(Audrey) It’s 11 a.m. Saturday morning, and I’m comfortably sitting in my flat in Delhi having my morning tea, slowly waking up after a Halloween party last night. A week ago, I thought I’d be in Aligarh at this moment, getting incredibly nervous for a lecture I was asked to give to the History Department at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) at high noon. But then some things happened.

I was set to go to Aligarh last Tuesday morning, figuring that while I’m headed out to give a talk anyways I might as well also avail myself of their vast manuscript resources for a few days beforehand. But then an AMU student was shot dead on Sunday night, off campus, by some goons. Fellow students were outraged naturally, and the police surprisingly actually apprehended a few suspects… problem at least on the way to being solved? Not so fast. Things turned ugly again on Tuesday when students began protesting/rioting (depends who you ask) on campus demanding, amongst other things, the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor (VC). Now if the chain of logic here from goons-shoot-student to students-protest-University seems not fully fleshed out to you, well, then welcome to the world of student protests.

The back story is that the Aligarh VC is a totally corrupt dude who’s taken a bunch of University money to pimp out his office (amongst other types of corruption) while doing nothing for students. As a result, he’s been long hated on campus. On a personal note, this VC is standing between me and permission to photograph the manuscripts at Aligarh, so I’m not necessarily opposed to seeing him out of office. Back to Tuesday—students protest on campus, a few begin an indefinite hunger strike while others shut down the library (and my access to the manuscript collection with it) and disrupt classes. My contacts in Aligarh tell me to postpone my trip a day. Wednesday comes and the University begins to arrest people. Meetings are held. Wednesday night my contacts in Aligarh tell me to forget the lecture altogether because of the situation. Things continue to get worse throughout Thursday and Friday, culminating in Friday evening when AMU made the drastic decision to shut down the University altogether and ship all students staying in hostels on campus back to their homes within 48 hours. Read about it here.

Now, I generally oppose student protests, particularly anything violent, illegal, and above all I despise hunger strikes (basic reasoning: virtually nothing in a University is worth dying over and you shouldn’t go on a hunger strike unless you’re willing to die for the cause, seriously). But I’m also accustomed to a bit more checks and balances on University power at home… not to mention a greater sense amongst faculty and the administration about the greater purposes of higher education and a lot less corruption. I also rarely support the insane liberal causes of student protests… but all that is a bit different in this situation. But before I get carried away in my own opinion, let us all hope that AMU deals with this situation peacefully and non-violently going forward… forcibly evacuating students from hostels sounds risky on that front to me.

(Audrey) If the title of this post sounds off, that’s because it reflects a somewhat different day and a half for me. The trouble began on Tuesday with Aligarh… I was supposed to go to Aligarh via train on Tuesday morning and didn’t so that I could get some prescriptions for a slight flu that had come upon me. Good thing I postponed my plans because the University students there were striking/rioting (depends one who you ask, the students or the administration) and, most crucially for me, they had shut down the library. The issue—a student was shot dead by goons off campus in Aligarh on Sunday night. Why this results in striking and disrupting things at the University on Tuesday, I have no idea. I’ve long given up on understanding student protests. All I knew was, no Aligarh on Wednesday either because my contact there said that nobody knew whether the situation would improve or not. Bottom line, if the library isn’t open then there’s no point in my being there.

So Wednesday rolls around, and I have no plans. I thus decide to take a friend in Sonipat up on a standing invitation to visit her and hang out for the day. My husband works nearby at a new law school and commutes daily from Delhi. So I go and am fed homemade apple muffins and khichri, all while playing with this friend’s three-year old and another mutual friend’s one-year old child who had to be dropped off at the last minute due to a family emergency. To review—me, friend, 3-year old, and 1-year old, all in basically the middle of nowhere in Haryana, playing all day. Amongst other activities, we discussed the gnomes in depth. The 3-year old is into gnomes and deeply concerned about the trolls that were eating them. She tried to feed me to the trolls instead. C’est la vie.

