Saare zameen par…

During the last cluster meet at Gurgaon, I somehow managed to spend an evening with my cousins in Delhi watching “Tare Zameen par”. For reader’s information, the last few months since May I am living a life of real rural manager after all those pledges to work for rural India in general and development sector in particular. Had heard quite a lot about the movie, also read many reviews, blogs related to that. I was curious what made people just go hung ho over the issue of child upbringing. I watched the movie and realized that I might be suffering from the same problem as the child artiste in my childhood…hehehe. Although my painting skills were limited to drawing our tricolor and a tiny house with river, trees, mountains and a rising sun (everything fighting for space in that small sheet of paper). My family objected to me painting some unfamiliar shapes and figures, therefore my painting became one time annual affair…that too in the drawing exam of school in which we got 30 minutes to draw something. Since the instructor expected us to get just a D in the exam, mandatory for passing we sulked around. Year after year we were painting tricolour, the only thing that kept on changing was the cemented platform on which it was supposed to be fixed. The colours of the platform kept on taking unique and all unheard combinations. Slowly the school life got over and so did the painting sojourn. Just one hard hitting message…why the tendency of parents pushing their children to become Doctor/Engineer is not dwindling in spite of numerous success stories around? There are unimaginable career options around in the world at this point of time and we are still stagnant on that count. Guess…parents try to play the safe game by pushing their children for one or two particular career stream. But it is not the end of world if a guy/gal is not able to manage that due to whatever reasons. Pursuing a bachelor in fine arts from a reputed institute is zillion times better than getting an Engineering degree from tier three institute. Arguments can go on from both sides. Take it or not…but there is a life beyond everything!!!