THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.................

Jawaharlal Nehru , popularly known as Panditji among the elders and chachaji among the children ,was invited for a political discussion at the residents office in culcutta.  As you know the resident is the officer in charge of the administration of the province of Bengal. Neatly dressed nehruji reached  the gate of the palace at the right time.  When he was standing there he observed the arrival of horse cart from the opposite side  and an officer was trying to get down from the vehicle. He was a very fat man with a set of bulky boots. He insisted an Indian chaparasi, who was standing near the gate, to kneel down and to stay like an animal on the floor so that he can easily  step down. The fat officer jumped on the back of that poor Indian . He was suffering like anything and cried due to the heavy weight on his back. Surprised and shocked to see this nehruji called him and asked. The reply came like this in Hindi: babuji aap jaaanthe hei ki meim ek chaprasi hoon. So what…? An Indians back is not a football to a foreigner. An Indians back is not a ladder to a British, he remarked. This incident is explained  by panditji in one of writings where he underlines one particular point  that, the lack of confidence , self respect and self pride are the reasons for the backwardness of India. I think this  is relevant for us too.

Children you know that ours is nation with a greet past and culture. Ours is the only nation with a great continuity in its culture. But due to the lack of self pride and confidence we were easily defeated by many groups of foreigners in the ancient period like the hunas, the sakas, the kushans, afghans, Mongols, arabs, the turks  and in the medieval period by the Europeans like the Portuguese , the French , the Dutch,the britishers, and what not. 

But did you ever think of the reason for all that ? .In what way are we inferior to all these groups? In what way are we below all these groups. ?  we must be proud of culture and heritage. We must be proud of our great past and achievements. So we must try to inculcate these values like confidence, courage, self respect, self pride etc  in our life . Kindly think over it today and through out  your life and try to follow this.

Thank you.

ABDUL SHUMZ

class teacher  8c