In this age of eroding values this one liner is really heart warming and elevates the soul especially after you come to know that this comes from the man who is the Chief Justice of India.
Justice kapadia came from a poor family and started his career as a class IV employee. The one description that always tagged him is-he is utterly honest and is a man of impeccable integrity.
What separates him from others who are impeached in the allegations of corruption – he looked for self actualization in the career he had chosen. He took the remuneration that went with the career, without trying to compete with successful businessmen and industrialists.
We need to salute such persons and tell about them to our children also so that they their faith in honesty remains unshaken.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
All of us as Nations are gifted with different tempraments-ongoing World Cup
Some raise their performance level at the time of big events-like Newzeland and Aussie.
others perform very well and look promising when an ordinary event is in progress but there is an astounding fall in their performance in the big event like ICC title-I hope you should be able to guess it.
Then there are other nations like Pakistan who are so divided that their own players can't digest for a long that their team is doing well. They will do some thing or the other downright silly to put their captain and in the process their country down.
others perform very well and look promising when an ordinary event is in progress but there is an astounding fall in their performance in the big event like ICC title-I hope you should be able to guess it.
Then there are other nations like Pakistan who are so divided that their own players can't digest for a long that their team is doing well. They will do some thing or the other downright silly to put their captain and in the process their country down.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
This is exactly where PM has failed
Former Supreme Court Judge Mr. Krishna lyre’s campaign for the removal of KG BalaKrishnan’s from the post of Chairperson of national Human rights Commission needs to be taken forward by all. Your editorial is well timed. Hon'ble Justice Mr. Iyer is absolutely on point when he says "Suspician is a upas tree under whose shade reason fails and justice dies" His being under the cloud of suspicion itself constitutes enough ground for his removal. By now our PM should have acted but unfortunately he has not done in keeping with his style of working-i.e. to act when the issue is already hijacked by the opposition for their personal gains.
Publicizing big fat marriages
When media publicizes big fat marriages it severely damages the cause of woman foetus.
No other factor is as much responsible for skewing gender ratio as the Indian marriages in which girl’s father even after having a highly accomplished daughter is at the receiving end.
All linked with media need to ponder over and pass a resolution to not give publicity to such marriages where money is squandered, even if it means loss of advertisement revenue.
No other factor is as much responsible for skewing gender ratio as the Indian marriages in which girl’s father even after having a highly accomplished daughter is at the receiving end.
All linked with media need to ponder over and pass a resolution to not give publicity to such marriages where money is squandered, even if it means loss of advertisement revenue.
Monday, February 21, 2011
In the end it melts down to ‘NATURAL LEADERSHIP’
Mr. Manmohan Singh, our PM, may be having thousand and one qualities which make him a better human being than the present crop of politicians. But, he is not a natural leader, being on the seat courtesy Sonia Gandhi( no intention to cast aspersion). Fact remains that the Prime Minister in a democracy and that also a huge and diverse like India must be a natural leader, elected by people and their representatives.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
They should not have chosen army and judiciary as their career
Two news stories in today's paper Lt. General gets three years RI in ration scam and SC seeks status report ob complaint against former Chief Justice of India amply throw light on the state of affairs in our country.
Other day we red two generals from the Army and a few Admirals are involved in Ararsh Housing Society scam. I am distraught like any other right minded person. Has the infection of corruption already rampant among politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen now insidiously spread itself among the judiciary and the armed forces?
Everywhere we turn today there are signs of ethical deterioration. In business, bright young people have made immoral millions by using insider-trading information. In government, hardly a day goes by without some public official being involved in an ethical dilemma. In education, there are cheating scandals among students, teachers and those who run these institutions.. Obviously, all these people, many of them supposedly outstanding citizens, believed that they had to cheat to win. They, along with many others, believe that nice guys finish last.
Both the judges and the generals forgot that Purpose is the Objective or Intention, something towards which you are always striving. It is not the same as a ‘goal’. A goal is tangible. It is something definite that you can accomplish. A purpose is ongoing. It gives meaning and definition to our lives. A goal can be to make money, but for a general or a judge, would they feel comfortable with that as the purpose in life? If yes, then they should have chosen to be tradesmen or businessmen in the first place. However, even for tradesmen, money would perhaps not be the purpose of life, although money may be a major goal. But for the judiciary, armed services, academia, researchers or many other professions like journalism, money can never be a major goal.
