WHAT DR.S.S.NANDA WAS AND WHAT AT PRESENT HE IS?
Son of a very rich father in Pakistan, but when migrated to India at the age of 9, the entire family was penniless.
1. Worked as a labourer doing many menial jobs at Ludhiana.
2. Passed Matriculation Examination in 1954.
3. Worked as Assistant to  Salesmen at Hindustan Automobiles – 22-Gokhle Market, New Delhi from June 1954 to June 1955.
4. Passed Honours in Punjabi Examination (Gyani) in June 1955 and F.A. in 1956.
5. Joined Government Vocational Training Centre to do one year Certificate of Electrician with an eye on Rs.30 which was used to be given as monthly Stipend to the Refugee students.
6. Then shifted to a private job of Munshi with a contractor namely S.Arjun Singh at Dhaban, Distt. Sri Ganganagar where Bhakra Canal was being constructed. I was given an assurance by the contractor that with the passage of time he would make me a junior partner in his construction company.
7. Seeing no hope of the fulfillment of assurances by the contractor I got the temporary job of Beldar at the very canal under construction. Later on, I was promoted temporarily on 89 days basis as Work Mistry at the same place in irrigation department.
8. After every 89 days we were given fresh appointment with a gap of one or two days for another 89 days.
9. Once in the later half of the year 1956 I could not get the periodic appointment of 89 days because the appointing officer was on leave.
10. Facing the difficulty of making both ends meet I had to work as a labourer for about 20 days in the construction of the College building at Mandi Dabwali which was situated at a distance of about 20 kilometers from Dhaban and both the stations were interlinked by railway.
11. I worked as a labourer by carrying bricks on my head on Rs.6 per day for the construction of a particular room in the building of the college under construction.
12. After it, I got a temporary job of Work Sub-Inspector in the irrigation department at Dabli Distt. Bikaner which is situated at a distance of about 11 kilometers from Hanumangarh Junction and about 65 kilometers from the Town of Dhaban.
13. Job being temporary I had to do very minor tasks, but with the grace of God I continued my studies as a private candidate.
14. I did my B.A. under 7(d) regulations of the University which allowed the students with the degree of Gyani to appear only in English and one subject more. I did it in 1958.
15. I was then first posted as Linesman Grade III and then Meter Reader in Electricity Department by Sh. H.C.Diwan, Superintending Engineer Amritsar. I was posted at Joginder Nagar.
16. After a few months of harrowing experience at Joginder Nagar I got myself posted at Majitha – a popular village in the district of Amritsar.
17. Then I was shifted to the office of S.D.O. Puttligarh Subdivision at Amritsar.
18. Later on, I got the job of clerk in the department of Agriculture in the office of the Agriculture Engineer (Boring) 120- Model Town Ludhiana.
19. Then I was shifted to the office of Professor of Extension, Dr. Bishan Singh Samundri Agriculture University Ludhiana. It was in 1960.
20. By that time I had completed my graduation as a private candidate and I had appeared also in M.A. Part-I examination in Political Science which I did in 1960.
21. Because of some reasons I was shifted as clerk to the office of Deputy Director, Agriculture – Palampur.
22. It was very hard task for a poor person like me to live comfortably in the semi-hilly areas of Palampur.
23. Having no Godfather in the department, I could not get myself transferred to some station in the plain. I, therefore, had to resign and to come back at Ludhiana where my parents were settled.
24. Then, I got the job of Sorter in a Library of the college. Along with it I did B.T. (Bachelor of Teaching) examination in 1963.
25. With B.T. Degree I was able to get a job of teacher in Khalsa Higher Secondary School Nangal Ambia district Jalandhar.
26. I had already done M.A. Part-I in Political Science in 1960 and I completed my Post-Graduation in Political Science while serving at Nangal Ambia.
27. Then I applied for a job of teacher in government school and luckily I was selected without having any approach and I was posted at Govt. Higher Secondary School Jandiali in district Ludhiana. I established an academy at Ludhiana in order to supplement of my income. I violated the Govt. rules by establishing the Academy but I had to do it.
