My friend Rammohan asked me to respond to this post on Ramsethu issue. Wanted to share in through my blog also.
we lack proper platform to protest. We need to clean our system first. The midset of people has to change. Only then we can progress better. There was an eenadu article that explains how bad we are at our civic sense. We don't clean our neighbourhood, we don't follow traffic rules.. lot more to mention.. I don't want to repeat them here. First we need to build our civic sense. Everyone of us want curruption free, developed india. But how many of us are actually thinking & trying for that ? We get inspired by the movies when we see them.. We get inpired when someone talks or forwards a mail about our India. But we forget after that. We need a constant source of inspiration. This thinking should be a continuous process. Speaking or writing words is very easy than implementation.
Our ancestors gave us incredible culture. Now it is very much diluted. Why are we running behind westren culture ? Are we thinking about yoga instead of joining gym for fitness ? Are we learning karnatic/hindustani music instead of westren music ? Why are we eating more and more pizzas, sandwitches though it is not suitable for us ? I was shocked to see an american in an arranged talk about Yoga in our company. He highlighted the importance of Yoga for physical and mental healthyness. This shows that time has already arived to learn our culture from foreigners.. Some of the quotes by famous personalities..
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. - Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. -French scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. -Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
I don't think those people will say the same thing if they see present India. Isn't this shame on us ?
Regarding the issue of Ramsethu, Yeah we should protest it but before that there are so many other things which we need to address first. They have highest priority.
we lack proper platform to protest. We need to clean our system first. The midset of people has to change. Only then we can progress better. There was an eenadu article that explains how bad we are at our civic sense. We don't clean our neighbourhood, we don't follow traffic rules.. lot more to mention.. I don't want to repeat them here. First we need to build our civic sense. Everyone of us want curruption free, developed india. But how many of us are actually thinking & trying for that ? We get inspired by the movies when we see them.. We get inpired when someone talks or forwards a mail about our India. But we forget after that. We need a constant source of inspiration. This thinking should be a continuous process. Speaking or writing words is very easy than implementation.
Our ancestors gave us incredible culture. Now it is very much diluted. Why are we running behind westren culture ? Are we thinking about yoga instead of joining gym for fitness ? Are we learning karnatic/hindustani music instead of westren music ? Why are we eating more and more pizzas, sandwitches though it is not suitable for us ? I was shocked to see an american in an arranged talk about Yoga in our company. He highlighted the importance of Yoga for physical and mental healthyness. This shows that time has already arived to learn our culture from foreigners.. Some of the quotes by famous personalities..
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. - Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. -French scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. -Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
I don't think those people will say the same thing if they see present India. Isn't this shame on us ?
Regarding the issue of Ramsethu, Yeah we should protest it but before that there are so many other things which we need to address first. They have highest priority.
