivation of intellect and culture. Banaras Hindu University is small Virtually the universe in microcosm.
VICE CHANCELLORS
Dr. Sir Sunderlal 1.4.1916 - 13.12.1918
Dr. P.S. Siwaswamy Aiyar 13.4.1918 - 8.5.1919
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya 29.11.1919 -6.9.1938
Dr. S. Radha Krishnan 17.9.1939 - 16.1.1948
Dr. Amar Nath Jha 27.2.1948 - 5.12.1948
Pandit Govind Malaviya 6.12.1948 - 21.11.1951
Acharya Narendra Dev 6.12.1951 - 31.5.1954
Dr. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyer 1.7.1954 - 2.7.1956
Dr. V.S. Jha 3.7.1956 - 16.4.1960
Shri N.H. Bhagwati 16.4.1960 - 15.4.1966
Dr. Triguna Sen 9.10.1966 - 15.3.1967
Dr. A.C. Joshi 1.9.1967 - 31.7.1969
Dr. K.L. Shrimali 1.11.1969 - 31.1.1977
Dr. M.L. Dhar 2.2.1977 - 15.12.1977
Dr. Hari Narain 15.5.1978 - 14.5.1981
Prof. Iqbal Narain 19.10.1981 - 29.4.1985
Prof. R.P. Rastogi 30.4.1985 - 29.4.1991
Prof. C.S. Jha 1.5.1991 - 14.6.1993
Prof. D.N. Mishra 8.2.1994 - 27.6.1995
Dr. Hari Gautam 2.8.1995 - 25.8.1998
Prof. Y.C. Simhadri 31.8.1998 - 20.2.2002
Prof P.Ramchandra Rao 20.2.2002-19.2.2005
Prof Panjab Singh 03.05.2005-07.05.2008
Prof D.P. Singh 08.05.2008 to.....
Yesterday I read, Allahabad University as ‘Oxford of East,” which if it is so BHU ,I will like to call, “Cambridge of the East.”
By 3 Pm Vijayendra had left department though he had told me that he wil be till 5 pm.Anyway who waits for a simple man like me? I was tired and Pawan bade me bye in an auto where a passenger from nearby Sasaram was having trace of albumin in urine and Nephrologists of BHU could not convince him the matter and treatment. He asked me whether I knew a homeopath?
I explained him the process of investigation but I could not take up the case in the auto.
Question is whether a high institute can come to the expectations of a common semi-literate Indians?
Whether BHU can come to the desires of Mahamana?
Can it bring leaders in different fields in India not only in the Purvanchal it had discussed in Alumni association going on when I visited?
A dream with departing Bush
3.2.09 A dream with departing Bush
Today early morning I got up with a dream which is still hovering over my mind. The dream started with me calling in the swearing ceremony of the MEA(MECON Executive Association)’s swearing in ceremony where I as a gesture of a defeated presidential candidate was invited. I recall some of the executive members faces not the president to whom I had contested.
Soon the dream-set was changed and I took the role of a contesting candidate to Obama and had been with Mr. and Mrs. Bush who were preparing to leave their residence after his tenure but it was not White House but a building of some well architecture. Bush had a mask having beard unlike Santa Clause of some smaller dimension and he offered prayers with candles on the pictures(maybe of Jesus) on walls.
I had been called in gesture as I was his party’s candidate though had lost. Bush had to give me something and I saw outside the palatial house there were two very big sized matter wrapped in black tripal kept on a truck- maybe some kalins..
And then Bush and Mrs. Bush looked at me as if they were sorry but did not utter a word.
They finally posed for a departing photograph there.
Obama just short of me in height ,looking like a young man, was just standing right to me and there were some staff of the house, maids and workers and also Mrs. Obama who was called by name as Firdausa, a Moslem name but she had no burqua and had an earring and her face was fair…
I do not know its meaning. The study of dream is an interesting subject in psychology but dreams are modern innovations too can be judged by this description.
Anybody to comment..?
Today early morning I got up with a dream which is still hovering over my mind. The dream started with me calling in the swearing ceremony of the MEA(MECON Executive Association)’s swearing in ceremony where I as a gesture of a defeated presidential candidate was invited. I recall some of the executive members faces not the president to whom I had contested.