In the afternoon I came back to Delhi and reviewed the Aligarh situation. Students still striking, library still closed. So Aligarh is off this week altogether. Bad news—I missed out on some research. Good news—I’ll be attending a Halloween party in Delhi on Friday and will be avidly improving my tennis skills over the next few days. India can be truly surreal at times…I love this place.

(Audrey) Yesterday evening I was at the train station in Aligarh waiting for the shatabdi to Delhi to roll in a modest 15 minutes late. In the meantime, I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes and likely contracting malaria when a young Indian man, perhaps in his early 30s, came over and deliberately caught my eye. He then broke out into a huge, friendly smile and gave me an emphatic thumbs up. My face certainly showed my confusion so he repeated the entire process again, punctuating it by proclaiming “Good!” in English before walking away to rejoin his family.

I spent the next 10 minutes watching him with his wife and three young children, a seemingly happy family, wondering what the entire thing had meant. He clearly assumed I couldn’t speak Hindi, and also clearly wanted to convey happy approval… but for what? A few possibilities I came up with—

“thanks for visiting Aligarh, not many foreigners come”

“thanks for wearing Indian clothes in a modest attempt to respect local sensibilities”

“I love white people”

“thanks America for striking the nuclear deal with India”

Who knows—he could have meant a million different things, but no matter what the motivation for his actions I say kudos to him for conveying a positive sentiment despite a language barrier. It’s a good moment in cross-cultural relations when joy and the desire to welcome foreigners burst out of people, even when they can’t express why.

(Audrey) I arrived in Aligarh today, where I’m visiting the archives at Aligarh Muslim University, one of the most prominent institutions of higher education in India. First thing I did, of course, was get myself to the library, even forgoing breakfast. I reached their library around 9 and after only 1 1/2 hours of registering, waiting, and being repeatedly told that I can’t take any photos, I am in the manuscript room. I ask if I can use a laptop and am told “of course, no problem.” Wonderful. I bust out my laptop, set up my internet (I’ve got one of those internet bubbles that works on cell phone airwaves), and am working away. After about 1/2 an hour or so, one of the manuscript guys comes over, literally takes a manuscript out of my hands, and tells me to go downstairs and talk to the librarian.

So I go downstairs and talk to said librarian. He fails to see why I came down to him at all seeing whereas I had already registered and been allowed to see the manuscripts. I went back upstairs to the manuscript room… they sent me back down to the librarian. This time I apologized profusely but pressed the librarian to please ask them what was wrong. I had been asking, but had gotten no answer. So he calls and after a few minutes hangs up to relay to me the following—

“They thought you were taking pictures of the manuscripts with your laptop. [laughing now] They don’t know how technology works. They don’t understand that such things aren’t possible, and that typing is just like writing by hand.”

Now I was not taking pictures with my laptop, but of course my macbook pro has such capabilities, so who’s the joke really on? To answer my own rhetorical question: me, because whether I could take photographs with my laptop, camera, cell phone, or any other device doesn’t really matter because I’m not allowed to, at least for now.

A.R. Rehman is the highest paid composer today in Bollywood. in addition to this his album Bombay Dreams run successfully. the director of slum dog has been given two Oscars for the song name JAI HO sung by A.R. rehman and if thats not enough the man has been conferred with an honorary doctorate of literature degree bye the Aligarh University

