Award And Other Stories

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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Prashant, the accustomed writer having mastery of expressing his thoughts in 'Indirect sweet form of language', replied here only in plain and direct terms to this politician Secretary"First of all you have to ask for such a financial co-operation from the Rich-from the sons of Goddess Lakshmi and not from the Sons of Goddess Saraswati. Secondly, seat of learning-worship of learning by you, the entirely political people endowed with all arts of bewitching? Will you at -least stop this field of education being made untouchable by your pious touch? Will you please keep away from it?
"What so if we are politicians? Is the field of donation and literature only the monopoly of people like you? We have sacrificed in the Fight for the National Freedom and now also we are doing only this constructive nation building work of Mahatma Gandhiji. We want to put into practice the thoughts about education of Mahatma Gandhi only through this Seat of Learning"----- “It is very good thing. But you have to give up your dirty, all polluting- politics of this or that party first of all."
Prashant went on expressing his outburst of the heart more logically one by one
"It is not difficult now for the people to understand your strategy of making your motives served and to use the fair name of Mahatma Gandhi. You now and then repeat name of Mahatma Gandhi, but when he himself has told to keep the students away from politics, while God Fathers of Students like you have introduced dirty politics of cheating practices, selfishness and exploitation! You must at-least keep away from politics in the field of education !”
*Prashantji, you don't understand much in the matter of politics."
“True Sir, !" Prashant Spoke satirically in between. "You please don't break your head in matter of politics. Will you please give me an example of what exploitation we are doing and where ?" The Secretary argued and prashant burst out further, "Not only exploitation, but Great exploitation, Great Cheating, Great Cunningness you have done at the very outset by snatching and grabbing away of this land-plot of ours which is our saviour of life!”
And listening to this naked truth of burning prashant, the secretary replied finding his excuse by coming to a low profile.
"Where do we have acquired this land for our own sake? We have got it for the institution, for the Society, for the Jnan-Yagna of the Seat of Learning and that too through the Honorable Government, through Legal procedure and by Giving respectful Awards to the Land-Donors ! where does the exploitation lie in this?
"My Dear Secretary ! please stop explaining these all to us. Please do not be too smart. There is no charm in going deep into it. I have to tell you this much only in short that it