Soon the dream-set was changed and I took the role of a contesting candidate to Obama and had been with Mr. and Mrs. Bush who were preparing to leave their residence after his tenure but it was not White House but a building of some well architecture. Bush had a mask having beard unlike Santa Clause of some smaller dimension and he offered prayers with candles on the pictures(maybe of Jesus) on walls.
I had been called in gesture as I was his party’s candidate though had lost. Bush had to give me something and I saw outside the palatial house there were two very big sized matter wrapped in black tripal kept on a truck- maybe some kalins..
And then Bush and Mrs. Bush looked at me as if they were sorry but did not utter a word.
They finally posed for a departing photograph there.
Obama just short of me in height ,looking like a young man, was just standing right to me and there were some staff of the house, maids and workers and also Mrs. Obama who was called by name as Firdausa, a Moslem name but she had no burqua and had an earring and her face was fair…
I do not know its meaning. The study of dream is an interesting subject in psychology but dreams are modern innovations too can be judged by this description.
Anybody to comment..?
Monday, February 2, 2009
Sangam Snan
Sangam Snan
I had sangam snan in the morning and probably first time so despite my several visits there. I had been to Kumbh in 2001 also but had dipped in water far away from Sangam(of Ganga-Yamuna-and antah salila Sarasawati). I took Sangam jal also.
To deliver my lecure on , “Free India: Past, present and future,” I tried to search Swami karpatrijee Maharaj of Simariyaghat but could not in tent township of big magnitude nor had interest to give lecture in such a devotee filled area .
I could not enter in Bade(or Pade- lying) Hanumanji’s temple-I had to return from gate showing half glipse of Hanumanjee as there was too much rush. Surely I entered into Fort area and saw Akshyawat(Undying Banyan seen even by Fahiyan in 8th Century)..
It was a mix experience day. The fair authorities had occupied bigger and bettr spaces . I was surprised even High Court and Lower courts were there(at least those would check police atrocities though I found police congeneal there). There were rallies for Clean ganga movement and one person Deen’s slogan were on all walls(his name as importantly as of the slogans of the importance of keeping Ganga clean, maybe that person had some political ambition like one other’s from Chitransh samaj I saw hoardings as’Other Loknayak..” Whether JP ever liked any of such hoarding? Some pubicity os ok but stunts stunns me.
Leader Road on the name of newspaper had cught my attention and so one house named on Sapru- Nehru, sapru,Bacchan families were known elites of Allahabd in its heydays. People of Allahabad are serene and civilized . I recall one adult son being hugged and kissed by (probably a Moslem) parens on the platform where I had long stay due to late running of Shipra Express.
I may go to sangam again I do not know but will remember the piligriage more than the pilgrim and also the beggars and others like Pandas who are vandalising the show more by commercializing the things. Is not it possible to have monthlu rotation of pilgrims of all areas of the country rather than all on one auspices day( in full Kumbha like in 2001, it amounts to crore of peope).
Probably will not possible as crores and crores of Hindus feel that their lives (and nationailty) depends upon the Mother Ganga- it is She that we are .And it is those illiterates and semi-illiterates who have made our nationality so powerful, our Sanatan hindu religion so great.
I had sangam snan in the morning and probably first time so despite my several visits there. I had been to Kumbh in 2001 also but had dipped in water far away from Sangam(of Ganga-Yamuna-and antah salila Sarasawati). I took Sangam jal also.
To deliver my lecure on , “Free India: Past, present and future,” I tried to search Swami karpatrijee Maharaj of Simariyaghat but could not in tent township of big magnitude nor had interest to give lecture in such a devotee filled area .
I could not enter in Bade(or Pade- lying) Hanumanji’s temple-I had to return from gate showing half glipse of Hanumanjee as there was too much rush. Surely I entered into Fort area and saw Akshyawat(Undying Banyan seen even by Fahiyan in 8th Century)..
It was a mix experience day. The fair authorities had occupied bigger and bettr spaces . I was surprised even High Court and Lower courts were there(at least those would check police atrocities though I found police congeneal there). There were rallies for Clean ganga movement and one person Deen’s slogan were on all walls(his name as importantly as of the slogans of the importance of keeping Ganga clean, maybe that person had some political ambition like one other’s from Chitransh samaj I saw hoardings as’Other Loknayak..” Whether JP ever liked any of such hoarding? Some pubicity os ok but stunts stunns me.
