sau putravathi bhava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 SAU PUTRAVATHI BHAVA

 That day was a special day for Namita and her daughter Nisha. It was Nisha’s first day in the college. Both were exited. They did a bit of shopping for her first day.  Only difference was that it was Nisha’s  first day of teaching. Namita was all exited that her little daughter was going to teach in the college. She was eagerly waiting for her daughter.

Nisha comes back home and makes just one statement. Ma! I got 25 kids today. They are going to give me 75 more kids with in a week’s time. SoI am targeted to get  100 kids altogether.  Namilta is puzzeled. R..Are.. you sure you went to the r..right college?  Did I hear that you get 100 k..kids altogether. Namita was expecting a very different experience like her interaction with students, teachers, lively atmosphere and the feel at the canteen -heart of campus from her daughter.  Pouring coffee from the kettle, Nisha confirmed that whatever she said was absolutely correct. She is yet to explore the canteen part as a teacher. Nisha told her mom that college atmosphere has undergone a sea change.  There was a long pause.

 I guess they both remembered that one small incidence over which they talked for hours together. Namita and Nisha, like any other mom and daughter used to have bitter argument about the famous blessing “Sau Putravathi Bhava”. They used to ponder over the blessing and it’s actual possibility. Today , this little girl Nisha who is in twenties is already  blessed with 25 kids, that too on the first of college and 75 to be added very soon.

There is nothing funny about it. These days every teaching faculty is blessed with at least 100 kids. They are directly responsible for the kid’s(college student) welfare.  A teacher requires to play multiple roll for each kid. Apart from teaching, she /he is supposed to know each kid, their social status, about their family background etc. Teacher keeps a record of her kids especially the medical one(which is on a high scale) She has to track their record outside college campus, adjust to the mood swings and set right broken relationship (if any)

It is well appreciated if teacher can give extra time outside the college campus also. Teacher is supposed to play the role of a liaison office between the student and their parents as well as between the student and management. Every month the teacher sends the reports of her students to the parents as well as management.

Coming to the point of ‘Sau Putravathi bhava’ meaning may you be blessed with hundred children, we can relate the blessing to be more apt for teachers in today’s scenario. Only difference is that they are blessed with boys and girls if it a co.ed. college an d only girls if the college is only for women.  A teacher spends an average of 8 to 10 hours on the allotted students. Concern about those kids is always the first priority. They are entertained at home also (some times with their parents) Their birthdays are important dates in a teachre’s calendar. I wonder in what way they are different from a teacher’s own children?

Namita and Nisha were so engrossed in the pause that they had be shaken to bring them back to our world. They were seeing new dimension of age old blessing. You need to treat all kids like your own. You need to understand their point of view like you try to understand your own children.  Think the best for them. Do not feel bad when they do not say bye to you at the time of leaving college. You did your best to make a good citizen and that is the beauty of a mother or rather a teacher.

Mrs. Srilakshmi swamy