Wisdom!
And what is wisdom?
Let’s first try to understand what is NOT wisdom. Wisdom is neither a measure of the amount of information and data stored into our brain cells, nor of the dexterity with which we can perform tasks which were originally invented and perfected by others.
Wisdom is rather the ability to absorb and input information and data from the outside as well as from within our own selves; sift, arrange classify, doubt, question, reject, accept and connect each and every item of such data with each other to find, invent and create holistic solutions hitherto unknown to the humanity; learning, unlearning and re learning in the way. Wisdom gives us out of the tunnel vision.
Our mother land India, since times immemorial, has been the most fertile ground for supporting and nurturing wisdom. Great thinkers and wise people, from the architects of the Harappan civilisation to the saints, thinkers, philosophers, astronomers, physicians, mathematicians, physicists and what not of the ancient ages to the planners, engineers, bards, poets and sufis of the medieval era to thinkers, lawmakers, and scientists to the modern age right upto the brilliant son of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, India has gifted to humanity its brightest jewels. In fact while standing here before you at the Unity Degree College, I remember one of such persons I had a chance to work with and he was the Honourable Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain the founder secretary of Unity Technical Institute Society and Unity Degree College. All of them were wise people and original thinkers, and not just educated people – as is generally understood from the word ‘educated’ by many.
We felt the need of an organisation – under the patronage of Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza, the illustrious son of Honourable Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain – separately and exclusively concentrating on providing platform to people where scholars and learned thinkers from different walks of life interact with young men and women so as to quicken the seeds of wisdom into their minds, while the original organisation the Unity Technical Institute Society concentrates on its noble goal of providing technical and job oriented education to people from the weaker sections of the society. Thus, Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust) came into being in October 2015.
Under the visionary guidance of Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza as also of Dr. B. N. Singh within a short span of six months of its existence the Trust has the following achievements to its credit:
- Organised Kisan Goshthi (Farmers’ Meet) at Unity Girls School at Village: Sidhnath, Asiwan, Mianganj Unnao, in which Prof. B. N. Singh guided farmers about cultivation of wheat and rice and answered their queries.
- Helped in free distribution of biofortified wheat seeds to some farmers on trial basis under HarvestPlus programme by Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur.
- Published the book “ Tighteneing Noose of Poverty ” by Masood Rezvi, which is available in Large Font Edition and Abridged Edition both in paperback and Kindle format, internationally on Amazon.
- Is holding the seminar Growth with Justice and has published this book which is again available both in paperback format and in Kindle format, internationally on Amazon.
This seminar is first in the series. We will be organizing such seminars biennially in addition to workshops, conferences and brain storming sessions on relevant contemporary sub themes and issues. We will be encouraging younger generation to think and write, almost any genre, from books of scientific and technical utility to, novels, short stories, poems and all will give them debut by publishing their work and ensuring it global distribution.
We will be working for technology transfer to farmers and artisans and encourage innovative developmental technology for Growth and Development of the economically marginalized classes, without any discrimination whatsoever.
We, definitely invite you, ladies and gentlemen to support us generously through purchasing our publications, subscribing to our events, writing for us, inviting us to hold such events in your town city or village, inviting others to join and donating to us for building our own financial base if you so desire.
With these words I thank you very much for your support without taking more time to let you get immersed in the wisdom of all the thinkers and writers who are presenting their papers in the seminar.
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Managing Trustee, Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust)
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