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 It
is with great pride and pleasure we welcome Mr. Vishrut Jain,
Project Manager, Stern Stewart Private Limited, Singapore,
an ex-student of CMS Station Road Branch. An extraordinarily
brilliant student right from Pre-Primary level Mr. Vishrut
Jain had earned a senior secondary level National Talent
Search Scholarship as well as a secondary level All India
Residential School Merit Scholarship. After completing his
senior secondary education he left for Singapore to study
Computer Science and Information Systems at National
University of Singapore in 1997. Thereafter he did his
Master of Science in management information systems from the
same university in 2000.
With a number of publications to his
credit mostly on operational risk management Mr. Jain has
worked on various projects including financial framework for
a rapidly evolving national army in the 22nd
century. Other areas of his researches have been energy
infrastructure, un-regulated pension and insurance fund,
integrated rail transport, global investment bank, urban
planning, regional banks, hospital management, property
dealing, media industry, private power utility, etc. He has
been a co-author with Dr. Chris Marshall in writing a book,
“Operational Risk Management in Financial Institutions”
published in 2000.
In recognition of his proud
achievements the City Montessori School is conferring on him
the CMS Honorary Award of ‘The Fellow of CMS’ this day,
the 15th
December, 2002, as a token of admiration for him.
May God
bless him with a long and healthy life in the service of the
society and for the cause of world unity and world peace.
“CMS
– My Alma Mater” —Vishrut Jain
My father
decided to send me to CMS even before I was born, because he
was impressed with the politeness
with which a CMS student spoke even to a domestic helper and
called him “Bhaiya”. When I was in grade
seven, I qualified for National Residential School Merit
Scholarship that would have paid for my entire education at
the Doon School. My father kept me at CMS because he
did not want to deprive me of its emphasis on moral
education.
Altogether, I studied fifteen years
at CMS - five each at Chowk, Hazratganj and Station Road
branches. So did my sister. My mother taught at CMS for
almost a decade. The school has been an integral part of our
family.
It is ten years since I left CMS. I
have had many occasions to reflect on what I learnt at CMS
and to implement many of those ideas in my life. The first
thing I feel is a sense of regret at the opportunities I
wasted, and the lack of appreciation I showed for many
wonderful things, because of intemperance of youth. I
now recognize the critical role my teachers and principles
have had in shaping my life. I would especially like to
thank my Principal, Ms Batra, Mrs Padma Dheer, Mrs. Mona
Raheja, Mr Dixit and Mr Camphor from Station Road Branch.
My largest takeaway from CMS has
been the life, personalities and words of Mr. and Mrs.
Gandhi. Not many of us have had the good luck
and fortune to interact with people who the future
generations will recognize as very exceptional - almost
unreal. A disregard for self and a disarming
simplicity, a restlessness to do the best by their young
charges and to impress the right ideas on their minds, a
genuine commitment to harmony in these insane times - these
are the
qualities more saintly than humanly. I am proud to
have been exceptionally close to both
of them and to have received from them as much wisdom
as I could absorb.
I fear for my country. Our
past has been unusually divisive, cruel and violent.
For millennia, we developed an apartheid society, which
divides peoples rather than integrates them. Just when we
were making some progress against the evils of caste, state
sanctioned religious bigotry has again raised its ugly head.
The images of the blood-thirsty
mobs butchering their neighbours in Gujarat, have
made me especially concerned about the safety of many of my
friends.
If educated people let themselves be
caught in rhetoric of religious bigotry and fundamentalism,
then what hope do our un-educated masses have?
Education should infuse a feeling of respect for other
people’s beliefs; and an understanding that religion is
not about what you believe in but how you behave. CMS
education has helped me tremendously. I find I have a
certain flexibility in world view that resists any bigotry,
any attempt to create divisions on the basis of nationality,
sex, religion, or colour. This has helped in my
travels around the world, work with people from all
nationalities and my life in Singapore - a very cosmopolitan
city. It has made my life infinitely rich and complex.
CMS
has won the UNESCO peace prize. I hope that the 26,000
students who study in CMS will guide their friends and
family to become more tolerant and less bigoted. If
there is to be peace, each one us must make this our
personal, life-long mission.
Mr.
Vishrut Jain
Ex-student, CMS Station Rd.
2/4 Doctor’s Residence,
Balrampur Hospital
Lucknow. Phone (R)215855
Phone: 0065-94356417
Email: vish_jain99@yahoo.com
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