( A Review of ‘Youth special edition’ of Vanbandhu , English – Hindi bilingual magazine )
Where the dream takes shape that happens to be the vision of a youth brimmed with energy, driven by the higher ambition. The initiatives, therefore, are usually seen forthcoming from the same age. Shri Ram, Vivekananda , Bhagwan Birsa Munda , Rani Gaidinliu were of the same age of a youth when they inspired the nation of their times. With preserving their Dharam and culture taking Janjati (tribal) community to their all round well-being is the aim of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram . Later, so as to emphasize more on the participation of the youths that a separate ‘Yuva-Karya Aayam’ came into being in 2020.
And now Kalyan Ashram published ‘ Yuva-Visheshank’ dedicated to the youth fraternity. Knew when read it that as in 2022 the Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav was celebrated that the symposiums , exhibitions, debate competitions and Yuva-samvad were organized in 110 universities covering over 50,000 students. This, notably, provided the opportunity to common educated class of different hues in a great way for the first time to come to know the contribution of the Janjati heroes in the freedom struggle.
Jagdev Ram Uraon ( former national president, Kalyan Ashram), Dilip Singh Judev, Narhari prasad Sahay (the uncle of Vishnudev Sahay, CM Chhattisgarh) and, along with them , so many vistarak-pracharaks first groomed as VKP volunteers only coming into the proximity of Balasahab Deshpandey( the founder of Kalayan Ashram) at an early age. So were the youths grown up living in Shabri Kannaya Chhatrawas, Raipur ; Nivedita Chhatrawas, Rudrapur ; Shriram Chhatrawas, Gorakhpur and several others. Later they reached as the Kalyan Ashram volunteers in Poorvanchal states like Assam, Nagaland, Manipur , Tripura and so on and helped in preserving the regional demography by awakening traditional cultural selfhood among the Janjati community living here . In ‘ Yuva-Visheshank’ comes very inspiring description of this in detail.
With the message of ‘Tu main Ayk Rakt’ (You-me spring from the same descent) ‘Janjati Yuva Kumbh’ was organized as a part of Prayagraj Kumbh in 6-7 February, 2025 by Kalyan Ashram Yuva Aayam . Over 10,000 youths from north-east states, Gujrat, Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh and south India participated in the event. The display of cultural folk-dances supported by the musical instruments such as Bihu of Assam, Chhau of Jharkhand and Karma of Chhattisgarh in the respective traditional dresses reminded that how entire India is well-knit in common culture of Sanatana-Dharm.
On reading the article on traditional knowledge tribal community one comes to know as to how through the herbs, leaves, roots, fruits and seeds available in surrounding environment that they developed such a medical therapy which underscores that nature itself is a dispensary. And that how like ayurveda it is based on inclusive approach of keeping body-mind-intellect-soul healthy all alike.
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