We have fortunately many silver linings around these few dark clouds. I think of the former Chairman of EXIM Bank of India, who after retirement moved from his company Napean Sea Apartment to a two bedroom apartment at Goregaon. He lived there content and peaceful. Another Managing Director of SBI retired and moved from Malabar Hill to Andheri and was not ashamed at the move. There is the Lt. General who retired as GOC in C and went back to a modest home in Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai, from a sprawling bungalow in an army cantonment. All these and many more had a “purpose”. They looked for self actualisation in what they had chosen to do as a career. They took the remuneration that went with the career, without trying to compete with successful businessmen and industrialists. They had done a good job; enjoyed doing it; and moved off centre stage with pride, dignity and a sense of self worth!
In an age of eroding values, we need to salute them. These values will endure even when those who despise them have died.
Other day we red two generals from the Army and a few Admirals are involved in Ararsh Housing Society scam. I am distraught like any other right minded person. Has the infection of corruption already rampant among politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen now insidiously spread itself among the judiciary and the armed forces?
Everywhere we turn today there are signs of ethical deterioration. In business, bright young people have made immoral millions by using insider-trading information. In government, hardly a day goes by without some public official being involved in an ethical dilemma. In education, there are cheating scandals among students, teachers and those who run these institutions.. Obviously, all these people, many of them supposedly outstanding citizens, believed that they had to cheat to win. They, along with many others, believe that nice guys finish last.
Both the judges and the generals forgot that Purpose is the Objective or Intention, something towards which you are always striving. It is not the same as a ‘goal’. A goal is tangible. It is something definite that you can accomplish. A purpose is ongoing. It gives meaning and definition to our lives. A goal can be to make money, but for a general or a judge, would they feel comfortable with that as the purpose in life? If yes, then they should have chosen to be tradesmen or businessmen in the first place. However, even for tradesmen, money would perhaps not be the purpose of life, although money may be a major goal. But for the judiciary, armed services, academia, researchers or many other professions like journalism, money can never be a major goal.
We have fortunately many silver linings around these few dark clouds. I think of the former Chairman of EXIM Bank of India, who after retirement moved from his company Napean Sea Apartment to a two bedroom apartment at Goregaon. He lived there content and peaceful. Another Managing Director of SBI retired and moved from Malabar Hill to Andheri and was not ashamed at the move. There is the Lt. General who retired as GOC in C and went back to a modest home in Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai, from a sprawling bungalow in an army cantonment. All these and many more had a “purpose”. They looked for self actualisation in what they had chosen to do as a career. They took the remuneration that went with the career, without trying to compete with successful businessmen and industrialists. They had done a good job; enjoyed doing it; and moved off centre stage with pride, dignity and a sense of self worth!
In an age of eroding values, we need to salute them. These values will endure even when those who despise them have died.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
LOVE
There are three types of Love
Satvik-here the lover does not expect anything in return
Rajsik-Love combined with feverishness and a desire to get something back
Tamsik- here love is with selfish motive-result is devastation
But, there is another ‘love’ which is superior to these three forms of love and that is ‘Divine’ love
While all wordly loves are like the ocean which has a bottom at some point, Divine love is like the sky which is limitless.
All worldly loves diminish with time but not the ‘Divine love’. A child loves its mother and as the child gets older, the love for the mother recedes because its new focus becomes friends, spouse and children. But, on the contrary Divine love grows with time and never recedes.
One should always remember that the ability to receive love comes with the ability to give love.
The one who is always expecting others to love him without becoming the donor remains thirsty and frustrated.
From 'VEDIC THOUGHTS'
Satvik-here the lover does not expect anything in return
Rajsik-Love combined with feverishness and a desire to get something back
Tamsik- here love is with selfish motive-result is devastation
But, there is another ‘love’ which is superior to these three forms of love and that is ‘Divine’ love
While all wordly loves are like the ocean which has a bottom at some point, Divine love is like the sky which is limitless.
All worldly loves diminish with time but not the ‘Divine love’. A child loves its mother and as the child gets older, the love for the mother recedes because its new focus becomes friends, spouse and children. But, on the contrary Divine love grows with time and never recedes.
One should always remember that the ability to receive love comes with the ability to give love.
The one who is always expecting others to love him without becoming the donor remains thirsty and frustrated.
From 'VEDIC THOUGHTS'
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