MICAVAANI-insights

okay.... so this is going to be about my latest (mis)adventure...about going to the adjoining villages of Shela and Ghuma for MICAVAANI-the community radio station of MICA..recently i quit the progaramming team and joined the marketing team..and from then on began the roller -coaster ride...
It began with going to the villages to spread awareness about MICAVAANI...so me and bhatta climed aboard the indespensible chakda..on the evening of a weekly rest day(a phenomenon that happens once a fortnight)..for an expedition into our rustic environs..in the spirit of knowing our surroundings better..but we had no idea about was was on our way..
Ghuma by the looks of it seems to be like any other north Indian village,and it indeed is..but to our surprise most of the houses we visited had a colour TV,the first guy we met drove a Maruti Van to fetch school children to and from a school in Bopal..and whoa..sent his only son to a school which charged Rs.40,000 per annum.(okie...)

Then as we moved on we met all kinds of people,some seemed to be interested,many shied away,and with a few we had quite insightful discussions..like they very clearly stated that the main problem facing them is the lack of ambition in their children,that they do not study and engage themselves in some kind of business or work to earn(perhaps that is where the legendary enrepreneurial drive of Gujratis can be traced to)..anyway,so the main issue that they brought on being asked was that of lack of Education or rather the lack of motivation to study further...maybe this can be traced to the sense of complcency that could be discerned by their behavior..so we got an insight for the programming team-Conceive a program on sucessful people from within their community(Gujrat) or elsewhere which tells sucess stories of people who educated themselves and hence became famous.
And perhaps we learnt a lesson for ourselves from that innocuous trip...more on it later.