Dear readers
I remember an auto biographical commentary by Booker T Washington on struggle of for education. He was born in America at the time when America was facing civil war. The war ended in the culmination of treatment of blacks as secondary citizens. Washington was a black and had to suffer too much to get education. He worked as a labourer and would go to primary school after work. At that time there was no higher school for blacks in small towns. Booker went to nearby city to learn in a big school. Principal of that school just to humiliate him asked to clean the adjacent room, as clean as a mirror was the requirement. Booker started the work; he worked from morning to dusk and told his principal that he has done his job. The Principal inspected the room and found it up to the mark. She asked him to join the school. Later Booker became one of the greatest educationists of modern America and wrote several books. His autobiography is up from the slavery.
This piece from history tells us that urge to get knowledge is neither easy nor has any shortcut. We have to labour hard as hard as possible. We have to fish here and there wherever we find any slightest possibility of getting treasure of knowledge. This quest of knowledge and education often takes us to organised beautiful meetings or gatherings, where we systematically learn a particular subject. One of such gathering is called school or institution. And another example is our study circle, where these days we are having a lecture series. In this series there are varied topics like ego, patriarchy, scientific temperament, democracy etc. In each issue of Samar you will find the printed version of at least one lecture from now on to coming few months. No doubt it's another mode to acquire knowledge and no doubt it requires hard labour perseverance.
Hope you will enjoy it send comments to it. Hope it will serve our and your purpose to share knowledge and break shackles of the orthodoxy and rigidity prevailing in the society.
Yours truly,
Editor
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