Swaraj Amrit Mahotsav : तु में एक रक्त - Balasaheb Deshpande

Shri Ramakant Keshav Deshpande alias Balasaheb Deshpande was born on 26th December 1913 (Margashirsh krushna 14 shake 1835) in Amaravati, Maharashtra.

His primary education was in Sagar in Madhya Pradesh as well as in Akola and Narsingpur in Maharashtra. He passed his matriculation examination from Kashi Hindu Vidyapith. He acquired Bachelor's degree in arts (B. A.) in 1935 and later got degree in law in 1937 before starting his law practice. He further did his masters in arts in 1938. (M. A.)

Balasaheb Deshpande had a very active role in freedom struggle. After independence, he got opportunity to work as a Regional co-ordinator for state department for welfare of backward communities at Jashpur in Madhya Pradesh. It was vision of Thakkar Bappa who feared anti national movement in Jashpur that Balasaheb was asked to take appropriate responsibility. After sad and sudden demise of respected Thakkar Bappa, Shri Deshpande left government job and resumed his law practice. Shri Deshpande had several occasions to have fruitful interaction with Sarsanghchalak, revered Guruji and during one such interaction idea was mooted to establish a dedicated institution for Vanavasis.

Accordingly on 26th December 1952 which happened to be birthday of Shri Deshpande,  Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram (VKA) was founded in Jashpur. Royal family of Jashpur patronised VKA's mission right from its inception. In 4 years of its setting up, VKA received acclaim of then Honourable President of India Dr. Rajendraprasad during a convention held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

VKA work which started in Jashpur, Madhya Pradesh, soon extended to nearby states like Bihar and Orissa. Emergency declared in 1975 appeared like a setback and an administrator was appointed for VKA while Shri Deshpande and many others were jailed. But emergency proved to be boon in disguise as VKA extended its operation to the entire country soon after emergency was called off. In 1981 VKA operations extended further to include all 7 north eastern states.

It was vision of Shri Deshpande that on the birthdate of Swami Vivekanand on 12th January 1987, it was decided to institute a sports event 'Eklavya Khelkud'. Hitraksha – protection of rights – has been one of the main purpose (Ayam) pursued by VKA. This work also started during tenure of Balasaheb Deshpande.

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सिद्ध‌‌यसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥

Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26

Swaraj Amrit Mahotsav : India’s industrial revolution

The Indian Institute of Science gave rise to many industries, some of which are still around. Its scientists were instrumental in setting up and leading many of independent India's PSUs. It also counts among the world's leading institutions of scientific researchIn1893, a monk and an industrialist – Swami Vivekananda and JamsetjiNusserwanji Tata – met on the steamship 'Empress of India' enroute from Japan to Chicago. Their conversation sowed the seeds ofIndian Institute of Science (IISc) in Tata's mind."Ivery much recall at this moment your views on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India, and the duty, not of destroying, but of diverting it into useful channels. I recall these ideas in connection with my scheme of a Research Institute of Science for India, of which you have doubtless heard or read," Tata wrote to Vivekananda onNovember 23, 1898. By then, he had constituted a ProvisionalCommittee under the leadership of Burjorji Padshah, who would go onto become a central character in the setting up of IISc.Padshah,who had visited many countries to understand how universities function, wrote after his tour: "...such a university might be the crown of the existing universities." He noted that the presence of a large number of young Indians at Oxford, Cambridge and other colleges and hospitals in London and Edinburgh demonstrated the demand for postgraduate education, mostly because "European degrees have a money value superior to that of Indian degrees; but the difference in the money value is itself the result of the difference sin educational efficiency."Thecommittee, on December 31, 1898, presented a draft to viceroy-designate Lord Curzon. Services of Sir William Ramsay, aNobel laureate, were sought to pick the institute's setting.Bengaluru – where it still stands on a campus of 400-plus acres –was chosen because of the city's good climate. Next, SriKrishnaraja Wodeyar IV, the maharaja of Mysore, donated more than 371acres. Viceroy Lord Minto granted a formal approval for the institute, and the vesting order to enable it to function was signed on May 27, 1909.

Driver of industrialisation

At IISc's foundation ceremony in 1909, Wodeyar IV said, "The institute should make some provision for students, who, though they possess no capital, are likely to turn a scientific training into a useful account." The first batch was admitted on July 24, 1911, in the departments of general and applied chemistry headed by Norman Rudolf, and electro-technology under Alfred Ray.

From the start, IISc's focus has been on research and the institute has featured in national and international rankings over the years. In 1913, Sir M Visvesvaraya, the dewan of Mysore, was nominated to its Council. He urged researchers to carry out studies that would realise his dream of an industrialised Mysore. "His association had an immediate impact on the nature of research," IISc says. "In five years, six factories were started as a direct result of the investigations carried out here: an acetone factory in Nashik; a thymol factory in Hyderabad (Sind); a factory to make straw boards from bamboo in Bengaluru, a soap factory in Bengaluru, and sandalwood oil factories in Bengaluru and Mysore." The success of the sandalwood oil and soap factories made sandalwood and its products synonymous with Karnataka.

