The Parliament Sessions

                  I think I was in 6th standard when I asked my teacher why was the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are known as the houses, the upper house and the lower house and my teacher said they are representing the whole Indian population and the members in those houses are like a family who discuss and lay the foundation for developing the country. That was a theoretical description which was nice to hear but practically I never saw any discussions in the house whether it is Lok Sabha or it is Rajya Sabha. There were only debates and debates on their personal cases, on scams which were already occurred. The ruling party blames the opposition and vice versa. I don't understand how the recent National Herald Case become an national issue to be discussed in parliament. I don't understand why an allegation on Union Finance Minister to be discussed in parliament. There is a judicial system our country to make judgement on all such allegations and cases. I don't know why are our leaders wasting time in parliament pointing out their fingers at one another. Even when their are discussions on farmers plight in our country, our leaders are more interested in debating on who is responsible for such situations than discussing on the measures to be taken. There are many problems in our society, in fact every system has loop holes, crime has increased, corruption has spread like a cancer to every cell of the society. It is already late, we need to change, our way of thinking needed a change, we need more awareness in the society. I appeal to all the representatives in the houses both state and central, Please discuss not debate, Concentrate on problems in the society not personal problems. I hope I will see sessions where my country's problems get some measures to overcome them and see crime free, corruption free country. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

The article is dedicated to all those leaders and bureaucrats who tried to uplift the country facing all the loop holes of the system.

Unity in Diversity

                  In the last few weeks we had severe debates on intolerance and some of us even doubted on the India's Secularism. There may be some issues and some communal disturbances which are actually created by some narrow minded section of our society, but we are secular and we need to answer that particular section of society by ignoring their comments on religion or cast. We need to be mature enough to respond to the issues which actually needed our response. We need to respect the personal opinion of every individual. I am really upset with the parliament sessions where the so called representatives of our country fighting about growing intolerance rather than discussing on some important issues which help and improve the country's economy and living standards. According to me the issues on intolerance should be dealt in a smoother way. It is not something to discuss and debate in parliament which may hurt some of the people's beliefs and may result in more serious issues. The representatives must be more responsible in giving public statements. One should also be careful about the impact which the statement creates in the society. Recently we had severe rains in Chennai and the mega city is drowned by unexpected rains. We should be proud to see the whole India stand by Chennai showing their concern in social media, some of them praying to the God, some of them coming forward to help. We can see the Unity of India now. Every one in Chennai including the Army, Navy, Police forces helping others in every possible way irrespective of their religion or cast. Even the Indians in the other parts of the country showing their concern about the people in Chennai and praying for the safety. Even the government of India came forward and promised to help them in all possible ways. We may be different in the religions we follow, languages we speak, tradition which we follow but we are united under one roof 'INDIA'.

              We the people of India pledge for revival of the Chennai city and all other rain effected areas. Our payers and wishes will be always with the people of Chennai....    

Secularism from the roots...

               WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens…                                                                                                       

                         These are the lines from the Preamble of our Constitution. We have declared our nation a secular country. Is it so? Almost every day when I go through the news paper there will be some or the other news on communal clashes; caste based politics; new subsidies, quotas which create differences and many other disgraceful events that are happening across the country. Recently Dadri Incident had raised doubts on our ‘Unity in Diversity’. We are facing many problems which we need to tackle as a nation but instead we are fighting among ourselves for the sake of worth less religion or cast. Religion is created to bind ourselves to some rules so that we do not commit mistakes at least in the fear of God. Unfortunately we are using religion to fight among ourselves in the name of God. I do agree that there are some ideologies which contradict each other’s religious sentiments but we need to be mature enough to understand that human relationships and mutual cooperation is above all sentiments. After all we live in the same country, follow same path while traveling to our destinations. I do not think any God of any religion will encourage violence, if anyone is there to encourage we do not call him God. I personally believe that there only one such supernatural power, that is Nature. If we protect the Nature it will allow us to survive if we try and destroy it will destroy us and if we fight among ourselves it will never bother to help. Every individual has to follow the same routine cycles like eating, sleeping etc in order to survive, then why these differences? We had right to follow any religion, this is secularism. We do not have right to hate other religions, this is also secularism. These are the initial thoughts that are to be injected in the young minds before we teach any other principles. If this had been done there would not be a situation that is present in Syria or in Dadri. Caste system is another social barrier persisting in our country since ages. I do not understand this concept of caste, the basis on which they divided people. Whatever it may be today it has been a disgrace to my country. Today I question the previous generation who often comments about present generation ‘Aren’t you ashamed of differentiating people on the basis of cast? Aren’t ashamed of injecting the idea of cast in the present generation? ‘. I would call these people who created differences among us on the basis of cast as ‘ The Educated Illiterates ’ We all know the meaning of dignity of labour, we know the importance of every occupation in this society, the why this discrimination? We need to step out of these boundaries, respect every individual and unite to fight against corruption, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

                    I am an Indian before my religion, I am an Indian before my state, I am an Indian before my language, I am an Indian before my name. I am an Indian to Change, I Change to Change my nation. Let us follow the new religion # INDIANISM.

The Independence Day.

