मेरी ताज़ी झारखण्ड यात्रा

I AM REALLY PROUD OF MY PROFESSION WHICH HAS BEEN GIVING ME ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE THE HUMANITY.WAY BACK IN 1986,WHEN I HAD BECOME A LECTURER I WAS SO HAPPY THAT I STARTED FEELING AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD.MY FRIENDS WHO WERE PREPARING FOR CIVIL SERVICES WERE NOT ABLE TO COMPREHEND WHEN THEY FOUND THAT I WAS CONSIDERING TEACHING IN A COLLEGE OF DELHI UNIVERSITY MUCH MORE WORTH THAN ANY THING ELSE.MAY BE I WAS FASCINATED TO THIS PROFESSION BECAUSE I HAD SEEN THE PRESTIGE AND SHRADDHA ENJOYED BY MY FATHER , A GREAT TEACHER TOO ,SINCE MY CHILDHOOD. TODAY AFTER BECOMING AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND ASPIRING TO BECOME A PROFESSOR (IF THE PROFESSORSHIP IS INTRODUCED IN THE COLLEGES OF DELHI UNIVERSITY) I FEEL MUCH MORE PROUD AND CONTENTED SINCE THIS PROFESSION HAS BEEN GIVING ME CREATIVE SATISFACTION IN THE REAL SENSE . BUT MORE THAN A TEACHER I STILL FEEL LIKE A STUDENT , AS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF MY STUDENT DAYS ,I HAVE BEEN CURIOUS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE PLACES I VISIT.MAY BE MY HISTORIAN BACKGROUND IS PLAYING SOME ROLE BEHIND THIS .SO WHEREVER I GO ,ALONE OR WITH MY FAMILY,THE TRIP USUALLY BECOMES MEMORABLE.
DURING THE LAST SUMMER HOLIDAYS WE VISITED OUR NATIVE PLACE , DEOGHAR-DUMKA IN JHARKHAND. DEOGHAR-DUMKA ARE THE TWIN CITIES OF SANTAL-PRAGNAS REGION OF MODERN JHARKHAND. DEOGHAR IS A WORLD FAMOUS RELIGIOUS CENTRE. THE FAMOUS BAIDYANATH JYOTIRLINGAM -ONE OF THE MOST WORSHIPPED DWADAS JYOTIRLINGAMS OF LORD SHIVA , IS SITUATED THERE.EVERY YEAR LAKHS AND LAKHS PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF INDIA COME TO DEOGHAR , SPECIALLY IN THIS MONTH OF SAWAN.THE KANWAR MELA WHICH ONE CAN SEE IN DELHI IN FACT ORIGINATED FROM DEOGHAR.KANWARIAS WHO TAKE THE HOLLY WATER OF GANGA AT SULTANGANJ IN BIHAR DELIVER IT TO THE LORD BAIDYANATH.IT IS A VERY OLD TRADITION OF THIS PLACE.. DURING THIS VACATION WE WERE HENCE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE STAYED IN THIS CITY.WE VISITED NANDAN- HILLS-AN ATTRACTION OF THE CITY AND ALSO CLIMBED TRIKUT PARVAT–WHICH IS ABOUT 15 K.M. FROM THE CITY.PATHROL,AGAIN A HOLY PLACE AND ONE OF THE SHAKTI-PEETHAS,WHERE GODDESS KALI IS WORSHIPPED ,WAS ALSO VISITED BY US.MY DAUGHTER THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE PATHROL VISIT .
HOWEVER MY SON LIKED THE DUMKA VISIT MORE.DUMKA THE SUB- CAPITAL OF JHARKHAND ,WHICH IS A HISTORIC PLACE IS ALSO THE HEAD QUARTER OF SANTAL PRAGNAS.SANTAL PRGNAS WAS CREATED IN 1855,AFTER THE WORLD FAMOUS – SANTAL REBELLION TOOK PLACE..MARX HAD ALSO CALLED IT THE FIRST PEOPLES-MOVEMENT OF INDIA.AND THE FAMOUS REBELLION STARTED ON 30TH JUNE IN 1854.SIDHU,KANHOO,CHAND AND BHAIRO—-THESE FOUR BROTHERS WERE THE HEROS OF THIS REBELLION.EVERY YEAR THIS EVENT IS CELEBRATED AS HOOL-DIWAS IN DUMKA.WE WERE VERY EXITED TO BE THE PART OF THE CELEBRATION . BUT 30TH JUNE OF THIS(2009) YEAR WHICH ALSO WITNESSED A GREAT EVENT AS THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF LATE.ACHARYA JYOTINDRA PRASAD JHA PANKAJ - ONE OF THE GREATEST FIGURES OF THIS REGION ,WAS CELEBRATED WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM.SCHOLARS,ARTISTS,JOURNALISTS,SOCIAL-ACTIVISTS,TEACHERS AND POETS FROM ALL PARTS OF SANTAL PRAGNAS HAD ASSEMBLED AND PAID THEIR HOMAGE TO PANKAJ JI.ON THIS OCCASION A NEW WEB-SITE NAMED www.pankajgoshthi.org/ WAS ALSO LAUNCHED TO COMMEMORATE PANKAJ JI AND OTHER GREAT PERSONALITIES OF THE REGION . EVEN AFTER 32 YEARS OF HIS DEATH , HIS REMEMBERENCE AT SUCH A LARGE SCALE , THAT TOO WITHOUT ANY STATE PATRONAGE , BECOMES VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE STUDENT OF HISTORY AS IT TELLS US ABOUT HOW THE PROCESS OF CULT-FORMATION TAKES PLACE.SINCE PANKAJ JI HAS BECOME A PART OF THE MEMORY OF THE MASSES OF THE REGION,THEREFORE HE IS REMEMBERED EVERY YEAR.THIS YEAR WE ALSO BECAME PART OF THIS GREAT EVENT.THE 90TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PANKAJ JI PROVIDED A SPECIAL OCCASION TO MY SON TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE AREA.MY ENTIRE FAMILY FELT FORTUNATE TO WITNESS THESE EVENTS AT DUMKA.
WE VISIT JHARKHAND ALMOST EVERY YEAR BUT THIS VISIT WILL BE ALWAYS SPECIAL AND MEMORABLE FOR US , BECAUSE THIS WAS VERY CLOSE TO OUR HEART,SPECIALLY WHEN MY SON AND DAUGHTER KNEW THAT PANKAJ JI , THEIR GRAND FATHER WAS SO GREAT.MY WIFE STARTED CONSIDERING ME TOO LIKE MY FATHER BUT I KNOW I CANNOT REACH THE HEIGHTS OF MY FATHER WHO CREATED HISTORY IN SEVERAL WAYS . HOWEVER TO BE TRUE I HAVE ALSO BEEN ASPIRING TO BE A WORTHY SON OF MY GREAT FATHER.THIS HOLIDAY VISIT RE-INSTILLED MY CHILDHOOD ASPIRATION ONCE AGAIN IN ME . THAT IS WHY THIS HOLIDAY TRIP HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN THE BEST TRIP OF MY LIFE.

