#Educational Consultancy in pala

[insightinternationalstudyabroad]

Insight International Study Abroad Consultancy in Kochi, Kerala is the leading overseas education consultant who provides free guidance on course, country, and university selections

[globaldominion]

Who is: #GlobalPinoy Loan Consultant Emman Flores

With an educational background related to computer science and technology, it was no surprise that Emman Flores, 29 years of age, is now one of the leading loan consultants of Global Dominion Financing Inc. utilizing digital marketing strategies to extend help to Filipinos in need of financing and loan products. “Ang akala ko talaga after two years pa ako magkakaroon ng maraming kliyente, kasi akala ko mabagal kapag nag-start ako sa Facebook lang,” Emman pronounced in his interview. “Three months lang pala marami na akong natutulungan!” he added.

His experience in online marketing has definitely proven the increasing inclination of Filipinos to go online for many of their needs, including loan and financing products and services. Undoubtedly, this is because of the ease in getting more information and transacting, which includes submitting documents online.

Emman thanks his mentors Joan Hutalla (GDFI Pasig’s Product Manager), and Lea Yap (GDFI’s former Career Development Officer), who has tirelessly helped him and has fueled his motivation to always go above and beyond. He has also completed three digital marketing courses facilitated and provided by Global Dominion, through its Business Development division under Marketing, which have opened his eyes to more efficient and effective ways to reach more people online. Learning from these courses, his own experiences, and mentors, he has become a jolly and supportive loan consultant to many loan applicants, who have thanked him for his efforts and openness, especially when it comes to communicating the verdict, whether they’re approved for a loan or not. To him, it always makes sense to put the customers first.

Global Dominion Financing Inc. is the country’s finest provider of different loan products including OFW loan, Doctors Loan, Car & Truck Loan (Sangla ORCR), Car & Truck Financing, Medical Equipment Financing, Business Loan, and Salary Loan.

Flores, who started his GDFI journey in our Calamba branch, pays it forward by helping his siblings with their study fees, his grandparents with their medical expenses, his family with a house on the way, the church with his monetary contributions, and the entire community by incessantly offering GDFI’s loan products and services to as many people as he can. He certainly believes that God is with him through all his successes in life, big or small, and said that without Him, none of these would be possible.

“Maraming kliyente ang talagang masaya sa Global Dominion, lalo na kapag naka-loan na sila, kasi mare-realize talaga nila na walang bawas, na talagang mabilis, tsaka Service Is The Difference talaga,” Flores stated. He is happy that not only is he experiencing the benefits of being part of GDFI, but his clients grow their families’ wealth as well, with some even started their own businesses.

“Hindi sya laging madali, actually walang madali. Mahirap sa umpisa at kahit marunong ka na, minsan mahirap pa rin. Kailangan mo lang na hindi sumuko, huwag mang-apak ng ibang tao, at magdasal.” – Emman Flores

[davidborbon29-blog]

"Illegal"

Person involve:

Florinda Gaogao Paculba - Taiwan SHENG WEI INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT CO. , LTD

Passport no. EC2688318

Address: Blk 34 Lot 9 Magnolia, St. Modesta Village, Sto. Niño, San Mateo, Rizal, 1850 Philippines.

Li Xuedong - Head Master of Weifang Huayang Marine Academy

Address: No. 2, Yaxing Road, Hanting District, Weifang, Shandong, China.

Victim details: David Asi Borbon

Contact no. And email: 15169559392 / rakion_rave@yahoo.com, rakionrave@gmail.com

Location: 50 meters east of the intersection of minzhu street and qingping road, weicheng district, weifang , shandong, China.

Report:

Before I came here, Our agent offer us a good fortune in here. Sabi nya makakapag aral daw kami at kikita kami at dagdag nya ang kikitain namin ay nasa 1000 to 2000 dollar a months. Kaso student visa gamit namin kasi nga magaaral daw kami dito. (for more details check this link: https://davidborbon29.tumblr.com/post/176618814201/story-of-my-china-application).

Tumuloy ako kahit nagaalangan ako dahil sabi nya wala akong mababawing pera sa lahat ng ginastos ko. Sa kadahilan na din ng kahirapan ng buhay. Sumugal na ako at dahil sa gusto ko din matutu.