By Yasser Latif Hamdani

An impartial history of the Pakistan Movement and the rise of the Muslim Nationalism in South Asia shows that the main engine behind it – the Muslim Bourgeoisie – was entirely drawn from the modernist educational tradition of Aligarh and other Muslim educational institutions founded and run by pro-west Muslim reformers like Sindh Medressah (which was a school modelled after British tradition, name notwithstanding), Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam schools and colleges as well entirely secular institutions like the Government College, Punjab University and Peshawar University. In comparison the religious and scholarly class – i.e. Ulema- largely stood either aloof or in opposition to the the Pakistan Movement. Darul Uloom Deoband, the most important Islamic seminary in all of India, was as much an arsenal of pro-Congress Muslim Ulema after the Khilafat Movement as Aligarh was that of Muslim Nationalism. As the independence movement progressed, the pro-Western Aligarh Muslim University came to be associated more with Muslim minority’s cause and was denounced as “reactionary” by Congress as a whole. Pro-Congress Muslims created their own parallel Jamia Milli in Aligarh which was alter shifted to Delhi. Today it is the premiere Muslim institution in India, whereas Aligarh has been decaying.
The point that I am trying to make is that Pakistan Movement was fed by financial, moral and political support of a Muslim bourgeoisie that had emerged directly out of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s activities in the 19th century. While Jinnah himself did not come out of Aligarh having been called to Bar in London, the Muslim leadership and rank and file of the League were generally the product of Aligarh. These gentlemen were the epitome of Macualay’s minute on Indian education albeit with an additional Muslim angle. A great many of them were Shias and Aga Khanis. Right from Syed Ameer Ali to Aga Khan III all of them could pass as the finest Englishmen in culture, outlook and lifestyles but for their obvious racial features.

Consequently they got along better with the British conservatives than the liberal or the Labour party (here too Jinnah was an exception because till 1939, his relations with the Conservative Party were particularly bad because of his own Indian Nationalist views and his opposition to pro-British elements in India). The point that I am trying to make is not that they were good or bad but that historically these people had been the lights of the Pakistan Movement and Muslim Nationalism. Often enough they were denounced as “reactionaries” or “communal” only because they chose to stay away from the Congress and its push for independence. Yet these men were very consciously modern and attempted to reconcile their faith with modernity.

Somehow soon within the first decade or so of independence these westernized modern Muslims became irrelevant considered colonial hanger-ons. They were denounced- perhaps accurately but acerbically- as “brown sahibs” or “kala angraiz” types. As the process of indigenization took root in the post colonial state, their contribution to the cause of Muslim education and modernity was glossed over and discarded for the most part (except Sir Syed Ahmed Khan) and others like Jinnah were presented in a particularly fabricated manner as a caricature of himself- most young people don’t even recognize Jinnah in trademark Saville Row suit having been grown up with the greyish blue sherwani and topi image of the man. Similarly forgetting Iqbal’s reconstruction of religious thought which was a sine qua non for his project of a Muslim state in North West India, he was presented only as a poet philosopher of imagery and Islamic revival. Many people pin point the Zia era for this change. There is no doubt that the process of turning history on its head reached its climax during General Zia’s Islamist dictatorship, but it seems that the turning point in Pakistan’s history must have come at least a decade before Zia’s take over.

There is a curious document called Educational Policy of Pakistan 1969 which m1akes interesting reading. To our eternal shame this document was drafted by Air Marshal Nur Khan, one of Pakistan’s finest heroes in battle. If anyone wishes to understand how the worst enemies of Pakistan Movement and Muslim Modernism in the subcontinent came to be hailed as “important to the formation of Pakistani Nationhood”, they ought to read this document.
To put things in perspective before I move on: The previous two important landmarks in Pakistani educational history may well be the first National Education Conference in 1948 and the Sharif Commission of 1959. The educational principles that emerged from these two sought to reconcile Islam with modernity and emphasized the role of science, technology and western languages – especially English. Particularly praiseworthy was the Pakistani education policy till 1969 both recognized the great contribution of Christian missionary institutions and lauded them for their contribution to Pakistani society. All this was to end with the trend set by 1969’s policy. The Sharif Commission’s recommendations were denounced as “secular” and “obstructive” to the “ideology of Pakistan”. Interestingly the term “Nazaria-e-Pakistan” was coined here allegedly by one Sher Ali Pataudi. In its overzealousness, the post colonial state described the English language as a major hindrance to equality, denounced the missionary institutions as anti-national and replaced instruction in English with Urdu and Bengali.

However the most damaging aspect of this policy was its distortion of history. As mentioned above, the protagonists of the Pakistan movement with very few exceptions were not the rebel types. Out of the Muslim Leaguers, only five major leaders can genuinely said to have contributed to what is broadly termed as the “Independence Movement’ (which in this author’s view is in any event hugely over-rated): Mahomed Ali Jinnah, the Ali Brothers, Maulana Hasrat Mohani and Ch. Khaliquzzaman. Ali Brothers died before the Pakistan Movement started. Jinnah’s contribution to the independence movement was constitutional as opposition and his efforts were directed towards the attainment of self governing Dominion Status for India.

