MY INTERVIEW WITH COMMUNIST: COMRADE VETRICHEZHIAN

29/06/07: MY INTERVIEW WITH COMMUNIST COMRADE VETRICHEZHIAN

June 2007, I was on a desire to conduct survey regarding education systems for the less fortuned class of the society. I landed in Chennai, along with my friends, to conduct a survey on a few government educational institutions.

Fortunately in INDIA, Post high school, Government educational institutions are of the world’s best standards. The IITs and the IIMs for e.g., they debase every private institution which tries to compete with them, by dominating in every department from the infrastructure- to the students’ abilities and what not.

But, Unfortunately until high school, the government educational institutions are regarded as the institutions for the less fortuned people, for the sons and daughters of the daily laborers, for the servants of the fortuned people, for those who don’t belong to any family, for those who are used to dirty houses, dirty washrooms and dirty from top to bottom and what not. Even those who can’t afford private educational institutions would strive hard for an extra penny, so their children would get a going in to a private institute. This is the worst nightmare of Indian educational system. Perhaps the most mysterious and bewildering fact of our nation, quite an open secret though.

Through a friend of mine Suresh, who lives in Chennai, I got to visit PAVENTUR TAMIL MEDIUM SCHOOL, one of the first of its kind, the first of the kind I have been to, a communist run school. Run by Comrade Vetrichezhian in the outskirts of Chennai. The school is based in a square shaped yard divided in to two halves; one half contains all the classrooms with shed roofs where as the other half the play ground of the school. Towards one end of the square lies the office of the school where comrade’s chamber lies.

In the conversation I had with the comrade, he happened to tell me that his main goal behind the establishment of the communism based school is, to oppress the capitalism based private institutions, to subdue those institutions who charge huge ransoms of money only to make students mug up the answers, to outcast those institutions that only install- the urge to possess a goal to crack the entrance exams, rather than any sense of patriotism or social values in to the students.

Comrade Vetrichezhian tells me that it is the duty of the teachers to bring a change in the way of thinking of the students and it is purely their responsibility to make the students understand their social duties. He blames the media for misleading the students of today’s generation and quotes that for the students of this generation, patriotism is, purely and strictly and only, a cricket match.

Comrade has taken the decision to fight the problems of the society with the modern day weapon, the most effective weapon, EDUCATION.
He has decided to bring about a change to the society through EDUCATION and pledged to try his best to serve education to as many people as possible to bring about a social change.

Indeed, EDUCATION is the only solution to all social problems of the society.

The sooner we realize this Unseen fact, the better it is for our society.