Smile Pinki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The documentary film based on Indian plot, 'Smile Pinki' won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. The documentary directed by American filmmaker Megan Mylan is based on a poor Indian village girl Pinki whose cleft lip made her a social outcast. After receiving the Academy Award, Mylan conveyed her gratitude towards the eight-year-old Pinki for allowing her to make the documentary on her life.

’Smile Pinki’ is the moving story of a 5-yr old Pinki Sonkar, who was born to impoverished parents in Rampur Dabai of the Mirzapur District in Uttar Pradesh. To add to her misery she was born with a cleft lip and a cleft palate.

Pinky had the misfortune of being born poor in one of the most backward areas of rural India. She also had to live with the burden of being born a girl, with an embarrassing physical deformity, in a region where a girl child was not as welcome as she should be. It came as no surprise that she was denied school, shunned and was even ostracized.

Pinki’s family hardly realized that all that she required was one simple surgery for her to become a ‘normal’ little girl and even if they did, they could hardly afford it. One day they chanced upon Pankaj, a social worker who travelled between villages gathering patients to avail of the free surgery being provided at the hospital in Varanasi thanks to Smile Train, an international charitable organization that focused in helping people with cleft lip and palate.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Liberty of thought and expression is the greatest right of a man living in a civilized society. The society or a nation which does not grant this right can not claim to be civilized. Everyman should have the right to think for himself and to express freely what he thinks. That is the only way to ensure human advancement. Liberty of thought may be complete liberty of expressing that thought can not be completed, it is subject to some necessary limitations.

There will be a complete confusion in a country or in the world if everybody is allowed to express or to publish freely and frankly what he or she thinks. Freedom of any kind without certain restrictions and limitations take the shape of vulgarity and pollutes the overall atmosphere of the society. There are some code of conducts exists in the society which are supposed to be followed in order to communicate any message to them.

The freedom of the press is an asset to a democracy. The freedom of the press is the greatest sign of a highly cultured & civilized society or nation but this privilege need great fact and patience to use it properly.

BE HAPPY

These two precious words are frequently used by us in our daily conversation with our acquaintances. But do we really follow this awesome practice in our life? Before moving your eyes to the next statement, just close them for a minute and think of the last moment when you really had ecstasy of your life and felt happy or the moment when there was a smile not only on your face but in your heart also. If you are able to find that moment then half your problems has been solved but if you are still thinking of that then I would like to ask some questions to you: Is this because in this fast moving life you don’t have time to think of yourself ? Or most of your time is spent in thinking about others that what good or bad they have in their life ? Or instead of feeling good about what you have, you keep on thinking about what you don’t have ?

I am sure that each and every question, unluckily is part of your life. The day when you will be able to give answers of these questions in negative, you will be the happiest person on this earth.

Stop thinking what your girlfriend or boyfriend has done to you and start thinking what you have done for him or her. And start applying the same for other relationship also and find the changes. Being happy is the easiest thing in life and believe me its fully in your hand, doesn’t matter how many problems you are facing in your life. Start enjoying your bad times and cherishing good ones. You must be thinking that its something nice to say but hard to follow. But always remember one thing which I also keep in my mind, WHAT IS GOD DOES IS GOOD FOR US.

Now there is a trick for you all, following which you can remain happy. Wake up early in the morning, you can wake up 30 minutes before your regular time. Now lit a candle and concentrate on the light of it or you can use any other point on which you can concentrate, start thinking about problems and these should be five at least, now find out one positive point of each problem you have thought of and it should be remember that no problem is left out. Start this activity with 30 minutes and increase it to 60 minutes gradually.

At last I want to wish you all HAPPY LIFE and KEEP SMILING.