Re: Thanks for the info
Ram Maruri
Thanks & Warm Regards,
Ram Maruri
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"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better" - Swami Vivekananda
Thank you, dear Ram Maruriji. No I did not know about ACO doing such a good work.We also awarded 7 scholarships to poor smart students and distributed school uniform to 176 students of a village school. Apart from distributing uniforms sweets to over 1200 students and their parents was offered on last 15 August and fed orphans children, homeless, and poor people. But that does not assure us that the students will be getting sound moral character. Because our education system is such that they only study for a job and once educated they have many wrong notions about the life such as money is everything where as no money of this world can even produce a grain of rice or wheat.
Keep up the good work.
With best wishes and regards, sincerely,
Hari OM
www.ashramom.orgPh. 321-422-4346
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Sent: Sat, September 25, 2010 10:20:12 PM
Subject: Re: Very TRUE.
Thank you sir. I appreciate the details given by you.A small example I give here about the achievement of youth is acoindia.org which was started by my brother's son working in oracle corporation who inspired by my work on NGO.Within these 4 months of time, do you know what ACO achieved ? It helped about 56 poor, orphans and semi orphans by sending them to the better schools and paving the way to uplift their lives with constant and continuous monitoring by these youth working in various corporates in India.
The reason I am saying about this is ..it is clearly showing the power of the youth.Wherever the youth are involved, they take the things forward in the better way. This is the clear evidence of visible development where human resources are created and nurtured in a better way by providing all of their guidance,knowledge,mentoring and making these children productive for India.
Some of the areas we can take help to connect to these kinds of youth are social networking sites like Twitter,Facebook,Orkut etc apart from the emails. Let us try to connect to the youth and inform them about the need for a good character in them for the developed India.Youth of this kind may be appreciated for their good work..which gives immense energy to do more better things.
Thanks & Warm Regards,
Ram Maruri
Ph 91 96183 02597
91 94910 43237
"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better" - Swami Vivekananda
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Durgashanker Nagda <nag...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you, Shri Ram Maruriji. NamashkarYou wrote vey true, I can't agree more with you.It is the youth and youth only who can take the heat, lead, and work hard and we must make our youth honest, sincere, dedicated, to render selfless service to our beloved motherland -Bharat. Else it seems a waste of time to discuss it for 4 motnhs now without implementation.
With best wishes and regards, sincerely,
Hari OM
www.ashramom.orgPh. 321-422-4346
937-269-4652 (C)
From: Ram Maruri <ramalin...@gmail.com>
To: Bimal Khemani <bimal....@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaya Kamlani <kaml...@yahoo.com>; Sudhakaran <sudhak...@gmail.com>; Durgashanker Nagda <nag...@yahoo.com>; Jain P.K. <jai...@mopipi.ub.bw>; Mohan Jain <moha...@comcast.net>; Navin Prasad <nav...@gmail.com>; K C Aggrrawal <kcagg...@yahoo.co.in>; Ram Kumar <rka...@yahoo.com>; Surendra Gupta <surendr...@gmail.com>; promod chawla <promod...@gmail.com>; Professor Tara Sethia <tse...@csupomona.edu>; Professor Suresh K. Aggarwal <s...@uic.edu>; Professor S. Sitaraman <ssita...@akcgroup.com>; Professor Ramesh K. Arora <rkaj...@rediffmail.com>; Professor Ram Misra-NJ <mis...@mail.montclair.edu>; Professor Raka Kamal <raka...@hotmail.com>; Professor R. Rajagopal <r-raj...@uiowa.edu>; Professor Prashant Banerjee-UIC-Pratham <p.ban...@comcast.net>; Professor Praful Bhavsar <prof_b...@yahoo.com>; Professor Mukund Apte <mda...@gmail.com>; Professor M. K. Jain <mkj...@udel.edu>; Professor M L Kothari <mohank...@hotmail.com>; Professor Ashok K. Malhotra <malh...@oneonta.edu>; Professor Anil Oroskar <an...@orochem.com>; Prof.R.Sethuraman <sethu...@sastra.edu>; Prof. Subhash Chand <subha...@hotmail.com>; Prof. Sham Bhatia <sbh...@iun.edu>; Prof. S. L. Bapna <slb...@rediffmail.com>; Prof. R. S. Dwivedi <rsdw...@comcast.net>; Prof. Padma Vasudevan Sen <padm...@hotmail.com>; Priyadarshan Patra(SEEDS) <dpa...@yahoo.com>; Prof Chandrashekhar Bhat <cs...@uohyd.ernet.in>; Prof Murty <pro...@yahoo.com>; Prof Jayanta <jay...@iimcal.ac.in>; Prof. Darsh T Wasan <wa...@iit.edu>; Prof. Kamal Bawa <kamal...@umb.edu>; Prof. Narendra Ahuja <n-a...@uiuc.edu>; Prof. P. V. Indiresan <indi...@gmail.com>; Jaya Indiresan <jayain...@gmail.com>; elkay <elka...@gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 9:21:44 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: India third most powerful nation: US report