Nursery of institutes

Prof P Balaram, IISc director from 2005 to 2014, told TOI: "In the 1940s, when World War-II ended, it was clear that you needed a lot of technology in India. And many engineering departments at IISc were started in the 40s and 50s. These came much before the IITs. In fact, people from here went on to create many other institutes and programmes."

During WW-II, IISc contributed by training personnel, manufacturing military and industrial goods, and collaborating with Hindustan Aircraft Limited (now Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) to repair and maintain British and American warplanes. "This period saw an expansion of research in engineering, and new departments such as those of Aeronautical Engineering, Metallurgy, and Mechanical Engineering were added," IISc says.

Between the 60s and the early 80s, under director Satish Dhawan, IISc's research areas grew to include materials science, computer science and automation, molecular biophysics, and interdisciplinary work under the Centre for Theoretical Studies, which eventually led to the formation of other centres in ecology, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and more.

The social impact of advancements in science was a key focus during this period, particularly under the Cell for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas (ASTRA), which continues today as the Centre for Sustainable Technologies.

Eminent minds

Dhawanis just one of the many big names associated with IISc. Its first director MW Travers was an associate of Sir William Ramsay. Three of its directors were knighted – Sir AG Bourne, Sir Martin O Fosterand Sir CV Raman, who also won a Nobel.IISccounts among its former students and faculty several eminentscientists like Homi J Bhabha, founder of India's nuclear programme, Vikram Sarabhai, founder of India's space programme,meteorologist Anna Mani, biochemist and nutrition expert KamalaSohonie, and solid state and materials scientist CNR Rao, to name a few."Oneof the most important things to come out of IISc is the people. While the contributions of Bhabha, Sarabhai and Dhawan are well known,there are many more," Balaram said, adding that IISc also played a key role in establishing other academic institutions, including theIITs and organisations like BARC and Isro."Immediatelyafter Independence, GN Ramachandran started the physics department inMadras University, S Ramaseshan started the department in IIT-M. PKKhelkhar started IIT-Bombay as project officer and then IIT-Kanpur as first director, while JC Ghosh was the first director ofIIT-Kharagpur," he added. Other prominent IISc-ians include Prof Roddam Narasimha, who conceivedIndia's Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas; Prof Rohini Godbole, a physicist with multiple international awards known for her work on the Higgs Boson (God Particle), for which physicists Francois Englertand Peter Higgs won the Nobel in 2013; CV Vishveshwara, who sepredictions nearly 50 years ago were credited by scientists from LIGOafter discovering gravitational waves for the first time, and VMGhatge.Balaramsaid all of India's PSUs in the initial years of Independence,including HAL and NAL, had people from IISc, and many institutions –NCBS, JNCASR, ICTS, to name a few – were conceived here as their founders were trained at IISc.

21st-century research

 Moving into the 21st century, IISc has set up an undergraduate programme, several new departments and centres in the areas of brain research, nanoscience and engineering, hypersonics and more, strengthened ties with industry, and incubated several startups. It has also expanded to include a 1500-acre campus at Challakere in Chitradurga district, Karnataka. It will soon start a medical course, something Padshah had conceived 123 years ago.

In 2015, Bharat Ratna Prof CNR Rao, one of IISc's directors (1984-1994) and a former scientific advisor to the PM, had told TOI: "IISc is the only one in India with the potential of matching the MITs and Harvards."

Today, IISc has more than 40 departments/labs offering PhD and integrated PhD programmes, several master's programmes and a four-year BSc (research) programme. It has dozens of active patents and several tie-ups with industries taking its research into the market while more than 20,000 students have graduated from it over the years. It has become more conscious about translating research into products and has helped host a lot of companies. AstraZeneca, a pharma MNC, began its operations at IISc. "...Wipro's first operation, too, was at IISc. Many of these things are not acknowledged," Balaram said.

The institute, through SID (Society of Innovation and Development), incubates a host of startups in deep science, including those that have won the National Startup Awards.

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मुक्तसंग्ङोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वित:।
सिद्ध‌‌यसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥

Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26

Swadesh Mantra : स्वदेश मन्त्र, Aarti Bharat Mata Ki, Vande Mataram

Tomorrow begins the Samartha Bharat Parva.

25 Dec - Swami ji took Sanyas Diksha on this very day in 1886 renouncing everything for good of others

25 Dec - Swami ji began his 3 days-meditation on rock in mid sea off Kanyakumari shore in 1892 to know the way of rejuvenation of Mother Bharat

We all begin Samartha Bharat Parva tomorrow till 12 January.

