Coat
of Arms
Two
decades ago I worked for a Scottish Company as a senior Installation Engineer
for their projects. I had presented a small statue of Krishna (Venugopal) in sandalwood to my Glaswegian
counterpart. He reciprocated by presenting a porcelain plaque on which was
printed the Coat of Arms of the city of Glasgow which looks like this:
Let me explain the insignia:
There’s the tree that never grew
There’s the bird that never flew
There’s the fish
that never swam
There’s
the bell that never rang
You
can read the history behind it from the net.
As I
was reminiscing by looking at it again, I couldn’t help grinning by replacing
the tree, the bird, the fish, and the bell with real life characters. As my
wife was passing by I was quick to wipe my grin, because she always secretively
thought I was a crackpot laughing when alone. She doesn’t realize the comedy
scenes I watch on our English news channels and some stupid panelists calling
themselves as experts are real ticklers.
I
reproduce the thought in my mind. I thought of the PM who never fought an
election. I thought of an MP who never attended a session. I thought of a
nominated MP who never spoke in a debate. I thought of a cabinet minister who
never attended a cabinet meeting….
There
are many more like a journalist who doesn’t read , a general who never fought a
war, a writer who never wrote a book, a singer who never sang, a commoner who
was never frisked in an air-port, a teacher who never taught, an actor who
never acted and so on.
In
daily life we come across a cobbler who never mended a shoe, a barber who never
dressed the hair, a tailor who never stitched, a baker who never baked, a cook
who never cooked, a soldier who never fought, a physician who never used a
syringe, a farmer who never tilled a land, an athlete who never ran, a teacher
who never taught and so on.
That’s
what PM Narendra Modi and yours truly advocate – attaining skills with proper
education in all fields including legislation, education, tourism etc. Was this
achieved through caste system in erstwhile Bharat. I mean varna by action not birth
Jai
Bharat
