Only true patriot can deliver this kind of message. Highly inspiring and energetic. A percentage of his zeal in our politician is enough to change millions of life. Hope this gives hopeless majority of politicians a vision to do their bit to support youth and deliver on this message. Whatever happens President Kalam's name will be written into the history alongside Radhakrishnan and Babu Rajendra Prasad. Unlike other president's he has been prolific in inspiring the childern of this country. I bow my head to you and Thanks you sir !!!
Surely magnificent and inspiring speech from such a personality who is unknown to none. Well the need to arouse the feeling to do something for our country is quintessential specially when India is young. Youth of present generation are certainly more focussed and well equipped with energy and courage to bring the changes. I hope politics is one area where there is time for young generation to enter fully and change the present label that politics has. Thanks for this speech and i request you to talk to public throght media more often. we need your guidance. Vande Mataram...
Reach to the unreached: A fashion table talk. by santikumar ghosh on Jan 25, 2007 11:25 PM | Hide replies
Starting from my childhood as a school student to today as a senior Professor of mathematics at the age of 62 years in every evening prior to republic day I have been listening the same old recorded tape of fashion table talks:x cannot be tolerated , where x is a random varible, for some president's speach x = poverty, for some one x = illiteracy,for the other x = economic disparity,.......this time x = cruelty and so on may be next time x will be equal to vulgarity. But if you do the micro-analysis, you will observe that every thing hon'ble presidents mentioned 'cannot be tolerated' is 'getting tolerated' by our Indian people smoothly , systematically and consistently.Here is also we have unity in diversities. I remember, when I was a research scholar in IIT Bombay in 1970, one the then Lecturer ,now he is alive as a retired Professor who commented as I quote here 'India is great country where all sorts inconsistent things are going on consistently'. Why and how we people are tolerating these? In this regard also I remember one statement of one Professor of NCERT when we were in Iraq in foreign teaching assignments in Iraqi University of Sulaimaniyah. There then two events occurred simultaneously:(i)One Iraqi administrative staff misbehaved with an American lecturer of English, he immediately slapped the administrative staff, and(ii)Two young indian cyclists were on world tour by bi-cycles were severely beaten(they got unconcious and got back sense after hospital treatment) by one iraqi truck driver in Basrah(Iraqi Town), when they approached to our Indian Consulate and complained , our great Indian officers there blamed our indian cyclists rather than complaining to the iraqi authority. I asked our Indian NCERT Professor,'Why it is so?' What was his then reply, you know. This is the cult of tolerance!You don't know ,'We are the herbingers of Non-violence'! We have the great river ganges,every day we take bath in the holy water of it and cool down our mind and develop tolerance and pratice it. 'So how long we tolerate this type of untolerable speach', I ask myself and get the answer 'Don't worry the holy water also slowly and steadily getting impured by surrounding pollutions'. Then what? I have got the answer!!! Now the value of x defined above will be taken as'impurity' i.e. x = impurity cannot be tolerated'in President's speach of that time or this message will be treated as an 'abuse' by the message editor of rediff!!!!!!!Ha!HA!.....HA'..... 'TOLERANCE',the greatest word of English vocabulory!Enjoy it.
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by Sab Harim on Jan 26, 2007 02:42 PM
Sorry, Professor.Learn your spellings before you express your ignorance in public.I really feel for your students. Hope they learn..not to grow up like you.
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by santosh singh on Jan 26, 2007 02:09 PM
Every body can help nation by doing sth which he is capable of. Let me take an example.
Recentely our so called honourable HRD minister applied OBC reservation. Everybody knows that this is wrong decision and has been taken just for political gain. But only arjun singh is not responsible for that. professor community of all premire institution of india like IIT and IIM is equally responsibe without whom consent it wouldn't have been implemented. I blame professors of IIT and IIM more than that of arjun singh bcoz u can not accept good move from corrupt politician but u can expect good move from intellectuals of india.
Let me explain how they could have helped in forcing back arjun singh. AIIMS students and professors forced arjun singh to reconsider his decision and drasticaly increase seats. and not a single institution from all IIT and IIM come forward to oppose this move. when few medical institutes of delhi forced HRD minister to change the decision u can imagine what would have happend when all IIT , IIM and premire medical instititions would have come forward and openly opposed the move. I am sure arjun singh would have to be forced to revert the decision. In this way professors of our premire institution could have helped the country.
