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Monday, November 29, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Happy Diwali And Prosporous new year
એક દિવાથી જેમ બીજો દિવો પ્રજવલ્લિત થાય છે એમ તમે પણ દરેક ના જીવનને પ્રકાશિત કરો...!!!
દરેક મિત્રો ને શુભ દીપાવલી અને નુતન વર્ષાભિનંદન...!!! :)
About Lead India 2020
In his book India 2020: A Vision for the New A.P. Millennium J. Abdul Kalam says, “A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up – and succeed.”Following the UNDP lead of putting people at the center of the development and keeping in perspective that 54% of our population is youth, Prof. N.B Sudershan Acharya integrated Dr. Kalam’s ideals, vision and mission and created a training program for the youth titled Aap Badho Desh Ko Bhadao– the fundamental philosophy being Individual development leads to National Development.Lead India 2020 Foundation, is now on the path of carrying the torch forward, focused on igniting and channelizing hidden potential in our youth.
Most of the training is delivered to the students by their peers, Change Agents, who form the Lead India National Club (LINC) in their respective schools. Guided by 10- point oath designed by Dr. Kalam, the Change Agents embrace a new way of living. Graduates of Lead India 2020 training program set high goals in life and become Change Agents to change society and environment around them. The training was first delivered to 6,000 tribal students in remote villages and then to 25,000 tribal students in the next two years. Later on mass transformation in high school students was accomplished with over 1 lakh students participating in Medak and over 2 lakh students in Karimnagar. In 2008, partnering with Government of Andhra Pradesh, about 5.5 lakh students underwent training. The training ignites scientific temper, inculcates human values, and inspires leadership with patriotism. At the end of the training session, each student not only sets a “mission for life” but also writes his/her mission statement and is kept in his/her file. With support from corporations like GE and IT industry’s HYSEA member companies’ employees, a mentor network is being created to help the students to work towards their career goals. Lead India 2020 Foundation works to ensure that the student’s “mission for life” is accomplished. In his last speech as out-going President, Dr. Kalam said, “Lead India 2020 is the 2nd National Movement, a mission oriented program transforming youth, gave me an assurance that this will transform develop- ing India into a developed nation by 2020.” Lead India 2020 is in the process of publishing the results of its experiments to be shared with Chief Ministers of all states.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
એક રાજાએ એક પંડિતને એવું એક ફરમાન કર્યું..........
એક રાજાએ એક પંડિતને એવું એક ફરમાન કર્યું
આજ સુધી ના ખીલ્યાં એવાં જ્ઞાની ફૂલ ખિલાવી ધ્યો;
સ્મિત કરીને પંડિત બોલ્યા- ‘રાજન, મારું કામ નહીં’
એ માટે તો ક્યાંકથી કોઇ પ્રેમિકા બોલાવી લ્યો.
પાનખરો જે અજવાળે એ દીપિકાને લઇ આવો,
હર્ષિત થઇને રાજા બોલ્યો, ‘પ્રેમિકાને લઇ આવો.’
સૈનિક બોલ્યા : હે રાજેશ્વર, સોંપેલું આ કામ છે શું ?
પ્રેમિકાનું નામ છે શું ? ને પ્રેમિકાનું ઠામ છે શું ?
ચોર લૂંટારુ હોય તો રાજન પકડીને હાજર કરીએ.
શત્રુ હોય જો કિલ્લા સમ તો સામે જઇને સર કરીએ;
પણ આવી શોધનું હે અન્નદાતા અમને તો કંઇ જ્ઞાન નથી.
પ્રેમિકા શું ? પ્રેમી છે શું ? કંઇ એનું અમને ભાન નથી.
પંડિત બોલ્યા : પ્રેમિકા છે પ્રેમિકાનું એક જ નામ
બારે માસ વસંતો જેવું જ્યાં હો ત્યાં છે એનું ઠામ
સૈનિક ચાલ્યા શોધ મહીં ને શોધ કરીને લઇ આવ્યા
શહેરમાં જઇ એક ડોસીમાને હરીફરીને લઇ આવ્યા.
બોલ્યા માલિક સમજ પડે ના એવું કંઇ સમજાવે છે,
આ ડોસીને પ્રેમિકાના નામે સૌ બોલાવે છે.
લગ્નપ્રસંગે સૌથી પહેલાં એનું ઘર શણગારે છે,
એની આશિષ સૌથી પહેલાં મંડપમાં સ્વીકારે છે.
રાજા શું કે શું પંડિતજી સૂણીને સૌના મન ઝૂમ્યાં
વારાફરતી જઇને સૌએ ડોસીમાના પગ ચૂમ્યા.
