Taaare Zameen Par

TZP brought so many memories back.It brought back the ache which I felt each time my brother was ridiculed.Though we never gave it a scientific name ,my brother struggled with studies ,spellings and structure of sentences.He tried his best and as a result became increasingly frustrated and at a point just gave up.We too tried but now watch helplessely as he struggles to make something out of himself.He is a gem of person,good physique ,tall and dark but immature.I have seen him helping many but not appreciated by any,Sometimes to hide the pain I too have joined the bandwagon and ridiculed him.Aamir Khan depicted this hapless person I was but in the periphary doing nothing concrete but just scanning endlessly at the horizon for that inspring figure who could get through him but none came.Each Year it was the same bunch of desperate housewives with sensitivity of a cactus.

Many have thrown words of wisdom in the ring about education in India.It has been pointed out to me that Indian education does not believe in application of knowledge but just knowing the knowledge.More or less I agree and I shift blame towards the an area which is not seen as a highly probable cause.Indian education by and large is propelled by female teachers who would not have taken teaching as a career,had it not been the second best thing to do after failing in whatever they were striving for or those who were not ambitious enough and found this to be something which can be easily make money with perks of working lady in family life.It became a tool in hand of those dwarfed mindset which said "I belong to this rich family but now I am married into this poor family and what to do I have to work".They took their domesticated mindset into an arena which should have been razor sharp technology.In Indian context its really hard to rise above the coutless saas-bahu saga,the rich-poor divide and basically an insecure womanhood. Their unplesant personality fails to be sensitive towards the need of child but ultimately they get this limitless power to make them or break them.I dont know how a frustrated snobbish individual gets to safekeep the future of our country.

In my entire school life I have looked in awe at only two gurus.One my father,the amazement which I felt when any type of problems would become an easy exercise when he explained.He taught me to value knowldege above money.And the other, a history teacher, Sagarika Ghosh.If teachers can be personified I would choose her,simple mild and yet firm.Her melodious voice imprinted any history lesson in mind forever without help from books.A red bindi,a bengali kada and a starched Dhaka sari had that power to captivate me into respecting her.She told us she always knew she wanted to be a teacher.A humble aim but she worked hard towards it and it showed in her calm satiated aura.I have always wanted to scream out loud "Dont make teaching into just another profession,this line of work should be restricted to only those who love children and understand them.Not every Tom Dick and Harry should be allowed to do it".This is what I felt when I was in school and this is what I feel TZP is trying to reinforce. We need a change badly, from medicore to shining,in this field.