         Wish you a very happy independence day to all my fellow Indians and also to the neighboring country. This day is considered as an auspicious day in the history of India as we achieved independence from the British rule which is treated more as slavery than as a rule or government. We had completed 68 years of independence. Our leaders had a vision for our country when we had achieved our independence which is also projected in our constitution and our laws. Now the question is ‘Where we stand in achieving that vision?’ Did we achieve at least 50% of it? It is difficult to answer. In these 68 years we had achieved many laurels for our country. We had a potential defence, navy and air force units which are continuously guarding our nation. We had taken up successful Mangalyan project recently which shows our potential in space navigation and research. We had developments in various sectors and in some sectors we emerged as leaders. Some of our companies had got world class recognition. India emerged as one of the greatest tourist attraction which may be the only country sustaining various cultures with harmony. India became the symbol for peace and love where some of the animals are also given respect. India became the source of man power which is providing potential employees to the most esteemed companies. Many companies today have Indians at their top positions. We are successful in implementing technology with in the country. We are able to build world class cities. We had achieved many laurels in the sports as a nation. Today we are the most trusted market to the world where they can invest. We developed a fairly stable economy. We are also successful in many ways as a nation and as a largest democratic nation. We are fortunate enough to see Abdul Kalam who is an inspiration for the modern generation of India. We are gifted with many legends in various fields. In contrast we had to tackle many failures in traveling towards are dream to become a self sustained developed nation. Though we achieved independence we are still bound in the shackles of governance, education and caste system. We had to face new social barriers like crime and corruption which had grown substantially in independent India. Our politics became an analogy for crime and corruption. Farmers are still dependent on monsoons and money lenders in our independent India. Student is dependent on their financial status to choose the field of study in independent India. Girls need to depend on someone to travel on roads at night. Where are we independent? We are independent in corruption. We had freedom to litter on the roads. In some areas girls did not have freedom to even enter the schools. Most of the women are forced to quit their jobs after marriages. Dowry system is still prevailing which is turning out to be a nightmare for bride’s father and also one of the reason for female infanticides. Some are still bound to superstitions and some are specially imposed on girls. Education system needed a change wherein we need a system that is encouraging for students to learn and apply things rather than focus on just examinations. We failed to attract students who are leaving the country and are settling in foreign countries and as a result the brilliant thoughts which are handcrafted in India are not used for our development as a nation. The reservation system still persists which shows our failure in removing the differences in the society. There are several barriers we are facing today and each of these needed a broad minded hearts. Crimes against women are increasing. We need to tackle all these with our bold hearts and overcome all barriers in order to become a self sustained developed nation where the citizens are blessed with knowledge that enhances the human relationships and comforts and make this holy land a best place to pursue knowledge along with wisdom. Let us not forget our nation the next day of Independence Day. The national anthem we sing on this day should be a symbol of religious harmony. Let us join the hands together and show the power of the largest youth nation to the world. Personally I like two important things on this day. One is the national flag breathing the warm respects of Indians and the other  is the voice of India uniting to sing the national anthem keeping all their differences apart. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

I request all Indians to be bound to National Integrity and Cultural Harmony rather than to caste and religion. It is ‘Vandemataram’ and not ‘One Day Mataram’. I believe in one god which is my mother land and which is above all religions as prescribed in the Indian Mythology. 

The article is dedicated to A.P.J Abdul Kalam who always stays alive in our hearts.  

The Professor's woes

                  I strongly believe that the solutions to the problems which we face as a nation can be achieved only through education with values. The source of such value added education is ‘Guru’. The education will be complete if we have good teachers. The aim of a professor should be creating creative individuals who can try and change the phase of the country respecting the values of the country, but not to hike his salary. A professor should be concentrating on creating interest, but today it seems that they themselves do not have any interest. It is harsh to blame them alone. Again it is the system which has to be blamed. This system is not encouraging the professors who are really interested and had that passion to teach but they wanted professors who had good qualifications and who don’t really understand the students and who don’t put efforts to create interest among the students. Most of the professors today are carrying their profession as a duty imposed on them for which they are taking salary but not as a responsibility.

             Most of the professors are forced to do their PhD’s just for the reputation of the institution which is acting as a burden to them and as a result they are losing interest in creating interest among students. Adding to these they have bonus in the form of management work. Especially in private institutions the professors are not even respected and are not recognized. There are always those dirty politics accompanying in promotions, salary hikes etc. With all these the bonus comments from students. Do you want to be a professor? Yes I want and I want to be that ‘Change’ which can change the system. I dedicate this article to those professors and school teachers who inspired me and created interest in me despite of their burdens. Hope we can see more Abdul Kalams and Radhakrishnas . Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru devo Maheshwara,

Guru sakshat, param Brahma, tasmai shri guravay namah .      

#RIP APJ ABDUL KALAM.

      He may be 83 years old. His smile is as fresh as that of a child. He may be the former president of India yet he had never misused his power or his status. He is an ever learning student who is an inspiration for all the students of the country. He is a great teacher who is an inspiration for the whole teaching community and who dedicated his life for uplift of the education system and students, even after becoming the President of India. He is the father of Nuclear Science of India. He is the inspiration for all those scientists who dedicated their research for the country. He is the one who understand the innocent thoughts of children more than their parents. He is the most loved individual of the country. We may miss him physically but we can see his innocent smile in every child, his milestones in every milestone we achieve as a country, his ideas in youngsters, his thoughts in students, his success in every missile or spaceship we send. He had done his part and we cannot expect more from a single missile. As he wished, he had his last moments with the young minds of India. He inspired us till his last breath. I do not have any words to say or may be the English doesn't have words to describe him. Letzzz take inspiration from him and work as a team keeping all our differences apart to achieve his vision 2020 for our country which can be the only homage and respect we can pay to the great legend. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

It is not a loss. Let us interpret this as a chance to repay him in terms of service to nation and may be he wanted every Indian to get inspired and he sacrificed his life for the cause. 