Leader Road on the name of newspaper had cught my attention and so one house named on Sapru- Nehru, sapru,Bacchan families were known elites of Allahabd in its heydays. People of Allahabad are serene and civilized . I recall one adult son being hugged and kissed by (probably a Moslem) parens on the platform where I had long stay due to late running of Shipra Express.
I may go to sangam again I do not know but will remember the piligriage more than the pilgrim and also the beggars and others like Pandas who are vandalising the show more by commercializing the things. Is not it possible to have monthlu rotation of pilgrims of all areas of the country rather than all on one auspices day( in full Kumbha like in 2001, it amounts to crore of peope).
Probably will not possible as crores and crores of Hindus feel that their lives (and nationailty) depends upon the Mother Ganga- it is She that we are .And it is those illiterates and semi-illiterates who have made our nationality so powerful, our Sanatan hindu religion so great.
Allahabad : A University Town of the ‘Oxford of East’
Allahabad : A University Town of the ‘Oxford of East’
In course of my autobiography correction from Dr.Jaykant Mishra, I had been at Allahabad for good many days at the MLN Medical College and have visited Prayagraj many times before and after crossed by railway innumerable times.
The city is civilized not only in civil lines bit all over having wide roads and old buildings and it has a fading look of an Oriental city. True to Maithili legacy there is Dr.Amarnath Jha Road and hostels named on father and son Sir Ganga Nath Jha and Amarnath Jha. Both remained vice-chancellors for about a decade each but not the son had taken direct charge from father as per popular belief but after one person’s(Iqbal Narayan guru probably) interim period of one and half years.
A.U.’s official site says,
“Founded on 23rd September in 1887, the University concerned itself mainly with examinations having no teaching staff (except that of its School of Law) until 1914. Thereafter it established chairs and readerships, etc. for research work in Economics and Modern History for graduate students. In 1904 the university, along with all other existing universities of India, was brought under the fold of Indian Universities Act. In 1921 an act was passed for the re-organization of the University as a unitary teaching and residential institution, with control, however, over the quality and character of the teaching in constituent colleges. The Muir Central College, established in 1872, became the nucleus of a teaching university. In 1955, by a further amendment of the University act, three categories of colleges came into existence: university colleges (which are residential colleges for students of the University or recognized by the University in which tutorial and supplementary instruction is provided); associated colleges (which are also residential but provide full degree courses as distinct from tutorial instruction); and constituent colleges (which are also residential and provide full degree courses but are maintained by the state government). Teachers in all three categories of colleges are appointed by the college management. The University is located in Allahabad which is situated at the confluence of rivers Ganga and Jamuna, 350 miles south-east of Delhi. The University's jurisdiction is within 16 km radius of the Convocation Ground in the Senate Campus. The Parliament passed a bill and the university earned back its Central Status wef 14th July,2005.”
A.U. was called ‘Oxford of the East’ and contribution of Jhas have been unique.
In 2009, I found the city not so progressive in line with many other cities in Eastern India. Yet, I admired the chowks had big statues of Maharana Prata, Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhasg Chandra Bose..I also crossed through Anand Bhavan but did not ask my rikshaw to stop not because I did not not like Nehru dynasty but because I had not much time before I meet Dr. Jaykant Mishra but I feel I should have stopped for a few minutes there.
I saw hostels named after Tara Chand, the great historian and Sir PC Banerjee. We had lost road and took a bit more time to reach Dr. Jay Kant mishra’s house. While retuning I saw the hostels dilapidates, Holland Hostel as a memory of old days and many more things.
Every city is alike almost that it has streets of common use and so I saw university nearby streets full of book shops-old and new, also ABVP Choraha on ABVP’s name and then a street where carpenters were making several items notably Choki, maybe for students.
