Can an institute be your mother? Yes, it can be, and it used to be often so. Earlier. During the freedom struggle, many an inspired thinkers, social/political activists and freedom fighters such as Tilak, Agarkar tried such a feat. In the early stages of the Independence era, too, opening an educational institute was not exctly a profit amking business.
It was not, moreover, merely educational institutes that used to be run with such dedication. Many people took their profession very seriously. Why give any other example? Papa himself took his job very seriously. I do indeed think that for him his work, otherwise so very official, dry as bone, was worship. And, oh, yes, I do think that it is because of such very, very few people in every field that institutes are alive, though surely not kicking as that assinine work is reserved for the others, the vast majority mostly interested in avoiding actual professional work as much as possible.
That is not my theme today though. What I am interested in is analysing what the metaphor of an institution, the workplace, the profession as a mother implies. All the genuinely maternal qualities indeed! Genuine love in abundance, an eternal bond, readiness for sacrifice, a feel of inseparable togetherness, for instance, right? The best sterling qualities that make this human life truly humane. Like our mother!
pratima@definig and celebrating an eternal bond
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