Mukesh Doshi's Passion To Serve

The eJain Digest Team wishes to honor Dr. Mukesh M Doshi, M.D. for his great commitment and service to the society. We had a chance to observe this commitment first hand. When we started editing the first issue of the magazine a few months back, we felt that Matrimonial advertisements would be of little value in a web-based on-line only version of the magazine. Soon we received emails from some of our community members upset about our decision. Within a few days we received a call from Mukeshbhai gracefully explaining to us the value of the MIS section of Jain Digest. He further suggested various ways of not only continuing the tradition but also making MIS more effective by providing an on-line database on the web and subsequently transferring the same to the PDF version. Based on our own experience our team can vouch that maintaining such a database and interacting gracefully with the community members in need of such service is not only time consuming but also needs a lot of commitment and patience.

Mukeshbhai has been a practicing Pediatrician for over 28 years. He is the current Trustee of the Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago's Päthashälä, a position that he has held for the past three years. Prior to this he served as the director of the Päthashälä for over 12 years. No wonder, with such dedicated volunteers serving, Chicago has one of the most successful Päthashälä programs! Mukeshbhai also served as the Chairman of Youth Programs - JAINA Convention 1999, Co-chairman of JNF - JAINA Convention 2007, and has been serving as the Chairman of JAINA MIS since 2007.

In our casual conversation when we asked Mukeshbhai about how he manages to find time from his busy professional schedule, he simply mentioned "When one has a passion to do certain things, one always manages to find the time.” The following points summarize his passion and aim in life:

• Instill Jain values in our children and youth from the very early age
• Promote Jain education and Jain values in our youth
• Find way and means of using modern technology to help our youth find a suitable life partner sharing similar values and religious background. MIS is a great medium, but can be expanded.
• Passing our valuable religious and culture heritage to the next generation and plant seeds to ensure that this process will continue.

We the members of the eJain Digest Team salute you, and derive lot of encouragement from your dedicated service.