Maulana Hasrat Mohani was a leftist by political inclination and a devout Muslim. He chose to stay in India after partition despite having contributed handsomely to the Pakistan Movement. The rest of the leadership was by and large loyal and pro-British from the Sir Syed Ahmad Khan tradition and there is nothing wrong with that. Yet this did not gel in well with the Pakistani state’s own image of itself, particularly after the open hostility the Pakistan Movement in Punjab faced from the British in the last year and a half before independence which turned even the most pro-British of the Leaguers against the British. Thus the Pakistani state invented over time the myth of a grand and massive anti-British struggle which led to the independence from both the British and the Hindus. This self-image and unnecessary anti-colonial posture had a damaging effect.

The education policy sought to distance Pakistani Nationalism from Muslim modernists like Syed Ameer Ali, Hassan Ali Effendi and Aga Khan III. Instead it was recommended that the founders of Darul Ulooms and Islamic Madrassahs who rejected Western education and the English language be glorified as signifiers of Pakistan’s national identity. That these people opposed the creation of Pakistan was put aside. A fabricated history was fed full of crass generalization about how the “Gora” was kicked out valiantly by the Muslims. In doing so the role of the British in Muslim uplift post 1870s is completely forgotten and the support that the Muslim League got in its initial loyalist phase from the British is also set aside. All of this is done in the name of some imaginary national aspiration which to this day hurts Pakistan and puts it in a duplicitous schizophrenic mode. This fabricated anti-colonialism goes beyond being merely anti-British or indigenous. In Pakistan it becomes anti-democratic, anti-minority and anti-modernity primarily because Islam itself has undergone an orthodox revival which has made the positions taken by Ameer Ali and Aga Khan III untenable in the modern world.
The educational rot started in 1969. While Pakistan had reached a consensus of some kind of role for Islam in public life even before 1969, it was this policy and subsequent policies inspired from this policy that gave Islam a decisively anti-modern and exclusive character in Pakistan. And while this explains why history was inverted on its head and people like Maududi who were till then the anti-thesis of Pakistaniat became its uncles and aunties, what is not understood is why a man like Nur Khan would present such a policy? Those who have come across the elderly gentleman as he hikes even today on Trail 3 in Islamabad, know that the man is no bigot and from the looks of it himself a pukka brown sahib.

Perhaps the answer to that lies in the charged atmosphere of the late 1960s. First of all the 1965 war began the irrevocable process of Islamization of the hitherto secular Pakistan Army as well as the moderately Muslim population of Pakistan. The war poetry and the slogans that were introduced during this war revolved around “Jihad” and pretty much created the Islam v. Kufr dichotomy. Even though Pakistani pilots, soldiers and other citizens who contributed to the war included notable Christians, the rhetoric was almost exclusively Muslim. The war itself reinforced the perpetual suspicion of the west given what was viewed as US’ betrayal after US refused to release spare parts. Secondly the Ayub regime was seen as pro-American and the Arab-Israeli War in 1967 further radicalized the Muslim opinion.
For the idea of Pakistan to succeed and overcome the various threats and dangers it faces today, it is of utmost importance for Pakistan to undo the terrible effects of this concocted history. For better or for worse, we must recognize and give credit to the real forerunners of the Pakistan idea- those westernized and anglicized Muslims who played an integral role in safeguarding Muslim interests in the subcontinent. They are our forerunners and not the Mullahs and religiously inspired so called freedom fighters right from that ill-advised mutiny in 1857 to Darul-uloom Deoband whose role against Pakistan is well known.

We must also recognize that no one kicked the “Gora” out but that the “Gora” left once it became cost ineffective to hold onto British India and most importantly that he left through his own act of parliament.

http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/post-colonial-pakistan-and-the-distortion-of-history/

Home is where heart belongs…also…home is where heart belongs!

