Dear Dr. Jaswant Saini,
Heartiest congratulations on completing a milestone in life. There is very little that we can do where there is compulsory retirement at a given age.
What is important is what we do before we retire.
The idea in this mail originates from my understanding of the job of a University teacher and the culture that makes him/her.
While the primary job of a teacher is teaching and research, over the last many years, the focus has shifted to everything else other than teaching and research. I have heard people in our Department argue that other jobs are also University jobs, and hence are important. Unfortunately, I have never been able to appreciate that other jobs have the same importance as teaching and research. While the salary that we get for teaching and research is fixed, some other jobs do get us a lot without any decrease in salary.
What I like and admire about you is that you never compromised with academic ethics, teaching was always your priority, and you maintained this much required respect for your profession.
It is also important that you could do this even though there is a prevailing culture to which you could have succumbed to. More importantly, the values that were practiced by other people within your research group, have been very different from the values practiced by you.
सब कहते हैं संगत का असर होता है | शायद आपके संस्कार ऐसे थे कि तिरस्कारपूर्ण मूल्यों वाले लोगों के साथ समय गुज़ारने के बावजूद आप तटस्थ रहे | व्यक्तिगत स्वार्थ के चलते मैंने लोगों को सांसारिक एवम शैक्षिक मूल्यों से समझौता करते देखा है --- इस हद तक गिरते देखा है जिसकी कल्पना भी नहीं की जा सकती | यह शायद उनकी ज़रुरत थी, और यही शायद उनके संस्कार थे | शायद आप अपने रिसर्च ग्रुप के अलावा अच्छे लोगों की संगत में भी रहे |
मैं एक कमज़ोर इंसान हूँ, और लोगों से प्रभावित हो जाता हूँ --- इसीलिए प्रयास करता हूँ कि अपना समय सिर्फ ऐसे लोगों के साथ व्यतीत करूँ जहाँ मुझ पर कोई गलत प्रभाव न पड़े | यदि आप मेरे जैसे कमज़ोर व्यक्तित्व के होते तो शायद बुरी संगत में आप भी अवांछनीय मूल्यों अपना लेते |
यह मेरे लिए गर्व का विषय है कि आप जैसे लोग इस विभाग मे थे | I have mentioned you to some of my colleagues and collaborators outside this University. While I do not know anything about your research, I do know that you did very well as a teacher. My heartiest congratulation for being able to honour the commitment that we should all be doing.
With my best wishes for a happy retired life and with kind regards,
Sudhir Raniwala
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Prof. Sudhir Raniwala is professor at Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan.You can know more about him by searching on google.
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