September 2, 2019 kami nakadating ng China. Sa unang buwan namin walang trabahong nagiintay saamin at my pasok kami ngunit 2 oras lng sa sa isang araw at hindi pa makabuo ng isang linggo. Tapos hinahanap ko ung sinasabi ng agent namin na kontrata na pagdating daw namin my kontrata kami na pipirmahan na nakasaad dun ung sahod namin na 1000 to 2000 dollar. Ngunit sabi ng school

Same contract na 300 rmb to 800 rmb un ang pinirmahan namin. So dito pa lng di na ako nagexpect ng malaking salary. At kinokontak namin ang agent namin dahil ang problema namin dito ay pagsend ng pera sa Pilipinas o pagsend saamin ng pera from Philippine to China. Ngunit ung agent namin pinagblo2ck kami sa FB. Dahil sa nakulitan daw saamin sa mga hinaing namin. Ngayon ang problema namin nung November to December madalas alternate ang trabaho magtrabaho ka ngayong araw bukas wala. Almost 2 months na ganun. Tapos wala namang education na nang yayari. At nitong January lng diniscuss na pwersahan at kelangan namin mag bayad ng 14,400.00 RMB convert mo sa pero almost Php 111,000.00 Yearly sa school for tuition fee daw. Samantalang walang education na nangyayari. Puro kami trabaho trabaho walang pahinga kasi no choice kami kasi naloko na kami at kelangan ng pamilya namin yung kahit kunting tulong namin. Ang sahod namin dito nung september 68.75 per day bali Php 530.00 lng per day namin pag sa Pinas. Kaya sobrang depress kami at wala pang mahingan ng tulong dahil ang agent namin iniwan na kami sa ere.

See photos:

Ganyan lng kaliit kinikita namin at sumunod na month 100 RMB per day. Pero hindi naman kami makabuo ng isang buwan dahil over man power sila kaya alternate.

Hangga ngayon 6 na buwan na ako dito kahit magkano wala pa ako nababawas sa utang ko at hindi man lang ako makapag ipon. Ang malupit pa ang edukasyon na inaasahan ko dito ay wala pa. Trabahador lang pala kami dito at hindi estudyate but the right word is slave because we work for the profit of school. Ginamit lang nila ang kontrata na student visa para makakuha sila ng worker na maliit ang ipapasahod nila. Kimakaltas nila ang pinaghirapan namin ngunit hindi naman sila nagooffer ng kahit educational materials or even teacher to teach us wala din.

Ngayon I decided to go home ang problema ginigipit naman kami dito. Wala akong marereceive na sahod ngayong buwan, Ito pa naman ang inaasahan ko pambili ng ticket. Tapos nagtanong ako before ako magsabi na uuwi ako kung pwede ako magtrabaho at kung mababayaran ako ang sabi saken oo daw. Ngunit ngayon nagbago isip nila at ito nagpakahirap ako magtrabaho ngayong buwan kahit singkong duling wala ako makukuha. Late pa pasahod namin, tapos darating ang sahod mahal na ang ticket.

I hope matulungan kami ng gobyerno natin sa sitwasyon namin dito. Madami pa ako hindi nasama dito na mga kalokohan dito hoping na sana my makausap kami na tutulong sa sitwasyon namin. For more details I send the contract agreement of both parties sa pagpunta namin dito.

Salamat po.

Agreement:

Malaki file ng contract I will email nlng if someone responded.

[leahcaughtup]

TM Speech 6: Vocal Variety

The aims for this speech project are to use your voice to complement your message by enhancing your:

pace,

pitch,

power, and

pauses.

Your voice is the best tool in your delivery toolbox. You must learn to use it effectively to enhance your presentation.

Tips and Techniques

1. Plan Around the 4 P’s: Pace, Pitch, Power, and Pauses

Be conscious of all four major vocal variables, and work all of them into your speech.

Pace — One of the easiest ways to incorporate variable pace is to slow down through key statements.

Pitch — A convenient way to hit different pitch points is to play with different emotional content. A sad voice takes on a different pitch than a content voice, which is distinct from an excited voice, and so on. Stories are good speech building blocks for many reasons, including how they bring a speaker’s voice alive through different emotions.

Power (Volume) — Don’t overdo it with changes in volume. Again, align your variations in volume with emotional content. Anger or joy tends to bring out a loud voice. Fear or sadness calls for a quiet voice.

Pauses — There are a multitude of ways to incorporate pauses in a meaningful way (watch for a future Six Minutes article dedicated to pauses). For this speech, keep it straightforward. Make sure you’ve got short pauses following every sentence, and longer pauses at the ends of paragraphs or transitions within your speech.

2. Be Deliberate (Keep Score if You Have To)

“Your voice is the best tool in your delivery toolbox. You must learn to use it effectively to enhance your presentation.”

Don’t just write a speech and try to incorporate vocal variety on the fly as you deliver it. You won’t get any value from this speech project if you take that approach.

As you write, edit, and rehearse your speech, select words or phrases where you will consciously vary your voice in each of the four P ways. As you grow as a speaker, you’ll hit all four of these unconsciously, but when you are learning, it’s okay to be a little more deliberate.

