I should have written about this long before but work kept me busy or rather say, i didn't take out time for this.
Though it is better to be late than never!!
Sanchore is the place where i was working for 3 months. A semi-arid region, Sanchore falls in Western Rajasthan and touches the Gujarat border. The place has Gujarati touch- in terms of culture. My 3 months stay in this place not just made me dark but i never imagined that 3 months in this place will make me miss it so much.. I never liked the place earlier but when i shifted back to Delhi, i realised that i miss the place as much as people, there..
Living in Sanchore made me change a lot. This is here i learnt to be totally self dependent.. This self dependency was learnt by, as small thing as traveling to remote villages and larger cities alone..I learnt here that people in rural areas don't have material pleasures to give you but they have a big heart and will love an outsider and will even not let that outsider know when s/he became an insider. My short stay in the place made me soo close to people that it is hard to not be in touch with them.. Living alone was another learning for me and i used to talk to my silence. Though this loneliness drived me away from the place yet that loneliness, i miss now.
Travelling to villages on bike - sharing the small seat with Mahendra and Bharat and sometimes even Prateek, trusting these strangers, who no more are strangers, heated discussions with Bharat at Amar Parantha house over our working strategies and meanwhile silence of Mahendra, struggling for food, eating eggs and eating non veg in a Jain family, counting coins of bharat which amounted to almost 500 Rs- Chilladbaaz, Mahendra calling me Paula, irritating my team when i fell asleep and didn't wake for complete 3 hours and they kept banging on my door for dinner, eating Bajre ki roti, ghee and Chanch at Viya Ram's house, giggles and laughter with women SHG members of Devasiyon ki Dhaani,helping them write their names and they helping in turn each other, struggling with MPOWER.. All these memories make me nostalgic of the place...
Though i am away now, yet i want say to my team members that memories can never fade away. They are much a part of me and have changed my personality and outlook a lot- for good..
Missing people and the place..
Monday, January 10, 2011
Participatory attitude!!
Here comes my blog after a very long gap!!
My work life had kept me too busy to update my blogs and now this professional life has given me food for thought and has helped me write on this particular theme of participation..
I am working in an organization where participatory approaches and participation is the key buzz word..Thanks to PRIA (Society for Participatory research in Asia), my outlook of life has changed. Yesterday i went to train social work students of Jamia Millia University on PRA techniques in their rural camp.. And i realized the change within me. From speaking to listening, from lecturing to discussing, from judging to suggesting, from criticizing to understanding- my whole personality seemed to have undergone a conscious change, which i am enjoying.. Earlier i read of all this in class room lectures but now that i see the change in me and see how this change is helping me develop not just professionally but personally, i feel how important participation can be.. I am on way to develop the participative attitude in me..It helps a person change his entire perspective and one's attitude and behaviour.. And i feel, these skills are not just significant for professionals working on human behaviour but also in other sectors.
Participation here i refer not just one participating in any activity but also giving space to others to help them participate. My attitude helped students to come up with their frank opinions and innovative ideas during the camp. It was thus a two way learning process. Mostly teachers don't listen to their students and they feel they have given in-depth knowledge to students but ask any student what s/he has learnt and the answer would be: Silence.. What is the purpose of such teaching?
Head of a company feels that s/he knows it all and may not give enough scope to his/her subordinates or listen to them. And s/he is losing out on many innovative suggestions and ideas. It might not be true for all but this is seen very often, though system is changing. Same goes for other professions..
How can participation be ensured in our democratic set-up? How can we stop criticizing and start understanding one's situation from their perspective?
It is not an easy job, for it needs change in attitude, reversal of power-letting dominating attitude go off, offsetting biases and so on..
Think over it!!
My work life had kept me too busy to update my blogs and now this professional life has given me food for thought and has helped me write on this particular theme of participation..
I am working in an organization where participatory approaches and participation is the key buzz word..Thanks to PRIA (Society for Participatory research in Asia), my outlook of life has changed. Yesterday i went to train social work students of Jamia Millia University on PRA techniques in their rural camp.. And i realized the change within me. From speaking to listening, from lecturing to discussing, from judging to suggesting, from criticizing to understanding- my whole personality seemed to have undergone a conscious change, which i am enjoying.. Earlier i read of all this in class room lectures but now that i see the change in me and see how this change is helping me develop not just professionally but personally, i feel how important participation can be.. I am on way to develop the participative attitude in me..It helps a person change his entire perspective and one's attitude and behaviour.. And i feel, these skills are not just significant for professionals working on human behaviour but also in other sectors.