28. Then I got an opportunity to get a job of Lecturer in Political Science at Mandi Dabwali for only a period of 3 months.
29. I preferred the job in College and leaving everything to God I resigned from the regular Govt. job of a teacher and joined the job of Lecturer for 3 months at Mandi Dabwali. To my good luck, the management of the college gave me the regular appointment of lecturer after 3 months.
30. See the Irony of Destiny that I had to take my first period of B.A. Part-III in the very same room which was constructed by me about 12 years earlier by carrying bricks on my head. Tears of sadness as well as happiness encouraged me to make a very good start of the new academic venture.
31. Then I got the regular job of Lecturer in Political Science at Govt. College Malerkotla. I remained there for about 26 years and I learnt many things, particularly Islamic Culture and the teachings of Islam. Really, It was a great secular experience for me and I enjoyed my stay with my evershining secular mind and soul.
32. I was married in November 1969 at the age of 31 years and 5 months. I was blessed with a daughter and a son.
33. When I was at Malerkotla, I felt that I would have to face a gruesome struggle to get rid of the disgraceful tag of Poverty. Therefore, I started writing Text-books in Political Science in 1972 - again in violation of government rules. I found great hurdle in getting the books published because no publishers was willing to publish the book of a new author. I was determined to get the book published and I started my own Publications in the name of my some relative. I continued publishing my own books till 1978. It was really a very hard time for me. I used to finish my teaching at about 2 P.M. daily and I used to go to Jalandhar after every alternative day to manage my publications. It is unbelievable, but it is a very true fact of my life that after getting my own books printed and bound I toured myself to deliver the specimens of my books to the college teachers throughout Punjab. I suffered losses and was under a heavy debt. I was very sad to note that a substantial majority of Lecturers in Political Science in different colleges was extra-ordinarily praising my books but showed their inability to recommend them to their students because of the fact that someone was commited to his teacher-author, someone to his friend-author, someone to classmate-author and there were many too who were entertaining caste and religious considerations in the very important matter of recommending books to their students. Being a private student throughout my life, I was having no classmate, no colleague, no friend and above all my only quality is that my soul and mind is cent-percent above caste and religious considerations. These were the factors which miserably contributed towards the rise of my debt because books were not being recommended at the level at which they should have been done.
34. With the grace of God till today I have completed almost 75 text-books for graduate and post-graduate classes of many universities in the languages of Punjabi, Hindi and English.
35. I was the first person throughout India who wrote the book on the Constitution of India with the insertion of all the provisions of 42nd Constitutional Amendment which was made in 1976 by Mrs. Indira Gandhi during emergency period. This was the book which drastically changed my fortunes. I earned sufficient money and I was able to clear off all my debts. This was the book which made me very popular throughout India in general but most specifically in Nothern India. I was not a experienced businessman and could not know that the demand of my book in Hindi and in English was in every corner of Nothern India. But I could not do anything beyond the territory of Punjab.
36. Undoubtedly, the book changed my fortunes not only for that period but also for the whole of my life. The popularity of my name made some leading publishers to take me as an author of the books in Political Science. I was fascinated by the ambitious offers made to me and I closed my publications and shifted to M/s Modern Publishers Jalandhar, but later on I realized that my brains failed me to correctly anticipate my future under someone else. Toll to-day I feel that God made me work very hard but not for myself and for my family members, but to build the palaces of some other people.
37. My Publishers had got many of my books translated in some other Indian languages too.
38. With the over-kindness of God, I got PhD in Political Science in 1978 from Punjabi University Patiala. I was the first person who did PhD in Political Science in 1978 from this University. As per the then rules of the University my Thesis was sent to the Oxford University and the examiner gave such an excellent report of his evaluation that he ranked my thesis as one of the best three thesis in the world. I did my Ph.D along with doing service of Lecturer at Govt. College Malerkotla without any sort of assistance from any quarter. It was the over-kindness of God that bestowed upon me this honour and made me Dr. S. S. Nanda.