Consider annotating your speech with colored pen to highlight vocal variation opportunities.

You might even consider making a “scorecard” in the margin of your page, and giving yourself one point for each vocal manoeuver. Shoot for a score of at least 3 for each P.

3. Align Your Voice with Expressive Gestures

One of the best ways to bring out your most expressive voice is to use expressive gestures, particularly facial gestures!

If participate in teleconference calls or webinars, you may have learned this trick. Even though nobody can see you, it really helps to stand up in your office and give body, hand, and facial gestures as you talk on the phone. Your voice will naturally come alive, as if synchronized with your gestures.

The same trick applies to face-to-face presentations as well. If you are expressive with your face and other gestures, your voice tends to naturally align.

4. Ditch the Notes, Keep Your Head Up, and Project Your Voice

Maybe you have used notes for the five previous Competent Communicator projects, but now is a great time to break free of your notes.

When you glance down to read notes, your neck and throat bend and can get contorted. Your voice tends to be low, or poor quality, and low volume.

Without notes, you’ll be able to keep your head up high and your eyes on your audience. With your head high, your neck and throat will be stretched out, and the quality of your voice will be much more resonant.

5. Exaggerate Words

“If you are expressive with your face and other gestures, your voice tends to naturally align.”

If your speech allows, find some words where you can play with the pronunciation to add some vocal spice to your delivery. For example:

Instead of saying “The car was a long way from the beach,” you could say “The car was a looooooong way from the beach”.

Instead of saying “The hamburger was delicious,” try “The hamburger was deeee-licious.”

6. Don’t Speak About Vocal Variety

When choosing your topic for this speech, avoid the temptation to speak aboutvocal variety, like this guy (who admits he “cheated”). If you do, you are missing the point of this speech project.

Your objective for this speech project is not to educate your audience about vocal variety. Your objective is to incorporate vocal variety to enhance your delivery.

Backstory: 

When I was writing my story, I was not intending it to be a speech, para sa blog dapat but I saw its potential to be a speech while looking through the speeches I have yet to take because of the screaming bit and the dialogues. 

I’ve written it months back but I haven’t written a decent closing. I usually write with a story telling format so it would always be SMG. E lagi naman akong walang maisip na gain. Like my BSP 5, I wrote the closing last minute. Kinakabahan rin ako because I really didn’t have time to practice. On weekdays, busy sa work and the officers and I had a working lunch on the day of the program. I can’t back out because I’m ze prez and I should be an example ganern. But naitawid naman siya so I’m happy pa rin. 

Title: Black and Blue

I’m a clumsy person.

Tell me to walk in a straight line and I would run into a wall.

Tell me to  stand on a flat ground and I would manage to land on my butt.

Tell me to just chill near an electric fan without a cover and my foot will hit its blade. That’s the story I’m going to tell.

It happened on a good Friday and that Friday wasn’t good at all.

Since I lack the coordination, grace and height of a top model, Asia’s Next Top Model fascinated me. I was watching some episodes on my phone while lying prone on the sofa. It was a hot summer day so I had an electric fan switched on. It didn’t have a cover and to me, it didn’t matter if it had any, I was after the air it could supply.

An episode would run for a round 45 minutes. After 2 episodes I wanted to stretch out my legs.

*Scream*

I heard a scream.

Asia’s Next Top Model girls tend to scream out of excitement, out of frustration or when caught in a catfight. But that scream wasn’t from my girls. It was from me.

As I stretched out my right leg sidewards and upwards, my foot made contact with the blade of the fan.

After the shock subsided, I checked my foot. I had cuts but the worst hit was on my biggest toe. There was bleeding under the nail. So naturally, I checked WebMD about what should I do.

Blood had to be drained because the blood collecting under the nail would cause pressure. The pressure would cause throbbing and the throbbing would be uncomfortable, if not painful.

To drain the blood, there must be a hole on the nail. I read, it could be cauterized. An electric needle would pierce a hole so the blood could rush out. As a home remedy, I could get a paper clip, straighten it out, put it under the flame to get it nice, hot and ready, then press it on my nail to make a hole and just the same, the blood would rush out.

Since I was at home, I thought of doing the latter option but somebody else should do it for me.

I called my sister, ever so adventurous, “Teh, favour naman. Tusukin mo lang.”

She responded with a glare “Ew.”

I asked our kasambahay, ever so helpful, “Manang, patulong naman.”

She answered , “Ay ayoko nga.”

Then I found my mom, ever so selfless, with my most paawa face I begged “Maaaaaa, masakit na siya.”

She looked at me with concern and said, “Sabihin mo sa ate mo punta tayong ospital.”

We went straight to the emergency. The doctor told me they didn’t have the equipment for cautery. The only recourse was to take my toenail off.

