All the hard times, the sad times and the confused times may begin with Covid. With some imperceptible viral load, your body’s temperature may rise and, in tandem, your degree of isolation too. Those who are optimistic and hopeful of another fine morning are seen mentally reiterating, “If not today, then tomorrow the temperature will subside and the world will be all dance and fun as before.” But while doing so and hoping against hope, the most optimistic one unluckily may have given a super chance to the malicious virus to play its fatal game. The light of the day will diminish and by the evening, that hopeful and healthy person will find to his /her dismay that the oxygen level is steeply decreasing, in perfect tune with an approaching dark night.
Those who are fortunate find timely care and adequate medical assistance and those who are less fortunate miss the same and mishaps appear in the news. Unless the friends, relatives and family members take early steps to make medical assistance available to the diseased, it will often become too late.
Now some pertinent questions are posed in a broader perspective, “How far can we provide adequatemedical support to the vast population of this country? Can our Medical Infrastructure and trained workforce sustain such massive outbreaks? Are the Governments doing the needful? Do the general public and service providers behave sensibly and refrain from overcharging the distressed?”
All the questions will have the inevitable “NOs”.
It is the point where we miserably stand. As an educationist, I cannot wait further, hoping against hope that some Government will come to my rescue and improve my fate with a magical wand. Those pink dreams are already stolen long back. Now I say to myself, “History bears testimony that the teaching fraternity can build a nation of order and harmony by educating young minds.” It is a universal truth, “everything may be lost but the future still remains.” And the teachers are the privileged ones who tune the future in their classrooms. As an antidote to such troubled affairs, the teaching fraternity can work miracle just by shifting their focus a bit. Now let us not simply build the future of our youth, now let us build our youth for the future. This is the need of the time. The vision has to become broader which can affect the future of our nation in a decade if we start it today in the classrooms. Hope for the best for another educational revolution…. Jay Hind, Jay Bharat!
