Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Inspiration galore!!
Media under scrutiny
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .
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 TVs, 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
Source-http://www.keralaservices.com/ca_details.php?id=281
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .
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 TVs, 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
Source-http://www.keralaservices.com/ca_details.php?id=281
Oh the camera knows.....
What the eyes fail to see
Oh! The lens captures !
What the heart fails to feel
Oh the camera knows !!
Photographed by Shanib Shanz
facefeatures News Service India
Shanib is a young, spirited photojournalist from Leadership Village, Wayanad. The above posted photograph is taken from his new series on human life on the streets of India titled "Extra Ordinary people" Shanib is doing B.TECH in electrical engineering in Tumkur.
facefeatures News Service India
Global Dignity Day 2011
Report - Laila Saein
Wayanad: On 20 October 2011 The Young Leaders programme of Leadership Village with the active support of teachers and students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Wayanad celebrated Global Dignity Day, noble initiative of Young Global Leaders from World Economic Forum.
“The mission of Global Dignity is to implement the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. We all have the ability to increase the dignity of others and thus we increase our own dignity.
The dignity approach works on all levels: it works for children and for adults, it works for men and for women, and it works on the micro and macro level.
Global Dignity is an autonomous non-profit, non-criticism and non-partisan initiative. We wish to be inspiration-based: commending and encouraging best practice and dignity-centered leadership.”- from Global Dignity official site.
Headmistress of JNV Wayanad Ms.Shanthy inaugurated the event. In her talk with the students she stressed the need of developing social dignity among students and how important and essentials it is to identify the dignified real self-hidden deep within each one of us. External facilitators of the event were Laila Saein , Pooja YLP, RoshanYLP and Anil Emage. The facilitators shared Dignity Stories with the students.
A lively discussion unfurled which was led by the headmistress Ms.Shanthy and everyone joined her. Later Dignity Videos were shown. After this students were invited to the conference hall of the school where they shared Dignity stories with the help of facilitators. After that children formed a “Dignity Circle”, they cheered and pledged for Global Dignity day and in their own terms what Dignity meant to them.
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