Dr. Abdul Kalam's ‎Letter‬ to Every Indian

Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam does it again… what he always does best ! Read out his below speech of last month..hats off to this man..we want men like him to be our CM, PM & President!!..but more importantly, citizens like him.

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

The Solution

Thank you so much for your responses and interest in the solution that I have discovered.

The first response I received from an old friend after reading my blog is worth mentioning here.  Like me he has tried to give back to society in his own ways and interpreted my solution wearing his glasses of experience. He opined that, it is going to be my biggest mistake if I am planning to employ people.  He had hired people and had bitter experience with that.  He looked at needy with sympathy and hired them in his office as a favour to himself trying to help them.  These so called employees could gauge him very well and took undue advantage of his kindness.  Yes, all people are not the same - still the thumb rule is anything that comes free is not respected.

So here, let me clarify, the solution that came to me does not require hiring people out of sympathy. Sympathy and pity are the words that insult the individual and degrade him.  Here we are talking about equal opportunity and independence, I fail to understand how pity can be the basis for equality.  This solution actually does not give employment opportunity, it enables them to start their own venture.

Struggle for Benevolence

We all, at some point in life think of helping people. The craving to do something for the needy makes us do small acts of kindness. Few people make it the mission of their life and it becomes their calling.  Others busy with their work and duties try to contribute by charity.

I too went through that phase, the craving to make difference in people’s life by providing them some guidance, cheering them up, contributing to an NGO. The only difference is that these small acts of kindness could not satisfy my craving neither did I dedicate my life for it. Maybe I was a borderline case. An individual who was busy with the worldly things, but could not ignore people who had the potential of leading a good life by just a little guidance.

Reservation and Education

She still remembers it and is worried about her children’s future.  She does not want to experience the same sordid blackness ever again.  Her worry is about the system which has not changed in last 30 years, will it change now? The system that has provided opportunities for many undeserving and is one of the major cause of corruption in India.  So many deserving candidates do not get admission in good educational institutions because THEY DO NOT BELONG TO THE RESERVED CLASS.

 It was Monday, 5^th August 1996, her first day at Law College, new class, new enthusiasm. Beautiful morning class full of chirpy students getting to know each other.  The teacher came for first lecture- Constitution of India.  This girl being a history graduate and had an idea about the Constitution of India.

Divorce- A Social Stigma

Just because she decided for divorce, she becomes the guilty party in India. And this stigma is not by men, it is the women who look down at her.  She is expected to carry on with the marriage even though she feels suffocated everyday. Nobody is at fault for this social stigma. The mental conditioning of Indian women and the so called family name and traditions are not the only ones responsible for it. It is also the sub conscious of men and women in India, it has become part of the genes, running into the blood.