I had never an occasion to stay in A.U.’s hostels and I do not knpw muchj of its life’s inner pictures but surely the posters and wall writing shows that it is a house full of the scope of future leaders and the wikipedia mentions
• Prof. Harish Chandra, mathematician
• Motilal Nehru
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Mahadevi Varma, poet and writer
• Gulzari Lal Nanda, former Prime Minister of India
• Murli Manohar Joshi, B.J.P leader and former Minister for Human Resource & Ocean development
• Vibhuti Narain Rai, writer, IPS officer and presently Vice Chancellor of Wardha-based Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet
• Krishna Prakash Bahadur, author
• Acharya Narendra Dev
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India
• Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice President of India
• Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
• Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
• Satyendra Narayan Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar
• Prof. Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
• Surya Bahadur Thapa
• Kamal Narain Singh, former Chief Justice of India
• Nikhil Kumar, former IPS, Member of Parliament India
• Prof. Daulat Singh Kothari, physicist
• Udit Raj, social activist
• Bhagwati Charan Verma (1903-1981), Hindi writer
• Pankaj Mishra, author
• Krishna Kumar Sharma, Quit India Movement activist, poet and literary figure
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 10th Prime Minister of India
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Ravindra Khattree, statistician, academic, author
• Dharamvir Bharati, writer
• And teachers of eminence Prof. G. R. Sharma
• Sir Ganganath Jha
• Dr R.D.Ranade
• Megh Nad Saha
• Amiya Charan Banerjee
To which I have added Dr. Amar Nath Jha (Teacher who became Vice chancellor) Prof. Rajendra Singh (Prof. of Physics later Chief of the RSS).
Surely Dr. Jay Kant mishra’s contribution to Maithili literature will bring his name one day one the fore of AU.
In course of my autobiography correction from Dr.Jaykant Mishra, I had been at Allahabad for good many days at the MLN Medical College and have visited Prayagraj many times before and after crossed by railway innumerable times.
The city is civilized not only in civil lines bit all over having wide roads and old buildings and it has a fading look of an Oriental city. True to Maithili legacy there is Dr.Amarnath Jha Road and hostels named on father and son Sir Ganga Nath Jha and Amarnath Jha. Both remained vice-chancellors for about a decade each but not the son had taken direct charge from father as per popular belief but after one person’s(Iqbal Narayan guru probably) interim period of one and half years.
A.U.’s official site says,
“Founded on 23rd September in 1887, the University concerned itself mainly with examinations having no teaching staff (except that of its School of Law) until 1914. Thereafter it established chairs and readerships, etc. for research work in Economics and Modern History for graduate students. In 1904 the university, along with all other existing universities of India, was brought under the fold of Indian Universities Act. In 1921 an act was passed for the re-organization of the University as a unitary teaching and residential institution, with control, however, over the quality and character of the teaching in constituent colleges. The Muir Central College, established in 1872, became the nucleus of a teaching university. In 1955, by a further amendment of the University act, three categories of colleges came into existence: university colleges (which are residential colleges for students of the University or recognized by the University in which tutorial and supplementary instruction is provided); associated colleges (which are also residential but provide full degree courses as distinct from tutorial instruction); and constituent colleges (which are also residential and provide full degree courses but are maintained by the state government). Teachers in all three categories of colleges are appointed by the college management. The University is located in Allahabad which is situated at the confluence of rivers Ganga and Jamuna, 350 miles south-east of Delhi. The University's jurisdiction is within 16 km radius of the Convocation Ground in the Senate Campus. The Parliament passed a bill and the university earned back its Central Status wef 14th July,2005.”
A.U. was called ‘Oxford of the East’ and contribution of Jhas have been unique.
In 2009, I found the city not so progressive in line with many other cities in Eastern India. Yet, I admired the chowks had big statues of Maharana Prata, Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhasg Chandra Bose..I also crossed through Anand Bhavan but did not ask my rikshaw to stop not because I did not not like Nehru dynasty but because I had not much time before I meet Dr. Jaykant Mishra but I feel I should have stopped for a few minutes there.
I saw hostels named after Tara Chand, the great historian and Sir PC Banerjee. We had lost road and took a bit more time to reach Dr. Jay Kant mishra’s house. While retuning I saw the hostels dilapidates, Holland Hostel as a memory of old days and many more things.
Every city is alike almost that it has streets of common use and so I saw university nearby streets full of book shops-old and new, also ABVP Choraha on ABVP’s name and then a street where carpenters were making several items notably Choki, maybe for students.