Let us chant this 'Swadesh Mantra' and make it part of our life.

Let us sing 'Vande Mataram' thinking on the meaning of the expressions in it and making it part of our life.

And every day also do Sampark with some people taking 'Vivekananda Shila Smarak : Ek Bharat Vijayi Bharat' - inspring story of Vivekananda Shila Smarak, the work Vivekananda Kendra is doing and the eternal message of Swami Vivekananda. 

हे भारत ! केवल दूसरों की हाँ में हाँ में हाँ मिलाकर, दूसरों की इस क्षूद्र नक़ल के द्वारा, दूसरों का ही मुँह ताकते रहकर........ क्या तू इसी पाथेय के सहारे, सभ्यता और महानता के चरम शिखर पर चढ़ सकेगा? क्या तू अपनी इस लज्जास्पद कायरता के द्वारा उस स्वाधीनता को प्राप्त कर सकेगा जिसे पाने के अधिकारी केवल साहसी और वीर है? हे भारत ! मत भूल, तेरे नारीत्व का आदर्श सीता, सावित्री और दमयन्ती है। मत भूल कि तेरे उपास्यदेव देवाधिदेव सर्वस्वत्यागी, उमापति शंकर है। मत भूल कि तेरा विवाह, तेरी धन-संपत्ति, तेरा जीवन केवल विषय- सुख के हेतु नहीं है, केवल तेरे व्यक्तिगत सुखोपभोग के लिए नहीं है। मत भूल कि तू माता के चरणों में बलि चढ़ने के लिए ही पैदा हुआ हैं। मत भूल कि तेरी समाज - व्यवस्था उस अनन्त जगज्जननी महामाया की छाया मात्र हैं। मत भूल कि नीच, अज्ञानी, दरिद्र, अनपढ़, चमार, मेहतर सब तेरे रक्त मांस के है, वे सब तेरे भाई है। ओ वीर पुरुष ! साहस बटोर, निर्भीक बन और गर्व कर कि तू भारतवासी है। गर्व से घोषणा कर कि "मैं भारतवासी हूँ, प्रत्येक भारतवासी मेरा भाई है। " मुख से बोल, "अज्ञानी भारतवासी, दरिद्र और पीड़ित भारतवासी, ब्राह्मण भारतवासी, चाण्डाल भारतवासी सभी मेरे भाई है।" तू भी एक चिथड़े से अपने तन की लज्जा को ढँक ले और गर्वपूर्वक उच्च-स्वर से उद्धोष कर, "प्रत्येक भारतवासी मेरा भाई है, भारतवासी मेरे प्राण हैं, भारत के देवी-देवता मेरे ईश्वर है। भारत का समाज मेरे बचपन का झूला, मेरे यौवन की फुलवारी और मेरे बुढ़ापे की काशी है।" मेरे भाई, कह : "भारत की मिटटी मेरा स्वर्ग है, भारत के कल्याण में ही मेरा कल्याण है।" अहोरात्र जपा कर, "हे गौरीनाथ ! हे जगदम्बे ! मुझे मनुष्यत्व दो। हे शक्तिमयी माँ ! मेरी दुर्बलता को हर लो; मेरी कापुरुषता को दूर भगा दो और मुझे मनुष्य बना दो, माँ !" ~ स्वामी विवेकानन्द

O India! With this mere echoing of others, with this base imitation of others, with this dependence on others, this slavish weakness, this vile detestable cruelty -- wouldst thou, with these provisions only, scale the highest pinnacle of civilisation and greatness? Wouldst thou attain, by means of thy disgraceful cowardice, that freedom deserved only by the brave and the heroic? O India! Forget not that the ideal of thy womanhood is Sita, Savitri, Damayanti; Forget not that the God thou worshippest is the great Ascetic of ascetics, the all-renouncing Shankara, the Lord of Uma; Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness; Forget not that thou art born as a sacrifice to the Mother's altar; Forget not that thy social order is but the reflex of the Infinite Universal Motherhood; Forget not that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the cobbler, the sweeper, are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers. Thou brave one, be bold, take courage, be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, " I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother. " Say, " The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother. " Thou, too, clad with but a rag round thy loins proudly proclaim at the top of thy voice: " The Indian is my brother, the Indian is my life, India's gods and goddesses are my God. India's society is the cradle of my infancy, the pleasure-garden of my youth, the sacred heaven, the Varanasi of my old age. " Say, brother; " The soil of India is my highest heaven, the good of India is my good, " and repeat and pray day and night, " O Thou Lord of Gauri, O Thou Mother of the Universe, vouchsafe manliness unto me! O Thou Mother of Strength, take away my weakness, take away my unmanliness, and make me a Man! " -Swami Vivekananda

[ The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 4 [Page:479], MODERN INDIA ]
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मुक्तसंग्ङोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वित:।
सिद्ध‌‌यसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥

Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26