#My Clean India

 “OMG! This road is stinking.” 

“These people don’t really know how to keep the roads clean.”

“Our government seriously.. eats up all the money been budgeted for cleanliness.”

“Bhai.. ye board to padho.. ‘Yaha Peshab karna mana hai’.. ab to yahi karenge..” *hi5*

“Today I returned from US. Its soooo clean, ya know. And just look at our country.. yucks. I’m definitely gonna be dere after marriage”

Everyone wants to see cleanliness around them. Well everyone knows the truth that NO ONE is interested to take up a stand.

“Bhai main akela kya ukhaar lunga? (Bro, What can I move alone?)

YOU CAN! 

Sometimes I feel that the job of getting rid of filth belongs to Safai karmchari only? Isn’t it the duty of all the 125 crore countrymen? Will we keep on imposing everything on them only? Something good happens or bad, will be keep on blaming them only? We have to change this situation. Therefore, as the children of this mother, all of us are responsible that we should not keep our country like this. It may be village neighborhood, home family, school and college, Mandir, Masjid or Gurudwara; how can we keep it dirty? Wherever we see filth or see someone throwing papers why don’t we feel like picking that up?

Old habits take time to change. It’s a difficult task, I know.

Just you need to start by the basic hygiene. Just follow the below basics and guide others to follow this too.

1)      USE ME: We have learned these two words in Standard-2. But yet not able to train us to really use it. Use a dust bin and don’t throw even a smallest of wrapper in road or streets. Believe me! It will make a huge difference.

2)    STOP SPITTING: There are crores of people who eat tobacco, pan, zarda, etc etc etc everyday and spit on like anywhere and making the world go RED. I know it’s impossible to leave these ‘AMRIT’ at once but at least you can contribute by not hawking just everywhere.

3)  PUBLIC TOILETS: You need to control yourself till the next public toilet. And not just start anywhere you feel like in the middle of the road. Unless you want to save that One Rupee.

There is a startling evaluation of WHO – they say that the diseases created by lack of cleanliness results in additional loss of 6500 rupees to every Indian. Due to illness someone is not able to drive taxi or auto rickshaw or not able to distribute newspapers or not able to deliver milk. This is just the average of the total loss. If we take out affluent households then burden on poor people will go up to 12-15 thousand. If we just spread cleanliness, our poor will be saved 6500 rupees. This will save him from diseases and unemployment. This movement is very important for the health of the poor. Serving Mother India is serving the poorest.

And those who really want to take up the social responsibility for the sake of your country.

Take a Pledge.  Make a promise to yourself.

“I take this pledge that I will remain committed towards cleanliness and devote time for this. I will devote 100 hours per year that is two hours per week to voluntary work for cleanliness. I will neither litter nor let others litter. I will initiate the quest for cleanliness with myself, my family, my locality, my village and my work place.

I believe that the countries of the world that appear clean are so because their citizens don’t indulge in littering nor do they allow it to happen.

With this firm belief, I will propagate the message of Swachh Bharat Mission in villages and towns.

I will encourage 100 other persons to take this pledge which I am taking today.

I will endeavour to make them devote their 100 hours for cleanliness.

I am confident that every step I take towards cleanliness will help in making my country clean.

Jai Hind!

Long live Mahatma Gandhi

Long live Mahatma Gandhi

Long live Mahatma Gandhi

Best wishes to all!”

(The last Excerpt from speech of our respected Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi on 2^nd October, 2014 on the inauguration of Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan) 

#MyCleanIndia
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The Bond - A Short Story.

Firstly, it is not about the Ian Fleming’s fictional character James Bond.

Bond means a feeling that unites people; a shared emotion or interest.

It means friendship, relationship, partnership, affiliation…

This is a True Story described briefly about the bond between an Indian and an American who met 30 years ago in 1984.

That time Indo-US relations were not at all good. This was the time when India was experimenting with the nuclear power also supporting the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

People of both countries did not trust each other. People were judgmental about each others behavior.

Mr. Iyer (names have been changed) who is a colleague of mine met Mr. Smith in a train in Bhubaneswar when both were in there 20’s. Smith was a tourist and bought a ticket to travel through Coromandel Express to Madras (Now Chennai).

Due to some reasons Coromandel was cancelled.

Iyer had reserved a ticket at another train which was scheduled 1 hour later. Due to cancellation all the passengers of Coromandel tucked themselves up in the later one. American so followed.

The train was jam packed. But Smith found a seat with Iyer. Though the seat was reserved Iyer allowed him to join. Firstly both were reserved and reticent. It was a cold night and Smith had nothing to eat. Iyer offered him some from his own food and that’s how the conversation took place. Later they chatted a lot and then slept in the same seat criss-crossing each other. This time Smith offered him his warm German Blanket. In the morning they reached Chennai.

Iyer was in an office tour for 10 days. So he looked up for a hotel. As Smith was a tourist and knew nobody, he insisted Iyer to live with him. They shared the room charges and other expenses.

7 days passed. In these 7 days they developed a special bond with each other. They used to talk long hours about different topics and issues.

One Indian got to know about 235 million American hearts.

One American got to know about 743 million Indian hearts.

