Colorful Lady I Met @ Pareda

I know her as a colorful Lady.

What would you expect out of this lady from tribal village of Rajasthan??

Her confidence while talking was unbelievable. She was trained by Sevamandir as a Dai and she is a active member of SHGs and working for her own and people’s development. Her son has left her alone and is living in Jaipur. These people struggle for basic things, but desire  to develop themselves and their people is appreciable. I was impressed. Thanks to SEVAMANDIR as well.

From Pareda Village in Udaipur,

Nidhi Bansal

I too had a Dream and My reflections

This is an amazing book. I can see Dairy evolving and India as a whole. The ability of Dr. Kurien to handle bureaucracy was wonderful. Being in my field work segment at Pareda Village in Udaipur District of Rajasthan, I am able to relate things better to the ground realities. It is unbelievable to my eyes how people are still leaving without electricity, proper sanitation and education and health facilities. There are no roads to connect to these people. Life beyond 10-15 kms from National Highways seems to be something 100- 200 years backward. But people are still happy and you can see laughing faces. There is humility and desire to do something better in them. Experiencing this, I could very well relate to this usurp from this book i.e., I too had a Dream:

 " There is nothing wrong in building flyovers in Delhi. What is not fair is when we do not also build an approach road to villages across the nation. There is nothing wrong in having fountains with coloured lights in the capital. After all, Delhi Should be beautiful. But it is unjustified when we have not provided drinking water to our villages. There is nothing wrong in having a modern private hospital in Bombay, or AIIMS in Delhi, or other large medical institutions in our big cities, but it is not justified when we have not arranged to have two drops of a medicine put into eyes of a farmer’s new born baby, and that baby goes blind. While this would have cost us nothing, we have preferred to spend crores of rupees in five star hospitals in cities. Why Does this happen?"

In My Dreams

In my dreams, i see a face
An image of love, a soul so pure
A friend so benign, with whom the life is divine
In that dream, life is so complete
No hurry, no worry ,just love in the air
And life at its the best flavor...

Nidhi Bansal :)

FDI in Retail

Again was left wondering about certain things happening around..

Government has passed FDI in retail. There was one day BANDH i.e., close all over India. Is it the solution to our problems? We all know it very well that no FDI is going to help poor farmers. The solution is only when we ourselves try developing good storage facilities and infrastructure at grass root levels. Only then farmers will get maximum profit out of their produce, the way AMUL and white revolution have done it for milk producers. We need an indigenous solution not FDI. And its onus is also on us (IRMANs) I think.

It is a good business opportunity as well as a national issue that needs an Indian intervention not something foreign.

Nidhi Bansal

कुछ ऐसा सोचती हूँ...

आज ये सोचते हैं ,
कि कल कुछ और पायेंगे ..
मंजिल तो सोची है एक
न जाने कहाँ जायेंगे …
दिल मे मेरे भी कुछ ख्वाब हैं ,
रूह को कुछ लफ़ज़ों की तलाश है …
कभी चाहती हूँ हवा के साथ बह जाऊं ...
पर कभी लगता है यह तो सब करते हैं ...
इस मे क्या खास है ...
दिल चाहता है खुश हो जहाँ सब ,
ऐसा कुछ कर जाऊं
ज़िन्दगी को जाने से पहले
एक मुस्कुराता हुआ सलाम दे जाऊं ...

निधि बंसल :)

Randomeness

Last 3 months had been quite eventful. Every day and night, we were busy with one thing or another. But in last one week certain things made me move. After the demise of Dr. Verghese Kurien, everybody was sad two days of PRA and now back home. It makes me think what we are doing to our lives. Are we taking the onus of the bringing in a positive change in surroundings? If we are thinking for it how we will be taking small steps for these herculean tasks. Life is too small and dreams are too big. It is time to decide if we want our life worth celebrating when we will look back on this small journey or want to end up with same questions and confusions with which we are starting now.

Thoughts are many and as random as one can think of. Will we be able to make something good out of these thoughts or will we always be fooled by randomness?

Regards,
Nidhi

Beginning of a new Phase

I am joining IRMA for my MBA in Rural domain. After almost two years in Infy it is cool feeling. The idea of getting back into college once again is thrilling. and i want to keep on writing.

New beginning :)


Nidhi Bansal