Today I found this beautiful poem by Saint Kabir translated by Rabindranath Tagore which I deeply felt I should share with all
GARDEN OF FLOWERS
Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals
of the lotus, and there gaze
on the infinite beauty.
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Friends we are really privileged to have so many amenities to enjoy. But there are children who are unfortunate enough to not to receive education. Education is one of the basic need of any individual today if he wants to get out of poverty and if we can help to raise some amount for that then why we should shy away from that. Just click on the socialvibe widget on my sidebar and a video will appear and just rate it. Sponsor Body Glove will do the rest. So no money from your pocket still you had done something for a good cause
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Every time you click to complete a sponsor activity(rating the video in this case), that brand (Body Glove in this case) will make a micro contribution towards the cause I have chosen (education in this case). The impact is immediately shown in the widget.
So lets help the underprivileged.
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This year there had been two elections in Maharashtra – the Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections and in both the elections there had been a very low turnout from the state, moreover from the country’s biggest metropolitan city – Mumbai.
In the Lok Sabha Elections only 41.24% voters turn out to exercise their basic right (source – http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/mumbai-polling-lowest-since-1977-residents-say-read-between-lines_100187113.html) while now in the assembly elections the turn out was slightly better at 48%.(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra_state_assembly_elections,_2009) Since November 2008 every Mumbaikar has been bleeding and burning but they didn’t find it appropriate to vote and make a change.
The main reason for the low turnout for the elections are various reasons. Most of the youngsters don’t know whether their name had appeared n the voters list or not. Sometimes even after registering for 3-4 times their names don’t appear and suddenly it appears just few days prior to the elections (that’s what happened with me, my brother and two of my friends during the Lok Sabha elections. While my brother, one friend and myself voted since we checked right on the D-day my one friend missed on the opportunity since he was fed up of the system). The government should look into this and reduce the harrowing experience that these people go through. The other reason is that many voters are fed up of the candidates that are nominated by the parties as their grievances are not been addressed by them. These people don’t go to the polling booths even to register a protest votes. Actually people don’t even know that they can do so. As I, too, was ignorant of this provision of no-vote or protest vote has always existed in the Conduct of Elections Rules 1961 section 49 (O). I too came to know about it only on the D-day of the assembly elections as I read it in The Times Of India of the same day. For this the voter had to go through the same procedure while voting normally just instead of pressing the button on the EVMs you should declare to the polling officer that I don’t want to vote. So he would register that you have not voted and you need to sign against that. So I hope that the election commission just note this fact and try to communicate this fact to the masses and tell them the importance of protesting this way instead of the way they have been doing as it would lead to bogus voting against their name by someone else.
I hope next time the mumbaikar will turnout in large number to vote as they need and want the change and realize that they themselves are the one who can bring the change by voting for the right individual. Till they vote there would be no need for candle light protest to force the government to take any action against terrorist or any other reason
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Today I exercised my right to vote for the second time since I turned 18 (2 out of 2- its also only twice that any elections took place since I turned 18) . With this I also earned the right to criticize the politician I am electing to look after my region, state and country. What about you? Had you voted today?
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One of the best ads. A must watch for every Indian. Others too can watch and apply it to their nation and national anthem. So must watch for everyone.
How can you respect your nation when you don’t respect your national anthem
A thought to ponder over.
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This is a very funny video of an electrrical engineering student who took on an electric door. Its hilarous.
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Happy Independence Day to all my fellow countrymen. As a tribute to our country this Independence day I have decided to post the inspirational speech given by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on the stroke of midnight on 14th/15th of August, 1947. Lets not forget those inspirational words and work together in making our country a strong and self reliable country.
‘Awake to freedom’ “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, then an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again.
The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
Freedom and power bring responsibility. That responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now.
Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.
That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we might fulfill the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
And so we have to labor and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagines that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
To the people of India whose representatives we are, we make appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.”
– Speech by Jawaharlal Nehru
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Hurray!!!!!!! The Syed couple and Ashrat Ansai who killed number of innocents at the Gateway of India and the Zaveri Bazar on August 25, 1003 are to be hanged to death. This has been a great message to terrorism sent out by our judiciary system. I was always of the belief that any person who carry ou such a heinous crime should be punished to the maximum. And today I am happy for I believe many like me thinks they enjoyed killing people and hence they do not deserve any kind of mercy.
but the more concerning part is that the main conspirators who had hatched out this plan are still absconding. Eight Pakistanis are shown as wanted accused in this case and I hope they are caught and punished as early as possible.
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While I was just surfing the net recently I stumbled upon this poem by Sid De Knees on this site I really liked it. I hope you people too like it
[Name of the poem is not known to me]
Trying to ease, my cost!
Generations yet to come,
I’m sorry but it’s true,
The bill for people living now,
will be addressed to you.
As yours will be addressed to kin,
you’re never set to meet.
Just as my kin of long ago,
laid their bill at my feet.
And as I write, so I address,
these debts bestowed on me.
As well as follow greener ways,
to ease my cost to thee!
I sadly cannot change my past,
nor as it stands, my friends!
But promise I will never stop,
Til death, or God, amends.
Regarding God, why should he help?
Repair this gift he gave.
No kin of mine, this planets ours,
and therefore ours to save!
And all the damage humans cause,
cannot be rectified.
By anyone, ignoring it,
and brushing it aside!
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Well many have written about this issue but I am writing it now as I hardly found time to visit my blog these days due to my college and project work. OK moving on to the subject this is about the BCCI v/s ICC (again!!! ) due to the WADA’s anti-doping code. The ICC wanting all its member countries to sign the WADA’s anti-doping code as ithas its ambition to get included in the olympic games and the Indian players objecting to the whereabout clause citing privacy and security issues.
Actually it has been many days since when this issue started and lot has been came in front in the media. A lot of views has been aired on this issues. Many other sportspersons trying to persuade the cricketers to sign the contract because they think that they owe this to the game. Its their duty to keep the game clean and the doubts about their security are not reasonable as their data is being handled only by the concerned official of WADA. While there also had been some who supported the cricketers supporting their arguments.
I think the ICC, BCCI and Indian cricketers had goofed it up all. The Indian players had the problem from the beginning. So they and the BCCI should have communicated this problem to the ICC before the deadline so that the ICC could have arranged a meeting with the BCCI, Indian players and a representative from WADA to iron out the differences, clearing the security doubts of the Indian players and making some changes to the clause if necessary. Because now if ICC decides to punish India then we have to be devoid of cricket for some time.
The only thing that I didn’t understand is that why other international cricketers in the testing pool from other countries agreed to abide by it within the July 31 deadline eventhough they had practicality concerns about the clause?
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