Born in the city of Aligarh, there is no place that I love more than this place…its my oasis in this desert of fast moving life. Always a pleasure to go back…almost like a charger to charge my energy once again.

Searching for Aligarh on net… i came across the following…don’t want to loose it again and hence am just pasting it as it is…

Aligarh was known as KOL…

Excerpts from somewhere on net…

The present district of Aligarh, in the state of Uttar Pradesh is situated in the middle portion of Doab, or the land between the Ganga and Yamuna rivers.

The principle town in the Aligarh district for the last many centuries has been its headquarters, Aligarh, 126 KM south east of Delhi. It is known till the 18th century by the earlier name of Kol.

The present Aligarh district was formed in 1804 after the British occupation of Aligarh in September 1803.

Like other parts of Doab, Aligarh has a hot and dry climate. The mean temperature for December and January, the coldest months is 59F and 54 F, and for May and June, the extreme hot months, 90F and 93F in the shade. Both Akbar and Jahangir visited Kol on hunting expeditions; Jahangir clearly mentions the forest of Kol, where he killed wolves. From the study of the place-names of the district, it appears that the district was once fairly well covered by forest, thickets and grooves. The early history of the district, indeed down the 12th century AD is shrouded in obscurity.

Kol, the earliest name of Aligarh, covered not only the city but the entire district, though its geographical limits kept changing from time to time. The origin of the name of Kol is obscure. In some ancient texts, Kol has been referred to in the sense of a tribe or Caste, name of a place or mountain and name of a sage or demon. During the time of Ibrahim Lodhi, when Muhammad, son of Umar was the governer of Kol, he built a fort at Kol and named the city after his own name as Muhammadgarh in 1524-25; and Sabit khan who was the governor of this region during the time of Farrukh Siyar and Muhammad Shah, rebuilt the fort and named the town after his own name Sabitgarh. After the occupation of Kol by the Jats in 1775, it was re-named Ramgarh and finally, when a Shia commander, Najaf khan, captures Kol, he gave it its present name of Aligarh.

Aligarh Fort (Qila as normally People of Aligarh call it), as it stands today, is normally the work of the French engineers under the control of de Boigne and Perron. It was a completely new construction, though its site was the same as that of the fort of Sabitgarh (also called Ramgarh and Aligarh). The new fort had been made by French their principal depot for the Doab. Prior to the British occupation of the Fort, it was a polygon of ten sides with a bastion at each angle. All around ran a broad and deep ditch, crossed at the entrance by a narrow causeway. The ditch is from one to two hundred feet in breadth and thirty two feet of depth, of which there were always ten feet of water.

The Fort gained added strength from its natural surroundings. The elevated plain in the midst of which it stands, being interspersed with large swamps and deep morasses, becomes so completely inundated during the rainy months as to render the fort perfectly inaccessible, nor can any military operations be the carried on against it. Its conquest was the prime importance for the British in this region. As it was admitted by General Lake himself, in his letter dated September 4, 1804 to Marquiss Wellesley. Lake writes “I have only to add that, without the fort of Allygurh we could not have had the entire possession of Doab, indeed, until it was ours, we were liable to be driven out of it at any time. Old buildings within the fort have gradually fallen down owing to disrepair. In addition to the modern buildings of the botanical gardens of the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, there are small mounds all around.

For more the wikipedia can be checked at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aligarh

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Mera Motherboard hai Taiwani, Mera Software hai Latest Hindustani – Ubuntu Linux on Assembled Computers from my Local Computer Assembler :

Now that at last some Kanpuriya computer and latest laptop dealers have got their hands on the copy of the latest Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron 8.04.1 – they are beginning to realize the beauty of using non pirated and legal software which works better than other COSTLY and outdated softwares and operating systems.