     

Opportunities Vs Reservation System.

             There are innumerable discussions and debates on reservation system. Some of us support the system and some of us oppose the system but there will never be a satisfactory conclusion. It is always an endless debate. We always tend to forget the roots of these reservation system and we always argue considering only some cases in the present scenario. This is system is the effect of the illogical caste system and other differences created in our society long back. Even today there are people in our country who are abandoned. There are some so called priests who try and show their supremacy over some minorities in our community. The present reservation system is introduced for the uplift of these backward classes of the society to reduce inequalities and social barriers like caste system. Unfortunately the people’s representatives are using these inequalities for their vote bank. The point is the reservation system which is used to the uplift of one section of society should not make the other sections deprived of their opportunities. So we should create equal opportunities to each individual of the society. Suppose in educational sector we should take care that each and every child born in this country should have equal opportunity to study irrespective of their economical background. There should be regularization of school fee and better infrastructure so that everyone can be blessed by knowledge. We can also follow a system where each individual paying educational tax according to his income which is later used for the education of the younger generation. Unfortunately the government schools are in a pathetic situation and no one is willing to join or collaborate with government to improve the facilities for education of under privileged sections of society. It is very disgusting to see government which is not concerned with primary and secondary education suddenly introduces reservation system in case of higher education without a justified base. They should understand that every child born in India has equal right of education that is every child has a right to study in IIT’s and it is the responsibility of government to provide such education. More over they should improve the standards and we should go beyond the present IIT’s. We should question ourselves. Are the graduates which we produce can compete with the world? We should not satisfy with one odd case. As a nation we should produce such engineers, scientists and researchers in mass numbers at the same time they should be loyal to the country. We have seen one such great scientist ‘ Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam’ and we have many in the past. We need much so as to benefit more than hundred crore population. We need those scientists who carry out their research on various problems which are faced by our country and engineers who try and implement the solutions and most importantly representatives to finally deal with the problems. All these can only happen with value based education. I have seen many students flying abroad for their higher studies as they are unable to tackle here due to lack of opportunities and finally settle abroad which a serious loss. We have seen many Indians doing wonders abroad. Whenever we see such Indians who are doing well in abroad we all feel proud and showcase the news item but we never think why he is unable to do it here. It is because of lack of facilities. They are many unanswered questions. Is the vision of the reservation system being fulfilled?  Are all the people who gets benefited are really economically backward? Why are we not concentrating on increased discrimination in the states like Haryana? Why IIT's could not meet the standards of MIT? Is still caste based reservation system the right choice? Is this reservation system increasing discrimination? Why the student flying abroad? Is reservation needed for post graduation programmes like M-Tech, MBA; Public sector services and especially civil services after providing reservation for under graduate level? Are the students who are benefited using the opportunity given to them? Anyone who can answer the above questions and justify me that our education system is right I am ready to salute them and do whatever they wish me to do.

                          Our Prime minister proposed new ideas such as Make in India, Digital India, Swach Bharath Abhayaan etc. These activities can only be successful if we have a change in our educational system. We should not forget that the education is the base for any sector to improve. Hope our leaders will bring in fruitful changes in our system so that we can rise as a nation. It is already late and we can not delay. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.  

Commercialization of Education..

               Knowledge is divine. Education is the most efficient tool to acquire it. Is it so? Is our education system guiding towards acquiring knowledge. “We want that education by which our character is formed, increases the strength of the mind, expands the intellect and which make one to stand on one’s feet.” These are the words shared to us by ‘Symbol of Knowledge along with Wisdom’, Swami Vivekananda. Unfortunately these words are confined only to the walls of the educational institutions but not to the ‘Hearts of the educational institutions’, Students. Is Plato’s philosophy of education being really implemented? Most of us do not know who Plato is, as we might have left it in choice or it may not be important for examinations. I wanted to say that today’s educational system is focused on the end result, may be marks or finally a job than the actual intent of education. In this misconception most of us are missing the real joy in learning. I rarely saw students who enjoy learning with intent for knowledge. It all starts from our primary education, my teachers did not explain me why 3*2=6. They just asked me to memorize 3 Table. It is harsh to blame teachers but it is the system which has to be changed right from primary education. Suppose take History, The Indian Freedom struggle, we all know the sacrifices and the heroics of the freedom fighters. We should make the youngsters know those sacrifices and the reason behind them, their dreams and the way they visualized the future of India and motivate youngsters to proceed to achieve their dreams. This is how we should show the real respect to them. But today they are taught as an answer to a question but the pain experienced by our leaders is not really discussed. It is over 60 years of Independence and still we are unable to provide sufficient and quality opportunities to our students, instead we are paying huge to the foreign universities for our higher education. Today Education is money. The reservation system still persists and shows our failure in removing the inequalities in the society. Our leaders are busy in increasing the reservations rather than to suppress the inequalities. We are unable to provide quality education to the poor, child labour still exists. In Independent India, a child does not have an Independent choice of study. They are made to study as per financial status or as per market price. Surprised of the term ‘Market price’, I really mean it. If a computer science engineer have more demand in the market, study computer science. This is principle which is followed generally today. A student, who completed his 12^th, had no idea of what he is capable of doing. The fee structure is a real burden on parents which adds an additional stress on the child for the result rather than all-round development. Each and every aspect discussed above reflects the failure of the educational system which is still followed. When there will be a change? Already it is late. The schools drastically changed as per requirements of the parents. Let us compare two different scenarios, one is my schooling that is around 8 years ago and the other is now. Fee when I was in school is around Rs 2000/- or even less and now it is Rs 30,000/- for the same school except that they had built a new build in place of the play ground we had then. Timings in my time are 9:00 to 4:00 and followed by sports from 4:00 to 6:00. We used to have an extracurricular activity period every Saturday where we used to have elocution competitions etc. Now 7am to 7pm with weekly once games for an hour. I really do not know whether there is increase in difficulty of the syllabus or gaining extra knowledge by studying extra hours. There is hardly any change in syllabus but the amount of pressure is enormous. Every school advertise with the number of grades their students have achieved, number of marks their students have achieved. Is there any schools advertising with the number of athletes they had produced to the country, number of hockey players they had produced to the country or any other sport? Are there parents who consider that sports are also the part of education? Yes, there are such parents gifted to me but unfortunately I am not that good at any sport to represent the nation. I salute to my parents who respect every thought which I have. Leaving it here I hope there is a change soon in the important sector of the society, ‘ The Educational Sector’. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

