Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Man remains man
It is really coincidence that the statement made by Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narender Modi in 2002, " Muslims be taught a lesson to ensure that such incidents do not recur ever again" and the one attributed to our late Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 just after the Sikh riots has same tone and texture. Does it not prove that man remains man whether in BJP or Congress? His sense of belongingness to the community to which he is born takes precedence over his constitutional responsibilities and human approach when put to test.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
When you ignore time tested wisdom
When you ignore time tested wisdom
Our elders used to tell that if you want to scuttle any good proposal then involve a lawyer. He will ensure that proposal does not culminate. Our PM by involving an eminent lawyer Kapil Sibal first bit the dust in JPC issue and now Sibal has created all sorts of problems in the drafting of Lokpal bill and it is showing UPA and PM in very poor light.
There is a lesson for Shanti Bhushan also. Our shastras tell that accumulation of wealth is a direct invitation to problems. Shanti Bhushan may be honest but his huge wealth makes him vulnerable to all type of allegations. If you really want to be a blemish less public figure then do what our great leader Lala Lajpat Rai would do. He was also a prominent lawyer of his time. He would earn in lacs and donate entire earnings for noble causes. Mr. Shanti Bhushan, if you really want to be remembered as a man who did his bit for a good cause then make a trust with your entire wealth. It would silence the notorious men in congress.
Bhartendu Sood
Our elders used to tell that if you want to scuttle any good proposal then involve a lawyer. He will ensure that proposal does not culminate. Our PM by involving an eminent lawyer Kapil Sibal first bit the dust in JPC issue and now Sibal has created all sorts of problems in the drafting of Lokpal bill and it is showing UPA and PM in very poor light.
There is a lesson for Shanti Bhushan also. Our shastras tell that accumulation of wealth is a direct invitation to problems. Shanti Bhushan may be honest but his huge wealth makes him vulnerable to all type of allegations. If you really want to be a blemish less public figure then do what our great leader Lala Lajpat Rai would do. He was also a prominent lawyer of his time. He would earn in lacs and donate entire earnings for noble causes. Mr. Shanti Bhushan, if you really want to be remembered as a man who did his bit for a good cause then make a trust with your entire wealth. It would silence the notorious men in congress.
Bhartendu Sood
Friday, April 22, 2011
Both Kapil Dev and M.S. Dhoni are DAV products
Both Kapil Dev and M.S. Dhoni are DAV products
It is really a great feeling for any institution to have country’s two World Cup winning captains to be its products.
I feel that the four noble souls to whom country will remain indebted for the grand work being done by DAV institution to spread literacy are-Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati who gave the slogan “Spread knowledge and vanish ignorance”. The other three are Mahatma Hansraj, Lala Lajpat Rai and Gurudat Vidyarthi who spearheaded the proposal in 1883 just after the untimely demise of Swami Dayanand to create memoriam in the shape of DAV educational institutions as a tribute to that great sage.
To create temples of learning rather than temples with some gods inside reflects the radical thinking of the great institution –Arya Samaj founded by Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati .
Bhartendu Sood
It is really a great feeling for any institution to have country’s two World Cup winning captains to be its products.
I feel that the four noble souls to whom country will remain indebted for the grand work being done by DAV institution to spread literacy are-Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati who gave the slogan “Spread knowledge and vanish ignorance”. The other three are Mahatma Hansraj, Lala Lajpat Rai and Gurudat Vidyarthi who spearheaded the proposal in 1883 just after the untimely demise of Swami Dayanand to create memoriam in the shape of DAV educational institutions as a tribute to that great sage.
To create temples of learning rather than temples with some gods inside reflects the radical thinking of the great institution –Arya Samaj founded by Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati .
Bhartendu Sood
Teachers need to be put to test
Ref- News item-Getting teacher’s Job tougher now-page3 of 22-04-2011
It is indeed a very good development that apart from B.ED and ETT degrees teachers is Punjab will have to clear eligibility test. Test should be followed by a group discussion to test their speaking skill.
But, problem is that there are already many teachers who are not fit for the job. What I suggest that Govt. conducts a test for the existing teachers as well and those who are found below par are given training to upgrade their skills, especially the speaking skill.
Likewise the working hours of the teachers should be minimum 42 hours in a week.
It is not to say that the teaching hours should be increased but they should use this extra two hours time to preparer their lectures what they seem to be not doing.
When the Govt. jobs are for the life time, we don’t realize how much harm the incapable teachers do.
I don’t see any good reason for the Union Leaders to object to this amendment.
Bhartendu Sood
It is indeed a very good development that apart from B.ED and ETT degrees teachers is Punjab will have to clear eligibility test. Test should be followed by a group discussion to test their speaking skill.
But, problem is that there are already many teachers who are not fit for the job. What I suggest that Govt. conducts a test for the existing teachers as well and those who are found below par are given training to upgrade their skills, especially the speaking skill.
Likewise the working hours of the teachers should be minimum 42 hours in a week.
It is not to say that the teaching hours should be increased but they should use this extra two hours time to preparer their lectures what they seem to be not doing.
When the Govt. jobs are for the life time, we don’t realize how much harm the incapable teachers do.
I don’t see any good reason for the Union Leaders to object to this amendment.
