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Legend on Legend: Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki on Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain
It was 1938 and I was working in the Department of School Education as an ordinary teacher. Suddenly there was a buzz in the Department about the new Director of Education and everyone started talking about him once it became known that he is a very capable young officer who cares for interests and welfare of the teacher community.
Dr Shah Faesal
Srinagar | Posted : Apr 24 2016 12:50AM | Updated: Apr 23 2016 11:01PM
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This biographical essay is part of "Warq Warq Roshan"', a collection of Urdu essays of legendary Kashmiri poet and scholar Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki, compiled by Dr. Ayaz Rasool Nazki. It has been translated into English by Dr Shah Faesal, who is currently Director School Education Kashmir.
It was 1938 and I was working in the Department of School Education as an ordinary teacher. Suddenly there was a buzz in the Department about the new Director of Education and everyone started talking about him once it became known that he is a very capable young officer who cares for interests and welfare of the teacher community.
Those days teachers of elementary schools did not command much respect and their self-esteem was also low. A peon in Tehsil office would consider himself better than a Primary School teacher and the public perception was also not in favour of teachers. Officers of the Education Department used to be very rude to them and these poor teachers had no choice but to live with it.
Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain was the new Director of Education, and it spread like wild fire that he is very courteous to Teachers and, as a rule, talks very politely and offers a chair to any teacher who visits him in office. It was an unusual thing those days; incomprehensible and unbelievable. But it was true.
Those days only, at a Primary School in village Hyderpora, five or six miles away from Srinagar, a strange thing happened. There was a teacher named Ali Peer who has retired now and is this time in Hijaz for Hajj pilgrimage. He used to travel daily between Srinagar and Hyderpora. One morning when he reached school, he found that Qazi Mohammad Ishaq, Inspector of Schools had reached there before him. Qazi Sahib was a Professor of Persian in a College and had been recently appointed as an Inspector. He would drink but he had an incredible hold over the language and would not hesitate from showing it off.
When Ali Peer saw Inspector of Schools there, he got unnerved. Qazi Ishaq asked him the reason for coming late to school, Ali Peer replied that he had been just on time. This annoyed the Inspector and he punched Ali Peer right there and he fell in a paddy field adjacent to the road. His clothes also got soiled badly.
Ali Peer left for Srinagar and complained to Director of Education in his office. Saiyidain Sahib felt embarrassed and said sorry to Ali Peer. Within a few days the Inspector was transferred.
It was a routine those days that when senior officers wrote to any teacher, he was addressed as:
"Tumhare naam Qalmi hai ki ...."
When Saiyidain Sahib saw one such correspondence he stopped this practice immediately. Officers were asked to use right salutations while addressing teachers and be nice to them. These small things restored the dignity of teachers. And in their minds at least they started feeling like human beings.
My first interaction with Saiyidain Sahib was at his Exchange Road home. Those days we were a scared lot and when he asked me to take a seat, a strangely awful emotion of surprise and fear overwhelmed me and I could not dare to tell him what was in my heart.
Two years later I was transferred to Srinagar from Bandipora and on an officers recommendation I was assigned to teach two daughters of Saiyidain Sahib - Zehra and Bilquis. After a few days only I felt that these two girls were so bright that I started getting an inferiority complex. But soon I overcame this feeling and my bond with the family strengthened.
Those day

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