Dear Old and New Friends at Jatland:
I am breaking a fairly long silence. I returned to motherland last year. After settling down to the extent one needs to and learning about the motherland and system much of what I had missed due to absence from here, I am humbled in more ways than I had ever I expected. I delivered university guest lectures to all kinds of students and teachers in mathematics, statistics, physics, psychology, education, and business. Those who are familiar with life here don’t need any commentary and others will learn only from personal experience.
In this ‘interesting’ land of ours where a divine intervention might be needed fairly soon, I came across a couple of gentlemen who are living lives truly following the dictum that ‘do in your life what you think is worthy and just concentrate on that’. A retired professor and a close friend of his in Kurukshetra decided to dedicate their resources and lives to educate girls in rural areas. The retired professor donated 10 acres of his land and sold another 11 acres to use the proceeds to start a “Gurukul” for girls on that land. The name is Kanya Gurukul, Kurukshetra (Gamri) and it is run by their charitable trust with title “Anant Charitable Trust” – meaning endless charitable trust. In less than five years, their hard work has paid off and the Gurukul has more than 450 students in grades 1 through 12. It has a new two-storey building of 40 classrooms. It is affiliated with Haryana Education Board. Their board results are amazingly impressive despite the fact that the students are from villages from all over Haryana and UP. The Gurukul is delivering first rate education with Arya Samaj values.
As the Gurukul is run by a charitable trust it is a non-profit institution. In fact, no girl is turned down because of money. They charge only rupees 800 per month for tuition, room and board. Most private schools charge more than this amount just for tuition. The trust depends on donations simply because of the sad fact that many parents in rural areas don’t want to spend money on female children.
The trust plans to start new courses like Nursing and computer education for these girls. My hats off to these noble souls – what a service to the much neglected segment of our society.
But words alone don’t go far. I delivered some talks to these girls from grades 8 through 12. I never felt as good in my professorial life as I felt after seeing those innocent faces from rural areas so eager to learn. I decided to dedicate rest of my life to this cause. I made some financial commitments and I have become a part of their team.
I am breaking a fairly long silence. I returned to motherland last year. After settling down to the extent one needs to and learning about the motherland and system much of what I had missed due to absence from here, I am humbled in more ways than I had ever I expected. I delivered university guest lectures to all kinds of students and teachers in mathematics, statistics, physics, psychology, education, and business. Those who are familiar with life here don’t need any commentary and others will learn only from personal experience.
In this ‘interesting’ land of ours where a divine intervention might be needed fairly soon, I came across a couple of gentlemen who are living lives truly following the dictum that ‘do in your life what you think is worthy and just concentrate on that’. A retired professor and a close friend of his in Kurukshetra decided to dedicate their resources and lives to educate girls in rural areas. The retired professor donated 10 acres of his land and sold another 11 acres to use the proceeds to start a “Gurukul” for girls on that land. The name is Kanya Gurukul, Kurukshetra (Gamri) and it is run by their charitable trust with title “Anant Charitable Trust” – meaning endless charitable trust. In less than five years, their hard work has paid off and the Gurukul has more than 450 students in grades 1 through 12. It has a new two-storey building of 40 classrooms. It is affiliated with Haryana Education Board. Their board results are amazingly impressive despite the fact that the students are from villages from all over Haryana and UP. The Gurukul is delivering first rate education with Arya Samaj values.
As the Gurukul is run by a charitable trust it is a non-profit institution. In fact, no girl is turned down because of money. They charge only rupees 800 per month for tuition, room and board. Most private schools charge more than this amount just for tuition. The trust depends on donations simply because of the sad fact that many parents in rural areas don’t want to spend money on female children.
The trust plans to start new courses like Nursing and computer education for these girls. My hats off to these noble souls – what a service to the much neglected segment of our society.
But words alone don’t go far. I delivered some talks to these girls from grades 8 through 12. I never felt as good in my professorial life as I felt after seeing those innocent faces from rural areas so eager to learn. I decided to dedicate rest of my life to this cause. I made some financial commitments and I have become a part of their team.