WHAT?!

I was planning to wear a pair of sandals to the District Convention! I bought them just the day before and at the time I had every intention to attend the DisCon!

I felt weak on the knees and proceeded to sit. A nurse came by and explained the blood would be absorbed back by my body. What wouldn’t be absorbed would grow out with the nail. In her professional opinion, I should leave my toe nail, black and blue, to just be.

I went with that.

For days, I let the throbbing go on.

For weeks, I wrapped my toe nail in bandages.

For months, I would only wear closed shoes.

Half a year later, the nail has grown out.

I learned through this experience that information may be available to us 24/7 but this does not replace people who have trained and specialized in their respective fields. If I went through the home remedy, my toenail would’ve been worse off. 

Everyone, if any irritation or pain occurs, please consult a specialist. 

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Feedback:

My evaluator was Sir Ed, VPE of Manila Bay TMC who are always with us in meetings and we are always grateful to have him. He said that I was satisfactory across the board. 

I’ll take that. Because I know that right now, what I’m gunning for is total comfort in public speaking, not necessarily to be the best at it. In time that will be the goal, but for the time being, I’m okay with small victories such as being better than my I was on last speech. 

He said I have a bedroom voice. 

And man, of all the things to hear that was unexpected. 

He said, I may not have tried to check my range of voices so he’s recommending that I do videoke. 

 Then when we were on our way to the wake of one TM’s father, may extrang evaluation portion, he said that my speech had the making of a humorous speech. 

Sir, that’s what you inferred? I thought I had implied it. HAHAHA char lang po.

“You talked about your toenail. No one does that!”

Yes, sir. I was thinking of a backlash, really. Baka di na bumalik yung guests because of being grossed out. Ganito pala sa TM, the president talks of a toenail? 

But hey, it’s an unexpected material. It’s ingenious!

Or I’m ingenue. I’ll take either.  

[zilyonaryo]

Hulyo 25, 2017 Hindi kami nagpalitan ng klase dahil may Values Education ang Bethany Baptist Church at saka shortened pa dahil naman sa naka-schedule na pagpunta ng mga guro sa Japedia para sa libreng consultation, check-up, at laboratories. Nakapag-post ako ng mga akda ng bata habang may VE. Siyempre, nakapagturo at nakapagpa-groupwork ako sa advisory class ko. Past 10, nasa Japedia na kami. Nalaman ko ang nutritional status ko. Nalaman ko ring 123 ang sugar ko. Kailangan kong mag-ingat sa pagkonsumo ng matatatamis na pagkain. Ang maganda, normal ang BP ko at ang daloy ng dugo ko. Natawa lang ako sa sarili ko dahil nang nagpa-ECG ako, pakiramdam ko ay kukuryentehin ako. Nanginginig ang mga tuhod ko. Inulit tuloy ang test. Hindi naman pala masakit. First time, e! Past 2, umalis na ako sa school. Wala kasing dumating na mga bata para sa remedial reading. Ipinadala ko muna kay Ms. Heaven ang P1500 na benta ng book. Binigay niya sa akin ang halos kalahati niyon. Plus ang tubo ko pa sa anim (P40x6). Siguro, nahiya siya sa nangyari. Gayunpaman, wala na akong magagawa. Tinanggap ko. Sayang, e. Past 4, nasa bahay na ako. Antok na antok ako. Ramdam ko talaga ang pagod at puyat. Ramdam ko na naman ang pamamayat ko.

[dramartyakumar]

India Today

India Today

Dr. Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya

BCE (Hons.) ( Jadavpur ), MTech ( Civil ) ( IIT Kharagpur ), PhD ( Civil ) ( IIT Kharagpur ), Cert.MTERM ( AIT Bangkok ), CEng(I), FIE, FACCE(I), FISH, FIWRS, FIPHE, FIAH, FAE, MIGS,MIGS – Kolkata Chapter, MIGS – Chennai Chapter, MISTE, MAHI, MISCA, MIAHS, MISTAM, MNSFMFP, MIIBE, MICI, MIEES, MCITP, MISRS, MISRMTT, MAGGS, MCSI, MMBSI

Chairman and Managing Director,

MultiSpectra Consultants,

23, Biplabi Ambika Chakraborty Sarani, Kolkata – 700029, West Bengal, INDIA.

E-mail: dramartyakumar@gmail.com

“Of all the dangers facing India today, by far the severest is the presence of criminals in Government service. One does not have to look very far. Salil Haldar, Sujay Kumar Mukherjea, Basudeb Bhattacharyya and Koustuv Debnath, all of whom are employed as teachers at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, have criminal records.”

