00:00I was six years old. My sister Pragya was three.
00:05So we two kids were having good fun and I was playing with my sister and I broke
00:10her arm. Now she had the plaster on her arm she would try to itch
00:15herself scratch herself under the plaster and as an elder brother and also
00:20someone with a guilty conscience. It was now my responsibility to ensure.
00:25That she does not fiddle with her plaster. That is the first memory I have of powerlessness.
00:30Great powerlessness. I really wanted her to recover and she was doing
00:35self-destructive things. She recovered fully but I remember that period.
00:40It is marked on the plate. You know something is not right for the other person and yet you
00:45can't help her from doing it. That's how I felt.
00:50As a six year old that's how a teacher feels. You know what is it to be a teacher. To know
00:55everything and have power over very little. You can see but you cannot act
01:00on the other's behalf. The admission and the action has to come from the
01:05other. And it is very cruel to know.
01:10To see and yet not have the power.
01:15To translate the seeing into action.
01:20To see and yet.
01:21To see and yet.
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