HOW RELEVANT IS GANDHI TO ME , VIDHYA AND YOU!
Thanks to all our friends who have congratulated Vidhya and have expressed joy on account of her getting Jamnalal Bajaj Award. As you know, the Bajaj Awards have a co-relationship with Gandhian values and ideals. Mahatma Gandhi has symbolised struggle for truth, freedom and non-violence. He has also symbolised Antyodaya- the upliftment of the the marginalised. We in Agragamee have tried to emulate this but with all our limitations!
On 16th November , a day after Vidhya received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award, the Bajaj Foundation had organised a day-long trip to Wardha to have a look at Sevagram of Gandhiji , Paunar Ashram of Vinobaji and various institutions set up by Jamnalalji Bajaj. The whole visit though quite exhausting has made tremendous impact on me and Vidhya. Reading Gandhi’s writing about Hind Swaraj, Gram Swaraj, My Experiment With Truth and numerous other books is one thing and visiting Sevagram to see Bapu Kutti and Ba Kutti is another. One wonders how the life must have been when Gandhi was living there and deciding the historical movements with other leaders – Nehru, Patel, Kalam and Jamnalal Bajaj. The places where he was writing or where he was praying or giving Darshan to the visitors, have been preserved and still many visitors from the locality and well as from all over the world are visiting to internalise Gandhi and his path of truth and non-violence.
Thanks to all our friends who have congratulated Vidhya and have expressed joy on account of her getting Jamnalal Bajaj Award. As you know, the Bajaj Awards have a co-relationship with Gandhian values and ideals. Mahatma Gandhi has symbolised struggle for truth, freedom and non-violence. He has also symbolised Antyodaya- the upliftment of the the marginalised. We in Agragamee have tried to emulate this but with all our limitations!
On 16th November , a day after Vidhya received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award, the Bajaj Foundation had organised a day-long trip to Wardha to have a look at Sevagram of Gandhiji , Paunar Ashram of Vinobaji and various institutions set up by Jamnalalji Bajaj. The whole visit though quite exhausting has made tremendous impact on me and Vidhya. Reading Gandhi’s writing about Hind Swaraj, Gram Swaraj, My Experiment With Truth and numerous other books is one thing and visiting Sevagram to see Bapu Kutti and Ba Kutti is another. One wonders how the life must have been when Gandhi was living there and deciding the historical movements with other leaders – Nehru, Patel, Kalam and Jamnalal Bajaj. The places where he was writing or where he was praying or giving Darshan to the visitors, have been preserved and still many visitors from the locality and well as from all over the world are visiting to internalise Gandhi and his path of truth and non-violence.
The Jamnalal Bajaj Awards function 2013, was held in Mumbai, on 15th Nov., with Honorable President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee as Chief Guest for the event. Awards were presented to 4 awardees in categories like Constructive Work, Science and Technology, Women and Child welfare and an International Award. Smt. Vidhya Das was the recipient of the award for her Outstanding Contribution in Development and Welfare of Women and Children and-or Gandhian Constructive Work by Women Workers. Read more about the Awards on the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation website.
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