Lessons in management by a Horse – 8.

21SaturdayJun 2014

Posted by dharmendrabhanj in Management.

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Horses, Marwari horse, motivation

Hi Friends!

Thanks a lot for your kind time and appreciation , it makes me feel very excited about sharing my stories with you.

I had been to Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh ; India for inspecting the Telecom Towers in the villages and had completed visiting almost twenty towers as part of my itenary to resolve various issue pertaining to the erratic power supply. Soon it was evening and the whole area was plunged in total darkness –due to no power supply. I wondered about the technological leap which the villages had taken by directly going into mobile telephones bypassing the fixed line phones. Now the mobile towers had become the hub of power literally as the villagers charged their mobile phones in the premises of the mobile tower and to allow access the owner of the land where the tower was located had by default become a power center and often stood for elections and won also. So it was an amazing socio- cultural and technological development.

Anyway as it was dark – I retired for the night to sleep inside a beautiful Fort and woke up the next morning to the cacophony of birds. As I walked around the Fort . I caught up with the owner of the Fort who was taking his horses out for a ride and asked me if I knew horse riding. I was only too glad to demonstrate my riding skills and shared with him the unique arrangement made for retired racing horses to be cared for in the Plantations and how I gained experience riding horses regularly in the Plantations.

So we were off racing our horses by the banks of the river Ganges and it was really very exciting as my horse was really fast and knew the track very well. While riding we came across a village girl who had been bitten by a snake and needed to be rushed to the hospital.

We immediately decided to take her to Moradabad city hospital where facilities for snake bite cure was available. Now early in the morning there was hardly any time left to look around for transport and the biggest challenge was crossing the river as the bridge was very far;  it was critical to get to the hospital very fast ,so the girl was made to sit with my friend and I took her brother on my horse and we just swam accross the river and then quickly galloped to the hospital through a thick forest with a lot of obstacles . However the route was made available to us through my Samsung Smartphone’s map which gave detailed topographical map of the terrain and the exact kilometers or distance. It was a real merging of cutting edge technology of mobile phones map  and old age technology by the horses travelling through the most difficult terrain that we achieved a miraculous feat of reaching the hospital faster than any car or motorcycle could reach us. The girls life was saved and we left them in the hospital and came back to the Fort.

After reaching the Fort ; I was curious about the horses and asked my friend about the horses in his stable and how he had managed to breed them. The story that he told me was the most amazing one which I had ever heard . The story went back in history to the fight between Rana Sanga – the Rajput king and Babur – the Mughal Conqueror- descendent of Timur and Genghis Khan.The Horses were of Marwari breed by combining the useful charcteristics of Arabian, Turkumans and local stock ,the Rajputs had created an intelligent ,fearlesss and hardy breed and his horses traced their lineage from the famous horse known as Chetak. Rana Udai Singh – the founder of Udaipur had fought with Akbar in Chittorgarh and the battle continued with his famous son Rana Pratap – known as the famous battle of Haldighatti – which took place on the same date as today –  21st June ,1576 AD. The battle was very important as Rana Pratap controlled the narrow pass  of Haldighatti in the Aravalli Hills which was the trade route between Surat and Delhi for the Mughals.

This famous battle was between hardly twenty thousand soldiers of Rana Pratap and eighty thousand soldiers of Akbar. The horses were made to wear trunks to look like baby elephants – so that the enemy’s elephant would not attack it – thinking it to be a baby elephant. This way the horse rider could swiftly attack the enemy King who usually sat on an elephant. The Rana’s horse – Chetak was wounded by the tusk of an elephant when the Rana’s horse climbed on an elephant to attack the enemy ; yet it managed to take the Rana to safety with only three functional legs and one leg bleeding profusely and died saving the life of Maharana Pratap while jumping accross a water stream. Maharana Pratap’s son Amar Singh ultimately had to lay down the arms, due to isolation and  many members of Maharana Pratap’s family of Sisodias, band of loyal Rajputs became disillusioned by the surrender and left Rajasthan as they did not want to join the Mughals and migrated towards Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, my host was a descendent of that Sisodia clan.

So this was the story of the Horses who were probably descendents of the famous Chetak Horse. The Marwari horse is known for it’s sharp hearing and pointed ears which can swell upto one hundred eighty degrees or semi-circle for detecting the direction of the sound , it’s elegant , brave and above all very loyal and known for it’s beauty , spirit and intelligence.

My friends the lessons which I learnt was that – Life is awesome – you just need to go ahead and make it happen –  everything is possible in life when you have the correct attitude – instead of trying to figure out the reasons or odds against you and why you cannot do something . When you want to do something really good or great – the possibilities open up by themselves – so all you need to do is focus on your intentions and the Universe helps you achieve the impossible.

Thanks once again for reading my story and I look forward to sharing my video stories also which will be posted here. Please feel free to share any incident in your life where you found the Universe or Unseen power helping you out.