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General Forum: My Motherland | | BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN | |
| maro vinapam anonymous Indians, mee opinion correct ani meeru nammithe dhairyam ga thamaru naana dheyam tho post cheyyandi opinion ni..indulo mee privacy ki vachina nastam emito naaku theliyatam ledhu
Posted by: Pavan At: 24, May 2002 11:20:02 PM IST
I am interested in their opinions and them as well because India is not about an individual. It is everyone of us and certainly as concerned Indians(reference to anonymous users) I am interested in them.
Every individual may not be able to do something for India but certainly they might have words for criticism (either positive or negative) which is better than making all these useless noises about suggesting someone to do something rather than himself/herself doing that.
Before an individual can suggest someone, better introspect himself/herself to what he/she has done till now or just carry on reading with what others have to say about India. Isnt that fair enough?
Posted by: Pavan At: 24, May 2002 11:05:03 PM IST
anonymous postings?? privacy? kaarya rangam loki dhigandi ani salaha icharu..besh..chaala bagundi..mari ee sodharadu/sodhari dhigara? dhigalante prajala munduku ravali? appudu thana privacy sangathi enti?.vadhala galara? saati prajalanu udhesistu vyakyalu chesetappudu vaala munduku velli maatladali, abhiprayani dhairyam ga cheppa gala gali. appude aa abhiprayam kaneesam okkari lonaina alochananu kaligistundi. ivvi maatalu ani anonymous users antunaru. kaadhu charcha ani nenu antunanu. otti maatalaki discussion ki theda vundi ani baavisthunanu. The opinions posted here/discussed elsewhere or any other sites might inspire someone someday to undertake the difficult task of getting reforms to make India into a country which we can all be proud of as fellow Indians. That someone can even be me, you or even the anonymous user.
Posted by: Pavan At: 24, May 2002 4:29:06 PM IST
Dear Anonymous User,
Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions for they become habits. Study your habits, for they become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny . (Even though it's copied from some where else) .
so matalalu lenidi chethalu levu and gatti meelu ledu..... so Anonymous User gaaru try to respect others feeling rather than hurting or commenting there feeling.
and forgive me if i hurt ur feelings
--Ravi
Posted by: Mr Ravi M At: 24, May 2002 2:45:50 AM IST
okka opinion ni thamari naama dheyam tho post cheyatanaki bayapade anonymous users ...desani baagu cheyataniki rangam loki dhiga galara..emo?
Posted by: Pavan At: 23, May 2002 5:48:08 PM IST
yes that's what, u have taken a good decision, better practice it!!
Posted by: Mr. khaleel s At: 23, May 2002 4:07:59 PM IST
An email forward worth reading.(Excerpts from Dr. Abdul Kalaam's Speech). Thats what the article claims.
BEING AN INDIAN, YOU SHOULD READ THIS.
Dr. Abdul Kalaam's Speech
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, and 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?
I have a THIRD vision. India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both
must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr.Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr. Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life. I see four milestones in my career:
ONE: Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be the project director for India's first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one that launched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my life of Scientist.
TWO: After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part of India's guided missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its mission requirements in 1994.
THREE: The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The joy of participating with my team in these nuclear
tests and proving to the world that India can make it, that we are no longer a developing nation but one of them. It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have developed this new material. A Very light material called carbon-carbon.
FOUR: One day an orthopaedic surgeon from Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he took me to his hospital and showed me his patients. There were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic calipers weighing over three
Kg. each, dragging their feet around. He said to me: Please remove the pain of my patients. In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction Orthosis 300 gram
callipers and took them to the orthopaedic centre. The children didn't believe their eyes. From dragging around a three kg. load on their legs, they could now move around! Their parents had tears in their eyes. That was my fourth bliss!
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 transformed 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 land 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 TVs. 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 years 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.
Do you have 10 minutes?
Allow me to come back with vengeance. Got 10
minutes for your country? If yes, then read;
otherwise, choice is yours. 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, and 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 kmph) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, "Jaanta hai sala 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 igarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. You can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country why
cannot you be the same here in India. Once in an interview, the famous Ex- municipal commissioner of Bombay Mr.Tinaikar had a point to make. "Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent
droppings all over the place," he said. "And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the
authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels? 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 or 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 testations 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 neighbors, 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"
End of Speech
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.
Posted by: Pavan At: 22, May 2002 5:26:44 PM IST
Instead of all this discussion if some one of you could go to net aid and be a volunteer there ur time on internet would be very useful to Non governmental organizations in India.
The NGOs in India are the real Indians who are putting all their efforts in trying to develop our country. I am not criticizing any one but I am just suggesting a way to show your patroitism.
Try to help organizations like AID which fund programs in India. I am sure many of u guys know abt all this but I am giving this suggestion for those of you who dont know.
Lets try to form an organization which will be a from all the andhraites. people in other countries may do the research for available grants and people living in the country will do the implementation work.
A suggestion
think abt it
But try to be a volunteer in NETAID.org they really need people
thank you
Deepika
Posted by: Ms. Deepika Andavarapu At: 17, May 2002 10:34:54 PM IST
BE PROUD AS A INDIAN, DO SOME THING FOR MOTHER LAND, TRY TO PARTICIFIATE IN INDIAN DEVELOPMENT
Posted by: Mr. RAJESWAR REDDY SUTRAPU At: 17, May 2002 2:51:10 AM IST
Hi All
some time back i read a joke ... it's like this. there's a spider exibition goin on where spiders from all countries are being diplayed and all spiders kept in covered glass cube but surprisingly Indian spiders are kept in an open glass cube . so judges were surprised and asked the if u keep them in an open cube then won't they come out of the cube then one of our cool dude answered they're Indian spiders if one wants to climb up then 10 will drag him down so no chance of climbing up ..
this may be a joke but if u really think about it u've to accept it as true , as in some previous postings i read why inidians in abroad are making miracles and why they're not doing it at home well reason is pretty simple . guys i love my country a lot but the way we're going right now will never take us to the top.... and question of how to take india to the top remained unsloved from last 55 years, may be some one in the coming years will solve it
--Ravi
Posted by: Mr Ravi M At: 16, May 2002 9:17:31 PM IST
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