Kiriburu: An unforgettable place in my life

This month I went to Kiriburu to see my parent, this was after 2 years. This journey was very emotional for me because of lots of reason - one of them was my father has retired from Kiriburu. He was working as School Teacher. I know after this I will never visit Kiriburu in my life because all the employees have to leave this place because you can't buy private property there. I spent my childhood at this place and lots of sweets memories I have abt this place. This place is very special to me and to all those who has spent time there. This place is very small, basically it is a Iron ore mines of RMD SAIL; two small towns are there Kiriburu and Meghahatuburu. In "Ho" Langauge "Kiri" means Elephant and "buru" means Forest - the Forest of Elelphants. This place is in Saranda range of forest.

The social life there is very amicable, we have never find conflict on the basis of religion, cast etc etc.. We celebrate all the festivals with harmony, love and affection. You can find small india over there. You can find people from all of India around your neighbourhood. Even though there is a diversity in the society but social harmony is very well there.

Till early 90s the climate was cold there as it is situated on the hills. There was heavy rain falls for 9 months in a year. But in last 15 years the weather has changed due to heavy deforestation and now it is little bit hot.

In our child hood we used to celebrate Durga pooja, Holi, chatt in a big way. Whole Kiriburu used to celebrate these festival in a big way. Still these festivals are one of the major festivals of Kiriburu - Meghahatuburu.

Apart from this, there were a popular trend for picnic during year end, the popular places were Thalkobaad, Padinaala, Bokna nala, Pundul, Chota Nagra, Prospecting Jharna, where we used to go for picnic with our parents or class mates.

I studied from Project Central school Kiriburu, which used to be one of the good school during our time. This school has produced lots of good student who are into different fields currently and most of them are leaders in their field. Similarly there are other good school like KV Meghahatuburu, Bihar School and Orissa state school which has also produced very good student and they are leading in their field. The basic thing is all of us have come from a very small & a very beautiful place and we are competing with others and we are successful this is because the basics which we have learnt in our child hood.

I want to write a lot about Kiriburu ...may be some time later..
One thing is for sure this place will remain very close to my heart.

Leadership in India

60 years back we got independence from British rule. Unfortulately Independence has come up with scar of partition. British India has divided into India & Pakistan. And this division leads to genocide at western and eastern sector of British India. Every one has lots of expectations from the Indian leadership..in reality we have not achieved so much with respect to other countries who are at same level as India during 1947 - 48. I am not negative here..but overall picture of India is really not good - we are divided on the basis of religion, casts, language and the national politics are revolving around these things. Basically our leadership is nothing but a bunch of opportunist who don't want us to unite, they want to "divide us and rule". Curruption is deeply rooted into the government machinery. Sometimes it is really scary for "AAM AADMI", the situation around us forced us to think that are we really secured. Security is the basic need of human kind and if this is not available to "AAM AADMI" then we have to rethink about our national policies, vision etc.

How we can get rid of this ? THere is no straight forward answer to this but at the same time we can say that there is a solution which required contribution from large masses to eliminate some of the "national devils" like castism, cast based reservation, division on language, religion based division etc.

FOr example : To remove cast based reservation we can implement the following, the economic and social support should be given to those who are very poor ( irrespective of casts, religion ) and help them in their education and day to day life so that they can be at par with others in all aspects and yes their would be some amount of reservation in job as well. THis way we can create examples for whole world. Today if we see our reservation policies it is not reaching to everyone and this policy has no future except to create more division in society.

We must not forget that this country is belongs to multi ethenic and multi religious society. No matter what is our language, what is our religion, what is our cast ....this country belogns to all of us. And if we understand that and try formulate the policies which would be beneficial to "all" than "majority" then we will able to create right kind of environment in this country. Then we will able to resolve lots of issues which are just in "As-IS" form and our great politician are trying to take advantage of them.

In one sentence if we want to see our country is going in a right direction then each one of us has to own the problems and we have to contribute towards resolving those problem on national level. We just can't igonre these problem because we are "Aam aadmi" - this is not our job ..this is politician's job. This kind of attitude has to be changed in our mindset. Ofcourse "Lead India" initiative is a "nice" initiative taken by Times group but we have to take such initiative on large scale. then only we can make difference.

In my opinion we require a new society which should be without any caste, religion, language and other so called Social dividers. This society should work only for the benefits of country and each Indian citizen should activiely participate in such initiative and make sure that all the issues should be resolved in a proper way.
Is this possible?