Dear Mr Bimal and all,Most of us who are reading these emails are not YOUTH. It is the youth we need to educate and spread the message across if we really want to see a change in India. There are various means now to spread a good message to the youth. Again, I find the ego in some of the people who dont want to spread the news to the youth but spend the time only in discussions.Discussions are necessary when it is going to be imlemented. I am sure...after some point of time, we just forget the discussion happened without any follow up or implementation. What I suggest Mr Mohan or others who triggered this discussion to have a post on the blog of IDC-America and make a room for interacting further on this.
Thanks & Warm Regards,
Ram Maruri
Ph 91 96183 02597
91 94910 43237
"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better" - Swami Vivekananda
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Bimal Khemani <bimal....@gmail.com> wrote:
FriendsEverybody knows about the prevailing corruption in INDIAIt is also a fact that in INDIA corruption starts from TOPNow it is the time to expose these big SHARKS andtry to get them punished, so that others can have a lessonIn HINDI there is a common sayingभय बिन होय न प्रीत
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On 24 September 2010 15:14, Jaya Kamlani <kaml...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Sudhakaran,
Yes, India needs charismatic leaders like Gandhiji and other great leaders of yesteryears, to inspire people. You need bold leaders to challenge corruption and punish the corrupt, not close their eyes to it. No, you do NOT have such leaders in India today. If they do exist, they are not bold enough to make waves, to challenge the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the elites. You need people to make waves, if you want things to change.
Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister because she came from the Nehru dynasty and was groomed for that position. If she was an ordinary person, she would have not stood a chance. Are dynasties good for India? That’s for the Indian voters to determine. We, in America, have recognized it is not good for our country.
I don’t have all the answers to India’s dilemma. I am sure there are many on this panel who can contribute a lot more than I. We, too, in America, are facing many challenges. Here are 2 Economic Times articles that tell more about India’s corrupt culture.
“Commonwealth Games tarnishing India's global image: Moody's” – Sept. 24, 2010
AND
“India bribed 72 nations to get Delhi CWG: Report” – September 23, 2010
These are unflattering reports of India. Yesterday there were articles on this subject in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the TIME magazine. All this bad publicity means India is in a damage control mode. It cannot flaunt articles that they are going to be the next superpower, and are the world’s third most powerful nation. It is all hype. No one will believe it. The Moody’s article mentions that foreign investments and tourism in India are likely to be impacted, and advises U.S companies who are thinking of expanding in India to think twice about it.
By the way, Sudhakaran, the term ‘character crisis’ denoted in your mission statement is fine in the given context. I cannot think of a better word.
Regards,
Jaya Kamlani
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Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 3:40:34 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: India third most powerful nation: US report
Dear Jaya...
I start with the last part of your mail. Your mention: ‘What India needs are a few charismatic leaders…’ is very closer to but still not on the target. It denotes that our leadership is not of the quality. You pointed, though lacking stress on it, in second part of your first mail also. I think you have to give it eserved stress, primacy.
I do not think few charismatic… would pull us out...