After 7days Smith left for Delhi. While leaving he had tears in his eyes. He never expected such warmth and such a Bond in this country. He was overwhelmed.

It was a start of great friendship which goes unreported. These incidents change the mentality of people around the globe.

Smith today is a great writer and has written many a book about Indo-US relations letting the world know about Indian hospitality, warmth and importance of relationships in our life.

Now both are in 50's. They still talk over phone.

The Bond remains unbreakable.

They ruled for over Two hundred years… now it’s our time!

They ruled for over Two hundred years… now it’s our time!

That was an era of Kings and Dictators. They ruled that way.
Now the time is different so as the way to rule is a little different.

Indian Companies are playing an important role in British economy.

There are currently over 700 Indian-owned small to large-sized businesses in the UK, collectively employing over 100,000 individuals.

Of these, 41 organisations are registering year-on-year growth rates of more than 10 per cent, with more than half (26 corporates) demonstrating particularly strong growth in excess of 20 per cent.

These 'Top 41' generated combined revenues of around 19 billion pounds in fiscal year 2013-14.
[over INR 190,000 Crores]

The Indian companies are investing in a range of sectors such as the pharmaceutical/chemical and technology/telecom which constitute over half the organisations. Automotive, transport and engineering and manufacturing sectors are also strongly represented.

12 Indian corporates are employing more than 1,000 people each in the UK.



So now you know that 100000 families there earn bread from India. 

Hmmm..... 

Let’s see What’s Next…?!

Courtesy: The Economic Times.

Will History Be Repeated? INDIA…..INDIA……

"Mahendra Singh Dhoni ka Winning Chakka!"

The vociferous, jam-packed crowd at the Wankhede stadium erupted in wild celebrations as Dhoni hit the winning six runs to give India their biggest cricketing moment and crown themselves the ODI world champions, in addition to being the number one Test team.

It was a momentous Saturday night marked by high emotion and poignant scenes as India, for long the game's financial power, stamped their supremacy on the field as well; eight years after Sourav Ganguly's team had made an abortive attempt to scale the pinnacle.

The players, many of them with tears in their eyes, rushed to the ground to hug each other as Dhoni finished it off in style by hitting a six, as fire crackers lit up the evening sky to mark the moment.

The opponent was none other than our neighbour Sri Lanka. They were defeated.

Yet again a World Cup Finale though a short format but with the same thrill for every Indian fan for whom this is not a game but a Religion.

India has already taken up the title of World Cup T20 once in 2007; it was also the first edition, playing against the arch-rival Pakistan in Finale. Let the time be relived.

Will History Be Repeated?

We don’t know! But what we know is that the game will be a full paisa-vasool and the fun & excitement will have no boundaries.

So just plan to get glued with your friends & families,

To Bleed Blue,

with Cheers and Roars of,

INDIA…… INDIA…….INDIA……… INDIA……….

The Future of Education - MOOCS.

The word ‘MOOCS’ sounds like a cute and cuddly cousin to George Lucas’ teddy-bear in a new Star Wars film. They far from cuddly, though, threatening much of the higher education with extinction with a lot of help from INDIANS.

Even as you read this, someone in the country is sitting in front of a computer, attending a class in public health offered by Harvard University. She has just finished taking a class, video pop-quiz, responded to a question on the class bulletin board from one of the 2 million students from around the world, and is getting ready to watch the next part of the lecture being conducted by her world renowned, Boston based epidemiology professor [Epi.. what? Click here]. In two weeks she will have finished her eight week class, written three papers and gained a certificate, if not college degree.

MOOCS - Massive Open Online Courses - are quite different from your familiar online, instructional videos. Almost all of the MOOCS pioneers have Artificial Intelligence backgrounds, so it’s no surprise that some heavy-duty technology is being utilized to make the online experience more immersive and interactive, allowing for features like peer-graded papers.

INDIA, with its enormous appetite for but paltry supply of quality education, sits in the middle of this programme. For instance, Coursera, the leading player in this market which has signed up more than 2 million users in less than a year and has 630+ courses, says Indians compromise a major percentage of its active student base and are its second largest cohort, next only to US and ahead of Britain, Canada and Brazil. It offers courses from 33 of the world’s best colleges Stanford, Princeton, and the Berklee College of Music included. Here, students have access to same curriculum, even professors, as on-campus students would at these respective colleges. [Wanna know How It Works?]

IT’S COMPLETELY FREE!!

Anant Agarwal’s edX is the other pioneer in this field but unlike Coursera, it is a not-for-profit entity with 160+ courses offered on its website. It is a Harvard-MIT joint venture that received $60 million in funding to put all of college’s educational material online. It also has begun attracting Indians in waves. Overall India is second ranking location for edX too. It is also the number-one location for an online course that is the bedrock of any MIT education in its campus avatar.[For edX Website- Click here]

Techies are not only ones flocking to the site. There are a number of courses on business, management, health, communication, history, arts, research, economics, food and nutrition, robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology science and more.

If you have a choice between learning from an Ivy League college and a local one, which one would you choose?

But a question still remains..

Do the employers in India consider such certificates?

Slowly but steadily they have started to understand the importance of such courses. These courses are the future of education landscape. Soon they are starting to charge for these courses.

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