‘Ton’dulkar demolishes England, India go one up

Good Evening Friends, Congratulations to Indian cricket team, my favourit Sachin Tendulkar and all my Indian cricket lovers. Indian beat England in first test match at Chennai.  My star Tendulkar hits 41st Test hundred with a swept boundary as India set a record for a victorious fourth-innings run chase on home soil to beat England by six wickets in the first cricket test.

 

 

Riding on knocks from Sachin Tendulkar (103*), Virender Sehwag (83) and Yuvraj Singh (84*), India galloped from behind to beat England by 6 wickets in the first Test at Chennai and take a 1-0 lead.

After England declared their innings on the fourth day for 386 runs, the match saw a dramatic turnaround when Sehwag went berserk to give India a fantastic start. He laid the perfect foundation for his mates to capitalize and was aptly adjudged the ‘Man of the Match’. Though he lost his wicket on Sunday, he had the match split wide open. 

 

Guiding India to victory with a four that also fetched him his 41st Test hundred, Sachin Tendulkar on Monday rated his knock in the first Test against England among his “very, very special” centuries.

 

“If the team wins the 100 become very very special, so this is right among my special centuries,” said Tendulkar, who scored an unbeaten 103 to guide India to a six-wicket victory at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here.

 

The Mumbai batsman hoped his feat would give some happiness to the people after the recent terror attacks in his city.

 

“What happened in Mumbai was extremely unfortunate. Cricket cannot lessen whatever happened… I hope this 100 will give some amount of happiness to the people,” he said.

 

“I thank those who stood up to the terrorists and who made sure that they were captured or shot dead as the terrorists were many.

 

“I salute the NSG commandos, Taj hotel staff, police, public and everyone,” he said paying rich tributes to the victims of recent terror attacks in Mumbai and saluted those who salvaged the lives of others.

 

Tendulkar said it was a very difficult track to bat on and that made the win all the more significant.

 

“The gameplan was to get opportunity for scoring more and more runs because the wicket was such and we could not be bogged down by that.

 

“This become a very very special victory on a track where the ball was jumping awfully,” he said. more

 

ref: (AP Photo).

When education brings freedom

One of the few things that certainly guarantees freedom from difficult conditions in life poverty, untouchability, discrimination, and so on is education. Without education, such a large number of children of single working women, Dalits, minorities, tribals, and casual labour in Gujarat would not have moved up and ahead in life.

What is even more true is that when education and employment join hands, this breaking away from poverty and discrimination is faster. Often, education takes the student away from his or her roots. After education, son of a farmer almost invariably refuses to take up agriculture, even modern profitable agriculture. Education makes many of us bound to table-chair-office’ jobs. Reading and writing take over doing and drawing and thinking and discussing.

To establish the employment education link, we at SEWA have started an experiment called Jeevanshala’ or life school where young SEWA women members between 12 and 30 years learn everything – from alphabets to science to maths, drawing from their work. A’ is for Ahmedabad, B’ is business and C’ is for credit. Maths is learnt through buying and selling of vegetables. Science is learnt through making salt or food items. This education has direct relevance to their work, on day-to-day basis. Most of this education is in their own language, even in their own dialect or boli’ where possible. Women learn to use a cell phone by learning numbers in English. They learn to use the computer key board. But it has its own due place, and not a glorified central position.

We draw from all sources Gandhiji’s ideas on bringing education and manual work closer, Jugatram Dave’s ideas of how we learn; Leena Sarabhai’s ideas of what I call seasons of learning’ which innovate Tagore and Montessori’s ideas in our Indian context. We set up systems drawing from Anil Boradia’s successful experiment in education in Rajasthan. What is drawn is of direct use to women, by women, for themselves.

The power of education is pronounced manifold in their life. Women manage banks, trade centres and academies without hesitation. They pay our insurance scheme premium or count their salt production without hesitation. We want Gujarat to be number one, if not in anything, at least one thing: Zero illiteracy among working poor women. This is possible.

ref: thetimesofindia