Participation here i refer not just one participating in any activity but also giving space to others to help them participate. My attitude helped students to come up with their frank opinions and innovative ideas during the camp. It was thus a two way learning process. Mostly teachers don't listen to their students and they feel they have given in-depth knowledge to students but ask any student what s/he has learnt and the answer would be: Silence.. What is the purpose of such teaching?
Head of a company feels that s/he knows it all and may not give enough scope to his/her subordinates or listen to them. And s/he is losing out on many innovative suggestions and ideas. It might not be true for all but this is seen very often, though system is changing. Same goes for other professions..
How can participation be ensured in our democratic set-up? How can we stop criticizing and start understanding one's situation from their perspective?
It is not an easy job, for it needs change in attitude, reversal of power-letting dominating attitude go off, offsetting biases and so on..
Think over it!!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
A question!!!!
On Ram Navmi day, i was curious about the significance of this festival... So as my helper was cleaning the room, i asked her about the relevance of Ram Navmi..
Well, she told me everything about Ramayana, probably, but left me more curious about this day as i couldn't relate the day to what she said.
My room mate and i did laugh about the fact that she was responding as if i had asked a question to a kid, who doesn't know the answer but still tries to reply with much confidence on his face and feels that yes, i have fooled the person... But i had not been fooled.. Rather it probed me to question myself that we observe festivals and follow the traditions without actually knowing the significance...
I don't know whether that is right to do or wrong... We do celebrate, are happy and enjoy the festivals but in a way, we are we creating myths, superstitions for our future generation like our ancestors left for us...How?? Because we ourselves don't know the reasons, significance and facts for them..
We keep fast for days and months, that is fine considering that we are saving food for those who don't get to eat anything at all... But i think we should also be clear why are we keeping that fast, significance of the same and we should also have a choice whether we want to keep it or not rather than just blindly following the socially accepted trend...
And yeah, i asked later in the evening about the significance of Ram Navmi to my mom and she gave a relatively convincing answer that on this day Ram ji was born..
But another question arose in my mind that whether Ram ji is a figment of imagination of people or is it a reality??
Well, you can oppose my views and question them but let us have a healthy discussion on this theme because i feel it is important to question!!!
p.s---> I don't have a bias against Hindu religion but since it is politically correct to talk about one's own religion and be critical about it rather than talking about others and ending up being labelled as COMMUNAL... I am not so...
But that also doesn't leave people of other religions to think about it and comment..
:)
Thanks for reading!!
Well, she told me everything about Ramayana, probably, but left me more curious about this day as i couldn't relate the day to what she said.
My room mate and i did laugh about the fact that she was responding as if i had asked a question to a kid, who doesn't know the answer but still tries to reply with much confidence on his face and feels that yes, i have fooled the person... But i had not been fooled.. Rather it probed me to question myself that we observe festivals and follow the traditions without actually knowing the significance...
I don't know whether that is right to do or wrong... We do celebrate, are happy and enjoy the festivals but in a way, we are we creating myths, superstitions for our future generation like our ancestors left for us...How?? Because we ourselves don't know the reasons, significance and facts for them..
We keep fast for days and months, that is fine considering that we are saving food for those who don't get to eat anything at all... But i think we should also be clear why are we keeping that fast, significance of the same and we should also have a choice whether we want to keep it or not rather than just blindly following the socially accepted trend...
And yeah, i asked later in the evening about the significance of Ram Navmi to my mom and she gave a relatively convincing answer that on this day Ram ji was born..
But another question arose in my mind that whether Ram ji is a figment of imagination of people or is it a reality??
Well, you can oppose my views and question them but let us have a healthy discussion on this theme because i feel it is important to question!!!
p.s---> I don't have a bias against Hindu religion but since it is politically correct to talk about one's own religion and be critical about it rather than talking about others and ending up being labelled as COMMUNAL... I am not so...
But that also doesn't leave people of other religions to think about it and comment..
:)
Thanks for reading!!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Exposure visit to Khediadurjan, Rajasthan
I have been wanting to write this blog the very next day i came from exposure visit but didn't get time.
Anyway here it comes..
