BABULAL - SHOEMAKER & DR AJAY KUMAR OJHA: A DIVINE RELATIONSHIP

BABULAL  -  SHOEMAKER & DR AJAY KUMAR OJHA:
A DIVINE RELATIONSHIP

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Babulal with Dr Ajay Kumar ( Ojha)
Photo by Dr. Ajay Kumar (Ojha)

Babulal makes & repairs shoes. He sits with all his materials on the pavement near Lodi Colony Main Market Bus Stand in New Delhi. Very simple,very innocent, very disciplined, very punctual, very reasonable - a man with transparent personality living in a metro city where so called educated high class people who have multiple personalities depending upon their interest & condition.

Photo by Dr. Ajay Kumar (Ojha)

Now-a-days sincere & honest persons are treated as fools as they are not manipulators. They are overburdened with responsibilities but awards/prizes/appreciations /foreign trips /facilities are grabbed by butterers, spoons & lobbyists. These silent workers are humiliated in front of every one and they have to even hear such sentences as" You are inefficient, you may resign", "This is professionally untenable, you may take VRS". In this kind of a situation, company of Babulal like persons is very soothing/encouraging/inspiring.

These high class people including bureaucrats & politicians have opaque personality & artificial life. They are not true to their near & dear ones, even to themselves.They are alienated from themselves. They are master manipulators, they commit all sorts of wrongs but they are efficient in justifying and defending. Most of them are in the race of grabbing money by hook or by crook. It is now an open secret.

Photo by Dr. Ajay Kumar (Ojha)

But Babulal is very sincere & honest to his profession. Whatever he earns, he earns by doing hard work and not deceiving anyone, not looting anyone. He carries a smiling face, a natural one  not artificial or computerized as per the need like that of the high class people. Whatever he speaks he speaks from his heart. Though not educated he is a successful graduate in the field of philosophy of life. 

Photo by Dr. Ajay Kumar (Ojha)

 I learn a lot of things from him. For me he is the most cultured & civilized person. I am scared in the company of so called high class elite people but I am very comfortable and safe in his benign company. And that is why whenever I pass through this area I automatically get driven towards him for the last two decades since I came into his contact. I am dwarfed by his towering personality. He is god-incarnate & place where he sits, is abode of god - a temple.