Author: Eng. Tara Chand

Human beings have been born on this earth since time immemorial. He would have attained education after passing his childhood.

He makes his living according to his past deeds. Passing through childhood to youth and youth to adulthood, one attains death. Condolence messages are read at this meeting and after that people forget it. But some people serve and help others by running their life in a systematic way in their lifetime, people do not forget them even after their death for years. Today I am going to tell you about one such personality. His name was Shri Trilokinath Jangid, after completing his education, he got engaged in a government job. His colleagues and Chief Engineer were very much impressed by his behavior while doing the job. And all the companions had better relations with him than their real brothers, who continued to do so even after retirement. 

He gave all possible help to the companions, because of that, even after retirement, his family members would come to Jodhpur to meet him, stay for seven-eight days, and in the same way my friends from Jodhpur would stay in his city and enjoy their retirement. They had no children. He had a brother who died in his youth. Our companion took care of his sister-in-law’s family, got her and the children to study further and got admission in the job. Sister-in-law had two girls. My partner took a girl as a daughter. On Her upbringing, gave crores of movable and immovable property to the adopted daughter. Tell me that an adopted girl, her youth, her widowed sister-in-law and her children can forget the help of my partner?

Similarly, after retirement, his Mrs passed away. He hired a maid, who for nearly 20 years had been cleaning his house, washing clothes, cooking and lovingly welcoming the guests to his house. Along with the salary of that maid, from time to time, he used to give bounties and also guide her for savings. He got the job of a maid for the free time of her day at the doctor’s and professor’s place who lived nearby. On this side, with his help, the children were also motivated for proper education and after death, more than a lakh rupees amounted to her savings account. After the death of my partner Daughter and Jawai are also helping her every now and then. Now tell me, if the maid can forget that departed soul? 

In this episode, a girl from Punjab’s partner was married in Jodhpur. Her in-laws harassed her a lot. Her husband is simple and of naive nature but mother-in-law always used to convince him. One day it reached the limit when in the night the companion’s daughter was thrown out of the house by the in-laws, while she was pregnant. She slept on the platform outside all night. The girl’s parents did not favor her, so that girl went to my above-mentioned partner’s house. Told her grief. He helped her up and kept her in his house in Jodhpur. The in-laws and the boy started getting angry with my partner and also threatened him. But he gave full support to that girl. She got a job by going to Sam and slowly inspired her to go towards her in-laws. Taught her to save money too. Today that girl has mixed with her in-laws. Under his guidance, the plot bought for thousands of rupees with her savings has become worth fifteen lakhs today. In the in-laws’ house, Jethani maintains proper harmony with Devrani and if the house is divided, then the amount of 50 lakhs will come to that girl and her husband. This girl cried more at the death of my partner than his own daughter because he gave her help, encouragement and proper way than the parents who gave birth. 

Now tell me that girl can ever forget him till her last breath? 

Such great human beings are rare in the world.

-Er. Tarachand

इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें:

उत्कृष्ट प्रतिभा वाले मेरे साथी

I spent my childhood in the village and did my schooling in the village school. In 1959, when I was born in Rakh Jodhpur Engineering College, I got a chance to live in the city for the first time. The financial condition of the house was not so good that I could stay in the college hostel. Then my uncle came to Jodhpur and talked to his acquaintance Sharmaji and asked him to stay in a room at his house and he gave his approval. From there he used to go to the engineering college every day on a bicycle, about 6 kilometers away. I stayed at his home throughout my college tenure. He did not take room rent for so many years and treated me like a younger brother. Although I had kept food arrangements outside in the hotel. Luckily after studies, got a job as a junior engineer in Jodhpur and then in the same locality. Lived in a separate house for about 9 years. Later also he gave immense affection, which remained till his death. Salute to his departed soul again.

In 1970-71, I was transferred from Jodhpur to Jaipur Electricity Board. First started looking for a house to live in, then got acquainted with Pareek sahib, who lives in Shastri Nagar, in his house two rooms, kitchen and bathroom were available for rent. Talking about taking rent, he put three conditions, first, the part of this house you will keep for rent, consider it yours. Second condition, your children will be able to move freely in our rooms and our children in your rooms. Third condition, whenever you pay rent, do not call loudly, whenever I come out of the room, give it. Both of our rooms were facing each other. Even today I have not forgotten his terms. After 8-9 months, there was promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer and posting in Achrol, it was Pareek sahib who went with us to Achrol to find a rented house for us. After that Pareek sahib had so much love that wherever I would be transferred, he would come to meet me from Jaipur. Whenever I went to Jaipur after posting outside, I would definitely go to meet him at his house. You will be surprised to know that after thirty-five years when I married my little boy in Jodhpur, then he came from Jaipur and attended the wedding. I Thank God a million times that he continues to talk with me on the telephone even today at the age of 86.

In 1985, as the Executive Engineer, Electricity Board I was serving in Chaumu. In 1986, my son was admitted to Agrawal College, at Sanganeri Gate, Jaipur. Initially he kept traveling from Chomu to Jaipur by bus to college but as it was affecting his studies my son asked to find a room on rent to stay in Jaipur. I asked Rampal ji, a resident of Chaumu, who lived in Jaipur, to find a rented room for the boy. He said, shift your son with us and let him stay with my grandson in his room. Then after taking the room on rent at the appropriate place, we will shift him there. You will be happy to know that he kept my son at his house for about one and a half years and also arranged for breakfast, food and drink as a member of the house. 

After many requests neither did he take the rent nor the money for the food arrangement. He always loved our family. Salute to his divine soul again. 