Dr. Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya

Some time back, Dr Sudhir Jain, who is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, requested me to write something about the true state of India at this moment bereft and devoid of the hype that certain misguided and misinformed Indians continually indulge in. After writing to Dr. Jain, wherein I placed India in the context of the broader community of modern nations, I decided to make some unpalatable facts regarding India today available to the public. It is a virtue to be a straight-talker and to clearly say that India’s track record since independence has been dismal, to say the least, and that India has turned out to be a banana republic.

I belong to a Buddhist family having my ancestry in the Chittagong region of East Bengal, now Bangladesh. My family has been ( unwelcome? ) guests of the Government of India since 1947.

To put matters in perspective, the Pala dynasty of Bengal was the last Buddhist Dynasty in India. Neither the Arab invasion of Sind nor the invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni had any effect on Bengal and the Pala dynasty ruled uninterruptedly until 1162 AD when they were overthrown by the Hindu Sena dynasty. Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192 AD. A few years later, one of Muhammad Ghori’s generals swept across the plains of northern India and Lakshmana Sena, the last ruler of the Sena dynasty, fled without giving a fight on hearing the Muslim forces approaching. Bengal came under Muslim rule and remained so until the victory of the British at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 AD. By the time Muslim rule ended in Bengal in 1757 AD, most Bengalis had converted to Islam due to various reasons. Under Muslim rule, an influx of Arabic and Persian words into the Bengali language took place but, crucially, Bengali Muslims and Bengali non-Muslims continued to speak and write in a common Bengali language with an Indo-Aryan script except for a few words which are still different for Bengali Muslims and Bengali non-Muslims. The local dialect of Bengali in East Bengal is different from the local dialect of Bengali in West Bengal, but again this is not based on religious lines. For centuries, Bengali Muslims and Bengali non-Muslims lived side by side and in harmony, everyone practising his own religion. It is to be noted that my ancestors lived for centuries under Muslim rule.

My family has its ancestry in the Chittagong area of East Bengal and has been practising Buddhism since ancient times, probably from even before the birth of Jesus Christ. Since my family was in the extreme South-east of Bengal, near the border with Burma ( now Myanmar ), they have retained their Buddhist religion up to this day. My great great-grandfather Rai Bahadur Kumar Chandra Bhattacharya was a noted Buddhist scholar. He divided his time between Chittagong and Rangpur. He was renowned for his erudition of Pali and Sanskrit and also for his refinement and nobility. He wrote a commentary on the Dhammachakkappavattana Sutta. His speciality was the study of the Pali Tipitaka, the Sutta Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka. He was conservative to the core, reticent, ascetic, austere and puritan ( like everyone in my family including myself he too was a non-smoker and non-drinker ). He once cautioned my great-grandfather saying ‘It is my conviction that Hindus can never be your friends. I have tried all my life and failed. How can you trust people who will not allow you into their temples? There is no place for you in their society.’

My great-grandfather was Diwan Bahadur Banga Chandra Bhattacharya. He was the Diwan of Tripura when Tripura was a princely state and was a close friend of Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore called him ‘Diwan Bahadur ji’ as a mark of respect. My great-grandfather was the inspiration behind Rabindranath Tagore’s writing the atmospheric novel ‘Rajarshi’ in which Rabindranath Tagore condemned the practice of many Hindus of sacrificing animals before wrathful deities. My great-grandfather was fluent in Sanskrit, Pali and Arabic, among other languages A very erudite person, he wrote and published several books on Buddhism. Among his books, ‘Buddhist Civilisation in Asia’ stands out. One of his pioneering thesis was that the Caspian Sea was named after Mahakashyapa, a direct disciple of Lord Buddha. Apart from the similarity in names, he based his thesis on the presence of Kalmyk Buddhists in Kalmykia, a part of Russia to the north-west of the Caspian Sea. After retiring from the Tripura Court, he settled in Chittagong where he built a huge Zamindari house. My great-grandfather wrote ‘The India of today is hard to define. It is not historical India. Being multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-linguistic, unlike France or Germany for instance, it is not a nation state in the Western sense. From ancient times, there have been two terms, ‘Bharatiya’ ( Indian ) and ‘Bharatvasi’ ( people who live in India ), implicitly implying that not all people who live in India are Indians. For almost all of its history, India has been a geographical entity rather than a political one. Perhaps the best definition is that the India of today is a union of a number of Indian states on the continent of Asia.’

