**Please read this article by giving 10 minutes from your*
*busy life. Really Good... ** * *
* The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's Speech in Hyderabad .
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 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.
*Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a 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, 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 ?
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 nor are we
going to stop to pick 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
neighbor's, 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 greatdeal
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 Kalaam** ****
I humbly request you to forward **this to every Indian........
JAI HIND*
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