Page 16 - Seniorstoday December 2022 Issue

First Person

What you give you receive

tenfold

Vijay Taparia extolls in the celebrations of his father’s birthday, and is

left awestruck by the love and respect given back to him, in appreciation
of a life full of service to the community
We come from a hamlet called
Jaswantgargh, around 200 kms south west in other towns doing the same thing for the
of Jaipur, almost in the centre of Rajasthan. occasion. Little was I prepared for what I
The population Jaswantgarh is around witnessed.
9500 people and is a fairly affluent village
all things considered. There are over 600
shops there, including 5 to 6 beauty salons
(not the city types though). There is a very
large migrant population of students. Some
of them study in schools & colleges which
have been built by our families over the
years.
My father one day casually mentioned
that the people in the village want to have a
blood donation drive on his 89th birthday.
They were expecting around 1000 people to
donate blood.
I did not want to miss this opportunity of
seeing this & hence reached the day prior on
24th November. I had started to hear some
rumours of people of Jaswantgarh living

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