That’s why I think what I said is right. 

Such gentlemen are rarely found.

-Er. Tarachand

इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें:

ऐसे सज्जन पुरुष विरले ही

I am going to tell you about fellow people of my age, who are said to be of the nineteenth century and who were born and grew up in a rural environment and now live in cities.

Talking about childhood, they were born and grew up in the villages, the roofs of the houses used to be thatch made of tile.  instead of electricity for lighting, oil chimneys or lanterns were used. There used to be bullock carts for traffic. Even to buy household items, they used to walk three-four kilometers to bring goods from the nearby big village shop. Father used to live by ancestral business, in those days education was available only to very few people, that is, to the wealthy class. Fortunately, our parents sent us in the first grade to study in a nearby village school, two kilometers away, then later after our high school, sent us to the cities to pursue higher education. By saving their own little hard earned money, they made us doctors, engineers or lawyers etc. Started jobs in cities in that generation, but maintained ties with the village. From time to time there would be reconciliation with the people when going to the village. 

Sometimes parents would also be brought to the city. When we came from the village, Mother would send the ghee, vegetables of the village with them and if we went to the village, we would please their hearts by taking sweets, medicines etc. for them.

Now, by the grace of God, we also had children after marriage. They were brought up in the cities, to make their future better, they got higher education in the cities and started doing jobs in big cities, but their visiting grandparents in the village remained insignificant. That generation would feel and be proud of being from the early twentieth century.

Now those children had children and after getting higher education got posted in one or two posts higher than their parents in the service job. So we are also happy and our children are also happy.

A nineteenth-century man and his wife lived alone in the city. The second generation children work in Mumbai, Delhi or Calcutta and the parents live in a small town with their own house. As long as the health is good, the car keeps running on the track, but with time old age knocks. The body gradually weakens. Home contact is now completely lost.

Now see how the troubles start like:

1. Brother-in-law and sister-in-law live in a small town and the second generation does a job or business in a big metropolitan city. Son asked the mother and father, you come to Chennai with us. Son-daughter-in-law is busy in the office throughout the day at their job. In such a situation, the parents again get upset and return to their old city. Now if either of the two falls ill in old age, then they have to take care of themselves, children would only call once and ask about your well being. This is what happens.

2. In the same city, the parents live in an old inner walled house and the son lives outside in a posh colony, five kilometers away from the house. After the death of the father, the son invites the mother to live with him in the posh colony, but the mother is not disillusioned with the old house. One day she faints due to an accident while cooking and dies, but no one knows about it.

3. Parents live in the same city in the old house, the same son lives with his wife and children in a bungalow in a different posh colony, not with his parents. Now the mother is sick for five years, father alone is serving his wife, now Bhai Saheb himself is suffering from a terrible disease. Both the parents are serving each other, but with the hope that he taught his son that he would support the wood in old age, but he could not get it. Because he is too busy in the office during the day and at home with kids and wife. That’s why it is rightly said – this happens, because in the changing environment of time, something similar has started happening nowadays. Nevertheless, today there is a need for contemplative thoughts to protect the dying culture, which can awaken consciousness in today’s generation and breathe such life, so that old age cannot become a curse for anyone and the concept of a happy family can be realized.

-Er. Tarachand

इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें:

ऐसे ही होता है।

This incident is of that time, when the construction work of new thermal power station in Jodhpur was going on and the disposal machine in it was imported from Sweden and was set up by the Swedish erector Mr Asberston. Mr. Asberston was very punctual and did not waste a minute while working. The contract was given to clear the coal carts at the power station and the contractor’s laborers were working to empty those trains every day.

One day all the laborers were busy emptying the coal from the train coaches and their children were playing in the shade of a nearby tree. One of them fell into the dirty water nearby and drowned while sliding. The laborers saw and took the child out of the water, by then his body was completely filled with dirty water and he came in a state of breathing her last. When the workers came to me crying, the vehicle of the Electricity Department had gone to collect the goods in the city. I told the Swedish erector, he immediately walked with me to the coal handling plant and took the child in his hands, put his mouth on the child’s mouth, poured the dead water in the child’s stomach into his mouth and spit out. He kept taking the dirty water in his mouth till the child started crying. Meanwhile, the erector’s hands and clothes started getting dirty due to the child’s toilet. 

When the staff started cleaning the toilet with their hands, He said that we commit so many mistakes (sin) every day knowingly or unknowingly. Today I feel good, I have got a chance to work on something good, so let me do my job. That day that erector gave new life to the child of the poor laborer.

This erector was staying at Umaid Bhawan Palace and an Indian erector Mr. Nayar, who was trained by the Swedish company, worked with him. One day both the erectors were drinking alcohol in the Umaid Bhawan before a meal in the evening, when Nayyar jokingly said – Swedish girls are very beautiful and …… 

• The Swedish erector immediately went to his room and brought a pistol and put it on Nayyar’s chest. By then the effects of alcohol on Mr Nair had vanished. Asberston said – Nayyar, you are a very close friend of mine, so I am not firing. 

In future, don’t talk nonsense about my country otherwise I won’t spend even a minute to shoot you. If you are angry with me, kill me with this pistol, I write to you that nothing will go wrong with you. I cannot tolerate wrong talk towards my country.

In this context, today we should think about ourselves that how loyal we are to the country and the Jangid society.

How many divisions are developing in the society and one person is feeling satisfied only by saying bad things about another person.

Therefore, the senior and respectable people of the Mahasabha are requested to put these pots in one thread and develop a sense of unity in the Jangid society.

Only then will loyalty to the country be awakened.

-Er. Tarachand

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