Babar Ali is a real-life based inspirational story written by Indian author and entrepreneur, Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma. The story explores themes of poverty, education, and the power to take action.
Babar Ali By Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma
Summary of Babar Ali By Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma
The story revolves around Babar Ali, a 16-year-old boy. He is the headmaster of Anand Shiksha Niketan School. 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 a person who lives not just for himself but for others. He wants to bring a positive change in the world and works hard for it. At the beginning of the story, the author describes Babar Ali’s daily routine.
He wakes up at 7 am and starts his day with household chores. After completing the household chores, Babar leaves for school. To go to school, first he takes an auto rickshaw and walks 5 kilometers to reach the school. The name of his school is Cossimbazar Raj Govinda Sundari Vidyapeeth.
Babar is a slim and gangly boy, smart and intelligent and wears a blue and white uniform. Babar is the first person in his family to receive proper education. While after school the teenagers used to rush to the ground to play cricket and football, Babar Ali used to go to the afternoon school where he was the headmaster of 800 students.
In the upcoming story the author describes about Babar Ali’s school. The name of his school is Anand Shiksha Niketan. The condition of Babar’s school was very poor and the students used to study under the open sky. The author has described Babar Ali as a privileged person.
There are two reasons for this, firstly Babar Ali was among those students who got a chance to go to school and get education. The second reason is that Babar Ali was the son of Nasiruddin Sheikh who was a jute seller. His father believed that education is the true religion of man. In the beginning Babar Ali’s venture was supported by his father’s income. This means that Babar Ali had the support of his father in his school life.
Education in the school was free but still many families were not able to help their children in schooling because education was free but not uniforms and books. So, many boys started working at a young age to help their family financially. They used to work as mechanics, laborers, grass cutters and cattle herders to support their family. And girls used to work as maids in the house of rich villagers. For these reasons, Babar Ali decided to provide free education to underprivileged students.
Anand Shiksha Niketan School started as a game, when Babar Ali was 9 years old, he used to play school games with his friends. His friends never went to school, so they liked to be students, they used to learn math in school games. But soon it turned into reality.
Ananda Shiksha Niketan School was founded with 8 students, it gradually grew and over the next 9 years the school grew from 8 students to 220 students and a total of 800 hundred students.
After this, the school started receiving government and private aid. The school now has 10 volunteer teachers who teach from class 1 to 8. Ananda Shiksha Niketan School is now registered and recognized by the West Bengal State Government. This means that students of Ananda Shiksha Niketan School are now eligible to transfer to other local high schools.
After these recognitions, Babar Ali became the youngest master at the age of 16. Children from the village and nearby villages come to Babar Ali’s afternoon school after doing their work till noon.
The story now includes a new female character, Tulu Rani Hazra, a fish seller who was supporting Babar Ali’s initiative. Wherever Tulu Rani goes to sell her fish, she meets parents who have stopped sending their children to school. She used to convince them to send their children to school again. She also recruits new students to the school. Tulu Rani has recruited about 80 students so far.
Among the teaching staff, nine people were high school students. Dabrita Bhattacharya was the most educated of them all. She used to go to college in Berhampur. Ananda Shiksha Niketan School has no building, students take classes under the open sky. They also provide mid-day meals to the students. In the beginning, rice for mid-day meals came from Babar Ali’s father’s fields.
But now it is managed by social workers and the West Bengal government. The teachers of Ananda Shiksha Niketan are students themselves, there is no generation gap between teachers and students. This is an advantage as it helps them to get the attention of the students. This has created friendly relations between teachers and students. And they also provide free text books to students from class I to V.
In the story, we learn how a 16-year-old boy changed the lives of the children in his village. Babar Ali not only changed the lives of the children in his village, but he also changed the lives of the children in the surrounding villages.
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