The need of the hour is of competent and visionary leaders … that also not a few or in any one party … but the full leadership hierarchy, from grass-root to the top, in all political parties should be of comparatively virtuous and competent leaders. Otherwise… just remember what happened during Indhira’s reign, a very charismatic leader. Really, I am of the view that, it accelerated the degradation of our political leadership hierarchy with slogans such as: Indhira is India ; and by not tolerating anyone showing a grain of competence and integrity to stand-up and question her decisions and style …
Not only yourself but many have misunderstood my mention on 'Character-crisis in Political leadership'. So that term may be wrong. So please give a bit more attention to this part and advice me. I had explained it (copied bellow) in earlier mail also. But you seem to have missed it.
What I wished to mean by it is not the ‘character disorder’ you mentioned.
There may be people with such disorders in any society. But all Indians are not afflicted by it. It is true that we Indians as a society is surely afflicted by the moral decay to varying extend due to the influence of the role models/icons - the vicious type of political leadership you mentioned in the second part of your first mail… true to the adage ‘Yedha Raja Thadha Praja’; the Political leadership (of any nuances) being the most powerful icon of any society.
Following part is copied form the earlier mail… ‘I consider prevalence of tainted caucuses and their incompetent lackeys and sycophants, and a near lack of virtuous persons of competence and integrity in our political leadership – I call it ‘Character-Crisis in our political leadership’ - is the most important ill, an AIDS like ill, of our society’
So it is not the general degradation or the moral decay of individuals or of the society… but of attracting and promoting comparatively vicious tainted incompetent persons to - and of purging any one showing a grain of virtuousness and competence from - our political leadership.
Would you be kind enough to suggest a better term for such a state of affairs than the ‘Character-crisis in political leadership’.
You suggestion on the campaign on the colleges/universities.. I would try… I can use it to get new inputs/suggestions from them and try to introduce to them my ‘Great India’ ideals…
But on the demand to Bollywood and the NRI (or residents) doing things to make a difference in the lives of the poor etc.. I am not much enthusiastic.
Bollywood is part of our society and they can not behave differently. Demanding them to behave differently is akin to or worse than entrusting guard of our hen houses to cunning wild foxes and demanding them not to feast on our hens… wishful. is not it?
And providing conditions for better education and welfare of the weak are the responsibility of the state. If the state has failed taking over that responsibility by individuals is not the answer… really it is a national shame… declaring aloud to the world we are the citizens of a failed state. Instead, a patriot’s duty is, if the aim is a strong India , to find out the reasons for such failure of the state and to try to rectify it.
So my endeavor is completely concentrated in understanding/exposing the reasons/causes/flaws for such failure/misbehavior/degradation of our society and to rectify those causes. And my diagnosis is basically different from what we hear usually in seminars, medias and speeches and usual article writer intelligentsia.
The writers like you can you’re your faculty to just reproduce the facts for the public knowledge… that is the lowest level.
Or climb a step further up…through reactive writings incite the society or groups to act… that would be reactive and not of much use.
Or a step further up… use the opportunity to proactively analyze the issues and try to expose the hidden basic causes to help the society and reform enthusiasts to prescribe a remedy.
I hope you would not feel offended.
I am attaching Great India Trust’s mission statement (a pruned down version).
See if it would help you to reorient your views …
Or if I am fond wrong please do not hesitate to correct me.
But generalization and wishful hopes is not going to help us.
With best regards
Sudhakaran----- Original Message -----From: Jaya KamlaniSent: Friday, September 24, 2010 1:45 AMSubject: Re: Fw: India third most powerful nation: US reportDear Sudhakaran & All,
Thanks for your thoughts. Regarding the 'character crisis' you mentioned that many Indians are experiencing would be termed as "character disorder" by psychiatrists. After the release of the movie "Slumdog millionaire" and the Commonwealth Games scandals, some might even venture as far and say that India has become a 'dysfunctional' society. The movie was filmed by a westerner who exposed corruption, poverty and exploitation of children in India, while the country has been vying to become an economic superpower. But this time, it was no western movie producer or writer who exposed them. This time, India exposed itself. The CWG scandals will do more harm to India's image than the India portrayed in "Slumdog Millionaire."