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The faculty of Law, AMU, Aligarh has been ranked sixth amongst the top ten faculties of law in India. About 15 Ph.D.’s in law have been awarded during 1991-2000. The faculty is successfully running its 5 year BA LL.B. …
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Video feed switching over without warning from the ‘water cube’ to the ‘bird’s nest’… the audio stays back with swimming. Result : DD sports reminds viewers of its ’sarkari’ status…
Watching olympics in India has been a ‘chinese torture’! Thanks to you DD ! Half the airtime is dedicated to its studio ; the hosts …my word ! where do you guys get them from? Why do your guys have to shout at the top of their voices, sound as illiterate as possible…why try to make a ’sansani’ out of a graceful gold winning performance.
The hindi ones are the worse…they sound as they are reporting a gang rape…in fact they perpetuate one. Had the agony of watching a womens’ soccer tie with our knowledgable hindi commentator in full bloom. Surprised or perhaps confused at girls playing football, he compared the goalie’s safe reception of ball to a mother holding her child to her bosom!! I pulled at my hairs… i was in pain…in dismay.
Will india host the olympics in near future…will the other great economy of Asia ever get the greatest games? That question itself is a dream… get real…ask instead “will India be able to broadcast the games properly in future?”…
I am more disillusioned with my country , after watching the chinese make a spectacle of their Games. We are nowhere close to them… all the talk, all the extrapolations ; they are a farce.
A single gold…compared to their 50. Thats where we are….50 times more 3rd world than the chinese. DD epitomises us.

No need to buy DVR if it has no Ubuntu Linux driver -

As an Indian user of high technology products to interface with my Top Quality and latest Ubuntu Linux PC Desktop or Laptop Computer from high technology companies – I have started REJECTING those peripherals and those companies which have not bothered to release free and open source Linux drivers for their devices. As with the best printers and high performance graphic cards, it is always best to do some research on whether a foreign company well known for manufacturing and distributing is supporting Linux Ubuntu computers in Indian market.

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Olympus is one of those companies making small and tiny Digital Voice Recorders – (good for sting operations on Indian politicians who excel in buying Votes for Notes for Civil Nuclear Treaty and solving the power and energy crisis of Indians – hamara nara, ghar ghar mein bijli pahuchana …. )

Unfortunately Olympus has not bothered to release free and open source software drivers for their Digital Voice Recorders. As far as I am concerned Olympus Digital Voice Recorder is USELESS till it makes available free and easily downloadable software drivers to work with my UBUNTU Laptop running on BSNL Broadband Internet.

No point buying rubbish electronic junk and e-waste which DOES NOT work with Ubuntu Linux computers in India. And this will be public service of voluntary nature as Indian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has hardly any guidelines for disposing electronic and computer junk and how to penalise those foreign companies which sell outdated technologies in India – Litter packaged up as Glitter . So before investing any rupees in more electronic junk and devices, ALWAYS check if it WORKS well with Ubuntu Linux.

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What is Anorectal Malformation ? 

During early development of a baby in the womb, the urinary tract, the reproductive tract and the digestive tract all exit the pelvis through a common opening. Normally, separation of these structures occurs. In females there is complete separation of the three systems so that the urinary tract opening is farthest forward (the urethra), the reproductive tract exits in the middle (the vagina) and the digestive tract exits farthest back (the anus). In males the urinary tract and the reproductive tract exit through a single opening (the male urethra) in front, while the digestive tract exits through the anus. An anorectal malformation is a condition in which the rectum fails to separate properly during development and does not migrate into its proper position on the perineum. The anus and rectum lie in front of their normal location and are not located properly in the sphincter muscles of the pelvis. Anorectal malformations occur as a spectrum of abnormalities that ranges from very mild conditions in which the anus is situated only a few millimeters in front of its normal location, to severe anomalies with no visible anus. In the more severe abnormalities, there may be an abnormal emptying of rectum into the genitourinary tract, and associated malformations of the spine, genitalia, and kidneys.

Diagnosis of Anorectal Malformation

Anorectal malformations occur in both boys and girls. The diagnosis of an anorectal malformation can usually be made by inspection. When the baby is examined, the anus is absent or abnormally positioned. Ultrasound and x-ray tests may be used to help in the diagnosis. Additional tests will be obtained to look for associated abnormalities. Spine x-rays, kidney and spinal cord ultrasound, and occasionally echocardiography are all routine tests obtained in patients with anorectal malformations.