My great-grandfather was an orthodox and puritan Buddhist. He was uncompromisingly opposed to idolatry. He believed that since the majority of Bengalis were Muslims, Bengali non-Muslims had their only future in living in harmony with Bengali Muslims. However, he was acutely aware of an abnormality in Hindu psychology. He used to say ‘Hindus are afraid of Muslims and Hindus suffer from an inferiority complex. They constantly remember that Muslims defeated them. They say that one Muslim equals three Hindus.’ He also believed that Hindu icon Swami Vivekananda lacked the intellectual ability to grasp Lord Buddha’s teachings. He dismissed outright Swami Vivekananda’s thesis that Buddhists introduced idolatry and the tantras. He wrote ‘Vivekananda was totally wrong. Hinduism introduced idolatry and the tantras. Mantras can be found even in the Vedas.’ It may be mentioned that my great-grandfather was vehemently opposed to the tantras which he dismissed as a degenerate cult.

The attitude of my great-grandfather towards Hinduism bordered on the hostile. He famously refused to eat from the hands of any Hindu and employed a Muslim cook to cook his meals. He asked a Muslim gentleman to teach Arabic and Urdu to my grandfather and his siblings. As a result, my grandfather also became fluent in Arabic and Urdu.

Unfortunately for our family, he passed away before 1947. Were he alive, he would not have taken a decision to migrate to Kolkata on the spur of the moment. He was not a man to take rash decisions. Gifted with penetrating insight, an acute sense of justice, level-headedness and possessing an optimistic and inclusive outlook about the future of humanity, my great-grandfather could have foreseen that East Pakistan would last for only 24 years.

My grandfather, Jitendra Chandra Bhattacharya, was a freedom fighter who was imprisoned by the British before his Matriculation Examination. He wrote his examination in prison. He was tortured by the British every time he was imprisoned by them. Educated under Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan, he came under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi whom he met several times. He took my father, a young boy at that time, to meet Mahatma Gandhi at Barrackpore in the northern suburbs of Kolkata when Mahatma Gandhi was residing there. My father recalled that when he bent down to pay his respects to Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi put his hand on my father’s head and said in Hindi ‘Beta, sachcha patriot bano’ which means ‘Son, be a true patriot.’

However, my grandfather was deeply dismayed by the acrimony between Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. He agreed with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that India, in its illiterate state, could not function as a true democracy and a period of benevolent dictatorship was needed after freedom from the British to uplift India after which India could transition to a democracy. He proposed to Mahatma Gandhi that there should be a social revolution to accompany the attainment of freedom from the British. My grandfather was greatly influenced by the French Revolution. Mahatma Gandhi told my grandfather that the social revolution would take place after India had obtained its freedom from the British. He said that he had already started the social revolution in a small way by calling untouchable Hindus ‘Harijans’ ( at present Harijans are called ‘Scheduled Castes’ ). As things transpired, after India became free from British colonial rule, the 1950 Constitution was promulgated and the social revolution never took place.

My grandfather founded the House of Labour in East Bengal to encourage youths towards business and enterprise. Being a businessman, my grandfather travelled extensively to all parts of undivided India on business. He stayed at Lahore for two years. He also visited Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Sialkot, Karachi and Hyderabad in Sind. My father recalled that, as a young boy, my grandfather took him to Jammu via Sialkot, the normal route in those times. It could not have escaped my grandfather’s notice that the language divide between Bengali Muslims and non-Bengali Muslims was too great to be bridged as Bengali Muslims considered Bengali to be their mother tongue and non-Bengali Muslims considered Urdu to be their mother tongue. This very fact would lead to the break-up of Pakistan, with an Indian victory, in 1971.

Surprisingly, my grandfather failed to factor the language difference between Bengali Muslims and non-Bengali Muslims in his prediction of the future of the Indian sub-continent. He failed to realise that any alliance between Bengali Muslims and non-Bengali Muslims was bound to be temporary in nature and that a split was inevitable sooner or later. For a man to travel all over India and not to develop an incisive judgement of the situation was truly extraordinary. Acting impulsively, in 1947 he took a decision to abandon East Bengal and come to Kolkata leaving all his property in East Bengal behind. He came to Kolkata as a refugee and as a pauper. This caused my family great hardship at the time. Surely, the ephemeral nature of East Pakistan should have been obvious to any discerning observer.

Soon after defecting to Kolkata in 1947, my grandfather realised that he had been chasing a mirage. Strongly disillusioned, he severed all ties with politics and with the Indian National Congress. Dissatisfied with the way independent India was going, he used to repeatedly say ‘I committed a historic blunder by defecting from East Bengal. This is not the independence I fought for.’ My grandfather was deeply disillusioned with Nehru and his policies and with India’s deteriorating relations with China. He said ‘India must not forget that Chinese monks Faxian, Xuanxang and Yijing are considered to be great Acharyas by us. India must cultivate good relations with China. Otherwise, it will be defeated in war.’ In 1962, India was trounced in a war by China who won a decisive victory.