Bhartendu Sood
Saturday, April 16, 2011
HONESTY BEGINS AT HOME
HONESTY BEGINS AT HOME
We assemble for a weekly Satsang on every Sunday. One of our members is a retired Tehsildar who enjoys the reputation of being utterly honest with unimpeachable integrity. I couldn’t refrain myself from asking him how he could resist taking bribe in the job in which money flows even if one didn’t demand.
Amused, he told me like this, “My widow mother struggled to teach me up to Middle Standard by cleaning utensils in the house of village Head. Fortunately, I was selected as Patwari and moved to a city. Money would come even without my asking for it. I sent Rs 40 from my first savings to my mother who got suspicious of my source of earning since Rs 40 was a big amount at that time in the back drop of Patwari’s measly salary. She sent back the entire amount to me by money order with a message that if she knew her son would become a corrupt official she’d not have struggled to give him education. I was very much pained and returned back the money to the person who had bribed me and took the pledge that I’d live with honest means.”
Honesty is the cardinal principle of dharma and all religions and seers speak of its paramount importance in making the human life pure and virtuous. If today we find massive corruption making inroads every where, it can be ascribed to our embracing such evils which are antithetical to tenets of dharma. These evils are-avarice and our failure to put restrain on our aspirations in the face of excessive consumerism. We see security of life in money alone and amass more than what we might need. Impatience-money is seen as the quickest way to avoid hassles. Attachment with kin which makes us find sense of belongingness in our family alone- comprising of wife, husband and children alone. Lacks of empathy for fellow human being – we always think of gaining something out of others rather than to think being useful to them. Our distinction between honest and dishonest means has become so much blurred that we don’t mind bartering away the virtue of honesty for petty gains.
Lokpal is OK since the role of ombudsman in any society can’t be undermined but that should not be seen as a panacea. We all need to be virtuous and teach lesson in honesty to our children since honesty begins at home.
Bhartendu Sood
We assemble for a weekly Satsang on every Sunday. One of our members is a retired Tehsildar who enjoys the reputation of being utterly honest with unimpeachable integrity. I couldn’t refrain myself from asking him how he could resist taking bribe in the job in which money flows even if one didn’t demand.
Amused, he told me like this, “My widow mother struggled to teach me up to Middle Standard by cleaning utensils in the house of village Head. Fortunately, I was selected as Patwari and moved to a city. Money would come even without my asking for it. I sent Rs 40 from my first savings to my mother who got suspicious of my source of earning since Rs 40 was a big amount at that time in the back drop of Patwari’s measly salary. She sent back the entire amount to me by money order with a message that if she knew her son would become a corrupt official she’d not have struggled to give him education. I was very much pained and returned back the money to the person who had bribed me and took the pledge that I’d live with honest means.”
Honesty is the cardinal principle of dharma and all religions and seers speak of its paramount importance in making the human life pure and virtuous. If today we find massive corruption making inroads every where, it can be ascribed to our embracing such evils which are antithetical to tenets of dharma. These evils are-avarice and our failure to put restrain on our aspirations in the face of excessive consumerism. We see security of life in money alone and amass more than what we might need. Impatience-money is seen as the quickest way to avoid hassles. Attachment with kin which makes us find sense of belongingness in our family alone- comprising of wife, husband and children alone. Lacks of empathy for fellow human being – we always think of gaining something out of others rather than to think being useful to them. Our distinction between honest and dishonest means has become so much blurred that we don’t mind bartering away the virtue of honesty for petty gains.
Lokpal is OK since the role of ombudsman in any society can’t be undermined but that should not be seen as a panacea. We all need to be virtuous and teach lesson in honesty to our children since honesty begins at home.
Bhartendu Sood
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Resolution passed by Maharashtra state assembly for Bharat Ratna
Without commenting on whether Tendulkar deserves countries highest award or not, all I'll say that Maharashtra govt. by passing a resolution in the state assembly has sent a wrong signal. It smacks of regional bias. Tomorrow all states will start pushing their own names, some deserving others may not and in coalition politics our PMs may have to accommodate unworthy candidates also.
This issue should be left to the central govt.
This issue should be left to the central govt.
No point in comparing Dhoni with the captains in the past
It is pointless to compare Dhoni with Pataudi as the captain. Any captain is as good as his team. Clive Lloyd won two world cups in seventies but today if you make him lead the side with present bunch of players it will not make much difference to West Indies ranking. Most recent example is of Ricky Ponting. He won two world cups as a captain but today with a different set of players who were no patch on Haddin, Martin Gilchrest or McGrath , he could not take his side even to semi finals. Never in the past any Indian captain had such a wonderful bunch of players- Sehwag the most feared batsman in the world, Tendulkar, the best and most consistent batsman in the world, Gambhir a world class batsman, Laxman, he can walk in to any side in the world solid and reliable like Kallis then Doni himself a world class player. Not to forget Zahir the most effective fast bowler in the game and Yuvraj the most useful all-rounder in ODI.and last our Harbhajan, even while on decline he continues to be a threat.
In the last fifty years standard, popularity& general interest in cricket has gone up considerably in India and it was bound to get rewarded. Likewise there has been decline in England and West Indies which the results reflect abundantly
In the last fifty years standard, popularity& general interest in cricket has gone up considerably in India and it was bound to get rewarded. Likewise there has been decline in England and West Indies which the results reflect abundantly
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