The Unknown Soldiers.

 It was 5^th standard I guess when I was taught that farming is mother of all occupations

and is treated as the most important occupation of the country. I was also taught that our country is gifted with seasonal monsoons with which our agricultural sector is providing healthy outputs in terms of economics as well as quantity. From that point of time till today, I don’t understand why the farmer, who is the father of the mother of occupations, is always in the news for suicides, protests and so many other ways. I don’t understand why rice mill owners are rich and owner of the rice crop is poor after all rice is only after the rice crop. India is the major producer of sugar and spices but the farmers who produce them often complain about their family situations. I don’t understand why the village which is the source of food is backward in terms of facilities provided. From my childhood I have seen various governments but always opposition leaders are the one who raise voice for the farmers. I can’t comment on the present government as it has completed only a year but the previous ruling party leaders who are in opposition now are very much concerned with the problems of farmers now but when they are in government they are dealing with different scams and how to overcome them. The present government even did not show any reforms in agricultural sector I their first year, hope they will concern about them in the next four years. One of the major promises of the leaders in elections is to exempt farmers from payment of loans which they have taken but no leader is concerned why there is a necessity take loan. Instead these leaders can find a permanent solution to give financial assistance to farmers such that farmers can exercise their farming activities freely without the pressure from money lenders and banks. There is assistance given to different government employees across the country. Why can’t the government recognize the farmers in the country and give them financial assistance, for their family and for education so that they never lose hope on farming. Regularization of agriculture is needed from government where all the farmers are the part of government as public servants. There are several researches going on in different fields in the country, we wanted research in agricultural field to improve the quality and quantity of the outcome. Today most of the agricultural products are polluted by use of excess pesticides, we are in need to develop environmental friendly methods for agriculture without the use of pesticides so that the outcome is safe for consumers. This can happen only when the farmer is educated and given importance in the society where he doesn’t confine to use pesticides in order to increase the yield. All these things can only happen with the assistance of the government. We should not forget that the country’s health is well if the farmer is well both in health and ethics. Over 67 years passed since we achieved our Independence but the farmer is still dependent on the monsoons. He doesn’t have freedom to raise crop when he wants. We talk a lot on development and never concerned about the developments in agricultural sector. Even today our crops are affected by floods and droughts. In case of floods we leave all the rain water in to the river and in case of droughts we fight for water and all over the year we fight among states raising different water issues. In what way we are developed? We can count the number of projects constructed on our hands since our Independence. Every state should maximize the use of water from rains in their regions and minimize depending on the water from other states. There should be enough canals and other projects to store water and also to raise the water level. We achieve total freedom only if our farmers achieve freedom from untimely rains and pressure of the loans. Hope the day is coming soon.... #Satyamevajayate.Jai Hind.

                                     This article is dedicated for all the farmers who are providing food and other products for the country and fighting with untimely rains, pests with out the assistance from us for us.

The link below gives information about the toxic contents in our food today and also the necessary measures. The link also provides the Satyamevajate program on toxic food in season 1.

http://www.satyamevjayate.in/toxic-food/toxic-food.aspx

I am an INDIAN even in INDIA...

