Today i got an Forward mail from my friend. I liked that very much and its very true. So wish to share with others
"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?
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:
Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the
opportunity to be theproject 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.
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.
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.
One day an orthopedic 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 calipers and took them to the
orthopedic center. 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 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 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 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 comeback 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 withoutyour
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 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
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 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"
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 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?
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:
Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the
opportunity to be theproject 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.
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.
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.
One day an orthopedic 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 calipers and took them to the
orthopedic center. 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 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 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 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 comeback 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 withoutyour
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 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
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 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"
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),
PRESIDENT OF INDIA.
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