By Angmo
07-10-2006

Any daring hands out there?

What happens to a plant when the seed carries the defect or genetically deformed? Educational system in Ladakh was sown with a infected seed and hence the plant it has grown to now has lot of defects in it. One can try to cure it to only an extend and beyond that there is nothing in the gardners hand.

There are so many flaws, and it is extremely frustrating to me to find an answer as to how can we cure to its minimal extend? But then I see, perhaps we should plug the tree from the root before it gives us any more "bad fruits" with all the effort everyone puts in. Passerby see these fruits and make a "disgusted" looking face, the owner of the land comes and stares at the plant occasionally and says we outta fix it but never comes back again. The fruits look at them and say why are the fruits on the nearby plant so juicy and attractive for everyone. Looking at a bright fresh healthy fruit inserts an inferiority feeling in their minds. Sometimes, some of the angry fruits raise their voice and say, the gardner nourished the other plant more. They blame the gardner and they blame the owner. They even blame the fresh fruits and starts to look at them as their real foes. But what they dont understand is that the land is same, it came with the same nutrition, infact, they got more attention. Time and gain, people came to cure their disease and "invested" a lot of attention but when the flaw is inscribed in them,(and neither they could see them nor could others find them), there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Yes, there is one strategy for three years to come. The land where the infected plant is grown may grow fresh fruits in years to comes. But that needs the determination in terms of the gardener, the passbys, and the owner to pull that plant out of the root and plant an well tested seed that has worked so well in the nearby land. Ten years from then on, no more fruits shall be stale and infected.

But ofcourse, education system is not like a plant you can pull out of its root and dump it or compost it. We have the resources to plant a new seed but fear the reactions of the leaves, the bugs, the birds and anything else that is connected to the infected plant now.


Any daring hands out there?


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