            India is my country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters..... These are the starting lines of the pledge that we used to take in our school days. These are ment to incorporate an idea of unity among us (Indians) from child hood so that we unite to take our country forward. Are we really brothers and sisters or atleast is there somekind of relationship bounded by humanity? If there is such relationship there will not be cases where people die more because they are not admitted in hospitals on time than the seriousness of the injury at the time of accidents. My point is here we are not bound. We are bounded more by religions, castes and other different irrelavant differences than due to humanity. I had seen people saying that certain group of people who are not actually related to them as their own community as their caste is same. They support their own community irrespective of right or wrong. Many parents prefer marriages with in their community some times sub community. They are so worried about their caste than his/her character. Certain group of people are so united and are very helpful to each other. This looks good to read until I say they are helpful to each other in taking other community of their own society down resulting in communal clashes which in fact ruling the nation right now. Some say that 'Baghavatgeetha' should be taught at schools and some other say 'Islam' principles to be taught at schools. They forget that they are many things common in both of them and both of them teach service to humanity and nature is the ultimate service to God. But we fight on the name of these holy principles. In our country many of us cast votes just beacuse of cast, religion or some other relation. Many criminals are held high in politics as they have support from their community. To all those people who believe in cast I ask only one question. If you had met with an accident and you are in need of blood, tell me whether your family members look for the donor belonging to your own community or they check only blood group? Some times we don't even know the name of the donor. Why we need cast to establish a relationship like marriage? We had friends whom we trust more than our family members who actually are from different communities. Aren't we happy with those from different communities. Some times we love some of the traditions followed by them. I was never called an Indian in my country. I was either adressed based on my name, language, cast or religion. Why we need so many differences? To all those fathers I wanted to ask a question. Which is greater, the probability of finding a right mate to your child with in your community or the probability of finding a right mate across the country or say a state? Why do you miss this logic. You are the one's who guided us all the way but some time you to miss some options. I saw parents who inject these castism or similar thoughts in younger generation which resulted in the existence of this cast system even today. If we had slowly forgot our casts from the time of our Indipendence today we all might have been united as Indians. No casts, no special reservations and equal oppurtunity to all and equal growth. We need to understand that all the things which are followed since many years may not be right. We need to change and change things. Let us remove the tags of cast from our names. Let us say that we are Indians in India or abroad. We are recorgonised by our nation and name. We need one religion one cast #INDIANISM... Jai Hind.. Satyamevajayate......

Women Empowerment...

             These days there are so many discussions, debates on these topic. Government of India also recognized the importance of  'Women Empowerment' in today's society where each gender is trying to dominate the other in some way or the other. There are people who do not know the meaning of 'Women Empowerment' also started debating and discussing on the topic. The worst thing is that we also tend to follow their opinions and on the other hand condemn them. There is a world saying 'Follow what you preach' but we 'Preach what we do not follow'. Women Empowerment is some thing different than what most of us actually think. It is not just giving them choice of dressing but it actually giving them a way to lead their life in their own terms giving them equal importance as we give to boys. There are woman in this society who are made to crush their dreams and are leading a life like in prison especially in the villages of our country, but when ever we talk about 'Women Empowerment' we talk about choice of dressing, choice of roaming on roads and attending parties etc. There are more serious issues than these like I mentioned earlier. Some of the women in our country are not allowed to study what they wanted, only reason being that they are women. There are women who are not allowed to come out of kitchen and leading their life breathing the warm air of the stove. There are women who face domestic violence at their homes. There is still female foeticide prevailing in our country. Child marriages, Dowry system are still ruling our thoughts in  the form of customs. We tend to forget these major issues while discussing on women empowerment and focus on dressing style, hair style etc. There are women who complain that their parents will not allow them to wear modern dresses and say that it is their choice. We need to understand that your's is just a choice but your parents have the responsibility to protect you and responsibility always has a greater priority than your choice. Women empowerment is giving them protection, importance and equal opportunities in the society to lead their lives. Women empowerment is protecting mothers and baby girls reducing infanticides and female foeticide. Women empowerment is to give her confidence that this society is still there for her and respects her even if she looses her sole mate. Women empowerment is providing them with opportunities in every field. Women empowerment is to show this world that our mother land is the safest place for woman where she can receive respect equal to a mother. We salute our women by calling our country a mother. We salute them by treating many rivers in our country as goddess. Today's generation should understand what actually is women empowerment and its not as easy as to say 'My Choice' but it is a responsibility of every Indian both men and women to achieve women empowerment.   

My India's Daughter...

      I think we are all familiar with the title which I have kept to this article. This is title given to the the documentary which is released by BBC on a case study of an atrocity against a woman in Delhi except that I have added the word 'My'. 'My' indicates my responsibility towards the issue that took place in my mother land. Let me split up this article in to two different messages, one to so called best news channel BBC and other to us ( Indians ).

To BBC :

                   The efforts which you have taken to make this world aware of the plight of a woman are appreciable but the way you have carried out the issue from keeping the title to the interviews of the kind of persons shown in the documentary are very heart breaking and disgusting. I am very sorry to say that the title ' India's Daughter ' shows your irresponsibility towards a woman despite of knowing the fact that most of the women are facing the same across the world. The title you have chosen seems to mock at out nation more than your responsibility towards a woman. You had taken interviews of culprits and lawyers of those culprits who portrayed their inhumane views in the documentary which are irrelevant to the society, rather you should have taken the views of general citizens on such issues and asked about their responsibility as a citizen. This might have encouraged them to change towards being a responsible citizens. More over I wanted inform you that this is not the first time we have seen a documentary like that, we have questioned our self in a show called Satyamevajayate on fighting such atrocities and our responsibilities as a society towards a change in a more inspiring manner which gave importance to the victims view than that of culprits. I respect your nation and woman as it is my nation's culture and do not want to talk about the situation in your country, I am also concerned that this issue is a global problem and it is not the time to mock at each other. We are always the sons of such a mother land which gave birth to a legends like Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda who always put on their efforts for universal brotherhood, may be some times we tend to forget it resulting in outrageous situations. We as a nation feel sad for that.

