Honorable President Clinton, 1, a great grandfather, am thrilled by your performance in bringing peace to the Mideast, Haiti, and North Korea. Please accept my gratitude and congratulations. Your government is also contemplating to come up with the idea of an economic plan for the whole Mideast region. That is a logical sequel to the peace process_ since the rime I stepped into adulthood (1928), 1 have been toiling towards the cause of humanity, the cause that is also closest to your heart. Just In the wake of The Great Depression.’ started reaching in a self-started school, too ignorant to know that in 80 doing. I was stepping right into the jaws of The Great Depression monster that was swallowing jobs, businesses, farms and factories. If U.8.A. was thus devastated what would be the fate of India? Luckily I got the assistance of a few friends of my age, equally determined and dedicated but ignorant and inexperienced like myself.

The country side where we enacted this theater was dirt-pool including our parents. However, we persevered not for a day, a month, a year, but for several decades. The grant in aid from government was only 5% of the total expenditure with no endowments, and no funds to be raised because of poor neighborhood. The teaching staff was almost voluntary I retired in 1968, as poor as 1 was when I started. You cannot even imagine what we went through. Our reward: a full pledged senior high school in my village Dosanjh Kalan located in Punjab, India. And as such am now a retired principal of the above named school-a no insignificant reward. Mr. President, I have in the enclosed article given voice to the voiceless million of South Asia from where I have sprung. I beg you to add your strong voice to mine which is faltering and feeble , persuading India and Pakistan to form some sort of society in the region after the pattern of E.C. or the Switzerland Confederation of 13 disparate cantons. A line in reply will give me some sense of fulfillment, and will raise my sinking spirits. I will have a sense of some relief that now my cause is in super strong hands.

Dharam Singh DosanJh

Hilmar, CA

Article extracted from this publication >>  January 13, 1995