This exposure visit to a very remote village in Rajasthan- Khediadurjan, is somehow very close to me and will remain to be so for two reasons:
1. I stayed in village with one poor family for 3 days, and
2. since this exposure visit was a part of selection process for job in SRIJAN, and i managed to get through this job. And lastly because i happened to learn more about the culture and ways of living of people in just 3 days...
I would like to thank my four dear friends, who made this journey a real memorable one.. Thanks to Rudra, Tanvi,Victo and Nabeel.
As we all started in Kota janshatabdi, i still remember how much we guys ate endlessly and the curious looks by people. They might be thinking that when are we going to stop eating. It was real fun though..
I remember the tea, which i got addicted to and the jeep drive and non-stop talks..
First day it was simply fun for us but the real shock came when we were told at night in Lakheri office that we are going to stay in village alone for 3 days and the villages would be about 40kms away from the other. Thanks to Manish that he informed us before and we prepared ourselves mentally, informing almost everyone close about it.. I remember my parents couldn't stop laughing and they were happy about it when i was real nervous...
Anyway, next day we were off to the villages assigned and i was to live in Khediadurjan village... We were given a list of around 12 tasks to do ranging from credit analysis of farmers to understanding the socio- economic stratification of village and the village dynamics...
Well, every thing has a beginning and so had this village stay. I was nervous, pointless, apprehensive after i was left alone in a house where i didn't even understand the language and i felt stupid that i want to talk and people want to talk to me but how to start... I started with using sign languages and listening to their conversations. After a few hours, i came across a person, Modu lal ji, who could speak hindi. With his help, i managed to talk to people.. Thanks to him that i could complete all my tasks, though that was not my only aim. I wanted explore more about this village - its culture and people...
I held meetings with SHG members in village, talked to farmers, individuals and i remember i used to move around the village and go to any family and begin talking, and i was accepted and welcomed so nicely by almost whole of village.. This made me realise that my earlier apprehensions and fears were baseless.. Everybody took care of me so well, as if i have known them for years...
Well, things are not always ver easy as i had to do some things in village which i had never ever done before like shitting in open, bathing under a hand pump with no privacy at all, driving a bael-gaadi, milking the cow and cutting the fodder for livestock... To many this would appear a waste of time and unrelated to my work, but i learnt the way people live, the difficult their tasks are and the meager they get paid for it.. And this made me actually feel the extent of discrimination that happens with people in rural areas.. I can bet that an urban and educated person may not be able to do half the work that a rural and illiterate person does.. This made me feel that on what basis are salaries distributed among masses. Yes, educated have brains and they have been developed by the education they get but how many rural people get that facility to get a quality education... But they are working hard..
Life in my village, Khediadurjan, started at 4 and women didn't stop to rest. From milking cows to cleaning to going to farms, everything involved hard work... And i observed that women do more work than men..
Despite more work that she does, she has to respect men and honour them like they are Gods.. How?? She can not sit on the charpayi if her husband or any one of her in-laws is sitting there.. She has to cover her face. Besides doing more work than her husband, she also has to take care of meals and make him eat first and then eat herself...
I also felt the simplicity in villages and how people trust each other blindly. For them, there is no need of a bank to save money because anyone who has extra money, gives it off to needy as a loan at a monthly interest of 2%. Ineffective implementation of MGNREGA was seen since people having job cards didn't get any work this year....
All in all this visit as a good learning experience. And as i was coming back from village to Lakheri office, i was thinking that India has two worlds- one which has all the facilities and is relatively developed to other world which will make an urban feel that he/she has gone in past as the condition is almost same that existed a decade back- no proper education, health and water facilities, which are the basic necessities. Forget about esteem needs... So there is a need to integrate the two worlds... Sooner people of both the worlds realise it and work towards it, better would be for India to reduce its dual character...because i believe the onus is also on each one of us as is on the Government and NGO's....
In the end, i would like to thanks SRIJAN, all the employees in Lakheri office and my dear friends, who supported throughout...
Anyway here it comes..
This exposure visit to a very remote village in Rajasthan- Khediadurjan, is somehow very close to me and will remain to be so for two reasons:
1. I stayed in village with one poor family for 3 days, and
2. since this exposure visit was a part of selection process for job in SRIJAN, and i managed to get through this job. And lastly because i happened to learn more about the culture and ways of living of people in just 3 days...