To Us : 

                  More than any thing else we gave a chance to others to mock at us. Imagine if some one like Swami Vivekananda is alive today and the documentary released. How will he feel? How will the constitution makers feel? After setting such a great ideology of universal peace and brotherhood for our nation, where are we heading towards? Today we failed as a society. We failed to tackle such inhumane thoughts arising in our society. We failed to punish such culprits in time who is also given 'Right to speech'. We failed to create that fear among those culprits who are continuously degrading our culture on an international platform. It is time for us to Change as a nation. Our judicial system needs a transformation. Let us demand our representatives for a Change in laws and be spot on those who commit crimes against woman. Let us give importance to woman from the moment they had their birth on this mother land. Let us encourage our own shows like Satyamevajayate and get our self aware on the problems in our society before any one else could comment on those. Finally never forget that we represent our country as a mother as a woman and respect all women which shows our culture and heritage which we possess.

               Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

Mr. Perfectionist

          He has spent over 25 years in the Hindi film industry, giving action-packed, comedy, romantic and emotional performances; scoring hits and becoming a successful filmmaker. We don't know how he feels about his presence in the film industry for 25 years but we are entertained educated and on the whole he gave a true meaning of entertainment with his films.

             Aamir Khan is undoubtedly one of the finest actors that India had ever produced who paved new ways for creativity. Every film of him showed him as a different human being giving out a new definition for acting. We need thank all the directors for giving our country an actor who is not less than anyone else in the world. He has been a Cricketer with Patriotism in Lagaan, a True Lover in Fanaa, a True Friend who is willing to sacrifice even his life for friendship in Rang De Basanti , an Engineering Student who is an inspiration for all present day students in Three Idiots, a Teacher who is an inspiration for all teachers who cares for their students in Taare Zameen Par, an Innocent Alien in PK and so on... Most importantly he proved himself as a True Human Being through his show Satyamevajayate, which serves as a source of inspiration for today's youth to take over their responsibilities towards the country. He turns 50 today but still look like a fresher starting his career with the same intent and commitment towards his work.

                   An actor, social activist simply Mr. Perfectionist, wish you a Very Happy Birthday sir. We hope you give us lots of treats with your films, inspiration and awareness through our show ' Satyamevajayate '.

                     #Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

                 

Who is a LEADER ?

      Leadership, this is a very familiar word which we come across many times. In simple way a leader is the one who leads a team towards their 'goal' in a 'correct way'. How many of us saw true leaders? As soon as I ask this question at a conference or a gathering, people start thinking about others some time they try making fun by naming others. Did any one of us started seeing an leader in our-self ? Very few might have thought like that, anyway I congratulate all those who at least made an attempt to see a leader in him and I urge them to continue that desire to lead and certainly there will be a day when people accept you and most importantly we need true leaders to take the nation back on track laid by our constitution. Recently I had attended a lecture given by Shri Krishna Murthy, former Election Commissioner of India where he shared his opinion about leadership, problems and challenges in bureaucracy in our country. Mr Krishna Murthy is known for his sincerity, under him election commission successfully conducted various elections of different levels facing various challenges including the threats by politicians. In this article I wanted to share his words which help us to build our-self to be a leader or at least a citizen who is responsible towards his/her country. According to him the prime qualities to be a leader are Art of listening, Art of speaking, Art of taking decisions, Art of questioning and finally patience. Let me explain each of these qualities in my own words may not be as influencing as our former election commissioner but in a way to make you understand the exact sense of his thoughts.

Art Of Listening:

              As a leader you should be able to listen to opinions of your team mates and some times even to the opinions of the one who opposes you. You should be able to understand, analyse their opinions and take a step to improve if is necessary. You should always be ready to face the failures and the negative opinions on your leadership. You should take in all positives from the people around you and drop out the negatives in you. Finally you should never have any ego to appreciate others when they are better than you.

Art Of Speaking: 

             As a leader your way of speaking determines your character. You should be very thoughtful while speaking especially in giving your opinion about something. One should be very high in the language they use, not too emotional and keeping an eye on all feelings. You should not force your decisions on others but you should be able to convince them with out hurting their feelings and thus enhancing the team spirit. Your communication may be your your strength and also weakness, you are the one who should guide it.

Art Of Questioning:

             This shows your real guts as a leader. One should be able to question injustice or some thing wrong committed by any one either superior officers or the ones under you. Your relation with the accused should not effect your decision. At least on your part you should never allow any injustice happening in your reach even at the cost of your position or life. Your life may end at any time and as a leader especially bureaucrat you should leave things for granted even at the cost of your life. This is the one earns you thrust and faith on you by others at least your team. You should be very alert and never let any thing go past your control. You should be bold but not harsh. You can question but the way you question determines the way they answer. A sincere officer or a leader must be ready to face any thing even the worst situation in his life but never loose his/her hope.

Art Of Taking Decisions:

              The decision which you make very important as it influences the others too. Any decision that you take must not create any harm or injustice to others. You should be able to answer the questions raised against your decision. Not only taking the right ones but right time is also very important factor. You should act in time before the train leaves the platform and it is also important that you will not act before the train arrives at the platform. You should be bold in your decisions leaving no scope for personal emotions.

Patience: 

              I may have quoted this quality at last but it accompanies with every quality I have mentioned earlier. You should have patience in listening, patience in explaining, patience in taking decisions and patience in waiting for the results. You should never loose your hope and as quoted in the old saying Try and Try till you reach your GOAL.

