Sharing the following recent real story of unique dimensions for the Indian psyche and its self empowering values.
Through this act of supporting hands, there could not be a better exemplification of the spirit of
“ अनासक्त भावसे जनता जनार्दन की सेवा, परमो धर्मः “
It is also a demonstrative reflection of what we may refer to as the Genuine Literacy of Life - जीवन की वास्तविक साक्षरता .
The heros in this real story are the cooperative helping hands and their hearts that define the term Humanity, which is better expressed as “ इंसान की इंसानियत “.
In the 21st Century India ( Bharat ), a nation so vast and incredibly diverse, change is already and certainly audible although slowly, which is to be expected out of sanity. The fragrance of India's current leadership is being nourished and supported by its roots. May the roots of Positive Leadership continue to spread far and wide.
The posting about this story by Sahib Bijlani is an eloquent way to appreciate the team effort of numerous helping hands in celebration of Life. _._,_._
Miracles don't appear from the skies; instead they sprout from the roots of अनासक्त सेवा धर्म।
Summarising the above observations and the following real story, hopefully our Indian psyche will gradually transform from pulling strings and political favors under the shameful and self incriminating pretext of चलता है to resolving local issues with local leadership and decentralised authority. That would be the real magic of pulling out a Rabbit from the Hat to behold.
The fundamental concept and spirit of Panchayat Raj " पंचायत राज्य " begs to be successfully implemented at the National scale by decentralising and minimising bureaucratic authority.... that remains the National challenge in the 21st Century. Merely claiming that we are a Democracy is an empty drum that makes only much noise.
Summarising the above observations and the following real story, hopefully our Indian psyche will gradually transform from pulling strings and political favors under the shameful and self incriminating pretext of चलता है to resolving local issues with local leadership and decentralised authority. That would be the real magic of pulling out a Rabbit from the Hat to behold.
The fundamental concept and spirit of Panchayat Raj " पंचायत राज्य " begs to be successfully implemented at the National scale by decentralising and minimising bureaucratic authority.... that remains the National challenge in the 21st Century. Merely claiming that we are a Democracy is an empty drum that makes only much noise.
Following is the full unabridged story of a laudable cooperative team effort headed by positive Leadership.
MIRACLE AND MODI:
On Friday, 3rd of March, 2017 @ 11pm I got an emergency call from a doctor who was my senior in AMCH.
His newborn niece was in ventilator and has to be airlifted to Delhi's Sir Gangaram Hospital. The flight will take 6 hours and the ventilator got only 7 hours of power backup. Everything was in order except that theSaturday Delhi traffic on wedding season is a nightmare of highest order. Precious moments were at stake.
My senior asked me to pull some strings in Delhi to bring the national capital's traffic to a halt. An improbable task for someone as ordinary as me.
4th March dawned and my morning round of texts and calls to each and everyone who is powerful enough in Delhi began. One who could help was abroad and busy. Others had no clue.
Meanwhile , the baby girl left Aditya Hospital to Dibrugarh Airport.
At 1pm, they boarded the air ambulance with uncertainty looming.
At 2pm, I called up Kaushik Deka of India Today for guidance and intervention. He called up his contacts but the result was negative. There is just no way.
Finally we decided to do the impossible. Knock at the highest door. Pm Narendra Modi. But Modi and his team was busy in roadshow in Varanasi and the chance of reaching him in so short time is poor.
But we had the personal email of the PM. The mail id that he checks personally on his phone.
We shoot an email. Hoping against hope that he replies in positive.
There was no reply.
At 6pm the plane landed in Lucknow for refuel and there was no sign of anything positive.
Then came the phone calls. This time to KD and me. Calls from Commissioner of Police, Traffic Commissioner of Delhi asking details of the air ambulance and location of evacuation.
Narendra Modi did not reply. He responded and in an unprecedented manner.
At 7.10 pm the flight landed and ambulance was ready. There is now 20 minutes left on the ventilator and the notorious Delhi traffic was at its peak. ACP of Delhi Traffic assured me that the baby will reach hospital in time.
The impossible was happening. All traffic from airport to Ganga Ram Hospital came to a halt. It was a green corridor passage, something that is reserved for emergencies of VVIPs. Delhi was made to wait to let a 9 day old Assamese girl reach her treatment.
And she reached. With 6 minutes left in her life support.
Modi created a miracle on a day he was far away and busy in campaigning.
Three men in three different places came together to do something rare for a girl they have not seen.
I would have not updated this but the story came out in national media.
Sincere apologies to anyone who might think I am portraying to be a hero. I am not a hero. Modiji is the hero. He responded to a mail sent by unknown people to help unknown people on a day which was crucial for his career. Kaushik Deka is a hero. On a busy day of reporting with so many things happening, he cancelled his meetings to save the child. I , merely, connected the dots.
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