Life with a Potato — My Views My Country

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Aug 30, 2009

Life with a Potato















You must have heard of "Life in a Metro",a blockbuster bollywood movie(thought i havn't seen it yet) but what i am writing today has a little connection to the movie and the connection is limited with having a similar kind of title.
Let me narrate a story today to you people and i won't justify my view point today,as you are an intelligent breed of readers(though i need to find more readers as i am really short of them :)
So here it goes.......

Every morning they used to get up early in the morning at 6am and get ready to reach their school by 7am.They study in 7th standard in a government school of Delhi.In this class there were 20 students and their loving class teacher Mr.Vedik Ramchandra.
Mr. Ramchandra is a man of values who is dedicated to impart the best of education and values to his students.He used to discuss about the problems and their family problems with the students.These discussion lead him to do something unusual.It was the first day of week and Mr.Ramchandra was bit late to the class and possibly it was first time he arrived late in class.But today he was having a big jute bag with him.Students were curious to know that what was there inside that bag.There was a wave of predictions in the class room.Some said that Mr.Ramchandra has brought toys,some said it was a bag full of chocolates(may be they were not aware of Mr. Ramchandra's pay) and some actually stayed quiet.
After taking attendence Mr. Ramchandra told the students that he will be giving them a project and with that he opened that big bag which was full of potatoes.But what's the use of potatoes asked Abdul a podgy cute guy.Mr. Ramchandra said that he will be distributing 5 potatoes to each student and the students will have to keep those potatoes with them for the next 2 weeks.They will have to carry potatoes everyehere they go, from the nature call in the morning till they go to bed in night.All the children were confused and as usual ekta asked a question....."Sir what's the use of keeping these potatoes?" Mr.Ramchandra said that he will tell the use on the 15th day,when this project gets finished but there were whispers all around in the class and everyone was sharing its own view.Mr. Ramchandra distributed potaoes in polybags to all students and reminded students to keep potatoes with them all the time.
The first day was onn and students were finding it interesting to take the potatoes everywhere even at nature call(must be difficult for them to hold potatoes there....but what can be done).The first day passed smoothly and when the students reached their school nextday they were quite happy about it as it was something unusual from their regular routine.Likewise the second day passed and by the third day children started finding it boring but they had no choice other than to continue the holding them.
It was the 5th day and by now the potatoes started smelling foul.Children complained to Mr. Ramchandra that it was not easy to carry potatoes with a foul smell but Mr.Ramchandra said "9 more days to go".
By the 9th day the condition was pathetic it was hardly possible for anyone to hold those rotten potatoes and the foul smell of potatoes was all around from the homes till their classroom. Students were not expecting this move but Mr. Ramchandra as usual showing his wonderful gesture told the students that the experiment was over.Students were confused and they did'nt knew howcome it was an experiment and howcome it got over as they had almost nothing to do except hold the bag all the time.
But what Mr. Ramchandra said was an eye opener for them.Mr. Ramchandra asked students to name those people who they hate the most.Almost 70 names came out from a class of 20 students.Now Mr Ramchandra said to students that the hatered that they do is like those rotten potatoes, you carry them all your life and each day it rottents more and more,smelling more and more foul but still you carry it.Its you who keep that hatered inside yourself for your entire life and that makes your life rotten like those potatoes.Throw away these potatoes from your life,throw away the hatered for people and love everything that is created by god.God's creation cannot be wrong and its a sin to hate the creation of GOD.By this time the students got the real message from Mr.Rachandra and all of them together went to Mr.Ramchandra and they threw the potatoes i dustbin and said "We promise that with these potatoes we are throwing away the hatered which is inside us" and it followed with a tight hug with Mr. Ramchandra.

This was a project,a project to revive humanity and to revive love for all and its important that we learn something from these kids.

"Love is the other name of GOD.....Spread it"

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