In 1953, my grandfather could garner enough money to build a house in south Kolkata but his money was exhausted before he could finish the building. It was left to me to finish the construction of our home, my father and paternal uncles having added nothing to what my grandfather had done. Realising and recognising that Independence was a pyrrhic victory for him, he developed an ailment of the heart. He passed away in 1959 deeply regretting his hasty decision to migrate to Kolkata. East Pakistan would last for just 12 more years after his death giving birth to Bangladesh.

In hindsight, it is abundantly clear that it was not a correct decision for my grandfather to migrate to Kolkata. He not only discarded the material inheritance of his property in Chittagong but also the intellectual inheritance of the legacy of my great-grandfather.

My father, Arun Chandra Bhattacharya, now deceased, had much the same kind of career as I am having. Possessing several degrees, professional memberships, and a connoisseur of fine arts and literature, he travelled extensively throughout the world. Amongst his several achievements, the development of a management institute stands out. A Rotarian till his demise, he promoted fine arts by making several donations to deserving organisations. Though my father fully shared my grandfather’s views as regards the state of India, it was too late for him to reverse my grandfather’s mistake.

My father was in Times Square in New York when news broke out that Lee Harvey Oswald had assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. He recalls the dazed appearance on the faces of New Yorkers on receiving the news. ‘A successful democracy needs a literate society – illiterate people cannot make informed and considered choices while voting’ said my father later. ‘Eradicating illiteracy should be India’s prime concern. Side by side, corruption, bribery, criminality and malpractices, particularly in government offices, should be rooted out. Why should one have to pay bribes to multiple people in order to get a new electricity connection for his newly-constructed house? There is enough for man’s needs but not enough for man’s greed. What matters is not what one has but what one is.’ Though my father was a staunch Buddhist, he had to pay extortion money during Hindu festivals to slum-dwellers who still live near our house. Though my house is a posh area of south Kolkata, there is a big slum close to it. It is a sad commentary on the state of affairs that Kolkata is littered with similar slums everywhere. The slum-dwellers are mostly illiterate and unemployed and are, naturally, full of vices. The government has failed to uplift these people and eradicate the slums even though decades have passed since independence.

Uncle Aziz was a very close friend of my father. He and my father met in the United States. He had his ancestry in Comilla. He settled in Dhaka where he built a house in the Bonani area. He visited our home in Kolkata several times. He used to visit India often for professional purposes and never failed to drop in on us. I also visited Dhaka to present a paper at an International Conference and visited his home. On that occasion, I travelled throughout the length and breadth of Dhaka and saw everything that Dhaka has to offer. The friendship between my father and Uncle Aziz percolated to our extended families. My grandmother, Premlata Bhattacharya, looked upon Uncle Aziz as her own son. My paternal uncles and their families also became close friends of Uncle Aziz and his family and extended family, particularly one of Uncle Aziz’s brothers, who was a doctor of international repute. Uncle Aziz’s brother and his family also visited our house in Kolkata.

On one particular occasion, during dinner at our home, Uncle Aziz told my father and my paternal uncles ‘Why did your father come to Kolkata in 1947? Our country is poorer because of your leaving it. Many of us in Bangladesh feel this way.’

My father took great care to see that I had exposure to all religions. When I was five years old, he got me admitted to Don Bosco School in Kolkata run by Roman Catholic missionaries where I got to study the Bible. During the twelve years that I studied in that school, certain aspects of Christianity like its monotheism and its opposition to idolatry left a deep, vivid, lasting and permanent impression on my mind. When I was nine years of age, my father took me to Murshidabad, an event that is engraved in my mind. At Murshidabad, he took me to a mosque built hundreds of years ago. He showed me all the details; the minarets, the calligraphy and so on. It was a memorable visit for me.

At Don Bosco School and during my higher education, I was following in the footsteps of my ancestors, picking up an excellent education and all the other things needed to be a complete man.

Later on, in my professional career, in the midst of my travels in various countries of the world spanning almost the entire globe, I have seen the unity of man. Memories stand out, sometimes instilling a sense of déjà vu in me; the view of the Pacific in Singapore and of the mountains and moraines from the top of Mount Säntis in Switzerland, the flight over Iran slicing between Tehran to the north and Qom to the south and over Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Bangkok’s wats, Ahsan Manzil in Dhaka, Dubai, Jordan’s northwest, sunset at Hardwar, Bremen and Berlin in Germany, Dilli Haat in Delhi and the Marina Beach in Chennai.

