Saturday, 1 February 2014

Have you gone back to your School

My God on this earth was my father and the temple was my School


I am Jyothi Bhushan. I come from the dry land in North Karnataka called as Gulbarga. Some say that Gulbarga was named after the Gulabs that were grown. But I see no roses there…. maybe it was just Cul bur gee which was spelled by the English as Gulbarga….may be or maybe not. It is the hottest town but it gave me a cool soothing space in my heart when I went back to my school. There was a little banyan tree on the corner of the road and is still there. I stood there when I saw two girls being dropped in a scooter by their father. I went down the memory lane where my father used to drop, me, my sister and my brother in one cycle; we got down at that very point.
I turned and saw my father. I never thought he had changed….. but under that banyan tree I realized that my father, the strongest, had become an old man, and me the little girl had become a young dynamic woman, heading a big project in a big MNC. This was all because of my father who was committed to me, to bring me to the school. Tears rolled down my cheeks with gratitude and even as I was wiping them, I heard Raji call me and my father into the school. We walked through the little stair case which looked very big to me then. But in reality, it was a very small. We started our program and there was a session of acknowledging the parent where I went to my father and bowed down and fell on his feet. That’s when I realized that, ‘My God on this earth was my father and the temple was my school.’ I have nothing to say…. In true sense I experienced what it is to be a daughter to a committed father and among the children I saw the future of my country, indeed very big. In spite of the school being very small, every child of that school had a genuine smile, simply because it’s my word. I returned back home, truly as number one. I was crazy of first rank and always stood first. And now I stand as the first person in Gulbarga to own up the safety of every child and it feels great!

                       

                                                               -Jyothi Bhushan 
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