I would like to thank my four dear friends, who made this journey a real memorable one.. Thanks to Rudra, Tanvi,Victo and Nabeel.
As we all started in Kota janshatabdi, i still remember how much we guys ate endlessly and the curious looks by people. They might be thinking that when are we going to stop eating. It was real fun though..
I remember the tea, which i got addicted to and the jeep drive and non-stop talks..
First day it was simply fun for us but the real shock came when we were told at night in Lakheri office that we are going to stay in village alone for 3 days and the villages would be about 40kms away from the other. Thanks to Manish that he informed us before and we prepared ourselves mentally, informing almost everyone close about it.. I remember my parents couldn't stop laughing and they were happy about it when i was real nervous...
Anyway, next day we were off to the villages assigned and i was to live in Khediadurjan village... We were given a list of around 12 tasks to do ranging from credit analysis of farmers to understanding the socio- economic stratification of village and the village dynamics...
Well, every thing has a beginning and so had this village stay. I was nervous, pointless, apprehensive after i was left alone in a house where i didn't even understand the language and i felt stupid that i want to talk and people want to talk to me but how to start... I started with using sign languages and listening to their conversations. After a few hours, i came across a person, Modu lal ji, who could speak hindi. With his help, i managed to talk to people.. Thanks to him that i could complete all my tasks, though that was not my only aim. I wanted explore more about this village - its culture and people...
I held meetings with SHG members in village, talked to farmers, individuals and i remember i used to move around the village and go to any family and begin talking, and i was accepted and welcomed so nicely by almost whole of village.. This made me realise that my earlier apprehensions and fears were baseless.. Everybody took care of me so well, as if i have known them for years...
Well, things are not always ver easy as i had to do some things in village which i had never ever done before like shitting in open, bathing under a hand pump with no privacy at all, driving a bael-gaadi, milking the cow and cutting the fodder for livestock... To many this would appear a waste of time and unrelated to my work, but i learnt the way people live, the difficult their tasks are and the meager they get paid for it.. And this made me actually feel the extent of discrimination that happens with people in rural areas.. I can bet that an urban and educated person may not be able to do half the work that a rural and illiterate person does.. This made me feel that on what basis are salaries distributed among masses. Yes, educated have brains and they have been developed by the education they get but how many rural people get that facility to get a quality education... But they are working hard..
Life in my village, Khediadurjan, started at 4 and women didn't stop to rest. From milking cows to cleaning to going to farms, everything involved hard work... And i observed that women do more work than men..
Despite more work that she does, she has to respect men and honour them like they are Gods.. How?? She can not sit on the charpayi if her husband or any one of her in-laws is sitting there.. She has to cover her face. Besides doing more work than her husband, she also has to take care of meals and make him eat first and then eat herself...
I also felt the simplicity in villages and how people trust each other blindly. For them, there is no need of a bank to save money because anyone who has extra money, gives it off to needy as a loan at a monthly interest of 2%. Ineffective implementation of MGNREGA was seen since people having job cards didn't get any work this year....
All in all this visit as a good learning experience. And as i was coming back from village to Lakheri office, i was thinking that India has two worlds- one which has all the facilities and is relatively developed to other world which will make an urban feel that he/she has gone in past as the condition is almost same that existed a decade back- no proper education, health and water facilities, which are the basic necessities. Forget about esteem needs... So there is a need to integrate the two worlds... Sooner people of both the worlds realise it and work towards it, better would be for India to reduce its dual character...because i believe the onus is also on each one of us as is on the Government and NGO's....
In the end, i would like to thanks SRIJAN, all the employees in Lakheri office and my dear friends, who supported throughout...
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Competing with SELF...
Difficult the title may seem to implement but the happier a person is (personal experience) when competition is with oneself rather than others.
We all compete with others as students, in jobs for promotions, with friends but what is the impact of all this? Is it somewhere straining our relationships with others? We want to do the best and achieve the best but what is the standard definition of the word "BEST"? It is always in relation to something. Why don't we give our best to the optimal level of our capacity rather than continuously measuring ourselves to others? I feel with this competitiveness comes jealousy, dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
As children in our contemporary society, we are socialized in a way,to compete with others and to acquire highest marks in class. But are hardly told to give your best and learn from your studies the best, implement your learnings the best way. Have we heard of it ever in our childhood from our parents? Probably yes but most would agree that no, we don't get to hear such statements from our parents. And the result is that we always are in race with our good friends and try to be better than them, even if it may lead to losing out on some good relationships.
