P. Uday Shankar's Blog (8)

 

Anti-corruption movements have now caught the attention of people all over the world. People around the world are not tolerant anymore to lopsided accumulation of wealth by the few who have the opportunity to govern a country and the audacity and clout to stockpile money at home and abroad. During recent times we saw Anna Hazare coming out successful in convincing the Government to draft a bill. He also had to start the whole effort with a fast and had to pass lot of hurdles. Thank…

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I was always of the strong view that Indian politics would never have been in this state of affairs if Mahatma Gandhi would have been alive today. We would have been the real example of democracy for new nations getting into democracy. For some time after we won independence, say for about two decades, we did have politicians of pristine qualities like Lal Bahadur Shastri, Kamaraj, C. Subramaniam, who had followed Gandhian principles in politics. Today there is so much of money in…

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The results of the India Census 2011 are just out this afternoon.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the whole team at the Registrar General’s Office have to be commended for the swiftness in completion of the job. It looks like as if the enumerator had visited me only a few weeks back and presto here are the results. As a responsible citizen it is also my duty to congratulate the thousands who had walked from door to door to do the enumeration work and the back-office staff for the…

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The following news item in the Times of India dtd. 07 July 2010 has raised some thoughts in my mind which I wanted to share with you all:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Green-Dandi-proje...

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News from India....

# Open Defecation- India’s Shame- A report by WHO-UNICEF says that Indians comprised 58 percent of all people who…

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President Obama makes it yet again- An inspiring speech at Oslo as an acceptance speech for receiving the coveted Nobel Prize. I was glued to my TV as he rendered his speech.



The text of his speech is available in the net. I read it at :

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-44627820091210>;



He has mentioned about his Guru King and about Gandhi during the course of his… Continue

I just read a news item in Hindustan Times which I am posting on my comment wall in my page and as a blogpost for all members of the network to read:



Hindustan Times

'Mahatma Gandhi is my hero', says Obama

Lalit K Jha, Press Trust Of India

Washington, September 09, 2009

First Published: 10:33 IST(9/9/2009)

Last Updated: 10:52 IST(9/9/2009)



US President Barack Obama has said given a chance he would like to have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi,… Continue