The teaching profession has always fascinated me. People say it is something I have inherited from my father, but only he and I know, that it is not true. I have always wanted to teach kids, in the way some of my teachers taught me at school and the way my French teacher taught me the language. But in my case, the only difference is the kids being very special.
The road leading to the traffic signal at IIM-A along the 132 ft ring road is not advisable for people with a high EQ, unless it is inevitable for them to pass through. There are kids living on the streets with their families, begging for food, money, clothes, anything that a kind heart in a car is willing to offer at the signal. Sometimes they get closed windows, and sometimes they earn a fortune: the night's dinner. The thought of the plight of these kids, after a few years from now, if they pass the Darwin test, is in itself, saddening. The fact that I had an incredible and pampered childhood, at their age, makes my knees go weak even more. And, the IIM traffic signal is just one among the hundreds of such instances all across the city. So, why are they suffering? What have these kids done, so bad, that they are suffering? Or rather, what have I done wrong that I am being made to see this appalling crisis?
That is when, I came across, my answer: the front page of the Times. The Teach India initiative of the TOI, to establish education of under privileged children in Ahmedabad. I hadn't done anything wrong, but I had to do something very right. I have applied myself to volunteer in the initiative, and awaiting response.
2 comments:
I've known u little,... Through very few and far apart interactions i've tried to decipher your psyche picture and at every turn and event u've astounded me by altering ur proposed trajectory...
All and all i'll confess that there are more facets to u than i can process with my mearger resouces... Alas.
Accepting defeat, I hereby declare that; from now on i christen u to be an ever-astounding (always pleasantly...!) intellectual and that i'll quit plotting ur predictive analytical diag's.
Abt ur post... I wish u the best of luck and i hope that u'll get a go ahead.
I am glad that in the labyrinths of life i could find a fluke chance to know u... Only in passing perhaps; But still...
A true admirer (and blog-follower).
Hey, i am checking my blog after a long time and was surprised to see such an appreciation. Thanks a lot. And ya, by the way, I am not with Teach India but right now I am involved in project with a group called Yuva which is almost like Teach India.
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