Babar Ali is a real life based inspiring story written by Indian author and Entrepreneur, Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma. The story explores the themes of Penury, Education and Power of taking action.
Babar Ali By Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma
Summary of Babar Ali By Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma
The story revolves around a life of Babar Ali, a 16 years old boy. He is a Headmaster of school, Anand Siksha Niketan. Babar Ali is the youngest Headmaster in the world and provides free education to hundreds of students in his family’s backyard. Babar Ali is that kind of person who just don’t live for himself but for others. He wants to bring a positive change in the world and works super hard for it.
In the beginning of story, writer describe the daily life routine of Babar Ali. He wakes up at 7 am in the morning and start his day with household work. After completing household work, Babar leaves for the school. To go in school, first he take Auto Rickshaw and walks 5 kilometers to reach in school. His school name is Cossimbazar Raj Govinda Sundari Vidyapeeth.
Babar is a thin and ganguly boy, smart and intelligent and wears blue and white uniform. Babar is the first person of his family who received proper education. After school, when teenagers used to run towards playground to play Cricket and Football, Babar Ali used to go to afternoon school where he was a Headmaster of 800 students.
In the upcoming story, writer describe about the school of Babar Ali. His school name is Anand Siksha Niketan. Babar’s school condition was very bad, and students used to study in open Sky. The writer has desribed Babar Ali as a privileged Soul.
It is for two reasons, first is Babar Ali was among those students who got the chance to go school and receive education. Second reason, Babar Ali was a son of Nasiruddin Sheikh who was a jute seller. His father believed that education is man’s true religion. In the beginning, Babar Ali’s venture was supported by his father’s income. It means Babar Ali was supported by his father in his schooling life.
The school Education was free but still many families were not able to support their children in schooling because education was free but not uniforms and books. Therefore, many boys started working in young age to support their family financially. They used to work as mechanics, labour, grass cutters and live stock herders to support their family with money. And girl used to work as maid in rich villager’s home. For these reason, Babar Ali decided to give free educations to the unprivileged students.
Anand Siksha Niketan school was started as game, when Babar Ali was 9 years old, he used to play School game with his friends. His friends never went to school, so they loved to be students, they used to learn Mathematics in school game. But soon it converted into reality.
Anand Siksha Niketan school was established with 8 students, it was grows slowly, and in next 9 years school grows from 8 students to 220 students on roll-call and 800 hundred school in total.
Thereafter, school started receiving government and private assistance. The school has now 10 volunteer teachers who teach from grade 1 to 8. Anand Siksha Niketan school is now registered and recognized by West Bengal state government. It means the students from Anand Siksha Niketan school are now eligible to transfer in other local high schools.
After these recognition, Babar Ali became the youngest master at the age of 16. The children from the village and from nearby villages does their work by afternoon and goes to Babar Ali’s afternoon school.
The story now features new woman character, Tulu Rani Hazra, a fishmonger who were supporting Babar Ali in his initiative. Wherever Tulu Rani goes to sell her fish, she meets those parents who have stopped sending their children to schools. She used to persuade them to send their children again in school. She also recruit new students in school. Tulu Rani has recruit around 80 students till now.
In teaching staff, there were nine people who were high school students. Dabarita Bhattacharya was most educated among all of them. She used to go college in Berhampur. There is no building in Anand Siksha Niketan school, students attend classes in open sky. They also provide mid day meals to students. In the beginning, rice for mid day meals used to come from Babar Ali’s father’s fields.
But now it is arranged by social workers and government of West Bengal. Anand Siksha Niketan’s teachers are students itself, there is no generation gap between teachers and students. This is an advantage as it helps them to get attention of students. It has build a friendly relationship between teachers and students. And they also provide free text books from class I to V class students.
In the story, we learned how 16 years old boy has transformed the life of children from his village. Babar Ali has not just changed his village’s children life, he has also changed the life of children from the nearby village of his village.
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