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Ludhiana Personality :: Sudha Sen
Calcutta and Lahore are just not cities, they are symbols. Both are academic seats. Calcutta and Punjab universities make a rare twin. In an age of mental pollution, we owe it to our conscience to remember the true faces of real servants of India.
A Bengali babu can be seen behind the monumental files of the old Punjab. The contribution of Dr Prof Bannerjea, Chatterjea, Mukherjea or Bose, Ghose, or Dutta or Sen here in our part merits identification. Some of them make a galaxy of stars. A shining star is Miss Sen.
Miss Sen had the double blessings of Lahore, she was a popular lecturer at the Central Training college. She had an Oxford degree. Miss Sen, more commonly known as S.Sen, was actually Miss Sudha Sen.
During the war years, Mian Abdul Hayee of Ludhiana was a Cabinet minister holding the portfolio of education. He sanctioned a government college for women in 1943. After due thought, Prof Sudha Sen was sent from Lahore to Ludhiana to start, run and establish the new institution for girls for higher education.
She founded the Government College for Women, Ludhiana, and really well founded it! She started with an ordinary rented building. With her patience and sincere input, the college kept on earning the image of a fast upcoming centre of higher education. Miss Sen, with background of Calcutta, Lahore and Oxford, took to Ludhiana as the proverbial duck takes to water. Her ability and adaptability were great assets, which Ludhiana made best use of. She never sought transfer. In just about a decade she realised her impossible dream: got centrally-located prime land in the Civil Lines on the Ferozepore Road, raised the huge campus and gave to Punjab what is our great temple of learning. Ludhiana owes her a permanent gratitude.
She left Ludhiana in 1954 very reluctantly to go to Chandigarh, when she was promoted as Deputy Director Public Instruction (DDPI) of the then Punjab, comprising whole of Haryana and most of Himachal Pradesh. She very ably selected the college lectures as education-expert of the Punjab Public Service Commission. Incidentally, during her tenure the post of a government college lecturer came under the purview of the Public Service Commission. She proved herself as one of the most eminent administrators in the Punjab Education Department.
She was very compassionate. No body knows why she did not marry. Every girl of her college would recall that she advised all her wards to marry. Every colleague remembers that she wished him or her to realize the merits of marriage. She never painted the state of single woman as an alarming one. Her advice was based upon imperatives of society, demands of socio-cultural milieu and the virtues of an integrated family life.
The management of the Government College for Women wisely invited her to be the chief guest at the historic golden jubilee of the college. The grand old lady was the focus of all eyes. Miss Sen observed, An institution is like a family where character is formed, values are created and bonds of love are developed. She concluded, It is the foundation on which the national edifice is built. She brought Punjab and Bengal closer and cemented bonds with the motherland. Her words are just not sound, they carry sense and wisdom. This wisdom has music of Bengal, learning of Oxford, experience of Lahore and love for Ludhiana.
She was a saintly person. Her needs were very few. Her desires were strictly non-personal, service to society was foremost. She spoke eloquently. Had perfect command over language. As she spoke, you could judge the pauses for punctuation. Miss Sen was free from any prejudice or bias. It is fit to recall the impact of Miss Sen as a teacher at the Government Central Training College, Lahore. Her student, later the third Principal of the College founded by her mentor, Madam K. Pasricha records, Miss Sen was like a light-house to me as she always gave me sound advice. To me it appears while our people in Calcutta transported goods and carried passengers, Miss Sen paid back the fare in the form of education.
Ludhiana is proud of its sane daughter, the great Miss Sen, Sudha is amrit the dictionary tells us. We believe it.
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