Message from the mentor

The students of LIBA have started giving................................................their blood!

The Constitution of India in its preamble has the following declaration:
We, the people of INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY, of thought, expression, belief;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
And to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the NATION;
Three score and two years have gone into history since the British left India. Before 1947, we could accuse them as the exploiters and hold them responsible for the then conditions which prevailed in the country.
True, when we look around, we are surprised by our phenomenal achievements in Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Transport communications, Science and Technology and other areas. Our progress is amazing! Our achievements are phenomenal!
But…..
Every third Indian cannot read. Every sixth Indian has to fight the caste system to become a touchable. Majority of our rural women, about ninety percent of the dalit women cannot read and write. Every fourth Indian does not get even adequate food. Every second child suffers from malnutrition and hunger.
Economic equality and economic democracy are still far away. Social freedom and social democracy remain only as dreams to be realised. Every third Indian is earning below a dollar per day. About seventy five percent of Indians are still getting less than two dollars a day.
But….
The national income is more than one trillion dollars. The growth rate has been incredible.
What are the reasons for our failure to realise the dreams of Mahatma and his team?
There has been growth of course without equity and justice!
This has to be changed.
The governance should become more transparent, efficient and accountable at all levels.
The haves should share whatever they have beyond their requirements.
The people and the institutions should give more and more to the marginalised.
The students of LIBA have started giving. They have started giving their blood! They want to give more in terms of knowledge, money, efforts and love.
They are visiting the remote villages and also the slums in the city. They are trying to clean and green the campus. They are trying to organise evening classes for the poor children in the slums. They are extending their arms to help the poor. A few small steps, but a leap forward!
They are adding one more feather to the glory of LIBA.
I am sure that the students have made a beginning in transforming the social order. Such efforts, collectively, will deliver justice- social, economic, political and cultural, in such manner that the people secure what was promised to them by the noble preamble to our constitution.

-Dr. M Victor Louis Anthuvan, Professor,LIBA; Mentor,LIBA Radius