Over the period of time, i have realized that competition with oneself is a better way to achieve success and also to be happy and competent.
Just give a thought to it and if you agree to it too, let us just implement this thought and turn it into our behaviour!! Let us compete with ourselves...
We all compete with others as students, in jobs for promotions, with friends but what is the impact of all this? Is it somewhere straining our relationships with others? We want to do the best and achieve the best but what is the standard definition of the word "BEST"? It is always in relation to something. Why don't we give our best to the optimal level of our capacity rather than continuously measuring ourselves to others? I feel with this competitiveness comes jealousy, dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
As children in our contemporary society, we are socialized in a way,to compete with others and to acquire highest marks in class. But are hardly told to give your best and learn from your studies the best, implement your learnings the best way. Have we heard of it ever in our childhood from our parents? Probably yes but most would agree that no, we don't get to hear such statements from our parents. And the result is that we always are in race with our good friends and try to be better than them, even if it may lead to losing out on some good relationships.
Over the period of time, i have realized that competition with oneself is a better way to achieve success and also to be happy and competent.
Just give a thought to it and if you agree to it too, let us just implement this thought and turn it into our behaviour!! Let us compete with ourselves...
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Foreigner!! Regional!! Human being!! What matters??
Couldn't think of other title than this...
Well, this post is to share a personal experience that i encountered day before and also to initiate a discussion on whether regions, nations and all these demarcations lead to feelings of suspicion and doubt among people for each other..
Yesterday as i went from PRIA, the organisation where i am placed for my field work, a lot of feelings were holding me and going up and down my mind, since this was the last field work day for this semester. So, i was just recalling what further i need to do and what my learnings as a trainee have been till now. With same feelings, i waited for my bus at the bus stand and suddenly my eyes caught a female foreigner, who was carrying these two big luggages and had worn a saree in not-so Indian style. It was not the foreigner who directly caught my attention, but a large number of school going children who were following her. They looked amazed and happy to see the woman. I thought they were with her and my attention again got diverted by thoughts about PRIA and what did i learn. A few minutes later, i observed that auto walla's were charging her hefty amount. Another minutes later, i saw that 2 drunk men approached her and using dirty language, which i don't want to quote here, eve-teased her.
And this was it!! I had been observing for long but hearing what they said to her considering that she will not understand, i felt disgusted that people in my country do not even know how to be welcoming and friendly to a person who has visited our country. And we talk about hospitability of India? Till yesterday, i felt proud of being an Indian but for a moment as this happened, i felt to just separate myself from being a citizen of this nation. The disgusted feeling was so hurting in nature that i gathered courage to stand and come to rescue of foreigner, who was in tears till now. I rebuked those guys, though it is not a part of me but i think they deserved worse than that. I also tried to tell them that this is not the way to treat a foreigner as before being a foreigner, she is a human being. Finally those guys couldn't stand there because till then i had gathered public, who had blindfolded their eyes before but seeing that a girl protected her, they probably felt shameful of themselves and collected to see the proceedings.
I also tried to pacify the lady, but it was late and she had become furious for Indians and was all abusive. I got her an auto, who was ready to go by meter now.
So that is it, she went and said "thanks Mataji" to me. Probably, she didn't know that Mataji is referred to an old lady and not to a young, energetic girl like me.
Though this was shocking to me, but couldn't have been more upsetting than it was for that lady, and i could see it from her eyes and fearful face, which though she was trying to hide.
It doesn't only happen with foreigners but people from our country are ill- treated by people of our own country. How do we behave with North-easterns, just beacuse they look different? People from Bihar, U.P are discriminated against just because they belong to a particular region. When will we all take oath to think rationally, rather than regionally?
We all have the same feelings- feel happy, feel betrayed, get hurt, feel sad n blah blah. We all are human beings, for heavens!! We have not been declared regional beings and do not have any different feelings. But we hardly care about others. Why??
Who ever reads this blog, please promise to take an oath that we will never indulge ourselves in hurting other respectful human-being because he might have been defaced by circumstances yet he a feeling- being... Let us respect each other!!
Well, this post is to share a personal experience that i encountered day before and also to initiate a discussion on whether regions, nations and all these demarcations lead to feelings of suspicion and doubt among people for each other..
