Nikhil Dev

Now, I usually don’t write stuff like this. But this email that I received kinda made me feels bad about some of the things I’ve been doing till now. It is totally worth a full read.

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 T.Vs, 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.

“Now the thing to remember is initially when you start doing something that others don’t(Although it is the right thing, people might take you as a jack ass. But someday they are going to feel like a jack ass. Change will come if everyone realizes. Our responsibility is to be the contribution. Stop blaming the government for everything.”

How does it feel when you love someone so very much that you think only about her when you are drunk, suddenly starts ignoring you. As if you dint exist and not important anymore. Like it really doesn’t matter if you are alive or dead. These things are something always on my mind. When the only one I ever loved so much treats me like the most useless shit. I mean where has all that affection gone. I agree I was an assole sometimes but that was reasons that I am she knows and I can justify. But why is it that without no reason this sudden change happens.

I still remember Manish once telling me. That someone had told him that there is nothing called love but just lust. The fact is that people make these conclusion after experience. If not, then why do you have so many guys thinking the same. Thats cos we’ve been through shit and we know how it feels. Dont ever say that we have changed. We’ve said the same thing centuries and would still stick to the same.

Maybe I was overexpectant and maybe just too stupid and lost in love to not get the point early on. I took the fall and it hurts really bad. This is something that cannot feel.

Anyway, I think I need to start accepting the well proven fact over centuries. THERE IS NOTHING CALLED LOVE. ITS JUST LUST

There are somethings which moght sound pretty boring in the first(boring is a disgusting word to use here) but might just touch your heart in the end. Just today I got an email forward that was really long and at first I thought I would not want to read it. But as it was quite colorful, I thought I might want to give it a try. This is how it goes :-

“Dear Editors of HT, TOI, IndianExpress and TheHindu, I got the mail below from a friend of mine and following the unwritten code of conduct, I am forwarding it to my friends but all efforts of people who have been forwarding this mail would go waste if this mail doesn’t reach YOU……

Something to think about..!!
Shame on Indian Media??? Really what a shame…

By the time u guys read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors.

On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels ‘Sanjay Dutt relieved by court’. ‘Sirf Munna not a bhai’ ‘13 saal ka vanvaas khatam’ ‘although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay can breath sigh of relief as all the TADA charges against him are withdrawn’ Then many personalities like Salman Khan said ‘He is a good person. We knew he will come out clean’. Mr Big B said “Dutt’s family and our family have relations for years he’s a good kid. He is like elder brother to Abhishek”. His sister Priya Dutt said “we can sleep well tonight. It’s a great relief”

In other news, Parliament was mad at Indian team for performing bad; Greg Chappell said something; Shah Rukh Khan replaces Amitabh in KBC and other such stuff. But most of the emphasis was given on Sanjay Dutt’s “phoenix like” comeback from the ashes of terrorist charges. Surfing through the channels, one news on BBC startled me. It read “Hisbul Mujahidin’s most wanted terrorist ‘Sohel Faisal’ killed in Anantnag , India . Indian Major leading the operation lost his life in the process. Four others are injured.

It was past midnight , I started visiting the stupid Indian channels, but Sanjay Dutt was still ruling. They were telling how Sanjay pleaded to the court saying ‘I’m the sole bread earner for my family’, ‘I have a daughter who is studying in US’ and so on. Then they showed how Sanjay was not wearing his lucky blue shirt while he was hearing the verdict and also how he went to every temple and prayed for the last few months. A suspect in Mumbai bomb blasts, convicted under armory act…was being transformed into a hero.

Sure Sanjay Dutt has a daughter; Sure he did not do any terrorist activity. Possessing an AK47 is considered too elementary in terrorist community and also one who possesses an AK47 has a right to possess a pistol so that again is not such a big crime; Sure Sanjay Dutt went to all the temples;
Sure he did a lot of Gandhigiri but then…….. …

Major Manish H Pitambare got the information from his sources about the terrorists’ whereabouts. Wasting no time he attacked the camp, killed Hisbul Mujahidin’s supremo and in the process lost his life to the bullets fired from an AK47. Just like Sunjay Dutt he is survived by a wife and daughter who’s only 18 months old.

Major Manish never said ‘I have a daughter’ before he took the decision to attack the terrorists in the darkest of nights. He never thought about having a family and he being the bread earner. No news channel covered this since they were too busy hyping a former drug addict, a suspect who’s linked to bomb blasts which killed hundreds. Their aim was to show how he defied the TADA charges and they were so successful that his conviction in possession of armory had no meaning. They also concluded that his parents in heaven must be happy and proud of him.

Parents of Major Manish are still living and they have to live rest of their lives without their beloved son. His daughter won’t ever see her daddy again.

So guys, please forward this message around so that the media knows which news to give importance, as it is a shame for us since this Army Major’s death news was given by a foreign TV channel!!! Where they know worth of Patriotism.”

