i Am Not Poor_i Am Rich

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Sir, i am not poor student. i am rich. Please dont humiliate me. Pleasedont insult me. Please dont spoil my good habits and make me weak.

School took out notice From this year onwards, school will be paying fees of that student who

is poor. All teachers are requested to select an appropriate & correct student so that, student

gets the benefit.

Now it was difficult task to identify the poor student from the school. These small boys ware

neat & clean school dress code. May be they are having only 1 Khaki pant & white shirt. But

they do wash everyday. They keep it so well that it looks like they have iron the school dress

everyday.

Now how to identify poor student? The biggest tension was how to ask school boys, who is the

poorest student amongst them?

Very difficult task in hand. 3/4 days just left in thinking on this subject. Identifying poor in adult

gang is far easy. But finding it in school? God please help & rescue me, i said to myself.

Finally, i decided to talk to all those students who used to come in school in their parents car.

One day in schools big break, i visited the class and i found few boys (who used come in cars)

were eating apples. i approached them and requested Hey dear students? i need a small

help? Can You do that for me? i was about to say Who is the poorest student? Before i could

complete my sentence, those boys said Sir, in our class, Mayur Jadhav is one of the poor

students. Those boys solved my problem within no time.

But i asked them, on what basis?

Sir, he always ware torn shirt. He has stitched that shirt but still he wares that shirt only. He

doesnt have pair of new additional shirts. Sir, look at his Khaki pant? His pant got 2 big holes &

these holes are also stitched. Sir, he doesnt have Chappals too. He comes with bare foot.

Sir, in big breaks, we eat homely made food from Tiffin/fruits. He brings Bhakari (local

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Maharashtrian healthy food) & Bhaji (Vegetables) and that too he brings in plastic bag. By the

way that Bhakari is also not fresh cooked, he eats Bhakari which is cooked 1 day earlier.

Many times, he even eats Bhakari with small piece of jiggery. Sir, we confirm to You, he is the

poorest student from our school. And then they were talking too many things about him but i

was not in mood to listen & then understand.

i was not able to believe that Mayur is so poor? Mayur was very smart. His hand writing was

one of the best, neat & clean across the school. His writing style & approach was confirming

that he had very open, transparent heart & mind. Once i also shown his note book to my wife

and i told her that look at the writing of that boy who is in 7th

standard. In fact, i always had a

dream of writing like Mayur. While writing, he used to always leave space on the left hand side

while starting the paragraph. He used to always leave inch space while writing first line of the

paragraph. He used to follow all the rules of professional writing. Over & above, his

enthusiasm of listening to me and doing everything in the first instance was amazing.

i used to always wonder & used to give thanks to his parents (in my mind) for giving birth to a

wonderful mankind.

Now such a talented, smart, neat, clean & decent boy is poor in our school & that too in my

class?

i couldnt digest this news. i also felt bad that student could understand this so quickly and as a

teacher, i could not notice it at all. i felt very bad about my thinking & my observation. First time

i felt that i failed as a good teacher.

Last year, Mayur did not come with us for picnic. He could not afford Rs. 25/- contribution for

the picnic. His name was not there in the list.

i completely forgot about him. i even did not ask him why he is not joining us for the picnic.

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He missed the visit to National Park. He missed one of the great experiences.

At that moment, i blamed myself. i should have asked him or at least i should have met his

parents. i should have helped him from my own pocket.

i realised that i made a blunder. i am not good guy, etc. i was talking to myself & blaming

myself. As a teacher, i said to myself that i am useless teacher.

Really, Mayur is the right candidate. He must get all the help from school. Students also

recommended him. There was no need to go home & check whether Mayur is really poor or

not?

i made up my mind and i informed Principal sir that Mayur Jadhav is poor student. He is from 7th

Standard, Class A and his role number is 42. i requested Principal Sir that he should get all the

financial help from our school. i also empowered Principal Sir about what i heard from students

& how Mayur did not come for picnic, why & so on.

Our Principal Sir looked at me and asked me once again Sir, are You sure? Remember, it is

not a very small amount that we will be investing on Mayur. Apart from school fees, school will

also give him all other things like school dress, shoes, books, notebooks, school bag, etc.

across the academic year.

With lot of confidence, i told Principal Sir Sir You just dont worry about it. He is the right

candidate. i left the Principals office with lot of satisfaction in my mind.

i told myself You did a good job.

Across the day, i was thinking about Mayur & dreaming about Mayur.

