Coincidence: Kundan Mechanical engineer born on my birthday in 1989 Life is full of coincidences and this blog is on one of this. I do not remember when I met Dr.Chhtradhari Prasad of Nirmali, Supaul working in Kendriy Vidyalaya at Garhara , munger ,probably it was the intercity from Patna or to Patna from or to Darbhanga and I had given him a copy of my Maithiligita and or Maithili Sandesh also. After Dipawali today I was planning for my due programmes in and around Simariaghat during November 14-17 , 2013 and talked to three teachers of +2 school and due to an examination as well as apathy to Maithili in common population there the programme fixed only a few days back is shaking though camps in one or other villages at Bihat and Sinaria village seems will be done(simariya with the help of Ramnath, a worker of Bal Vikas Parishad of Air Vice marshal(retd ) VM Tiwary and Bihat by Raman jha of shashipur and (Chandauna, near pupate of Sitamadhi) and his villager also a teacher Dr Sumil Pathak who told that incidentally Bhogi Jha, ex principal of Mahatma Gandhi High school, Bihat, a love r of Maithili (who used to send some Maithili students in SSC till he was in job) was there and Sunilji would contact for Chakia and Mallipur.. In this backdrop when I opened up my Excel sheet of contact Begusarai district, I found Dr. Chhtradhari Prasad’s no, of Barauni and called up. The mobile was taken up by his son, Kundan Kishor at his native place Nilrmali. Kimdan works at Chennai as a mechanical engineer. I told him that it was referred in my autobiography and read out the passage from the book- “ The country had a socialistic mood in 1955 when the Indian National Congress adopted a resolution at its Avadi session for a socialistic pattern of society. 1st August had been an auspicious day not only from the numerological point of view but also historically. On this date in 1498, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus set foot on the American mainland for the first time and in 1793, France became the first country to adopt the Metric System of weights, a by-product of the French Revolution.” Then came in the talk 1st august , my birthday and then I read out the next passage as well On 1st August 1920, Lokmanya Tilak died and Mahatma Gandhi formally started non-cooperation movement by surrendering the title of Kaisare-e-Hind conferred on him by the Viceroy in 1915. Herman Melville, an American novelist was also born on August 1 in 1819; Purushottam Das Tandon, known for his Sanskritised Hindi as the National Language (as that of my view), was also born on 1st August, 1882*. * Nirad C. Chaudhuri, the Unknown Indian controversial as un-Indian was also called the last Englishman and the last Bengali Babu who died at Oxford as un-British on the birthday of this unknown medico in 1999. A few pages of this autobiography were also sent to him which is named after his famous book, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. Then I asked him in which year he was born- he told me 1989… and I had to read out the following preface I wrote the same evening he was born PROLOGUE August 1, 1989 My 34th, Birthday. I went to the blood-bank of the Rajendra Medical College Hospital, Ranchi at 10.30 a.m. and donated my blood to celebrate my birthday. Exemplary, although possibly not the only one to do so. The Blood Bank Officer said that even if we had eight donations a day we could meet the needs of the population of Ranchi which was about 0.8 million. I returned with a young medico. I did not go to my clinic nor I expected any patient would be waiting where I had been practicing for 10 months. Practicing without exploitation of one’s position in a government hospital was difficult in this city! Yet, I had to stay in this city because the Central Office of a national organisation of medicos, the NMO (National Medicos Organisation) was situated here. Though, I am the founder of this organisation, I wished to be known only as its Organising Secretary. I had published a research paper on SLE during my ‘house physicianship’. I was the man behind the publication of Progress in Clinical Neurosciences 1985 and 1986 volumes having contributions from five continents. Acharya Vinoba Bhave had appreciated my social work and had blessed me. I said good-bye to the GOIs undertaking and the Bihar State Health Services. My elder brother had forsaken me and even my dearest wife had deserted me, I am now