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Articles: My Thoughts | Abdul kalam's speach in Hyderabad
- Mr. VIRABHADRA SASTRI KALANADHABHATTA
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Dear Friends,
In my email box, I got the text of the speach given by Sri Abdul KalamjI in Hyderabd requesting me to circulate to as many friends as possible. I feel 'telugupeople.com' is an apt place for this and so I take liberty to post it here.
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President's Office
The President of India
DR.A.P.J.Abdul Kalaam's Speech in Hyderabad
'I have three visions for India.
In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others.
That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in
terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn't this incorrect?
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