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Next day early in the morning when i arrived in school? Principal Sir wrote on notice board

informing everyone that Mayur Jadhav is one of the most neat, clean, decent, good in studies,

good in sport, good in other activities, will get financial help from the school across the year. He

is the most desired & suited student.

School started as usual. i was sitting in teachers cubic. Suddenly i saw Mayur. His face was

very odd. His body language was not pleasant.

He said Sir, please wipe out my name from the notice board immediately. Sir, please dont be

upset & angry on me.

i said What are You saying Mayur? Are You gone crazy?

He said Sir, if i am making any mistake? You can punish me. But please, i beg You. Please

wipe out my name from the notice board. He also had tears in his eyes.

i was not able to understand him at all. i was keen to congratulate him and but right now i was

taking different experience & watching something unheard.

He said Sir why school is helping me? Because i am poor? No sir, i am not poor. i am rich.

While he was saying this to me, i could see very clearly his shirt collar had too many stitches. i

could that he was bare foot and he was not warring Chhapal and/or School Shoes. In my

teaching experience of 14 years, i was so embraced with this experience.

i said But Mayur

Mayur cut my sentence in half and said Sir trust me. i am not poor. i am rich. May be i am the

richest amongst all students. He asked me Who took the decision & concluded that i am

poor? i also know i am making big mistake by saying this. But sir, if i see my name like this on

schools notice board? i will become sick forever. He came nearer to me and he fall on my feet.

i said Fine Mayur. Dont worry about it. Fine if You are not keen to take any financial help from

the school? No issue at all. i will request Principal Sir to wipe out Your name from the notice

board. But before that just tell me, how You are rich? He said Sir look at all my homework

notebooks? Are they incomplete? No, they are complete. He said Sir i am using second hand

books. Thats fine with me. But sir, matter in the book remains whether i use brand new books

and/or second hand used books? Am I right? Sir is it not important what i write in my

notebooks & papers than how i write it? Whether i use brand new books or second hand books.

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How does it matter? Over & above, Sir look at all the marks in all the tests. From 5th

standard till

today, i am always achieving highest rank in first three numbers. In addition, i am also winning

awards + rewards in sports, debate competition, writing competition, essay writing, letter

writing, etc.

Now You tell me Sir. How i am poor?

i could see in his eyes great dreams. i could also see tears just vanished while he was talking. i

could see great confidence along with humbleness in his body language & words.

i said Mayur i understand You & Your emotions. But You will get help only with these funds.

Mayur said Sir this is not help. This help will kill my ability & passion to work hard. The moment

this funding will be available to me? i will not be able to go with my father to do painting job that

my father does.

i said What?

Mayur said Sir my father is a small time painter. He paint houses whenever contractor calls

him? He get the job & then only he earns. My father also asks me to accompany him most of

the times. When i work him? Contractor also gives me few rupees. i save them. Sir You can

check my savings account that i have opened in our school. You can cross check my

passbook. i can pay entire fees for this year as well as for next year. i have sufficient savings. i

suppose my schoolmates must have given You wrong information about me. May be because

of that, school must have selected me as poor student. Mayur said Not only me Sir. But all our

family members are rich. Each & every member in our house, they work & they earn. Working

hard is nothing but putting best efforts. Am i right? We all put efforts. Whenever my father does

not gets any painting task? He works as a collie on railway station. My mother cleans vessels in

6 houses. My elder sister takes training classes. Sir, we dont have time to think how to spend

24 hours available with us. We dont have TV & Radio. i also read books available in our school

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library. As You told me after reading the book, i write to the writers of that book & i thank

him/her. Sir You please visit my home. By the way Sir i do have a letter signed by Great

Marathi writer P L Deshpande.

Mayur said Now You tell me Sir. Am i poor? By the way, I also learned Harmonium from the

lady who is staying next to our home. She visits the temple in the night for Bhajan & Kirtan

(Another very popular & powerful folk from Maharashtra). Sometimes i also go with her & play

harmonium. She sings perfectly. Her orator skills are wonderful. Her command on Marathi &

Sanskrit is superb. There is so much of learning.

i asked Mayur Do You also visit physical exercise room in our school?

