JADAV PAYENG, THE FOREST MAN OF INDIA

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Had an interactive lecture session with the Forest Man of india Mr Jadav Payeng during tecnoesis (tech fest of NIT Silchar). He is man who create forest.

Since past man has tried to fulfill his requirements by doing enormous harm to our earth. He is considered to be the most intelligent animal ever born in this earth and has tried to take every advantages he can by contributing very few in return to the mother Earth.The day he has learnt to built from that day he has gained a title as a deforest-er. Industries, automobiles,etc all products of human beings has created deforestation, pollution and  resulting in climate change ,unbalanced ecosystem etc.But none of his inventions and discoveries have ever tried to create the Earth.There is a limitation for everything to bear stress applied to it and when it overcomes the limitation, it results destruction.Same thing happens in our earth and  so we face natural disasters that ruins us completely.

But this man change it.He proofed that man can also be titled as Afforest-er or creator of forest.He hails from Jorhat, Assam, India. Over the course of many decades he spent planting trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest names as MOLAI forest which surrounds an area of 1360 acres.He work was first discovered by a journalist of Jorhat named Jitu Kalita, who out focus the man in the world and help him to spread Payeng's moto in the entire world.

Payeng was honoured at a public function arranged by the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University on 22 April 2012 for his remarkable achievement. He shared his experience of creating a forest in an interactive session, where Magsaysay Award winner Rajendra Singh and JNU vice-chancellor Sudhir Kumar Sopory were present. Sopory named Jadav Payeng as "Forest Man of India". In the month of October 2013, he was honoured at Indian Institute of Forest Management during their annual event Coalescence.

A short documentry of Payeng as published in Youtube by William D McMaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZDSqyE1do

During the interaction series in our campus he motivated every students to contribute something to the Earth by planting trees. He expressed his emotions to every Indians that many people from India has attained great career in their entire life, gained degrees recognition etc, even  many are having a great career in abroad, and every one of them wants that when they die they their body should meet their motherland India. But has anyone tried to contribute anything to nature?, only a few might have done this. He concluded his lecture that if we have learnt to exploit we should learnt to rebuilt.

Such people have the idea to CHANGE and they do it. If we are not able to contribute like them it’s better to follow them, support them and make a huge change.

HUMANITY DEFEATS FRIENDSHIP.
  

People are becoming self minded, they are only aware of completing their own business and no time for others. No time to look behind, they have only learnt to compete, to be the best. But to what extent they are successful. No they are not.

Try to be human, a real human. Then you can call yourself to be a successful one. You want to an entrepreneur or a doctor or an engineer or scientist , just serve the people and the day will be very near when you will find your name in the list along with top personalities of world like Steve Jobs, Einstein, Thomas .A. Edision etc.

A true story how humanity defeat friendship.

There were 7 boys, went for a bicycle ride. They were enjoying the trip. Among them there was a newcomer to join the ride, new to everyone. The other six were very close friends (let’s read the full story how close they were).

After an hour of cycling they decided to return terminate their journey and to return back. Suddenly a heavy rainfall broke down. Everyone was ramming down to escape from rain. There was a poor boy in the gang who have no command over his bicycle, so his bicycle has faced some problem and he has to stop. The other six on their way. The guy who was new to the group realized that someone is missing, he took a U turn in search of the missing one. He helped him out of the situation.

Have you noticed something, how the close were those close friends, they not even turned up to help the weak one. It is a worst example of friendship but a best example of humanity. Don’t just make friends if you can’t keep it, just be a human and serve the weak ones in need. 

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           On 9th of March, Gyansagar in collaboration with TEQIP-II organized a workshop on Design and Innovation by Professor M.P Ranjan and A. K Gogoi. . M P Ranjan, Design Thinker &     Author of blog www.designforindia.com ,is a faculty in NID , Ahmedabad. He has worked for years to study the design prospects with the use of Bamboo by visiting many local development sites in North-East.  They discussed various issues and perspectives that can contribute to a better understanding of design opportunities. After all, design is a powerful force that shapes culture and is beneficial for communities and businesses alike.

After attending the workshop, having keen interest towards design I wanted to seek an interview of Prof. M.P Ranjan. My Team sHades Entferner (Anupam deka, Mandovi Borthakur , Arunav Saikia and Dinesh Dibakar) helped me to carry the way out. This important, thought provoking and highly inspiring interview is being presented here its original form.

sE: Would you please tell us the field that you are involved and let us know what it means to you?

MP Ranjan: My primary area of work is design thinking. Design thinking is not only a mental activity, it is a process through which you think, you act, you build , you taste and then you come back to thinking; that it is a cyclic process. I have been teaching that and doing it. The bamboo work that I presented in the workshop is a part of the same journey. I started design thinking in mid-eighties in NID (a faculty of design thinking left NID, which became a door kind of thing for my entry to NID). Through this thinking apart from bamboo, I am connected to many other activities in design. My personal nature is that I wonder a lot from one field to another (I have worked in computer, IT, handicrafts, small scale industries, high technical industries etc). Thus Design Education and thinking is my primary kind of thing.

sE: When did you pick up design thinking as a career?