Treatment of Anorectal Malformation

The nature and severity of the anorectal malformation, as well as the presence of any associated conditions will determine the surgical treatment that is required. Some patients may be treated with a single operation as a newborn, while others will require operations in several stages. For patients with relatively minor abnormalities, a small procedure such as a cut back anoplasty may be all that is required prior to going home. For other patients, initial treatment consists of a colostomy and reconstruction is performed at a later date. A second operation is performed that separates the abnormal communication with the genito-urinary tract, and properly relocates the rectum within the sphincter muscles in the pelvis. Depending on the type of abnormality present, children may have this operation performed utilizing minimally invasive surgical techniques. Alternatively, a PSARP (posterior saggital anorectoplasty) procedure may be performed. Several months after definitive surgery, the colostomy is taken down, re-establishing gastrointestinal tract continuity

Follow Up of Anorectal Malformation

Following reconstruction, patients born with anorectal malformations must be followed frequently by their pediatric surgeons. For the more severe abnormalities, long-term continence issues are the major reasons for follow-up, while in the more mild conditions, patients and their families must work to insure that worsening constipation does not lead to poor continence. Many patients must be managed with bowel program designed to promote regular evacuations of the rectum to avoid ongoing soiling from chronic fecal retention. With attentive management, and rigorous compliance with prescribed regimens, most patients achieve social continence. Many patients will have normal continence. The Pediatric Surgeons of IAPS (Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons) treat patients with anorectal malformations and provide long-term follow-up and management for patients and their families.

Please visit following link of Uday.Org.in

http://www.uday.org.in/anorectal-malformation-information-FAQ-help-ngo-support-group-india.php

W środę w poprzednim tygodniu wybraliśmy się (ja i mój “ziom” z pracy – Kin z Meksyku) razem z naszym szefem do Aligarh‘u (około 120km od Delhi) , żeby odwiedzić kilku naszych dostawców.

Firma w której pracuje zazwyczaj kupuję od dostawców półgotowe produkty, np. odlewy klamek, zawiasów etc.. (z brązu, stali itd.) po czym szlifuje się je, pokrywa Chromem lub innym “wykończeniem” już w naszej fabryce. Tamtejsze firmy, a wręcz całe miasto – Aligarh specjalizuje się w Odlewach z Brązu (który jest importowany tak w ogóle z UK ) i Żeliwa, i właśnie odlewnie tam ‘wizytowaliśmy’. Odwiedzaliśmy jedynie ‘legalne’, koncesjonowane przez państwo zakłady, gdzie normy pracy są “oficjalne”.

I właśnie te oficjalne zakłady zrobiły na mnie piorunujące wrażenie, no bo jeśli widzi się ludzi na bosaka, bez rękawic, okularów, masek, wlewających ciekły metal w przygotowane wcześniej formy to włos się jeży na głowie (zdjęcia poniżej). Jedna pomyłka oznacza w wielu przypadkach stratę ręki, nogi, a i nawet jak ktoś się nigdy nie pomylił to 8 godzin dziennie w tamtych oparach skraca tym ludziom dość szybko życie. I to są zakłady legalne …. bo tylko z takich korzysta nasza firma , ale nasz szef nie ukrywał że obok nich, praktycznie w prywatnych ‘mieszkaniach’ istnieją miejsca gdzie dzieci i kobiety pracują przy tych samych procesach !

Myślę że wizytacje miały spory wpływ na mój odbiór Aligarhu jako całości ……… jeszcze nigdy w życiu nie widziałem tak przepaskudnego miasta. “… Jest tak brudno i brzydko, że aż pękają oczy… ” i tak naprawdę ciężko jest mi wyobrazić sobie brzydsze i bardziej syfiaste miasto (wszystko przede mną). Pełno mini wysypisk śmieci, rynsztok w którym płynie toksyczna woda (odlewnie metalu) no i straszliwa bieda. Normalnie prawie jak w teledysku Micheala Jacksona Earth Song = ZGROZA.

Poniżej wklejam zdjęcia z różnych ‘odlewni’ i zakładów.

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