આંખ ઉઠાવી ડોસીમાએ રાજા ઉપર સ્થિર કરી,
બોલ્યા : બેટા, જીવી ગઇ છું આખું જીવન ધીર ધરી.
પરદેશી જો પાછો આવત- મારે પણ એક હીરો હોત,
મારે ખોળે પણ રમનારો તારા જેવો વીરો હોત.
વાત પુરાણી યાદ આવી ને આંખથી આંસુ છલકાયાં,
જ્યાં જ્યાં ટપક્યાં એ આંસુ ત્યાં ફૂલ નવાં સર્જાયાં.
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આ સઘળાં ફૂલોને કહી દો યુનિફોર્મમાં આવે,
આ સઘળાં ફૂલોને કહી દો યુનિફોર્મમાં આવે,
પતંગિયાઓને પણ કહી દો સાથે દફતર લાવે.
મન ફાવે ત્યાં માછલીઓને આમ નહીં તરવાનું,
સ્વીમિંગપુલના સઘળા નિયમોનું પાલન કરવાનું.
દરેક કૂંપળને કોમ્પ્યુટર ફરજિયાત શીખવાનું,
લખી જણાવો વાલીઓને તુર્તજ ફી ભરવાનું.
આ ઝરણાંઓને સમજાવો સીઘી લીટી દોરે,
કોયલને પણ કહી દેવું ના ટહુકે ભરબપ્પોરે.
અમથું કૈં આ વાદળીઓને એડમિશન દેવાનું?
ડોનેશનમાં આખ્ખેઆખ્ખું ચોમાસું લેવાનું.
એક નહીં પણ મારી ચાલે છે અઠ્ઠાવન સ્કૂલો,
‘આઉટડેટ’ થયેલો વડલો મારી કાઢે ભૂલો
હોમવર્ક
હોમવર્ક વહેલું પૂરું થાય પ્રભુ,
તો તને આવીને મળાય પ્રભુ.
તેંય મસ્તી તો બહુ કરેલી નહીં?
કેમ મારાથી ના કરાય પ્રભુ?
આ શું ટપટપથી રોજ નહાવાનું?
પહેલા વરસાદમાં નવાય પ્રભુ.
આખી દુનિયાને તું રમાડે છે
મારે દહીં દૂધમાં રમાય પ્રભુ?
મમ્મી પપ્પા તો રોજ ઝગડે છે
તારાથી એને ના વઢાય પ્રભુ?
રોજ રમીએ અમે જે મેદાને
કેમ મંદિર નવું ચણાય પ્રભુ?
બળથી બાળક તને જો વંદે તો
બાળમજૂરી ના ગણાય પ્રભુ?
નવા યુગનો ચેલો છું
હું ભાઈ નવા યુગનો ચેલો છું
પવન પ્રમાણે શઢ ફેરવી,
લાભ મળે ત્યાં લોટું છું— ભાઈ નવા યુગનો..
ભવ્ય આશ્રમ નજરે પડતાં
તુરત જ ડેરા ડાલું છું
ગુરુની પાસે કંઠી બંધાવી
મોબાઈલ લઈ મહાલું છું…ભાઈ નવા..
જેની હાકો વાગે સરકારમાં
એ નેતાને પીંછાણું છું
ગુણલા ગાઈ પ્રચાર માધ્યમે
વિમાન યાત્રાએ શોભું છું..ભાઈ નવા..
છપ્પન ભોગના થાળ દેખીને
દંડવતે ભગવંત શરણું શોધું છું
ભજન ધૂનો ગાઈ માઈકમાં
ચોટલી બાંધી નાચું છું..ભાઈ નવા..
એડમીશન ટાણે શાળામાં જઈ
મુખ્ય શિક્ષકને વધાવું છું
ટ્રસ્ટી સાહેબના ભોળા સાળાને
લાડ કરી રીઝાવું છું..ભાઈ નવા..
મેવા માટે કરવી સેવા
એ ગુરુ મંત્ર,ઘરવાળીએ દિધો છે
પવન પ્રમાણે શઢ ફેરવી
લાભ મળે ત્યાં લોટું છું
હું ભાઈ નવા યુગનો ચેલો છું.
Dr. Abdul Kalam's Letter to Every Indian
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 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.
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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 ?
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 neighbours, 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. L
ike 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 Kalam
Positive Programming of mind
A man is solely responsible for his condition for his life. Because Our ATTITUDE decides our ALTITUDE. Our progress of life is purely depends upon how and in which way we are responding to the circumstances arises before us. If you think and try for the well being of the other people always , then it is sure that the whole universe will work for the well being of you. Its simple thing that you are getting what you are giving.
It is demand of the time that in modern education system, we have educate our children positive programming of mind. So that we can have responsible future generation citizens with the positive mind set and attitude.
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