Yesterday as i went from PRIA, the organisation where i am placed for my field work, a lot of feelings were holding me and going up and down my mind, since this was the last field work day for this semester. So, i was just recalling what further i need to do and what my learnings as a trainee have been till now. With same feelings, i waited for my bus at the bus stand and suddenly my eyes caught a female foreigner, who was carrying these two big luggages and had worn a saree in not-so Indian style. It was not the foreigner who directly caught my attention, but a large number of school going children who were following her. They looked amazed and happy to see the woman. I thought they were with her and my attention again got diverted by thoughts about PRIA and what did i learn. A few minutes later, i observed that auto walla's were charging her hefty amount. Another minutes later, i saw that 2 drunk men approached her and using dirty language, which i don't want to quote here, eve-teased her.
And this was it!! I had been observing for long but hearing what they said to her considering that she will not understand, i felt disgusted that people in my country do not even know how to be welcoming and friendly to a person who has visited our country. And we talk about hospitability of India? Till yesterday, i felt proud of being an Indian but for a moment as this happened, i felt to just separate myself from being a citizen of this nation. The disgusted feeling was so hurting in nature that i gathered courage to stand and come to rescue of foreigner, who was in tears till now. I rebuked those guys, though it is not a part of me but i think they deserved worse than that. I also tried to tell them that this is not the way to treat a foreigner as before being a foreigner, she is a human being. Finally those guys couldn't stand there because till then i had gathered public, who had blindfolded their eyes before but seeing that a girl protected her, they probably felt shameful of themselves and collected to see the proceedings.
I also tried to pacify the lady, but it was late and she had become furious for Indians and was all abusive. I got her an auto, who was ready to go by meter now.
So that is it, she went and said "thanks Mataji" to me. Probably, she didn't know that Mataji is referred to an old lady and not to a young, energetic girl like me.
Though this was shocking to me, but couldn't have been more upsetting than it was for that lady, and i could see it from her eyes and fearful face, which though she was trying to hide.
It doesn't only happen with foreigners but people from our country are ill- treated by people of our own country. How do we behave with North-easterns, just beacuse they look different? People from Bihar, U.P are discriminated against just because they belong to a particular region. When will we all take oath to think rationally, rather than regionally?
We all have the same feelings- feel happy, feel betrayed, get hurt, feel sad n blah blah. We all are human beings, for heavens!! We have not been declared regional beings and do not have any different feelings. But we hardly care about others. Why??
Who ever reads this blog, please promise to take an oath that we will never indulge ourselves in hurting other respectful human-being because he might have been defaced by circumstances yet he a feeling- being... Let us respect each other!!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Rain.. :-) or :-(
Rain always brings happiness along- be it for farmers, school children (classes cancelled), lovers and for those who longed for it. Even i feel happy when it rains, for reasons obvious to all- No college, rest from all spheres and all you want to have is a hot cup of tea/ coffee, maggi or garam pakodas... I am already salivating since today again it's raining. Well, all these are the positive sides of rain and till today for reasons unknown to me, i have been in love with the rainy season..
But it has a dark side too. The death of school children in stampede in a Government school yesterday sums it all up and especially when the stampede takes a communal conflict. In our country, each problem seems to go in a vicious cycle, giving rise to other problems. Rain -> Communal Discord -> ?? (What next)... This is just one example. (Read Hindustan times/Indian express for further information regarding this news)..
The water logging that takes place in Delhi, due to poor drainage system and subsequently the traffic jams- all adds up to the miseries of people.
For me also, rain didn't bring much happiness this time. As i had to cancel going for my field work, which has become extremely important to me. And making excuses to convince your supervisor is another sad part. Well, it wasn't that hard to convince my supervisor but the feeling of guilt somehow hits me.
So to sum it up, each event has two sides- good and bad. And lets adapt ourselves accordingly rather than blaming other's. I can understand how hard it is for those family members who lost their children but let's not evoke communalism among ourselves. Before being a Hindu or Muslim, we all are human beings and lets respect ourselves and others for that. What our ancestors have created for us, needs to be rationalised and not blindly followed in the name of God...
What say?
p.s. I am not trying to relate my personal incident with the stampede that happened followed by the death of students; obviously the latter one is an irrepairable loss to the families.. And i offer my condolences to these families...
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