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Not an Ordinary Story! Father, laborer by choice, software engineer! A real life story!! Whose achievement deserves to be acclaimed most and brought to the limelight for inspiring others to follow- the father, who happens to be a laborer by choice or the who is a software engineer with Google in Seattle? After reading the story yesterday morning in the Hindustan Times, I could not decide who deserves my heartfelt thanks for the job well-done—the father or his ? It has become a kind of dilemma to me and therefore, I would like to reproduce this great success story in an abridged form for you all to read and to solve the dilemma for me if you so please! The father is known as Tejaram Sankhla. He comes from Sojat, a town located in the state of Rajasthan, India. He is a day laborer by choice. And he is proud for the job he has been doing since long to feed his family and to educate his 3 . He likes his work so much so that the 50 year old Tejaram still loads sacks of Henna leaves on trucks (Henna is a plant used for dyeing) for transporting the same by road to port for exporting to various countries though he doesn’t need to work now to make ends meet! Because, his firstborn Ram Chandra, earns an enviable salary! Tejaram earns about Indian Rupees 400 daily. At the current rate of exchange, 400 Indian Rupees equals to US Dollar 5.874. Not much for those who live in the United States! His , Ram Chandra, wants his father to take it easy. But Tejaram loathes sitting idle at home. “I feel useless if I don’t work,” he said. Ram is Tejaram’s firstborn . He went to IIT in 2008 after passing Class 12 from the government, Hindi-medium school in Sojat, with a personal loan from a judicial officer posted in the Kota sessions court. Another family from Sojat paid the counseling and first semester fee when Ram took admission in IIT-Roorkee in 2009. “They bought me a suitcase and some clothes to wear in college,” he said. “Later, some people from the community raised Rupees 30,000 to buy a laptop for me. My father took a loan to pay the second semester fee. I got an education loan in the second year to fund the rest of my education,” he said to Hindustan Times. Ram’s mother, Rami Devi, was a working class woman too. She used to work before at construction sites to support her family of five. She is now 49 years old, stays at home and looks after a 1.5-acre farmland that the family bought with money from Ram’s salary. Ram Chandra used to cook dinner on a clay stove for the family when he was in school. He saved and spent Rupees 70, 000 from his college scholarship to build a kitchen for his parents. The stipend was Rupees 30, 000 a semester for three years. He also repaid the loans that his father owed to several individual and also the educational loan after he joined Google. The debt cleared, the family built a brick-and-mortar home. “People didn’t take back the money they lent me when I offered to repay. They said help the needy, bright students who are like me,” he said to Hindustan Times. The newspaper added further while reporting the story that, “Ram wants to help students. He taught at an orphanage in Kota for about a month in October 2015, and spent his scholarship on younger sister Jyoti to send her to Jodhpur to prepare for the engineering entrance test.” Thank you all for reading the story.     |
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Father and Son!
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What a wonderful success story, and it is still being written! Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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What an uplifting story!! Thanks for sharing this!!
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What a wonderful success story, and it is still being written! You are absolutely correct Mrs, Joe. This young man and his parents have shown us that everything is possible if there is a strong will to do something positive! Have a wonderful day and take care.
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What an uplifting story!! Thanks for sharing this!! Thank you so much for liking the story. I appreciate. Take care of yourself and stay well and happy throughout the year 2017.
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Thank you deborahsu for your well judged opinion. I am in full agreement with what you have expressed at above. Both father and son are deserved to be acclaimed. I wish each and every family living below the poverty line learn something positive from this remarkable true story. Thanks again for your comments. Stay happy and Cheerful always.
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No doubt about it ,Deborahsu. H e looks handsome too.
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I am pleased to read from you here on my blog page after a considerable long time, Poet. Hope you are keeping all well now. Hope to read from you more often on this page of mine. Stay happy all the times to come.
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