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.

MY INTERVIEW WITH a MISSED HERO

DATE 9/9/08 : MY INTERVIEW WITH a MISSED HERO

While I was on my way to the Surat city from Hazira, I happened to board an auto for transportation.

A young little boy boarded the auto along with me. A boy who looked not older than 8th or 9th class (around 13-14 year old), who had he been studying at a school would have carried books in his hands and would have been approaching a class or a tuition instead of going to a petrol bunk with an empty can in his hand to buy diesel for refilling his own driven truck. Yes indeed he is a truck, heavy vehicle driver. He was a very charming little boy, quick to grasp whats going on around him. He was sitting to the edge of the seat with his empty can in his hand. Laughing unwontedly to the sarcastic jokes on his state Bihar and his favorite real life hero Lalu Prasad Yadav.

I managed to drag him in to a little conversation wherein he told me about his journey from Bagalpura, BIHAR to Hazira, Gujarat to earn some money so he could run his 4 member family back home, 4 member family where 3 members are penniless, father due to his old age and brother who is jobless. He is certainly an example of responsibility.


He happened to run away from his home with a sum of Rs 1500 which he borrowed from a friend’s home, the friend who lured him about the money that he would be earning if he managed to escape out of his home. Little aware of the dangerous and hazardous places he would be made to work ,instead of supplying the much needed education to his budding life, instead of spending his childhood with in his mothers courtyard ,cherishing the love of his mother, which millions are deprived off, HE ran away from his home to the mirage of money.
Babuly yadav, age 16, as told by him, as told to him to be told to others, so that he is not caught by any govt. Authorities under child labour. But still he is underage to drive a heavy vehicle across the highways though. His MAALIK (boss) got him an illegal license to run the heavy vehicle in the national highway, which could be lethal for him as well as anyone who is traveling along with him.


Bablu yadav manages to earn around 3000 to 4000 a month from which he sends more than half of money to support his family back in Bagalpura. He aims to own his own truck in future when he grows big, as big he might have the privilege to own a legal license also. When asked about his happiness in the decision he has made, he happened to tell me he regrets the decision he has made but its too late for him to rebuild his life back home but he surely doesn’t lack the enthusiasm to work his way through his life to achieve what he wants.

In areas where industries dominate the location, there will be many children like Bablu yadav, who are misguided and brought to these places for working in there. They surely reduce the labour cost and can also be made to do double work.

It is time now to cut this infiltration of children from villages to these places and it is high time to put a check on this trend. Government and society should take a step forward to make these innocent children understand long term of benefits of education.

By looking at the charm and attentive nature of Bablu yadav, i realized that India had just given away a good engineer or a doctor, who could have served millions of people, instead of a MAALIK and his trucks.

Hundreds of Bablu yadavs are created everyday and millions of people of our nation lose much needed man power to serve the country.

Blame us-Jan 2008

Blame us : A 10 mins short movie on one of the major problems of street children was made in January 2008.

The film was shot in one day .

The movie blame us with a caption,The society is responsible for its own destruction shows that the creators of anti social elements of the society is the society itselfs.
The society is responsible for creating the anti social elements.It is indeed a common scene on the roads , the ill treatment of street children. This has a great effect on the little minds of these children. It slowly develops a sort of thinking which states " Why should i think of the society when the society doesnt think about me ? " and hence very much prone to anti social activities.
It urges the society to show a little bit of love and respect towards the street children.

The film is directed by me and music was scored by sricharan.Praveen,a 7th class student of timpany school visakhapatnam did the lead and sameer , abhijeet shared the screen in a few important scenes.


The film won a special mention award at Umang-08 at IIT-K.

The film was screen for press on 6th april for press and 11th april for public.

The movie is availble online at Youtube.

Street Diaries : March 2007

Street Diaries : A 20 Min Documentary Movie on STREET CHILDREN.
Shot in Visakhapatnam. Directed by me and Music was scored by sricharan pakala.

The Movie highlights the issue of street children and also displays various means by which the problem could be eradicated.

It contains interviews of about 10 street children from various locations of visakhapatnam and added to it are the interviews of few students commenting on the problem and giving their views to clear the problem

The movie was screen for press and public on 15th july 2007 and to rotary club members on 25th july 2007 .

The movie is uploaded in youtube : "Street-diaries"