Yes, the Commonwealth Games scandals have deeply bruised India’s global image. However, instead of feeling depressed about it, Indians need to be bold, grab the baton and move forward to bring about a real change to India. Here are some suggestions I have:
1) Since we have many university professors on this panel, may I suggest you to organize town hall meetings at your colleges, and suggest that such meetings be held at other colleges across India, as soon as possible. Have 2 or 3 such town hall meetings per year to discuss people’s issues, such as corruption, elections, poverty, education system of India, etc…. At the first meeting, let the students write down questions, suggestions, thoughts on what they think went wrong with the Commonwealth Games, how to improve India’s image, and what they think should be the priorities of India, as this is a subject that is fresh on their minds. Have them drop off their comments (no more than a page) in a suggestion box. The panelists can address these comments at the town hall meeting.
2) Colleges/universities can include a class on rural development and slum rehabilitation, and take students on a one or two week-long rural trip. The students can then write a term paper, and suggest how they think poverty can be eradicated in the villages they visited. In India, people have become immune to poverty. They see it every day as they pass by in cars or buses. It is essential for these students to experience that same poverty for a couple of weeks, even a month. Moved by the experience, they will want to do something for the poor of India. They will come up with innovative ways to improve their lives. Have the students watch a different TED program each month, available on YourTube. Follow it up with a class discussion.
3) People must demand Bollywood to produce better movies than all the lust and glamour they have been showing for many years now. Bollywood has powerful influence on young minds. What the young see on the silver screen is how they act out in real life. The movies show young women in very poor light. I would like them to portray women in stronger roles in society. Women can be the pillars of strength to protect India’s moral values. Instead they are portrayed as sluts, or victims of rape in the movies. This is where Bollywood has fallen off the deep edge. Mafia is deeply involved in Bollywood, and they have no sense of ethics, moral and social values.
4) There are many NRIs who are making a difference in the lives of the poor of India. Two years ago, at the IDCA meeting in Chicago, I was moved by Prof. Ashok Malhotra’s video presentation of what his NGO does to house and educate the poor children, orphaned by the disastrous Gujarat earthquake, and the professor's work in Rajasthan. Prof. Malhotra is on this discussion list. I don’t know if he recalls meeting me, but the next morning, my friend Asha and I joined him at the breakfast table. FYI, I will be attending the annual IDCA conference this October in Indiana.
What India needs are a few charismatic leaders to pull the country out of this mess. Insatiable greed for power, money and lust has brought India down to its knees. Having fallen so low, it has nowhere left to go but up. There are still a lot of good people in India. You have the momentum. Now is the time for a change. Academia can take the lead with the town hall meetings at colleges.
Regards,
Jaya Kamlani
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To: Durgashanker Nagda <nag...@yahoo.com>; Bimal Khemani <bimal....@gmail.com>; Jaya Kamlani <kaml...@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 7:19:40 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: India third most powerful nation: US report
Dear Jayaji...
I am more in agreement with your opinion on the quality of education and the virtues going down the wrong path.
I consider it a blessing to be part of such an elite group in such a debate on the net that may have a bearing on the reformation efforts of our beloved Mother India.
I am as much or more concerned as many of you are over the rot in our society and political system; 'more'... because India is my only home... and my fate and that of my next generations also, are inseparably bound with that of India 's, while many of you have selected other countries as your first home. I appreciate your interest and feeling of indebtedness towards our Mother India and your willingness to do something for a better change.
For many of you these debates are more of academic or intellectual interest than of something emotionally related with survival and prosperity.
I am trying to do my best, with my limited resources and faculty, to reform our political system, which I have identified as a 'Pseudo & perverted Democracy'.
I very reasonably believe, after due deliberations, that the flaws of our political system are the main villain, the basic cause, causing/breeding/aggravating all the ills/degradations of our society and polity. I consider prevalence of tainted caucuses and their incompetent lackeys and sycophants and a near lack of virtuous persons of competence and integrity – I call it ‘Character-Crisis’ - in our political leadership is the most important ill, an AIDS like ill, of our society, that cause or aggravate almost all flaws and ills of our society and political system. So I have given primacy in my reform efforts to exposing and rectifying the flaw that cause this ill.