I had never an occasion to stay in A.U.’s hostels and I do not knpw muchj of its life’s inner pictures but surely the posters and wall writing shows that it is a house full of the scope of future leaders and the wikipedia mentions
• Prof. Harish Chandra, mathematician
• Motilal Nehru
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Mahadevi Varma, poet and writer
• Gulzari Lal Nanda, former Prime Minister of India
• Murli Manohar Joshi, B.J.P leader and former Minister for Human Resource & Ocean development
• Vibhuti Narain Rai, writer, IPS officer and presently Vice Chancellor of Wardha-based Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet
• Krishna Prakash Bahadur, author
• Acharya Narendra Dev
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India
• Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice President of India
• Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
• Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
• Satyendra Narayan Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar
• Prof. Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
• Surya Bahadur Thapa
• Kamal Narain Singh, former Chief Justice of India
• Nikhil Kumar, former IPS, Member of Parliament India
• Prof. Daulat Singh Kothari, physicist
• Udit Raj, social activist
• Bhagwati Charan Verma (1903-1981), Hindi writer
• Pankaj Mishra, author
• Krishna Kumar Sharma, Quit India Movement activist, poet and literary figure
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 10th Prime Minister of India
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Ravindra Khattree, statistician, academic, author
• Dharamvir Bharati, writer
• And teachers of eminence Prof. G. R. Sharma
• Sir Ganganath Jha
• Dr R.D.Ranade
• Megh Nad Saha
• Amiya Charan Banerjee
To which I have added Dr. Amar Nath Jha (Teacher who became Vice chancellor) Prof. Rajendra Singh (Prof. of Physics later Chief of the RSS).
Surely Dr. Jay Kant mishra’s contribution to Maithili literature will bring his name one day one the fore of AU.
Dr.Jaykant Mishra 1.2.09
Dr.Jaykant Mishra 1.2.09
When I write thus,” Dr.Jaykant Mishra 1.2.09,” it means something more than the words and numbers it contain..yes Dr. Jaykant Mishra who prefers to call and write in Maithili as Dr. Shrijaikant Mishra as per Maithil traditions where Shri means a person living and we wish the person born on 20.12.1922 remains so for many years so that he can see the dream of Mithila state he worked for good many years till he could remain active.
When I decided to meet him on 1.2.09 after a good long years, after XIII International Maithili Conference during Sept.24-25, 2005 at Jaipur where he had gone as the chief guest to speak on 100 years of Maithili Journalism.
Four years is not a small span. Once somebody told me that he was no more which was soon contradicted.
I did not know Dr.Jaykant Mishra when I entered in Maithili movement in 1992 and had just sent an information to the address of English Dept. of Allahabad University where he must have retired a decade back. He later told me that he could get that circular long after. Knowing from someone that I was convening First International Maithili Conference during June 19-20, 1993, he came at his own instinct such love and passion he had for Maithili and we decided to make him the inaugurator of the First International Maithili Conference which he deserved ads he was the person that Maithili could enter in the Sahitya academy.
Then in 1993, Dr. Mishra was angry that Maithili conference was discussing floods and industrialization of Mithila but soon I was able to convince him that without getting Mithila state, Maithili’s status is not secure and in 1996 as the president of Mithila Rajya Sangharsh Samiti he toured nooks and corners of Mithila even with an implanted pacemaker!
I had occasions to tour with him in many parts of Mithila which I had written in Ranchi Express’s columns.
When I was informed by my younger brother that he was doing Kalpvas(one month stay on Ganga bank) at Allahabad I was surprised that at this old age he could do so like a yogi- and after Sangam snana when I reached near his tent I was informed that just previous night he became ill and was taken back to his house at Elangan’s 1/C, Sir PC Banerjee Road . We went there and found him not so much healthy but he recollected me and was saying something incoherently which meant that now he was not able to do for Mithila Movement. I assured him that many workers were doing their best and now there was also Mithila Vikas Party which had announced candidates from Darbhanga and Arariya.
He asked about my father who was years elder to him and expired one year before. His daughter was there and several family members and soon he will be cured as this episode was most probably due to cold at open Ganga ghat.
My brother and me soon come out. His son was turning pages on acupuncture which he practices. Though people know me as a physician nobody asked nor did I give any medical advice as it would not have been proper except suggesting them to make him reclined on pillows for he would like it with a surely compromised cardiac status.
