i was telling you this last night on the plane but uh super grateful
to tag along during your philanthropic efforts it was amazing to have the opportunity to get insight
was there one moment that stood out most to you
thank you very much we are working with parivar foundation and constructing a residential school
for 2300 children they'll actually be hand holding those students from the age of 3 to 16 and guide
them give direction to their life education though is the the avenue to a better life
and this will it's it's the foundation i mean it's the foundation for for children to
achieve whatever they want to achieve whatever they want to be in life you know
not all of them have to become a team so not all of them have to become doctors
lawyers you know whatever you want to be some may want to become top chefs some may want to become
engineers whatever it is whatever you aspire to be in life it all eventually boils down to
what an individual wants to do and this is a solid foundation for that the development of that school
was something which touched my heart so when i looked at it i said okay i'm going to name this
after my parents my father was a professor and if he was alive today he would have been a proud
man because you know when i shared this news with my mother in the night she just looked at me and
the smile that she gave me you know is priceless
and uh it touches you yeah absolutely i mean there is no greater satisfaction than that you know when
when you know that you've made your parents proud it makes your life complete you know
that's what you live for and from that spot we went to savannah which was again a longish drive
we again went to a kotir a kotir is you know in a village
each has anywhere between 120 and 150 children parivar the foundation has 495 kotirs
they kind of request a person who has a biggest house or somebody who's willing to
just uh as a charity give his house to be used for children you know underprivileged children
tribals actually and those children get there in the morning before they go to their actual school
this is the kitchen where we cook that's all food for all the students here and the food
is cooked by local villages okay so they also you know are financially taken care of that way
there is some sort of income for them as well we've identified three areas that we want to be
involved in nature uh health uh sports and education making sure that
the foundation is strong and number of uh young girls aspiring to be police officers
very good it was so pleasing to hear that there were number of girls the young girls there
who said i want to become a teacher
teacher one thing i made them promise me was promise me that you're going to come
back here and teach the next generation and they have promised me so these are the things
which make you happy and give you a reason to smile what made you decide to start the foundation
in the first place some time ago my wife uh dr anjali think looker and that also helps because
she herself is a doctor so she kind of pushed this and then we started discussing this seriously that
okay i mean in individual capacity we are doing certain things but how can we take it to a scale
where the whole country and beyond get involved in this and it's not just about india it's it's for
all the people across the globe who who deserve a fair opportunity in life we decided that we
are going to work with the children of india because they are the future we are we are the
youngest average population and that is going to stay for a while so our population is our strength
and young population if you channelize their energies then it's going to produce
good results and that is what we are looking to do what would you say your long-term goals are
with the foundation the the dream is to spread our wings and go to various parts
there is a desperate need and where we can shape careers i mean we can get fitter we
can get healthier and that is what one would want to see so so from a sports loving nation ideally
it should be sports playing nation too that is the transition i would like to see thank you
so it's going to take longer than 24 years off of my career that i played cricket
it's going to be a much much lengthier and more uh i would say committed process where you know
in cricket the commitment that i showed i would want to match that here as well
you know everything that i could do on the field could be measured
because there were numbers in front of us here of course there will be numbers but
something that cannot be measured is satisfaction that you get that only oneself would realize and
like i had the feeling last night when i went to bed
if i can have that feeling for the rest of my life then i know that i'm on a good track
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