I would be blessed if you would be kind enough to share your opinion on the above and, if you do not agree, your diagnosis on the most important/serious ills of Indian society, especial of your concern on …‘virtues of India … going down the wrong path’… its causes.
Such information may help me to fine tune my understanding and reform efforts.
I think that would be a step in the right direction to your expressed desire: ‘I also want to see how I can make a difference to bring back the virtues of India’
With best regards
Sudhakaran
Great India Trust
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To: Jaya Kamlani <kaml...@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wed, September 22, 2010 3:53:56 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: India third most powerful nation: US reportDear Jaya and all my friends
On 22 September 2010 11:06, Jaya Kamlani <kaml...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Professor P.K. Jain,
When you say that you disagree with the comments made, I am assuming you are referring to my comments. You are entitled to your views. You say that Economic Times journalists are highly educated. I agree with you. That's why I read the Economic Times a couple of times a day online, because I use their material for blogging. I am a frequent blogger on the South Asian Journalists Assoc (SAJA) Forum, associated with the Columbia University, New York. I am also a retired IT/Management Consultant - had my own consulting practice. Was in the field for 20 years. Before that I was in the advertising/media industry. I have consulted for some top technology companies in America. Have also consulted for 2 years on a defense project. My clients were from coast-to-coast in America. So I had to travel a lot.
In my retired years, I have taken to writing. I have finished writing my memoir, which took me years to write, and presently working on another book on India's rural development, on poverty and other social issues, and innovations to help the rural people. I am just as qualified, if not more than the ET journalists or the other journalists who have written this article, which is published in the Times of India and the Economic Times. I have done immense research on different issues of India. Read world organizations reports and newspaper reports going back many years. Almost 3 years ago, I visited over 30 villages and several city slums to gather material for my book. So I know what I am talking about.
Of course, I owe something to India. What I owe is love for all the love I received when I was growing up. I also want to see how I can make a difference to bring back the virtues of India that I recall, because I see it going down the wrong path. Just because a person or a country has come into more money, it does not mean that they are better citizens, or have more class, or have suddenly acquired better social manners. You have to dig deeper and see how they acquired that money. Was that money ill gotten?
Professor Jain, when you talk of the great education of India, let me tell I thought it was the best, too, since I attended a convent school and St. Xavier's College in Mumbai. But we really don't know if the grass is greener on the other side until you get to the other side, and have lived there a number of years. Please take a look at this Economic Times article article about India's education, although I must say that in recent years, the standard of education has been going down in America, too. But we shall get that house back in order.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6569561.cms (full story)
“India doesn’t figure in world top-100 universities” – September 17, 2010
NEW DELHI: India is nowhere in the recently released world university rankings. The three rankings — Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and QS World University Rankings, are just out, but none of the Indian varsities have made it to the top 100.
While overall the US dominates all the three rankings, the QS rankings have China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Israel, Taiwan and even Thailand ahead of India with IIT-Bombay in the 187th position.
In the other two rankings, (Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities) India finds no place in the top 200, but Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Turkey bag decent places in between the two rankings…. (more via link)
WORLD’S BEST
Times Higher Education World University Rankings — 2010-2011
Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University Princeton University
QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS — 2010
University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Yale University, University College London, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProfessor Jain, I am a writer. So I tell it like it is. We have some major problems here in America, too, including corruption at the high end, including large corporations and the Congress. That is why we want to vote new people into the Congress this November. We must not try and defend our countries or the rotten apples who are occupying powerful positions. Just look at the CWG scandals. The organizer is a Rajya Sabha member. We have to try and find solutions to see how we can improve our countries. But, unless we know what is wrong with the system, unless we determine what it is we are trying to change, how do we go about bringing a change for the better? Sometimes, I think people in India are too close to the problem. Their views can be subjective. That is true of any individual towards their country. They see the bribes, the corruption occurring everyday and have learned to accept it. We have an advantage here in America, where we have lived in both countries, and looking at a problem from a distance, we can be objective.
Regards,
Jaya Kamlani, USA
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