"तुम्हारा नियुक्ति पत्र आया है कुसुम! तुम्हारा प्राइमरी स्कूल में चयन हो गया है"
मैं स्तब्ध थी मगर इन्हें विश्वास था। अपने चश्मे के पीछे अपनी खुशियों और संघर्ष को छुपाते हुए इन्होंने नियुक्ति पत्र मेरे हाथों में रख दिया।
मेरी आंखों में भी दो बूंद खुशी के आ गए।
मैं कोई पढ़ी लिखी महिला नहीं थी। बल्कि गाँव की आठवीं फेल अनपढ़ लड़की थी, जिसकी शादी मेरे ताऊ जी ने एक शिक्षित परिवार में धोखे से कर दी थी। ये भी पढ़े लिखे और नौकरी में थे। मेरे ताऊ जी का ये धोखा मुझे रोज ही इस घर में ज़लील करता।
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मेरी बोली, मेरी अशिक्षा का रोज ही मज़ाक उड़ाया जाता। पढ़ीलिखी छोटी बहू के आने के बाद और भी ज्यादा।
"विमल! तुम इस अनपढ़ को इसके ताऊ जी के यहाँ छोड़ आओ या दो दिनों के लिए गाँव लेकर चले जाओ। कल छोटी बहू के मायके से कुछ लोग आ रहे हैं, तुम्हारे भले के लिए ही कह रही हूँ।
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ऐसी बातें इनपर क्या असर करतीं थीं मैं नहीं जानती पर उस वक़्त मुझे इनसे आँख मिलाने में भी शर्म आती थी। पूरे घरवालों के सामने जब इन्हें मेरी वजह से बेबस देखती तो अंदर से रो पड़ती थी। मैंने इस अशिक्षा के अभिशाप को अपनी किस्मत मान लिया था पर इन्होंने शायद कुछ और।
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इन्हें धोखा मिला था ताऊ जी से। मुझे इनसे प्यार पाने का भी हक़ नहीं था। मगर बदले में इन्होंने मुझे प्यार के साथ सम्मान भी दिया।आज मेरे इस नियुक्ति पत्र के पीछे इनके बारह साल का संघर्ष और परिश्रम है।
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मैं भरी आँखों से इनके गले लग नियुक्ति पत्र पर लिखे नाम को गौर से देख रही थी
"कुसुम विमल त्यागी" जो सिर्फ कहने और लिखने के लिए नहीं है।
एक सफल पुरूष के पीछे एक स्त्री का हाथ कहते बहुतों को सुना है पर आज एक स्त्री की सफलता में एक पुरूष का हाथ है..!
Jahanara & Roshanara were daughters of #Shahjahan & sisters of #Aurangzeb & Dara Shikoh. Jahanara favored Dara, and Roshanara favored Aurangzeb.
If Jahanara was kind hearted, Roshanara was politically astute.
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During the bloody war of succession between Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh, these two women engaged themselves in a bitter political battle within the walls of their palace that went on to dominate the larger part of their lives.
Even though the throne was ordained to pass to Dara, Aurangzeb was a man with ambition. He revolted and demanded his share of the kingdom. It was only through Roshanara’s timely information that Aurangzeb averted certain death as a part of a conspiracy.
The Story of creation of the Stock Markets.
(A Thread)
The Dutch East India Company was The World's First Public Company and the company had many ships.
So, When East Indies was discovered, explorers rushed there in hopes of finding opportunities for trade & profits.
The Voyage to those far Eastern places was dangerous filled with pirates and storms.
Majority of the ships never made it home.
Many of the businessmen and investors who financed these voyages lost a ton of dollars.
@irfhabib @IndiainDenmark @maroofculmen So, they thought of a genius ploy to help them mitigate that risk by pooling their money together.
In 1600, they formed this company called:
"Governor and company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies" I.e. The Dutch East India Company.
Today On 20th May 1498, Vasco da Gama landed at Calicut.
The ruler Zamorin, welcomed Vasco & his merchants, but was not prepared to concede to their demand to exclude the indian merchants from his port.
The Portuguese basically had come not to compete but to create a monopoly over sea trade. So, after 5 yrs Vasco returned..
In 1503 Vasco da Gama returned with a large fleet to destroy 80 ships Zamorin had assembled to defend the freedom of the seas and was successful.
Finally, in 1508 Alfonso de Albuquerque captured Goa from the sultanate of Bijapur, the Adil Shahis and laid the foundations for Portugese dominance in India.
Pic:- The 1st Church in Goa to commemorate the capture, 1510.
West Bengal has been on a decline ever since 1963, when CM of the state Bidhan Chandra Roy passed away. He reinforced the foundations of the state after partition, got the many institutions & engineering hubs.
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Calcutta and Jadavpur used to be the prime universities in India those days. WB had the IIM, IIT, Indian Statistical Institute, the Operations Research School, Bengal Engineering College, Presidency College, SXC, Scottish Church and many other venerable institutes.
It was the HQ of Birla, JK, Bangur, and Thapar and Tata. The grand Tata Centre was built for that purpose. This was the vision of TATA'S. Most of their investment was in Jamshedpur. Most foreign companies had their India HQs in Calcutta.
The Story of 1st Indian Ink Company from Kolkata.
(A Thread)
During the 1930s, when the Swadeshi movement was at its peak, its founder Mahatma Gandhi was ferociously looking for a locally-made ink to write letters and petitions.
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He shared this with Satish Chandra Das Gupta, a freedom fighter from WB. Credited with making Krishnadhara, India’s 1st Swadeshi ink, Gupta shared his formulation with the Maitra brothers, Nanigopal & Sankaracharya.
Newspaper clipping how Sulekha was started at Gandhi's request.
The brothers, who had just been released from jail and jumped on the opportunity to defy the British again. The deep-rooted nationalism was such that Nanigopal even left his teaching job at the Rajshahi University, as he was ordered to switch from dhoti to a suit.
When we say "the father gave her daughter's hand in marriage" do we think of an evil father casting away his child or do we think of a well dressed gentleman leading his child upto the groom in a church?
Do we ever ask ourselves what right a father has to give his daughter's hand to someone else ?
We do not.
Because everything that is from the west and it's Judeo Christian cultural backdrop is sacrosanct.
If "giving her hand in marriage" is okay , then what is so fundamentally wrong with "kanyadaan" ?
We'll , it is wrong just because it is hindu (read pagan idol worshipping natives) . Our colonial masters taught us to hate our roots and we have since continued with the practice.