BEAUTIFUL.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Mohamed Jaffer <mjkassam@gmail.com> wrote:
> A TRUE INDIAN WILL READ THIS LETTER TILL END
>
> Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam does it again... what he always does best ! Read out his
> below speech of last month..
> hats off to this man..we want men like him to be our CM, PM &
> President!!..but more importantly, citizens like him.
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> Y OU 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 owne r has to clean up after his pet has done the job.
> Same in Japan ..
>
> Will the Indian citizen do that here?
>
> 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 what do we do?
> 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 & 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 letter to each Indian for a change instead of sending JUST
> JOKES.
>
> Thank you ...
> Dr. A.P.J. Kalam
>
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