www.pankajgoshthi.org/ launched and started---a web-site dedicated to santal-pragnas of jharkhand.

३० जून २००९ को दुमका में हुए दो समारोह काफी चर्चित रहे.पहला समारोह या कहें समारोहों की श्रृंखला तो प्रत्येक वर्ष हल-क्रांति दिवस के रूप में आयोजित की जाती है,परन्तु दूसरा समारोह इस मायने में महत्त्वपूर्ण रहा कि यह आचार्य ज्योतींद्र प्रसाद झा 'पंकज' की ९०वी जयंती के अवसर पर आयोजित किया गया था.आचार्य ज्योतींद्र प्रसाद झा 'पंकज' ९०वी जयंती समारोह समिति तथा पंकज-गोष्ठी परिवार के संयुक्त तत्वावधान में आयोजित यह समारोह काफी चर्चित रहा तथा मिडिया ने भी इसे काफी प्रमुखता दी.३० जून के प्रभात-खबर ने "आचार्य ज्योतींद्र प्रसाद झा 'पंकज' की ९०वी जयंती आज " शीर्षक से बड़ा समाचार तो छापा ही,अलग से एक बड़ा लेख भी प्रकाशित किया जिसका शीर्षक था "स्वयं में एक संस्थागत स्वरुप थे कविवर पंकज जी".लेखक ने इस लेख में पंकज जी के कई पहलुओं को उद्घाटित करते हुए समारोह की सफलता की नींव दाल दी.
समारोह की शुरुवात होने में एक घोषित समय से एक घंटे का विलंब हुआ क्योंकि २८-२९जुने को मुसलाधार वारिस तो हुई ही थी,३० की सुबह से ही घनघोर वर्षा हो रही थी.मनो भयंकर तपिस में झुलस रहे संताल-परगना को पंकज जी पहले की तरह एक बार फिर से खुशहाल करने का यत्न कर रहे हो.खैर ,११.३० पर डॉ. प्रमोदिनी हंसदा ,प्रति-कुलपति,एस.के.एम.विश्वविद्यालय,दुमका,द्वारा स्नेह और श्रद्धा का दीप प्रज्वल्लित करने के साथ शुरू हो गया.उस समय तक संताल-परगना के सभी जिले के बुद्धिजीवी,विद्वान्,कवि एवं शिक्षाविद पधार चुके थे.
समारोह को संबोधित करते हुए अपने उद्बोधन भाषण में डॉ.प्रमोदिनी ने आचार्य पंकज को संताल-परगना की धरती पर पैदा हुए उन विरले महान विभूतियों में से एक बताया जिनकी बहुमुखी प्रतिभा एवं अनुपम अवदानों से संताल परगना का जन-मन सदा-सर्वदा के लिए ऋणी रहेगा.परत-कुलपति ने विस्तार से पंकज जी के जीवन वृत्त एवं कार्यो का उल्लेख करते हुए बताया की किस तरह से १९३८ से १९७७ तक पंकज जी संताल परगना की समस्त हलचलों से न सिर्फ जुड़े रहे वल्कि हिंदी विद्यापीठ के छात्र के रूप में महात्मा-गाँधी के प्रत्यक्षा एवं निकट सम्पर्क में आने के बाद से ही आजीवन गांधीवादी बन गए.१९४२ के भारत छोडो आन्दोलन में देवघर के शहीद आश्रम छात्रावास के अधीक्षक के रूप में अपने छात्रो के साथ क्रांतिकारी गतिविधियों को संचालित करते रहे.दिन में समर्पित शिक्षक एवं रत में क्रन्तिकारी विप्लवी---ए था पंकज का अनूठा व्यक्तित्व.
राष्ट्र की स्वाधीनता के बाद पंकज ने देश के सबसे पिछडे इलाके में से एक संताल परगना में शिक्षा और साहित्य के प्रसार में खुद को समर्पित कर दिया.
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