39. I retired from Govt. service in 1996 and married my daughter in the same year with a Professor in Chemistry and son of a Principal who is also a man in Chemistry. Both the father and son are PhD in Chemistry and my daughter has done M.Phill in Political Science with distinction. My daughter had very distinctive academic carrier and was first class first throughout. My son did Honours in Political Science but later shifted to the Law Faculty. He did LLB in 1998 and was doing MBA through correspondence having plans to enter into publications. I am very well versed with the language of Urdu and taking advantage of our stay at Malerkotla. I insisted botn my son and daughter to learn Urdu and within a very short period a Muslim Urdu Teacher made them capable to pass the Certificate Urdu Examination from Aligarh University.
40. But destiny willed it otherwise and my son was killed on 17th March 1999 – by whom and why- I do not want to disclose.My fate had ironies and ironies in store for me throughout of my life and I can prophesise my future. My son wanted to enter into Publications business, and after facing many difficulties and sacrificing a good amount of my royalty, I got some of my most popular books back from the publishers on 10th of March 1999. I disclosed this news to my son on 11th of March 1999 and he was overpleased. But his destiny and the story of ironies of my fate took him for his heavenly abode only after 6 days, i.e. on 17th of March 1999.
41. See another inrony of my fate that the betrothal ceremony of my son was to be performed on 21st of March 1999, but he was killed on 17th of March, i.e. 4 days earlier. We had to arrange the Bhog of Sri Guru Granth Sahib on the same day, i.e. 21st of March.
42. With the death of my only son everything was lost. But the same God bestowed courage on me and filled me with the hope that I have to give something more for my dear students. Wasting uselessly about 8 years after the death of my son I took up the pen again and started writing for the cause of the students.
43. My destiny was not willing to spare me from more and more hard trials and examinations of life with the result that my wife fell victim to paralysis and is lying on the bed for the last 11 years speechless, movementless and unable to take anything – thus depending upon the liquid diet through spoon.
44. God is abundantly kind towards me but as the Holy Japu Ji of Guru Nanak says “Eh Bhi  Daat Teri Daatar” and 7 years ago I too was made confined to bed and at present only in a position to move for a few yards and able to do the daily necessaties of life. Sufficient to say that I am under House arrest but still offer my heartiest thanks to His almighty for keeping me alive.
45. I was honoured by various N.G.Os including academic ones. The government of Punjab also honoured me through the Deputy Commissioner, Patiala. I along with my wife visited USA in 2004 in order to observe the American Presidential Elections. We stayed there for two months and 13 days. Being physically handicapped I could not visit some other countries after that, though I had invitations from various associations and federations.
46. May God bless me with the strength to be able to bow my head before His Supreme Command without any murmur and give me sufficient strength and a long age with good health to enable me to serve the Students’ Community which is moving very fast to the World of Ignorance and Darkness. Seeing this, sometimes I feel to write a book titled “General Current Ignorance”.
47. My message to all is :-
 DO GOOD ANYWAY
People are unreasonable, Illogical and self-centered, Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of having selfish and ulterior motives,
 Do good anyway.
If you are successful, You win false friends and true enemies,
 Succeed anyway.
The good you do today, will be forgotten tomorrow,
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable,
Be honest and frank anyway.
Elites talk of underdogs, but work only for top dogs,
 Fight for underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building, may be destroyed overnight,
 Even then constructively build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you help them,
 Despite this help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and you’ll be kicked in the teeth,
 Still give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
48. My Another Message is:-
Have Unshakeable Faith on God,
  Since God give you not that what you want, But that what you Need.
When I Asked God for Strength, He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face.
When I Asked God for Brain, He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve.
When I Asked God for Happiness, He Showed Me Many Unhappy People.
When I Asked God for Wealth, He Showed Me How to Work Hard.  
 When I Asked God for Favours, He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard.
When I Asked God for Peace, He Showed Me How to Help Others.
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted, He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
Dr. S.S. Nanda
Political Science House
7-A Dhillon Marg, Patiala
Contact Numbers: 098159-54074,
098143-94074
Email: ssnanda38@gmail.com
Website: www.drssnanda.com