Mayur said Sir where is the time available. i do 24 Surya Namaskar in home as soon as i get

up early in the morning at 5 AM. In addition to this, i also wash bathroom everyday. Toilet

everyday. i wash my cloths (and every family member) everyday evening. i wash my eating

plate. i also bring 5 buckets of water early in the morning from street tap since we dont have

corporation water tap in our house. i asked many times to my father about this. But he says,

since corporation people wants bribe for giving tap connection? He says we will not pay them

bride for our basic needs and i fully agree with his thinking. Now by doing all these activities, i

get many exercises automatically.

i said Mayur. i am very proud, You are my student. You are not poor. Your are the richest

student in our school and not only in class.

We made a mistake by selecting You as poor student. You do not fit in to that category at all.

But just think about this. We will request our principal to convert this funding in to scholarship

and we can give You this funding as all rounder student.

Mayur said Sir lets wait for few more years.

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i have already finished reading about Indian freedom war.

i also read Veer Savarkkars biography, Dr. Ambedkars biography, Lokmanya Tilaks

biography, Sardar Patels biography, Netaji Boses biography, Mangal Pandes war against

Britishers, Helen Kellers biography, Lincolns biography, biography of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule,

biography of Dr. Anandi Gopal, biography of Maharshi Karve, biography of Vinoba Bhave, L B

Shastris biography, Gopal Ganesh Agarkars biography, biography of Guru Rabindranath

Tagore, biography of Swami Vivekanand, biography Ramkrishna Paramhans, biography of Dr.

Sarojini Naidu, biography of Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, complete history of Shivaji Raje Bhosale,

Complete history of Thorale Bajirao Peshwe, Complete history of Karna, Ramayan,

Mahabharat, etc.

i also read books written by P. L. Deshpande, Y. G. Joshi, N. S. Phadke, Y. D. Phadke, Ranjit

Desai, Babasaheb Purandare, Vishram Bedekar, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Annasaheb Kirloskar,

B. R. Bhagwat, G. N. Dandekar, Durga Bhagwat, Hari Narayan Apte, Narayan Hari Apte,

Prahlad Keshav Atre, Shantabai Shelke, Bahinabai, Baba Kadam, Vasant Vaman Bapat,

Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave, Purushottam Darvekar, Kriushnashastri Chiplunkar,

Vishnushastri Kriushnashastri Chiplunkar, Dilip Purushottam Chitre, Jayawant Dalvi, Narayan

Dharap, Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere, Narayan Ganesh Gore, Chintaman Vinayak Joshi,

Laxmanshastri Vinayak Joshi, Mahadevshastri Joshi, Anant Kane, Shirish Kanekar, Vasant

Kanetkar, V V Shirwadkar, Vinda Karandikar, Iravati Karve, Shripad Krushna Kolhatkar, G D

Madgulkar, Venkatesh Madgulkar, G T Madkholkar, Setu Madhavrao Pagadi, Moropant Ramaji

Paradkar, Moropant Pingale, Y M Pathan, Shankar Damodar and Shripad Narayan Pendse,

Datto Vaman Potdar, V K Rajwade, Indira Sant, Shivaji Savant, Vijay Tendulkar, Golvalkar

Guruji, Balasheb Devras, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hegdewar & many more writers.

i am learning what is struggle is all about, what are hard efforts, what is freedom, need of

freedom, why freedom is needed by all of us, importance of freedom, what has gone in 150

years of freedom war & so on.

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At this age, i need more inspiration. I need more guidance from You & all other teachers. i need

to read a lot. i need read about other countries.

Please also criticize me time & again + whenever i make mistakes so that i can quickly learn &

change.

Ultimate goal is to walk on free, proud & respectful road and live life like a good human

being.

I wanted to do something for my city, my state & my India where in we all live.

i wanted to plant good number of trees all across city.

i wanted to have water tap in my house and that too without paying bribe to corporation

employee & local corporator.

i wanted to get in to teaching profession and make my city 100% literate.

But please Sir. Dont give me money right now. This is the age when i am supposed to read,

learn & study? If You or school gives me money? i may generate a feeling in my mind that all

this what i am doing right now is for earning money.

Money will come sir.

Knowledge will bring money.

Please sir, dont give me money and make me handicap.

Let me struggle more & put the best of efforts.

This is the only thing that i can do without money in hand. Putting efforts + struggle is the only

thing that is under my control.

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As a teacher, i realised because of vast reading & work that Mayur was doing in home & in

school? He became very knowledgeable, mature & humble person.

i also got tears in my eyes. i was watching one of the finest + richest student who was fighting,

struggling & putting the best of efforts on his body, brain & mind. He was becoming a diamond.