MP: It’s a long story. I have a good hold over the English language, my vocabulary is huge which points a finger to my primary education. In madras I was put in a convent school (best in the city) run by Irish nuns. My father who was a carpenter and busy in his business, felt that his children should get the best of education. So I was admitted to the best schools from the primary level. I studied there till the fifth standard and then I joined Christian High School(6-12). In our school we had a choice in 9^th standard to take two or three options and engineering was one of them. The engineering included engineering materials, engineering science, engineering drawing etc along with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and a few literary subjects. I chose engineering because that was an area of interest that I had. After 12^th I thought of joining either an engineering college or architecture, and in order to get an entry to it I had to have a pre engineering course which I completed in Madras Christian College, Tambaram.

At that time my father’s business was going through a lot of turmoil. As a young kid I could see his tremendous success in one stage and huge losses in the next(1964). When I completed my college(1968) I was to get admission to Engineering College, Guindy or a school of architecture. But I couldn’t pursue my studies as my father was in an economic problem. So I started to work with him full time, to help in his work. After one year my father brought a paper saying that NID is organizing a new design programme seeking for either an architect or an experienced cabinet maker. And he told me to join it as I was a good cabinet maker(inspiration from my father). I entered PG programme when I was 18 and half and the oldest among my colleagues was 28 years old. I was a very brilliant boy, used to get highest marks. By the time I joined NID I already made 100 models because of my passion of making things. This way I got into the field of design.

sE: You came across many challenges. How did you face them?

MP: there may be hundreds of challenges that one may face in life but one should have a belief in oneself and just keep on going. You should not compromise.

sE: Sir it is said that excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude, and one must always have an attitude to excel in social and personal development. What do you think…?

MP: I don’t agree with it at all. Excellence is skill, that means when you do something well that is excellence. You can develop this by a lot of hard work and patience.

sE: Did something hurt you inspite of achieving all such recognitions?

MP: What recognitions? I don’t have a single award in my life. I am satisfied of getting leadership, but dissatisfied that our country doesn’t know that design can do so much for them. IIT’s are getting funds of thousands cores. But what about NID? They only get hundred to two hundred cores. Google has got autonomous vehicle. Why hasn’t any IIT developed it? IIT engineers have gone there and did it but the IITs cannot take credit for it. I am asking this question very loudly.

sE: How can we make four years of graduation more productive in NIT?

MP: you can do many things. For instance you can take the example of rickshaw. Can NIT make a single cycle rickshaw with advanced technology for silchar, to reduce labor effort. Yes, you can. You go around and sense what struggle the rickshaw puller is facing. If you can then make an innovative idea the city will be benefitted as everybody will go by these rickshaws and many will be employed. Thus you can think on some small ideas and convert them into something really different.

"There are many things to learn from different people"-sHades Entferner

My journey towards iota……

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IOTA ….do u know what it means ?

Its something “a tiny or scarcely detectable amount” as found in a dictionary. But my IOTA is a small start-up to bridge the gap between students of Assam and the stack of opportunities that this rapidly changing world keeps on churning out. It was initiated by a group of four students from NIT Silchar in 2013 namely Priyankush Kahyap, Abhishek Kashyap, Chao Bagish Phukan and Anurag Biswanath.

I came to know about IOTA in the month of February 2014 during out cultural fest in NIT Silchar. One day I got a call from Anurag Biswanath and he wanted to meet me. I went to his hostel. There I found two members one was Anurag and the other was Priyankush. They introduced me about IOTA, as they want to extend their team member in IOTA so they started judging my interest towards IOTA. After going through a series of discussion I got the IOTA membership. Today we are nine members in IOTA .

My first contribution to the team was my presentation on career counselling in Paramount Academy , Silchar. It went well but not the best. I was finding difficulties in catching attention of the public in the beginning, as time roll on I was able to do so. I was a good experience for me.

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Last Kachari kingdom, khaspur, kachar, Assam

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Last   king name – Shri Shri Shri Shri Shri Gobindra Chandra Hasnu.

Today we visited the last Kachari kingdom at Khaspur in Silchar , Kachar district, Assam. At present there is a Bhishnu   Temple, Ranachandi Temple, Brahma temple, Shiv Temple, Bardowar, Dugurko (Queens Bathroom)

. All these monuments are deteriorating. We visited there and felt very sad by looking them. It can be transformed into a  tourist place to preserve those monuments but due to the negligence of the government it has transformed into a jungle. The   local   Kachari people are protesting against the government, but they are not getting any response. Some people are settling down within the boundary of the kingdom and destroying the walls and monuments for capturing the land.

 Today we came to know why different tribes of Assam are fighting for different state. If I belong to such a tribe I will also have done the same. Those tribes want themselves to be known by all. They also want that there culture, tradition, monuments, etc should be respected and preserved by everyone. But as they are not getting such respect they are becoming aggressive.  

This monuments   are pride of Assam so its duty of every citizen to go to that place and find some way out to protect and preserve them. Instead of dividing into different state  we the citizens of Assam should unite together and we try for the upliftment of every tribe  of Assam and respect them.

We a group of students from NIT Silchar are trying to focus such incognisant things, people etc around us.