Why thirst for knowledge

Entrepreneurial people in general and many highly successful people have an innate desire for an endless supply of information. They want to learn and discover new and different things to feed their curiosity. We can always learn something new, and often, if we are open to it, we can learn something new from the most unlikely sources.

Sometimes it's also good to unlearn something. Tests have been done with groups of adults and groups of children where a common, every day task is presented to each group but is switched up somehow, like putting a doorknob on the same side as the hinge of a swing door. The adults will try turning the knob and pushing the door once or twice and give up, whereas the group of children will continue to fiddle around with the doorknob and the door in general and eventually find that the door swings open when they push the opposite side.

Nor does the lack of having a formal education equate to someone being unable to do a great job. Common sense, negotiation skills, sales ability, and general business savvy are just a few of the traits of successful business people that come from more than a formal education. Learning should be seen as something exciting. The questions push us forward. The unknown beckons and we follow its call into the half-light, in the spirit of a former student of Mel George who said of his arts and science education:.

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Kalle Bhai turned out to be a great motivator for us to understand the culture, tradition, people and problems of Chanderi and that eventually led us to start a project called Chanderiyaan in the town. Besides narrating folklore, Kalle Bhai also spoke to us about problems of Chanderi, and one of them was the lack of a railway station. This remains a problem even today. With no railway station, Chanderi rarely figures on the itinerary of tourists.

People who travel to Madhya Pradesh visit Khajuraho, Jhansi, Ujjain, Gwalior and other places but hardly ever head to Chanderi, even though there are about monuments in a 5km radius of the town. At home, Kalle Bhai has a rich collection of historic and ancient stones, coins, papers and utensils of various eras. And he can identify each one of the coins, and tell you to which period they belong. In Chanderi, he can take you to historic places not known to many and he has filed several papers on the unknown history of Chanderi and various possible excavation sites.

To help him get published again, we took along two interns from the manuscript division of the National Museum, New Delhi, which hosts a post graduate program under Delhi University, to Chanderi for a month. Every morning, Kalle Bhai and the interns would set off on his motorcycle and travel around the town, photographing its many monuments.

In the evening, they would return and Kalle Bhai would dictate the history of each of the places they visited during the day. The result of this month-long exercise was a page coffee table book called Chanderi: History, Heritage, Culture. Over time, Kalle Bhai and I have become good friends. When we started our project in Chanderi, he taught us history and we taught him technology; it was an unstated pact between us.

Gradually, he has learnt to operate a computer and camera on his own.