I hope, you are in good health and are happy in your personal life end. Nice to see your email after a long time. I read your mail and want to raise some questions. I think that Indian society needs very deep and dedicated efforts with understanding of society and life. Here understanding does not mean bookish or airy things. I hope you will not have problems with my questions.Why did you opt your own parents for your center? How do you decide that the cost of your parental land is about one million Rs?How do you feel that you should feel ownership on your parental property? Did you earn it?You have been living out side from India for last many years and you came India for few months, you started some thing in your own land, in your own village under supervision of your own parents.I can arrange you much bigger land (more than Rs One Million) in other state from your own parental place, you can start there your center there. You lived in USA, what are the reasons to trust on your center to donate money? I think you are totally confused- you came to India for few months, in these months you visited IITs and other Elite Institutes to deliver lectures and you spend some part of your time in construction in your land by saying that it is a Social Center.When you motivated society? When you participated in social issues of common society? When you discussed with common society that what should be done and how?Why are you demanding money from others and for what? Why do you see all things just in money and currency?Can you make India as a great nation by getting 5 Rs or teaching in IIT?You have been living in USA for years and now you are going to become a faculty in IIT Delhi. My brother, some time I feel that for you, India is a joke only.Why do you need to be a Faculty of IIT? (I think only for Illusions to avoid hard path in life).If you will say that it is because you need some money for your livelihood, then why are you not interested to be a faculty in any small engineering college near to your center (you will be able to contribute in your center in a real sense). Do you think that from the Capital of India, and by using Illusions of IIT etc to capture the political power will be easy? If you think it, then you are in confusion and also in two opposite banks in the same time.You are talking for Village Economy and also you are demanding currency and money. These are the contradictions and indicate that you lack the understandings.My brother by these things you can not move towards greatness of any society. Dear Nation is a political system and the Theory and Word "Nation" was initiated by British Colonial Systems.I think you are in very much hurry just to show that you are doing this or that. Please be serious and be honest for common society.One more thing, Village is not a complete unit (think it seriously). One more thing, please try to discuss with your own understandings, do not use other's things I.e. Gandhi told this or one told this or that.I would like to discuss on the ground of your own understandings.Do you think that society or social movements can be initiated by lighting candles in Delhi by calling people with payment and then by sending emails?Please do not mind my email.I know where are you moving in mistakes. I know that society lacks dedicated and conceptual personalities. I want to suggest you even you will become angry and will start to abuse me directly or indirectly. But you should introspect by these and more questions. You have no right to continue the things by these the trust of society was misused and is being exploited.What are you writing, these are good to get awards as Magsaysay and enjoy the life but these have lesser relation towards social solution.If you are interested deep discussion, I am ready for it.lovevivekps- first try to remove your internal insecurity complexes. (think on this suggestion seriously without being reactive)
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Vivek Umrao
coord...@localgovernance.org
www.localgovernance.org/family.html
(Committed to Last Person of Society with Social Governance)**** Former Researcher- Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
* Coordinator-- Local Governance & Decentralized Economy Social Group
* Coordinator for International Relation-- GOKUL University.
* Vice Chairman-- Koya Wes Institute
* Member-- Asha (www.ashanet.org)
* Former Secretary-to-Trustee Secretary-- Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Rajghat, ND***WORK FIELDS ---
Decentralized Economy, Social Democracy, Water Issues, Education, Human Values, Decentralized & Local Technology, Street Play, Tribal Solutions, Social Corporate systems, Alternative Writings.
With all respect to Mr.Vivek, I would like to answer a few issues that he has raised in his reply to the mail from Shri. Ravi Kant. The purpose of this mail is not to defend anyone but to answer the issues from the perspective of a member of BM. Being a member I feel that the allegations (if I may use that term) made by Mr.Vivek can well be applied to anybody in the organization and not directed to one person alone.
The foremost issue pointed out by Mr.Vivek is that people are wasting their most efficient years in acquiring identities rather than doing contributions. A number of great leaders of India, particularly during freedom struggle, gave their heart and soul and some gave even their lives for the sake of the country and post independence some of them continued to work for the survival of India as a democracy and they did succeed. I think I need not mention any particular names. The point I like to make here is most of these leaders did spend their most productive years in acquiring the same identities. I might sound crude but it is a fact that the economic security(as they belonged to well off families) they had did play a role in their decision to renounce everything and commit themselves fully for the cause of the society. They did not have any prior experience in the field. I do not intend to compare the members of BM to those great human beings but I would like to point out that acquiring professional identities from an institution outside the country need not always stand in the way of the commitment of a person to contribute for the sake of the country. I will not wishfully discount the fact that there were leaders, who came from humble backgrounds, suffered a lot and rose up to great levels purely through their hard work and commitment. The point I like to make here I that a successful and committed person can emerge from any section of the society and what is need is the right spirit.
I don't want to sound like a Marxist but I would like to raise a basic question. When the daily bread is in question, where will one get the strength to rise up and fight for the cause of the society? And to that effect what is wrong in one working towards acquiring a professional identity for the self.
If acquiring/possessing identity is not a big deal can Mr.Vivek please explain to all why the following message is being appended to all the mails.
Vivek Umrao
coord...@localgovernance.org
www.localgovernance.org/family.html
(Committed to Last Person of Society with Social Governance)
**** Former
Researcher- Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
* Coordinator-- Local Governance & Decentralized Economy Social Group
* Coordinator for International
Relation-- GOKUL University.
* Vice Chairman-- Koya Wes Institute
* Member-- Asha (www.ashanet.org)
* Former Secretary-to-Trustee Secretary-- Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Rajghat, ND
***WORK FIELDS ---
Decentralized Economy, Social Democracy, Water Issues, Education, Human Values,
Decentralized & Local Technology, Street Play, Tribal Solutions, Social
Corporate systems, Alternative Writings.
"Any social organization is gradually formed by the society." Most of the successful social organizations of the past, I believe, were initiated by the educated youth, who had an alternate identity for themselves and it slowly progressed towards the common man in due course of time. If social organizations can be successful in that way, why shouldn't BM succeed in the same way? There may be/ are initial teething problems which nobody is going to deny but why shouldn't they be resolved?
It is true
that people who are a part of BM do belong to diverse backgrounds and may be
striving to acquire a professional identity for themselves. But we are bound together by only common idea
of working for the betterment of the society and realizing the dream of a
developed India. The processes we adopt towards the goals may
be error ridden but that in no way is an indication of shortness of commitment
or dedication. When somebody becomes the
full-time member after a few years, at that time there would be more fresh members
who are striving to acquire for an identity for themselves and at the same time get
associated with BM and the process is continuous.
IF IDEAS CAN BE HELD AS
THE FOUNDATION TO WHAT EVER MANKIND HAS ACHIEVED THEN THE IDEAS WE HAVE CONCEIVED
IN BM WILL TAKE US IN THE RIGHT PATH TOWARDS OUR ULTIMATE GOAL AND IT'S JUST A
MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS.
Jai hind
surendran
PS: I am neither a academic/scholar nor an experienced writer but I have tried my level best to put my ideas into words so that it could convey the message what I wanted to.
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