A letter to all bharatheeya.

Letter to Every Indian by APJ ABDUL KALAM:

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit.. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is.. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.

YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say.. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay $5 (approx. Rs.. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs..650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand ..
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan ..
Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.
When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too….. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..
'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'
Lets do what India needs from us.
Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.
Thank you,
Dr.. Abdul Kalam
I humbly request you to forward this to every Indian…… ...

glory of BHARATHA-aravinda k pandey

Unfolding The Glory Of India’s Great Past !

‘To the philosophers of India, however, ‘Theory of Relativity’
is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (one kalpa is about 4,320,000 years).’

--- Alan Watts, an eminent English philosopher

I thank Mr Salil Gewali from the core of my heart for providing me an opportunity to have a glimpse of the book titled “What is India ?”. It’s indeed a great experience to have a look at the views of some of the great minds, who in unambiguous manner came to endorse the unique contribution of Indian sages, thinkers and scholars born on this divine land from time to time. It’s no secret that in modern India the rise of so called secular brigade has made it near impossible task for the present youth to have access to the true image of India’s glorious past.
Worse, any attempt to have a look into the past is ridiculed by the progressive intellectuals as an attempt of saffronisation of education. Against this backdrop, it’s indeed laudable that author decided to bring in open the contributions of great Indian minds via the words of enlightened souls from the Western world. The youths of our times whose minds have been programmed to view the contributions from the Western world as ultimate will be forced to reshape their brainwaves after intercepting the pearls of wisdom scattered in the pages of this wonderful book penned by Mr. Gewali.
It’s high time that we come to acknowledge the contributions of our sages. At this juncture, I wish to quote the words of Radhakrishnan, which will let my readers to know why it’s so essential to be in league with the wisdom of Indian sages. It will let you know why it’s so essential to take as much steps as possible to resurrect the glory of past. I pity the intellectuals who believe that if we started looking into past we are bound to return to cave ages. I need to tell such bogus thinkers that the nation which forgot to honour the great relics of past , sooner or later, became a forgotten past ! Radhakrishnan says : ”From the beginning of her history India has adored and idealized ,not soldiers and statesman, not men of science and leaders of industry ,not even poets and philosophers ,who influence the world by their deeds or by their words, but those rarer and most chastened spirits, whose greatness lies in what they are not what they do; men who have stamped infinity on the thought and life of the country, men who have added to the invisible force of goodness in the world. To a world given over to the pursuits of power and pleasure, wealth and glory, they declare the reality of the unseen world and the call of the spiritual life. Their self-possession and self command , their strange deep wisdom , their exquisite courtesy, their humility and gentleness of soul , their abounding humanity , proclaim that the destiny of man is to know himself and thereby further the universal life of which he is an integrated element.” ( Eastern Religions And Western Thought by S. Radhakrishnan , P.35)
I am sure the book which is primarily the compilation of intellectual giants from across the globe like T.S. Eliot, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Julius R. Oppenheimer, Erwin Schrodinger, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Emerson , Arthur Schopenhauer, Yeats, Alan Watts, Thoreau, Romain Rolland, Abdul Kalam, Paul William Roberts and Brian David Josephson , to name few, would allow young minds to reshape their perspective. They are, at present, bit ashamed in acknowledging the contributions of our sages in open and bold manner. The compilation of the quotes has been done in excellent way which already won the appreciation of the readers from across the world. The NASA scientists Dr. A V Murali says –‘This compilation is simply outstanding! I never knew that such a compilation exists and we all should be thankful to the author! These great quotes should be embossed on plaques and displayed on the walls of our Parliament, State Assembly Halls, and at all our educational institutions. Most importantly, the material should be made a compulsory reading for all the school students (elaborating more on ‘ who is who’ and the monumental contributions of these intellectual giants).’
These candid declarations on the part of these great minds would shatter the reluctance shown on the part of Gen-Next to embrace the wisdom found in Vedas and other Indian scriptures. Recently, I came to be aware of progressive souls making mockery of the Indian civilization saying that we have tendency to overrate our achievements and as a result we are all the time lost in self-glorification. When I contrast the myopic observation of that soul with the revelations present in the Gewali’s book I must say let’s become aware of the glorious legacy instead of giving to sense of rejection caused by the onslaught of progressive literature. The term “progressive literature” makes me laugh as one hardly finds anything progressive while reading books falling in this genre. Without any prejudices in mind let those secularists ponder amazing opinions of the father of Atomic Bomb, Julius R. Oppenheimer, 'What we shall find in Modern Physics is an exemplification, an encouragement and a refinement of old Hindu wisdom.'
All must congratulate the author for successful culmination of herculean task whereby he managed to bring at one place thoughts of leading Western thinkers pertaining to contributions of Indian geniuses in various spheres like science, literature and philosophy. The book is a conscious reader’s delight; a prize possession of any soul who wishes to be aware of the contributions of ancient India when wisdom of sages ruled the roost.

----Arvind K Pandey,

capability of present day engineers...................

shame on present govt engs.................
this the photo of new bridge of shimoga.
beside this there's a bridge built by "VISHWESHWARAYYA" on which you can not see like this ......
our dc has to take care about it .otherwise new bridge 'll fall down before old bridge!!!!!!!