engaged in writing several books — Internal Medicine in the Indian Context*, Clinical Methods for Indian Students of Pediatrics, a small biography of the greatest Indologist Max Muller in Hindi, a book on health education for common man ¼vkidk LokLF;&vkids gkFk½] a manual for social workers ¼lkekftd laxBuksa esa euq; laxzg ,oa lek;kstu½] a collection of my stories and poems in Maithili,** Hindi*** and English**** and that of compiling Maithili and Sanskrit poems and others written by my parents***** and so on. Even if these are completed, I shall not be the only person to do so. Should I now take up an autobiography? * New Trends in Medicine (a publication of the API, Bihar ) edited by Dr. K.K. Sinha and me was released on 18.3.1999. ** Maithili-Gita (since 2006 available on web), Jaynagar san Jayanagar Tak, Kono Shahar Basi Jao, Hamar Gam Ujadi Gel, Railvas ***Hindi Tum bolte Ho, Tum Musalman Ho, Railvas ****Absolute, Life on Wheels, A Car Journey of 2000 Kilometer (since 2006 available on web), Maithil Bangalore Saga (since 2006 available on web), Indians as I found, Coincidences, An Unknown Bangaloreans views-(my unpublished and published letters to the editors while I was at Bangalore) *****Swajivan Charitra (Atmakatha)***(Autobiography of father, since 2006 available on web). xv In his introduction to Scholar Extraordinary (a biography of Max Mueller), Sir Nirad C. Chaudhuri, says, “Biography (of a person) is deserving not only by the strength of his position and position in his own age, unless in addition, he played so important and significant a role in the history that he remains an element to be reckoned with in understanding the continuing evolution of a particular group of humanity in general; nor unless his personality and activities belong to a type whose presence and functioning is continuous and universal, so that no outstanding individual of the type ever loses his relevance to all ages. I have completed 34 years of life. Christ, Shankaracharya and Vivekananda, by this age had nearly completed their life mission and shown light to humanity. No biographer will ever be able to recollect all they possessed and gifted to the generations. I consider myself only an ordinary man and do not claim to be even a billionth of any such personalities. I am only a person, not a personality. A paralysed, dysphasic, disabled, semiliterate, Negro woman of 35, Pauline Wiltshire has produced her autobiography (Living and winning) to prove to the people that she was not a fool, and that she could lead a normal life. Though I have been working for a particular group (medicos)* most intimately connected with humanity, I am aware that I do not crave for a biography. In this autobiography, I try to tell my story as to how a most common man leading a normal life can contribute something to the society. Aldous Huxley has said that a ‘biography’ is the presentation of personal events and ‘history’ of social events, but most of them have overlapping. Likewise, this autobiography is in the context of 25 years (1955-1989) of national history, perceivable from the angle of an ordinary child, boy and person who developed into a medico, who has the credit of visiting 60** medical colleges, out of 106***, in the country (probably a record for a person aged 33) like a Yayavar (a wanderer) with the aim of national reconstruction. * and also since 1992, as an organiser of the Mithila-Maithili work. ** And by 1. 8. 2009 visited 141 (+ 8 only seen from the road) medical colleges and also 9 purely PG medical institutions (+ 2 only seen from the road)in India and also the TUTH (Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital), Kathmandu and the BPKIHS (B.P.Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan in Nepal, totalling 162 medical institutions. ***228 (206 recognised by the MCI till 24.6.2009 and 22 were permitted for the year 2009-10 to admit total 26705 MBBS students. ….What a coincidence( Kundan assured me of Maithila working in his life and I gave him contact no. of Kapileshwar Sahu our worker ( I visited there on 18-19 Dec 2010 when he was appointed in a meeting of Antarrashtriy Maithili Parishad – however on 5.4.1997 also I had given there a speech on Koshi bandh’s 50th anniversary organised by Dinesh Kumar Mishra, the great flood expert who dedicated his life to Koshi though he was am Azamgardhi(og UP), an IIT Kharagpur alumnus…
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