Village Didsari - The story continues further...
On his visit to Didsari Harshit realized that its time to make choices and either walk away or stand for the people in pain and he chose the latter. Realizing the limited means available to him in helping people he returned back to Dehradun and started work on a presentation to showcase the current situation of villagers. While he worked on his presentation and gather support for the village he got some good news from Didsari - The people of Didsari, Lonthro and Bayana manged to build a temporary bridge on their own. This effort relieved them from great inconvenience and discomfort though the relief was temporary. The bridge was one of the many things that needed attention in this area.
Harshit visited Didsari again in the middle of Jan 2014 and found that though the villagers now had a temporary bridge but it was nowhere safe.
The bridge could collapse anytime and bring more casualties but right now this was all that the villagers had. Also apart from this bridge the villagers still did not had proper road or medical facility available nearby. It was a sorry state of affairs to see that the villages like Didsari, Lonthro and Bayana did not had a primary health care centre despite of whatever progress Uttarakhand government mentioned in news every now and then. With even the most basic necessities missing in this village, the only thing that Harshit didn't found missing was the determination, hope and a pure will of these villagers to make a difference.
For all the time that he spent in this village the question that kept on coming back to Harshit's mind was - "How can the so called officials appointed by the people of state to take care of their well being be so negligent about them?". India is a land where we all believe in the law of Karma but the question was - "Who's Karma is it that these people were in such a condition and what did they do to deserve such negligence?". After having a close encounter of their sufferings and sorrow all that Harshit strive to find was - "What is my Karma?. Is it a Karma to just be indifferent to the sufferings that lie right in front of your eyes, isn't it a Karma to do something and solve this and bring these people out of their sufferings and pain?". Harshit determined himself and chose the latter and with great satisfaction.
On his short stay he spent most of his time conducting life skills sessions in a school in Gangori and then came back to Dehradun after taking few more interviews of locals and snapshots from that place. After returning back he made another video to confirm the change in village's conditions from Sep 2013 till Jan 15, 2013 and surprisingly the difference was... nothing.
It feels really sad to see that on one hand we all talk about progress and future while on the other hand our fellow citizens fight day and night just to cater their basic needs. How do we plan to progress when we have lost the very basics of humanity and seeing our fellow brothers and sisters suffer still cannot outrage us to do something good for them. We all must remember that we are no different than animals if we loose what we call as being human. We all have a heart that feels love but when did it turned into stone? In the race of earning money and lively comforts it seems we all forgot what it is to be human anymore and if that's so then we should feel sorry for ourselves.
Uttarakhand fought a battle of its Independence in past and finally became an independent state in the year 2010 to groom itself, bring equal opportunity and prosperity to its people but does all this sound anything like that?
A thought for all of us to think upon...
To be continued...
Team Tvam India
On his visit to Didsari Harshit realized that its time to make choices and either walk away or stand for the people in pain and he chose the latter. Realizing the limited means available to him in helping people he returned back to Dehradun and started work on a presentation to showcase the current situation of villagers. While he worked on his presentation and gather support for the village he got some good news from Didsari - The people of Didsari, Lonthro and Bayana manged to build a temporary bridge on their own. This effort relieved them from great inconvenience and discomfort though the relief was temporary. The bridge was one of the many things that needed attention in this area.
Harshit visited Didsari again in the middle of Jan 2014 and found that though the villagers now had a temporary bridge but it was nowhere safe.
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| Temporary Bridge created by Villagers |
For all the time that he spent in this village the question that kept on coming back to Harshit's mind was - "How can the so called officials appointed by the people of state to take care of their well being be so negligent about them?". India is a land where we all believe in the law of Karma but the question was - "Who's Karma is it that these people were in such a condition and what did they do to deserve such negligence?". After having a close encounter of their sufferings and sorrow all that Harshit strive to find was - "What is my Karma?. Is it a Karma to just be indifferent to the sufferings that lie right in front of your eyes, isn't it a Karma to do something and solve this and bring these people out of their sufferings and pain?". Harshit determined himself and chose the latter and with great satisfaction.
On his short stay he spent most of his time conducting life skills sessions in a school in Gangori and then came back to Dehradun after taking few more interviews of locals and snapshots from that place. After returning back he made another video to confirm the change in village's conditions from Sep 2013 till Jan 15, 2013 and surprisingly the difference was... nothing.
It feels really sad to see that on one hand we all talk about progress and future while on the other hand our fellow citizens fight day and night just to cater their basic needs. How do we plan to progress when we have lost the very basics of humanity and seeing our fellow brothers and sisters suffer still cannot outrage us to do something good for them. We all must remember that we are no different than animals if we loose what we call as being human. We all have a heart that feels love but when did it turned into stone? In the race of earning money and lively comforts it seems we all forgot what it is to be human anymore and if that's so then we should feel sorry for ourselves.
Uttarakhand fought a battle of its Independence in past and finally became an independent state in the year 2010 to groom itself, bring equal opportunity and prosperity to its people but does all this sound anything like that?
A thought for all of us to think upon...
To be continued...
Team Tvam India
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