                              # Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

The above article is written taking an excerpt from the lecture given by Shri Krishna Murthy, Former Election Commisioner of India at NIT Trichy. I dedicate this article to him and thank him for inspiring me to write this article.

India Vs Pakistan ... It is not just about the sport. It is something more....

                Many of us may think that this day as day of an another India Pakistan clash. We often tend to forget the national integrity that it develops among us. On this day don't bother about our religions, we don't bother casts, we don't bother about our language, state. We all unite in supporting Team India. This shows our unity and diversity. Hindus pray to Eeshwar, Christians to Jesus, Muslims to Allah. Gods and the way they pray may be different but they all pray for Team India's victory. This is the time where we show our culture and love towards the nation. I hope even corrupted ministers, officers support our country. We need to think big and support our country in various fields and make our country a super power destroying all those forces who try to divide the holy land on the name of religion, cast or by any other means. Aren't we matured enough to think in a way that enhances the country's development and national integrity ?????

           

                  We Think... We Unite.... We are Team India... Only 11 may be on field but there are more than 100 crores to back them up in all situations and support our country to go past all the hurdles.

                  Chak De India. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.  

My Story

        Every one had difficult times in their life when you might have felt depressed, some kind of feeling like some unknown force in this universe is keep on trying to crush you, your dreams. You might have felt severe humiliation, insult, assault from fellow human beings whom you might have believed in the most. Finally you might have ended up in a situation where you might be thinking of leaving this world, this is the most important phase of your life and this is where you will be tested by the life. Unfortunately many of capable warriors who can pass this test are being killed by its enemy 'Mind Set'. Many innocent lives are taken away by mental illness, mental instability, severe depression and is one of a serious health issue in our nation. This is the time to Change in every aspect, improve in every field and hence in this case. Let us express our self take away the weight from our heart and hence attain mental stability. In my childhood I had faced severe humiliation, I was fat and I am unable to pronounce some words properly, my voice remained childish and never attained maturity. Fellow students  used to mock at me. I was very fat and so I always used to loose especially in sports. I was very sensitive and sometimes felt awkward depressed gazing at myself before a mirror. But I was strong enough to be happy recognizing the love my parents showed towards me and many of my friend liked me inspite of my awkward structure. Soon I had got answers to my depression. When I left my school left my sensitive behavior and never cried there after. When I was in to my engineering I lost my weight and my friends became more fatter than me and my childish voice and my condition of not able to pronounce some words turned in to a gift for me so that most of the people used to like my behavior, voice and you may not believe, today I have the most number of friends in my college than all others. Most of them may have ego feelings and clashes between them but till date I do not have any enemies in my college. Every one likes me and treats me as a child with so much of love and care. This is all because of the strength which I attained because of my friends, parents, their love and affection. When we feel depressed and thinking of ending our lives, we should be able to realize that our life is not only important to us but is equally important to every one who trusted us. I hope this one thought can CHANGE our lives.#A Healthy Mind makes things different. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

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My INDIA My Responsibilities....

                     India, the name itself has something in it or may be I am very much attached to it. We all have that something towards our nation but unfortunately we don't realize it early and by the time we realize we may not have opportunity to serve our nation. We all support our nation when coming to any sports and games, that reflects our respect and love towards our country, but we often forget it in our daily routine and we misinterpret serving the nation as some sacrifice or doing something extra ordinary such as joining armed forces etc. We need to come out these sort of mind sets. Serving the nation can be achieved in every single task you do and we need to in order to make our country better. For example if we are a student you need to think that the way you progress in your life may change nation's fate, you may become a scientist to empower science and technology growth for your country, you may be a farmer who produces food for the country, you may be a engineer to apply science to design new products and empower economical growth of your country, you may be a doctor who takes care of your country's health, you may be a philosopher who can inject the people with the real idea of India as mentioned in our constitution or any other profession you choose, your sincerity towards your profession shows your service and respect towards your nation. We can render our services to nation on a daily basis by keeping our roads, railway stations, bus stands clean by using dust bins provided. We should be mature enough to accept the equality and respect the dignity of each individual irrespective of their religion or cast or profession. Most of us does not bother of our cast when we need something from others, for example when are working in a company we do not care whether the CEO of the company belongs to our cast or not but when we wanted a relation ship such as marriage we see the cast, religion forgetting the education that we have got. This is where the difference comes between Literacy and just mere education. We all praise Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Swami Vivekananda but never follow their teachings when coming to real life. Judge a person by his character not by his colour, this is a famous quote given by Martin Luther King. In India we judge a person by his religion and cast which is even worst. Years passed since we got our independence but still the discrimination prevails in our country which act as a social barrier for our development. Every individual born on this holy land should be given equal opportunity to excel in his abilities and make his life better. We should stop discriminating among ourselves and try to achieve the dreams of our heroes who sacrificed themselves to set this country free. We should accept our responsibilities, respect our culture, constitution and let our upcoming generations to know the struggle, glory of the nation maintaining our unique identity among the world nations. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate .   

