This week concludes the SIP experience and ends quite an exhilarating 7 weeks in terms of personal development, practical experiences and tangible progress which I have made.
Due to the nature of my project, sometimes it has felt as if my personal objectives have been hijacked by the objectives of the project but I guess this was the real skill in how can I ensure than I remain committed equally to both. In particular, I have struggled with personal objectives such as weekly bhojan at a Sangh family’s home, researching a current affairs topic and completing the community emersion programme whereby I was expected to visit another community programme outside of Sangh.
However, if there was a positive message which I was to take away from this project, it would be the realisation of the need to ACT. In the 7 weeks of my internship I have began to delve into an issue which most opinionated karyakatas in the UK would agree is absolutely necessary, however has not been seriously looked into. Utilising 7 weeks of my time to get the ball rolling in terms of getting more Hindus more active in politics is a small commitment when you look at the possibilities that my vision encompasses. It will also now be up to me and whoever would like to engage with this project to ensure that we keep acting and not allow the momentum of action to stop and remain back on the level of enquiring and complaining. I can now take this experience into any walk of life and realise the importance of just doing something which is practical and tangible.
Hence, this message is really to encourage you to be positive with any ideas which you may have and commit a definite time frame in which to do it. This will help maintain focus, direction as well as closure which is the most important bit, there needs to be closure to every idea so you are not hopelessly wondering around with lofty visions and objectives. From my project I experienced that really going for something in a short space of time raises your motivation and your willingness to just go out and act. For instance, a few weeks back I packed my bags and went to London for 4 days after I received a phone call on Sunday night, telling me that there was a useful event happening on Monday. In the four days which I was there, I worked with Barry Gardiner MP, attended a dinner event to host the BJP delegation, I attended a meeting with the BJP, I interviewed Sailesh Vara MP, I sat through the Prime ministers emergency sitting in the house of commons, I was in the room down the corridor from where Rupert Murdoch was attacked and to top it off - I saw the Indian cricket team! Had I not decided to go London or even not have done SIP, I most probably would have spend the same 4 days doing something less exciting and less productive for myself or Sangh.
This is why I feel that I have the experience to encourage you to just have the urge to get up and do it because you cannot always see where your actions will take you; they may even be life changing. I would like to finish by recommending that you read Che’ Guevara’s “Motorcycle Diaries”, because if there was ever an example of how positive repercussions can come about out of just doing what you feel needs to be done, there is not better role model that Che.
Due to the nature of my project, sometimes it has felt as if my personal objectives have been hijacked by the objectives of the project but I guess this was the real skill in how can I ensure than I remain committed equally to both. In particular, I have struggled with personal objectives such as weekly bhojan at a Sangh family’s home, researching a current affairs topic and completing the community emersion programme whereby I was expected to visit another community programme outside of Sangh.
However, if there was a positive message which I was to take away from this project, it would be the realisation of the need to ACT. In the 7 weeks of my internship I have began to delve into an issue which most opinionated karyakatas in the UK would agree is absolutely necessary, however has not been seriously looked into. Utilising 7 weeks of my time to get the ball rolling in terms of getting more Hindus more active in politics is a small commitment when you look at the possibilities that my vision encompasses. It will also now be up to me and whoever would like to engage with this project to ensure that we keep acting and not allow the momentum of action to stop and remain back on the level of enquiring and complaining. I can now take this experience into any walk of life and realise the importance of just doing something which is practical and tangible.
Hence, this message is really to encourage you to be positive with any ideas which you may have and commit a definite time frame in which to do it. This will help maintain focus, direction as well as closure which is the most important bit, there needs to be closure to every idea so you are not hopelessly wondering around with lofty visions and objectives. From my project I experienced that really going for something in a short space of time raises your motivation and your willingness to just go out and act. For instance, a few weeks back I packed my bags and went to London for 4 days after I received a phone call on Sunday night, telling me that there was a useful event happening on Monday. In the four days which I was there, I worked with Barry Gardiner MP, attended a dinner event to host the BJP delegation, I attended a meeting with the BJP, I interviewed Sailesh Vara MP, I sat through the Prime ministers emergency sitting in the house of commons, I was in the room down the corridor from where Rupert Murdoch was attacked and to top it off - I saw the Indian cricket team! Had I not decided to go London or even not have done SIP, I most probably would have spend the same 4 days doing something less exciting and less productive for myself or Sangh.
This is why I feel that I have the experience to encourage you to just have the urge to get up and do it because you cannot always see where your actions will take you; they may even be life changing. I would like to finish by recommending that you read Che’ Guevara’s “Motorcycle Diaries”, because if there was ever an example of how positive repercussions can come about out of just doing what you feel needs to be done, there is not better role model that Che.
“Action expresses Priorities” - Gandhi
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