He was not hesitating to put the efforts.

Mayur, You are rich student from our school. One of the richest student that i ever met in my

teaching career.

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Namaste,

i am sure above story must have shaken You.

When i read this story for the first time? Within no time i went back to my own past and

recollected all those golden days when i used to sell Daily News Papers on Laxmi Road (in

Pune city), used to drop students for classes early in the morning, used to work in Hotel

Darshan as waiter in the evening from 6 PM till 1 AM, used to remove small stones from wheat

& rice @ 1.50 paise per kg, use to sell sainted soaps, perfumes & agarbatti in Deepawali to

earn money for crackers, used to cook {with helping hand from my mother & sister} & sell Idli

Chatani, Bread Pattice, Puran Poli, , Samosa & Sabudana Wada on Laxmi Road, Pune just to

make sure that there is no stoppage of education + survival of our family.

Road side sales person to hotel waiter to vice president of India based multinational company

is the journey i traveled in 26 years dot.

Now can we create similar (artificial) situation in Year 2010 for young generation and help them

to become strong pillar of the society where in we all live & nation at large than giving them

money in their hands and making them weak?

This is the quest for today from my end to all the parents, to all the newly married couples & to

all young ones who are studying in schools/colleges/universities and/or who just finished their

education & now searching for jobs and/or wants to start their own business.

Above story was shared by Shri. Dinesh Bharadwaj via e-mail. Original script was in Marathi.

Since i felt that there is a great message within the story line, i did free English translation so

that all those who can not read, write, speak & think in Marathi? Can read it in English and

enjoy the story & message between the lines. Shri. Bharadwaj offers his paid services to

Thermax Limited.

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Thermax was my dear customer from Year 2004 till Year 2009.

It was Thermax only gave me the first opportunity in engineering & design business. Because

of Thermax, i got visibility, brand & respect in manufacturing sector when i had no knowledge of

Maharashtra + manufacturing sector, when i had no identity in Maharashtra; i had no

knowledge of manufacturing, i had no knowledge of CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM, PLM & KBE so on.

Thermax trusted me first (because of various processes, discipline, passion, attitude, home

work ability, dedication, working like blinker Ghoda - Horse with blinkers is more productive +

efficient than horse without blinkers), etc. that i learned from Dr. M N Cooper - CMD of Modular

InfoTech with whom i was associated for 14 years in different period & in various capacities. Dr.

Cooper did Ph.D. in Computers. He used to work as Senior Scientists in TIFR, Mumbai. He was

close associates of Late J R D Tata.) and then followed by

Forbes Marshall group of companies,

Endurance group,

Varroc group,

Bagla group via Aurangabad Electricals,

True Thread,

Tata Motors,

Bajaj Auto,

Premier Ltd.,

Walchand Industries,

Elephant Design,

Praj,

Eagle Burgmann,

TEMA India,

Electromag.

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Trust level of customers in us + in our services is increasing month after month & with that, list

of customers is also increasing month after month.

What else i could have asked from destiny, this country India & fellow citizens?

Sincerely i remain,

Phadke

Date: 3rd June 2010

Day: Thursday

Time: 2240 Hrs. as per IST.

If You want to know more about me & what i/we do professionally? Please do visit www.alcyon.co.in.

We offer very high quality engineering services in the area of FEA, CFD & CAE to manufacturing

companies to reduce the weight of the product/project, to reduce risk factor & to reduce CAD data + cost.

Over & above, we develop IP (Intellectual Property) via KBE route. KBE means knowledge based

engineering. Basic mission of KBE is to reduce quotation time while quoting customers for products/project

& also to reduce time while releasing shop floor drawings for production. Both these automation falls under

the category of "Theory of Constraint"

If You want to know more about "Phadke"? Please type "Subodhkumar Phadke" in Google search engine

and/or please click http://in.linkedin.com/in/phadke.

If You wish to get connected with me on LinkedIn professional network? Please use [email protected]

e-mail ID and You can click option as "Friend" and/or You can send me message via LinkedIn and inform

me Your e-mail ID. Post to that i will send invitation to You.

Please note, i have finished with free invitation available from LinkedIn.

By the way LinkedIn is very powerful connection tool. Please use it for tremendous growth.