But they didn't do that. they need their job security. directors of IIT and IIM want to retain their post or gain second term so they can not oppose the politicians. but they are responbile in application of wrong law.
professors like u and almost all professors of india premire institution just criticize the system. they forget that they are also part of system and have some responsibility. if they can not carry on their responsibilities how can they expect that ppl responsible for other portion of system do their responsibilities. it is not going to happen in this way. Every body has to understand the responsibility and do their part rather on criticize the whole system
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by on Jan 26, 2007 09:43 PM
prof,
Do u have any common sense before writing ur message...did u ever did anything to the country... there are so many people in India doing and igniting the nation with silence and will power... such a person like u no need to do anything... atleast keep quite and watch the India's growth...
I know how the IIT's behaviour will be... but ur a rare case and worst citizen of India...
RE:WORLD CUP TEAM and prefered 11 with batting order
by on Jan 27, 2007 12:17 AM
we cannot go to any match without our two spinners-munaf is too fragile-i feel if we need a fifth boeler we can drop one of the wk and add -preferably it sholud be powar--but it looks he may not go--if fast bowler is not requitred then suggestions above dhould work. also sachi/sewag is the best.--rajaram
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by santosh singh on Jan 26, 2007 02:22 PM
I know there are cheap politics going on in IIT's and IIM's on the name of research. they publish papers just bcoz of improving his profile and get project anyhow and make money by doing cheating in the projects. the very same professor when they travel by indian railway , start criticizing the railway system enumerating his gud railway experience in foreign trips.
when these professors can not do their job honestly how can they expect employee of indian railway to do their work honestly. they think that they had done Ph.D and that's enough. no more responsibility as a citizen of india. but since they are professor they shud be provided all facilities.
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by santosh singh on Jan 26, 2007 01:37 PM
Mr. professor, whatever u have said, may be correct but the act of disrespect that u have shown to our greatest president by writing the message in such derogative way is not expected from any qualified person. u don't deserve to hold a respected post of professor, who's job is to inculcate good values in the younger generation. I seriously doubt that u can generate any sort of good values.
Even if there are chronic deep rooted problems in our country but Dr. A P J Kalam is not responsible for that. He did everything in his life for his nation that he could do. Now he is doing his best as a president of india. what else u can expect from a president having no power. the only thing he can do is to create zeal, passion and desire in his countrymen. that's what he is doing.
do u think it is just a small thing or just funny talk. life of a number or great ppl have changed in a moment by getting a right vision. a vision makes ppl successful in life.
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by Aumlan Guha on Jan 26, 2007 10:03 AM
About this & similar perceptions, one can only echo Christ: Lord forgive them, they know not what they say.
RE:Let us reach to the unreached
by santosh singh on Jan 26, 2007 01:49 PM
professors like u think that they have done a great favour to country by being a professor. but the fact is that they are doing just their job. they expect great facilities from our system, and after failing to get supreme level of facility they started criticizing the country. they compare efficieny and service of our system with foreign system.
definately there are enumerable drawbacks in our system. but the bottomline is that they themself do nothing toward improving that. tell me a single act that u have done in ur life with a sole motive of developing the country in stead of taking classes. by taking classes or doing research u r doing ur job and earning money... nothing more than that.
HAVE U DONE ANYTHING IN UR LIFE WITH A MOTIVE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
Mr. President is great. India will lead the world in all spheres if the 54 Crores of youths will follow the message of deraming big and having ourage to do differently. Prof. Ashok chavan, Mumbai
What an inspiring speech....You can imagine the intensity of the man just reading his speech....I can't imagine how it is to hear it.......I request him to accept a second term on behalf of India.....He will be beacon of India's transformation which is not a probability anymore,,,but a striking truth.....I hope the reason for not accepting a second term is petty politics ( Please do read between the lines)
RE:My hands and feet just went numb
by Setu Madhavan on Jan 26, 2007 01:43 AM
Provided Soniaji agrees to nominate / support his candidature. At the moment she seems to be making her mind on propsing Sushil Kumar Shinde for President.
I wish this great man to talk to us the ordinary citizens frequently, we those have to stand in queue for everything from Petrol to Cinema Hall, we who have to just survive in job, because we know dignity is not found everywhere. We need him more because we want him to say quit where there is no dignity because we also know if one's will power is strong, mental strength is strong and one who does not comprosise or adjust himself against the core values, can fulfill one's desire. We know. But we need to be reminded again and again till our knowing turns to belief. So we need him to talk to us more frequently.
RE:Please come as the president of India for the second time
by Setu Madhavan on Jan 26, 2007 01:44 AM
Provided Soniaji agrees to nominate / support his candidature. At the moment she seems to be making her mind on propsing Sushil Kumar Shinde for President.
