IMPRESSIONS

19 CSY : Impressions of SaiKiran Pulavarthy

Dear Sir,

First of all it was a very nice experience for me who was busy in my day to day routine for the past so many years and also who was born in a town and never experienced village life. 

Walking in the villages, meeting with villagers and interactions with you had put lot of questions in my head - 

• how much money and resources one need to lead life. 
• Why there is a SC and ST colony separate. Why they are looked down.
• Are we giving due respect to our natural resources - water, minerals, stones ?
• Physical stress vs. mental stress which is manageable or which one should one choose ? 
• Why do we complicate things either it is leading life (use of chemicals in agriculture, the so called FMCG products) etc.. 
• Is there a way where we can resurrect our traditional knowledge
• How can there be a middle path - the so-called system and villages. 

I tried to answer some of those things reflecting for the past few days. 

• May be people does not know that one can live with fewer money and resources. May be they had not experienced / seen people who can live happily with fewer means and resources. In that perspective Palle Srujana is doing an amazing stuff by giving them that experience. 
• Regarding SC and ST separte colonies - I do not have an answer. But definitely economical progress is the only answer which I have
• Regarding respect to our natural resources - I think there should be an education to every one in Villages or urban - why they are important and how they can preserve them. I am sure we can spend more time on educating people around this. 
• I think mental stress decays a person internally and the damage is far more higher than physical stress. My dad always says " Manasu sukhapadali sareeram kashtapadali" and I think I should follow the same. 
• I think an institution just like an University is definitely needed to nurture the traditional knowledge. I know that this needs more resources money, land and people. But that is the only way you can carry forward the knowledge to the next generation. Otherwise it will be only people specific.
• I would go ahead and say - why Indian knowledge is oral because our univeristies and books were destroyed long back. We never got an opportunity to build them in the last so many centuries it remained oral transmission. 
• Now even Oral transmission of knowledge is also under threat. I think time has come know to provide an institution for all the traditional knowledge people who can document back all the knowledge. 
• Again this is my personal view. 
• In terms of organised finance - I had spoken to few bankers. Their thoughts are
• Either your NGO has to move in a co-operative society so that access to organised finance is possible
• Else, you need to have a marketing tie-up with few companies
• But no one has an answer to the problem. I will still seek an answer to this question and I will come back to you as and when I find one. 

Sir, but it was my pleasure to meet you and part of CSY. It had given me a different perspective to my life. I will keep on thinking where all I can give support to your initiatives and keep doing that. 

Thanks alot.