It is an inconvenient truth that independent India has let down its own freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi and my grandfather. Most people in India now seem to have a perverted view of being avant-garde. Sacrificing the values and traditions held dear by our ancestors, our glorious inheritance is thrown to the winds. Parvenus cannot be expected to appreciate the truism of Ich Dien. Ersatz culture proliferates with the concept of life avec plaisir. The scramble for lebensraum degenerates people to fall prey to rampant greed. Having achieved its independence way back in 1947, India has failed to become a developed country. India is still a developing country and an emerging market. India is rampant with idolatry, corruption, bribery, criminality and malpractices. In India, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The government has failed to give even the basic necessities to all Indians. If the dictum, ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ is to be held as valid, my mother, Sheila Bhattacharya, who is a retired Head of the Department of English of a college affiliated to the University of Calcutta, was denied justice as she received her retirement dues four years after she had retired. Of the many countries that I have visited in the world, India is the only country I know of where a government employee has been threatened with death by a colleague ( who is also a government employee ) and has been forced to resign and the government has not done anything whatsoever for the victim. Steeped in bribery, the immediate bosses of the victim ( all of whom are government employees ) have supported and are continuing to support the criminal who happens to have considerable money-power. The victim is yet to receive a single paisa of even his own money kept in the custody of the government during his years in government service. This very recent incident presents a shameful picture of India in front of the civilised world.

I have founded the Bhattacharya Buddhist Foundation for uplifting street-children and slum-children of Kolkata.

The Government of India has to do the following cleaning-up on a war-footing. The Government of India has to

1. Root out government servants having a criminal record. To start with, the government should dismiss and try Salil Haldar, Sujay Kumar Mukherjea, Basudeb Bhattacharyya and Koustuv Debnath, all of whom are employed as teachers at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, and all of whom have criminal records.

2. Root out bribery and corruption in government offices. Only a very small fraction of government servants are honest.

3. Demolish the conception, prevalent among most Indians, that government service implies the right to take bribes. While punishing the guilty, the government should laud the very small minority of government servants who are honest.

4. Make an earnest effort to uplift the suffering villagers of India.

5. Make sincere efforts to remove slums and ghettos in Indian cities and towns.

6. Build a government based on trust, not suspicion. At least four identity documents are prevalent in India today – Passport, Aadhaar Card, PAN Card and Voter’s Identity Card. Since, excepting a Passport, an Indian does not really need the rest, the government should abolish the unnecessary documents. Different sets of government servants are currently issuing different identity documents and taking bribes for issuing the same.

7. Recognise that widespread rigging takes place in Indian elections and make sincere efforts to root-out the same. In view of the widespread rigging prevalent now with local toughs ruling polling booths, Indian election results are devoid of any relation to the will of the people.

8. Ensure that a son inherits his father’s property. This usually does not happen now unless the son pays hefty bribes to government servants. The government must do some soul-searching and feel ashamed that a son currently finds great difficulty in inheriting his father’s shares and electricity connection – just to cite two examples.

9. Eradicate the current habit of government servants taking bribes to, for example, sanction a building plan, mutate a landed property and provide an electricity connection.

10. Simplify the procedure for getting Indian Passports. The government servants at the Regional Passport Offices must be courteous and helpful and not harass citizens as is the case today.

11. Ensure that retirement benefits are released immediately after retirement and not after four or five years. Many people get their retirement benefits between four and six years after retirement. My mother received her retirement benefits four years after her retirement. The government must punish government servants who withhold retirement benefits of retired citizens.

12. Eliminate feudalism. Corrupt government servants have taken the place of erstwhile zamindars in rural areas.

13. Eliminate the current ‘trickle-down’ economy. The government must ensure that the lower strata of Indian society is also a beneficiary of economic progress and is not left behind.

14. Remove the criminal-government servant-politician nexus. This is extremely important if India is to progress.

15. Remove the difference between ‘the rulers’ and ‘the ruled’. The government must ensure that democracy does not remain a sham and that government is truly ‘of the people, for the people and by the people’.

16. Place a greater value on human life. The government must not think that, simply because India is a populous country, a few lives lost in an accident, for example, a bridge collapse – such as the one that happened in Howrah some time back – does not matter. The government must acknowledge that every single human life is valuable.

17. Eliminate tokenism.

18. Eliminate window-dressing before a politician visits an area. The government must be sincere in its development efforts and ensure that not a single development project announced turns out to be an eyewash designed to fool the population.

19. Ensure internet access and continuous power supply in rural areas. Internet access outside of the metropolises is pitiful and power outages are common. Yesterday evening, there was a power outage at my office in Kolkata.

20. Be sensitive to the suffering of the people. The length and breadth of Kolkata is flooded during the monsoon season and no regime has done anything about it.

21. Understand that slogans like ‘Bekari hatao’ and ‘Roti, kapra aur makaan’ are useless if they remain mere slogans without any attempt to implement them. The government must ensure that the fundamental needs of the people are fulfilled.

from India Today

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