Well he is Dr. Jaykant mishra whose father Dr. Umesh Mishra was one who asked Maithils never to write on Maihtili in any Hindi compendium least it would be assumed dialect of Hindi which it was not but an independent language of Indian group. Trueky, inheriting the legacy of his father, Jykant Mishra was able to include Maithili in the Sahitya Akademy through many persuasive efforts with workers like Babu Saheb Choudhary..
I have a great admiration for him.
He insistently asked for our food etc. which I denied saying we had already.
He could have this gesture of ‘Atithi’ is a marker of his great personality.
I assured him that I would come again to meet him.
I recalled every day of his correcting my autobiography’s manuscript which is still in a suspended animation though fully ready to be printed but who is going to be a taker of that when I have become neutral in my life towards RSS on the bas of which I had been able to evolve NMO.
I had talked Elsevere and Jaypee two days before in the APICON at the Greater NOIDA though am not hoping they will finally like to publish such a non-core medical reading book.
When I write thus,” Dr.Jaykant Mishra 1.2.09,” it means something more than the words and numbers it contain..yes Dr. Jaykant Mishra who prefers to call and write in Maithili as Dr. Shrijaikant Mishra as per Maithil traditions where Shri means a person living and we wish the person born on 20.12.1922 remains so for many years so that he can see the dream of Mithila state he worked for good many years till he could remain active.
When I decided to meet him on 1.2.09 after a good long years, after XIII International Maithili Conference during Sept.24-25, 2005 at Jaipur where he had gone as the chief guest to speak on 100 years of Maithili Journalism.
Four years is not a small span. Once somebody told me that he was no more which was soon contradicted.
I did not know Dr.Jaykant Mishra when I entered in Maithili movement in 1992 and had just sent an information to the address of English Dept. of Allahabad University where he must have retired a decade back. He later told me that he could get that circular long after. Knowing from someone that I was convening First International Maithili Conference during June 19-20, 1993, he came at his own instinct such love and passion he had for Maithili and we decided to make him the inaugurator of the First International Maithili Conference which he deserved ads he was the person that Maithili could enter in the Sahitya academy.
Then in 1993, Dr. Mishra was angry that Maithili conference was discussing floods and industrialization of Mithila but soon I was able to convince him that without getting Mithila state, Maithili’s status is not secure and in 1996 as the president of Mithila Rajya Sangharsh Samiti he toured nooks and corners of Mithila even with an implanted pacemaker!
I had occasions to tour with him in many parts of Mithila which I had written in Ranchi Express’s columns.
When I was informed by my younger brother that he was doing Kalpvas(one month stay on Ganga bank) at Allahabad I was surprised that at this old age he could do so like a yogi- and after Sangam snana when I reached near his tent I was informed that just previous night he became ill and was taken back to his house at Elangan’s 1/C, Sir PC Banerjee Road . We went there and found him not so much healthy but he recollected me and was saying something incoherently which meant that now he was not able to do for Mithila Movement. I assured him that many workers were doing their best and now there was also Mithila Vikas Party which had announced candidates from Darbhanga and Arariya.
He asked about my father who was years elder to him and expired one year before. His daughter was there and several family members and soon he will be cured as this episode was most probably due to cold at open Ganga ghat.
My brother and me soon come out. His son was turning pages on acupuncture which he practices. Though people know me as a physician nobody asked nor did I give any medical advice as it would not have been proper except suggesting them to make him reclined on pillows for he would like it with a surely compromised cardiac status.
Well he is Dr. Jaykant mishra whose father Dr. Umesh Mishra was one who asked Maithils never to write on Maihtili in any Hindi compendium least it would be assumed dialect of Hindi which it was not but an independent language of Indian group. Trueky, inheriting the legacy of his father, Jykant Mishra was able to include Maithili in the Sahitya Akademy through many persuasive efforts with workers like Babu Saheb Choudhary..
I have a great admiration for him.
He insistently asked for our food etc. which I denied saying we had already.
He could have this gesture of ‘Atithi’ is a marker of his great personality.
I assured him that I would come again to meet him.
I recalled every day of his correcting my autobiography’s manuscript which is still in a suspended animation though fully ready to be printed but who is going to be a taker of that when I have become neutral in my life towards RSS on the bas of which I had been able to evolve NMO.
I had talked Elsevere and Jaypee two days before in the APICON at the Greater NOIDA though am not hoping they will finally like to publish such a non-core medical reading book.
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