Difficulties faced by babar alli in teaching poor children's
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23-year-old young man, Babar Ali, from a village in West Bengal has taught more than 3,000 children in the last 14 years in a school he started when he was only nine.
At a time when his peers are still studying or looking for jobs, Babar Ali already holds a unique post –as head of a school he started more than a decade ago in his village, Gangpur, in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, around 180 kilometres from the State capital.
Babar Ali is not only the headmaster here, but is hailed as the youngest one in the world. His motto is to fight poverty through education, but his has not been without its problems, including allegations of proselytism.
“I have earned praise for my work across the globe,” he says, sitting in his newly constructed office at Gangpur, “but my journey has been a tough one with people from my village and the neighborhood accusing me of trying to convert children to another religion.”
Babar has not let them destroy his spirit and broadminded vision. After all, he has been an ardent follower of Swami Vivekananda and his teachings since childhood and a regular visitor to the ashram of the Ramakrishna Mission, just three kilometres from his house.
“I used to visit the ashram regularly, with my friends, when we were five or six years old,” he recalls. “We hardly knew about the mission and its teachings, but the deer running inside the park and the fish in the aquarium attracted us. Slowly, I began to get inspired by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and his selfless service to humanity. I still go there whenever I find time.”
His regular visits to the ashram were not appreciated by his neighbours who warned his parents that their son was moving to another ideology. “Thankfully, my parents too believed in humanity as the true religion,” says Babar.
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