Understanding Engineering

        Are we engineers? Yes, we are all engineers. What are our primary objectives? Engineering in my terms is understanding science and technology in the process of application. Engineering is one important field in which a country's progress is dependent on. Almost all manufacturing industries require engineering skills. Research and development areas portraits a country's brand in international markets. Coming to our country where are our engineering skills? Where is our art and architecture. Our mythology describes about a great civil engineer Vishwakarma. We know about the mordern day engineer like Vishweshwaraiah. We are very lucky to be in a hub of civil engineering beauties. The greatest civilizations existed in our country. Many of our temples have a scientific reason behind their construction which reflects the understanding of science by our ancestors. This is the birth place of great mathematicians like Aryabhatta and Ramanujan, scientists like Charaka. Even our Vedas, Upanishads, Epics portray various applications of modern day science and technology. Most of us may not agree to this but one thing we must understand is these belong to our India not just to a religion called Hinduism. If we understand this simple thing our unity wins over our ego and we accept the Indian history and develop new ideas from our knowledge which is in the form of Vedas and share it to the rest of the world creating our own brand on the international platform. In my views the greatness of these mythological treasure is overshadowed by religion. Even the lord Krishna's 'Geetha' help us only to build our character and face difficult situations that arise in our life but never preaches any religion. It is not a book of any religion, it is the treasure of our country. Coming to present day scenario most of us are dedicated towards earning a degree with a good score rather than earning knowledge. Even our engineering colleges are concentrating on placements rather than towards empowering students with knowledge.We need to focus ourselves towards gaining knowledge and not on scores and also we need to transform our system towards this. A humble request to all the parents to support their loved one's dream. You may feel my words as a piece of old outdated philosophy but there certainly a need for transforming ourselves. I have been to a lecture where a professor, I don't remember his name, said that the aim of the college is to empower you with knowledge and it is our responsibility to search for a job where we fit in, not just for money but to create your own mark in that profession. It is true it is our responsibility to earn a job which we like so that we don't enforce our dreams which we did't fulfill on the next generation and let them have their own freedom. We may have severe economic crisis where we certainly need to do a job and help our family, in that case we can do any job for your family and in the same time we can learn new things in our area of interest and keep trying to get in to our own field. You will surely succeed, moreover you will enjoy your work you never be in a depression that I left my field. Our Prime Minister 'Shri Narendra Modi' has introduced Make in India initiative which is very much essential in our journey towards development. How can we achieve this? Not certainly by only software engineers or data analysts, we also need engineers of different fields, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Bio and Chemical. We need to transform our country, we need to transform ourselves, we should love our field rather than earnings, we need a change in our system such that create equal employment opportunities in all fields so that we don't see a electrical engineer by degree transforming himself to a software engineer by profession just because of lac of opportunities and lead the rest of his life cursing himself. We need industries, conglomerates to invest towards Make in India, create job opportunities, encourage all fields of engineering. We also need to transform the system so that we increase the quality of engineering colleges not the quantity. We need to understand engineering and not just replicate the words in the examination. Let us transform our selves to transform our India. All you engineers out there throw away your All in ones, Previous Year's Question Papers, Important Question Banks and start a journey to be a engineer not just by your degree but by your ideas and mindset. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.               

Are you a Patriot??

                 What is patriotism? It is love and respect towards your country. Have you ever asked yourself  whether you are a patriot? Are we patriots? Yes we all are patriots. Let me explain you...  April 2nd, 2011.. It was already time to bed and to prepare our self  for another busy day but most of us are on the edge of our seats to see are country to become the world champions in cricket, people of all kind, rich and poor, cricket lovers and haters, parents who restricted their children not to watch cricket also accompanied them, every one eager to give advice from all corners of the country. Every one including politicians, businessmen, NRI's from different parts of the world, people from country side, cities almost every one 100 crores of Indians praying  GOD for one wish, the way they pray may differ but only one wish 'Let us be the champions'. This show the Unity in Diversity of the nation, the moment we won every one had celebrated forgetting the busy schedule next day. What is this.. This shows our love towards the nation. When we hear that Mission to Mars by India succeeded we all will be so happy though we may not know the real aim of the mission. Olympic medals, Asian games,Hockey,Badminton,Boxing, Tennis, Cricket, Science and Technology no matter what field it was we will be so happy to hear that our nation's achievements. On the contrary we feel sad show our concern, condolences when ever we come across something bad such as road accidents, crimes etc. We curse the people those who loot the country. This shows our identical thoughts, love towards our nation. Then what we lag.. may be implementation, we all love our country don't know how to convert that love in to a practice which enrich our country. More over we have too much love but we lac respect that is the reason why we don't bother to throw waste on roads, public places etc, we don't follow  the rules, we never mind to give bribes, never mind to take them. All these to shatter away we need to have some respect along with some responsibilities towards the nation. we should be aware of the loss incurred to the country by those deeds we do. We should be responsible enough not to do any task that may cause loss to the nation, whether it is loss to cultural heritage or loss to economy, may be one rupee or crores we shouldn't commit those acts which cause loss to the nation and doesn't allow any one who try to damage our heritage. We need not be a soldier or an IPS officer in order to serve the nation, our sincerity in every work we do shows our service to nation. A sincere student can serve the nation by new discoveries in his field or with his work. A sincere sportsmen can bring laurels to the nation. A sincere politician can serve the nation better than today. A sincere teacher can recreate the future by grooming the young minds towards India's destiny. Every work you do may enrich us but we need sincerity. We need to be sincere in paying taxes, following rules and finally in electing our leaders. Let us stay united breaking the borders created by cast and religion and take a step together that strengthens the heritage and the national integrity. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.