Speech of Kalam Sir

Dear readers,
I recieved a speech of Dr. Kalam.I don't know whether its actually said by Kalam but its quite inspiring.Please go through it.

Speech-1

> ***Please read this article by giving 10 minutes from your busy life. Really good.... ***
>
> * 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. Do you
> have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.
>
> Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is
> yours.
>
> 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.
> YOU 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 ?
>
> Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr.
> Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the
> streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And
> then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the
> authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the
> officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure
> in his bowels?
> In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job.
> Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. 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, 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 and 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 mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dr. Abdul Kalaam
>
> I humbly request you to forward this to every Indian...... ......... ......... ..

The need of Development

Dear readers,
Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam, a real patriot has started a fortnightly e-paper called billion beats.This is in a real sense a positive newspaper aimed at encouraging people for development. A small girl of Class VIII, Lakshmi Sudhakaran perhaps shares the thought I want to convey you about the need for improvement and has written an article in this e-paper which is as follows:

Many a time we have heard our beloved country, India, being called a Third World country.
Most of us just ignore the statement, or even worse, join the critics in poking fun at our
Motherland.There are many jokes passed through the Internet, making fun of Indians and India. We take it in a light-hearted way: After all, what harm can a joke do? I agree with you, it is not worth picking a fight about a silly joke… but do we realize what in light our country is
portrayed to the world? Why don't we feel shame at being called a Third World country?
Because, being brought up in a country completely alien to Indian culture and heritage, we
don't realize the seriousness of the situation. Sure, we hear of poverty, droughts, floods, child-marriage and the rest in the news. We read about political problems.And we hear from quite a lot of people, that the strength of a
nation is its youth. But how many
of us 'youth' even imagine that we
can contribute to our country in a
meaningful way? How many of us
are even aware of the problems
persecuting our country?
Many of India's youth are either
living abroad, or are too 'small' to
make a difference, being from
low castes or having gone
through some kind of trauma in
their lives. But the worst kind is
those youngsters who don't even
care to think of the well-being of
our country, our Motherland,
which has given us an identity of
nationality.
The reason why we children are
called the health, wealth and
strength of our country, is because
we have the strength, will, capacity
and determination to dream. It
is universally known that
teenagers are stubborn and determined…
This is a call to all fellow
teens out there: channel this stubbornness
and determination into a
fire to help our country reach
great heights.
All the children of Mother India,
if you are listening: Dream! Dream
of India achieving a better,
stronger, stabler, more respectable
position in the world. Dream of
India prospering, not only economically,
but in every true aspect
of the word 'prosper'.
Dream of India as a country free
from the stigma of being 'Third
World'. And dream of India
becoming not a developing, but a
developed country. As Walt
Disney said, "If you can dream it,
you can do it!"
So dream each night of India's
eminent success in the near future,
and aspire each morn towards it.
A plea to every Indian in the
world: Stand up to the
world…say, 'Yes, I am an Indian,
and I am proud to be one!'
—Lakshmi Sudhakaran
Class VIII; Peepal Grove School,
Andhra Pradesh


Note:You can read this paper at http://www.abdulkalam.com/kalam/jsp/ViewPage.jsp?beatsid=4&req_date=4-11-2008&titlename=billionbeats%20Issue4