Mobile: 94220.15600 In case & if You are unable to get connected with me for what so ever reason(s),

please send me SMS informing Your name, mobile number, land line number & extension number. Post to

that i will call You.

i believe, i trust & i follow in my home "People who wipe the floors & clean toilets everyday back home,

each one of them know exact price of soil & soul"

Disclaimer

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Above e-mail is received by You from Phadke Subodhkumar Narayan (My full name is too long but there is nothing

that i can do. But having said this, i do love my surname. i prefer to be called as & written as "Phadke") residing in

city of Pune (State: Maharashtra Country: Bharat). This email is not spam. i follow the 'US Unsolicited Electronic

Mail Act of 2000', which states that an e-mail cannot be considered SPAM if it contains contact/removal

information, which this e-mail does. It is a one-to-one correspondence between "Phadke Subodhkumar Narayan"

and his huge friend + eFriend circle spread across India and few ones out of India.

My parents (Mr.) Shri. Phadke Narayan Balkrishna and (Mrs.) Sou. Phadke Mangala Narayan {and because of

whom i have an identity + face to live my personal life within home & within society} always insisted on me to give

everything back to the society (before die) that i received in my personal/professional life namely knowledge,

unique discipline/process, unique culture/cultural habits, happy moments, good news (i heard, i read, i saw and i

experienced), learning from history, etc.

i am sure both of them got this rich attitude, process, discipline, habit & heritage from their respective

parents/grand parents or so. In my personal capacity + professional capacity i completely trust, believe & endorse

this attitude, practice, process + discipline since it has given me tremendous knowledge, knowledge about various

disciplines followed all across India, good habits, various good processes, etc. in last many years and that is how i

dare to share above-mentioned e-mail and contents written in it with You.

In first place; let me inform You that You may agree with e-mail subject & contents written in e-mail. Let

me repeat, You may agree & You may like it too.

In case and if You do not agree + if You do not wish to receive e-mails the way You have received it today

for what so ever reason(s)? Just reply back to this e-mail confirming "Remove e-mail ID from distribution

list" and in future You won't get any e-mails from me. Trust me and i mean it.

In case and if You are already aware of the "Subject of e-mail" and "Contents written within e-mail ";

please delete the e-mail.

In case and if You like the "Subject of e-mail" and "Contents of e-mail", You can & You may share it with

your parents, friends, relatives, colleagues and empower all of them with this knowledge.

Give knowledge (free of cost) to others using one of the cheapest tools like e-mail. While giving it, keep zero

expectations from recipients. That means You don't expect any reply and/or appreciation for the information or the

knowledge that You transform from your PC to another PC via e-mail. It's a wonderful experience empowering

everyone around us keeping zero expectations.

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By the way You must have also experienced (in last 25 years or more or so) everyone across the living world

"want something or other from others" and no one is really interested in "giving". i thought i will take self initiative

(without being told + without being asked) and take the seat of "giving". i have been taking this experience of

"giving" for many years and it's a great pleasure. Trust me and i mean it.

How about You empowering everyone within Your own network and empowering all of them with knowledge of

world? Just food for thought and no compulsion at all.

By the way, i quote, i trust & i firmly believe in " Think well. Talk good. Read well. Eat well. Watch well. Smell good

and above all, be with good people. When we do everything good? It gives us an immense pleasure while living

our day to day life and more over it also helps us to become a good human. It allows each one of us to become

optimistic person. Being optimistic all the time is the most important thing than anything else.

Having said above, please do avoid (meeting and/or being with) all those people who do not think well, who do not

talk good, who do not read well, who do not watch well & above all, all those people who keeps finding faults/errors

in others than themselves, who keeps complaining across the day. In turn all these people (to whom i call as

pessimistic people) forces You/me/others to become pessimistic and that's the great loss of family in which we all

live, in the office where in we all work, in the society where in we all roam & nation at large.

Please also stop watching TV (especially all those news items + breaking news + flash news, etc. & all those

serials which emotionally blackmail all of us & create fear & doubt in our mind), Daily News Papers (They don't

inform us what's good things happening in our country & across the country), etc. Please also remember all types

of media have no interest in our personal development, economical development & social development. They are

here just to make money from all of us. They are only keen in TRP rating and not in our development. They are

here to create fear in our mind so that we don't go out of 4 walls. In turn they force us to live our life within 4 walls

and in turn they + others (fear product manufacturing companies) can do anything that they want. Let's not live

under fools paradise. In case & if You want to learn more, please do watch documentary films like "Outfoxed" +

"Zeitgeist" on "You Tube" and confirm Yourself and then act/then take decision.

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