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Born between China and Pakistan Wars. In Gundrampally habitat. A product of struggles. Lived, evolved through them. Poverty, Fluorosis, Malnutrition, Gender inequity, Violence, Vulnerabilities, and Marginalization. Initial struggles. No nutrition to grow up better. No school to go to, no ecosystem at home, a drunkard tuition master. Could not go to school initially. Family migrated to a neighbouring village. Joined in Class 2 to fail. Teachers were not adequate, with one for two classes. We were learning from senior students. No homework, no space for homework at home. Those days, we used to have district/board exams for Class 7 also. The school organized night study, with teachers hanging around. We used to start at home by 0800 hrs, and return home the next day 0630 hrs.
From Gundrampally to Sarvail. Blessed to have moved to Sarvail Gurukulam, serving students of the entire Telangana region. A small token amount was the fee. Teacher-student ratio was 1:5/6. We were exposed to and nurtured into these possibilities. Numbers, science experiments, and encyclopaedias – vignaana sarvasvam, books, literature, poetry, music, yoga, sports, et al. We blossomed towards our potential, curricular, co-curricular, and some extra-curriculars.. The friends from here will last a life-time. A world of unimagined difference. However, during this period, back home, I lost a younger brother and its impact lasted several years thereafter.
Sarvail to Nagarjunasagar Naivaasya Kalasaala, on the banks of Krishna River. Admitted as a special case, only one in its 50-year life. This period marked the pushkar time for Krishna R. Sagar’s teachers, peers who had a knack to challenge us to make us realize our possibilities. To grow, to build perspective(s), to evolve philosophy of living. Arguably the best period of our lives. Brndaavan time. The habitat – Vijaypuri North, Hill Colony, Pylon, Vijaypuri South, Right bank. Mighty, second largest masonry dam on Krishna. Nagarjuna Konda island, with Buddhist museum, the seat of Acharya Naagaarjuna. Ethipothala falls. Copper dam. Chenchus. Cement factory in the far away town, Macherla. Intense friendships of this time are timeless. Sagar found me from somewhere and took me into it in ‘style’, maybe to offer the ‘best possible time of life’. Here, at that time, the seed of usefulness, pay forward, has been sown. I did not know fully what it meant then. Eternally grateful, for everything. It is getting into its year-long Golden Jubilee Year 50 celebrations in a month’s time.
Sagar to Warangal. To Anand via Guntur. To Tribal communities. To get ready to contribute our bit, while unlearning, learning, in the next 30+ years.
Can we be less professional, less calculative, so that we remain wedded to our flows, purposes, lives, and universe? Can we home-in to our local habitats, as soon as possible, so that we are in and servicing our ecosystems of mutual dependence, emotions, in sync with N? Can we resist the temptations of being away often, long times?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, pushing-pulling up in practice, in flow. In N? Aavaranayoga for 7L.
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