Now I dont understand, in what aspect can they ever call themselves MEDIA. What do you people think about all this? (comments please)

After a lot of searching, this is where the original article started from.

A really hilarious scrap from one of my friend

If titanic was produced in INDIA….

1) There would be 10 times as many people on the ship.

2) There would be a song with Kate Winslet in a white saree and of course singing in the rain.

3) The movie would be called “Pyar Kiya To Marna Kya”.

4) Hero and Heroine would float in cold water for days and still survive, but the villian would die on the first dip.

5) The iceberg would be sent by the heroine’s father to teach the hero a lesson.

6) None of the women would float due to heavy designer sarees.

7) Himesh Reshammiya could not use his nose to sing as his nose would be running due to the cold weather condition.

And last but not least More Than Half of the rescue boats would be reserved for SC/ST/OBC.

Of late there was thing thought that got to my mind about who is God. I was a believer but there is this something in me that says that it is much more complex to what we term God as. There is this something that be believe in blindly but has anyone ever tried to find out what might be behind this. We give in some spiritual reasoning to God and that is accepted by all cos it takes the least effort to accept such things. I’ve tried to reason this out myself. I would term this as the most complex formula or a form energy that exists everywhere. If we look at it scientifically, every thought that we think generates and electromagnetic sequence of signals. Now this complex that we term God as is what I feel is most influenced by the signals giving it kind of an intelligence. I have think over this again and again and it would take sometime to refine my perception of God. I believe in science so much that I would just not accept things just like that.

Some times(Well most of the times with me) I’ve seen people pretend to be what they are not. Trying to like people they dont like, Doing things that they dont want to do, Going places they dont want to go. I believe that other should also respect your personal choice. It so happens in this country that you are compelled to do things that you really dont want to do. All in the name of good behaviour and manners. Well I have decided to not have this attitude creep into me. I am going to live my life my way. I am going to be myself.

There was this email that one of my friend sent me. This has something that really put me into a lot of thinking. It goes this way.

SAVE INDIA !!!

U CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY BY FOLLOWING FEW SIMPLE STEPS.

Small example,
Before 5 months 1 CAN $ = IND Rs 32
After 5 months. Now it is 1 CAN $ = IND Rs 37

I don’t think so, Canadian Economy is booming, but Indian Economy is Going Down .

Our Economy is in ur hands

Do u know this, INDIAN economy is in a crisis – As you are all aware ! INDIA like many other ASIAN countries, INDIA is undergoing a severe economic crunch. Many INDIAN industries are closing down. The INDIAN economy is in a crisis and if we do not take proper steps to control those, we will be in a critical situation. More than 30000 crore rupees of foreign exchange are being siphoned out of our country on products such as cosmetics, snacks, tea, beverages…etc which are grown, produced and consumed here .

A cold drink that costs only 70/80 paise to produce is sold for NINE rupees , and a major chunk of profits from these are sent abroad. This is a serious drain on INDIAN economy.

Did you know that ” COCA COLA ” and ” SPRITE ” belong to the same multinational company, “COCA COLA ” ?

On one hand coke advertisements say that ‘ JO CHAHO HOJAYE, COCACOLA ENJOY’
(i.e . whatever the hell, let it happen, you drink coke) ; and on the other hand,

Sprite says that ‘BHUJAO ONLY PYAS, BAKI ALL BAKWAS’

(i.e. drinks can just quench thirst all other claims are false).

What can you do ?
You can consider some of the better alternatives to aerated drinks.

For that matter PEPSI is also the same

You can drink LEMON JUICE, FRESH FRUIT JUICES, CHILLED LASSI (SWEET OR SOUR), BUTTER MILK, COCONUT WATER, JALJEERA, ENERJEE, MASALA MILK……….

Everyone deserves a healthy drink, including you!
Over and abo! ve all this, economic sanctions have been imposed on us. We have nothing against
Multinational companies, but to protect ou! r own interests we request everybody to use

INDIAN products only for next two years. With the rise in petrol prices, if we do not do this,

the rupee will devalue further and we will end up paying much more for the same products in the near future.

What you can do about it ?

1. Buy only products manufactured by WHOLLY INDIAN COMPANIES.
2. ENROLL as many people as possible for this cause.

Each individual should become a leader for this awareness.

This is the only way to save our country from severe economic crisis.

You don’t need to give-up your lifestyle. You just need to choose an alternate product.

All categories of products are available from WHOLLY INDIAN COMPANIES.

LIST OF PRODUCTS

1. BATHING SOAP:
USE – CINTHOL & OTHER GODREJ BRANDS, SANTOOR, WIPRO SHIKAKAI, MYSORE SANDAL, MARGO, NEEM, EVITA, MEDIMIX, GANGA, NIRMA BATH & CHANDRIKA .

INSTEAD OF – LUX, LIFEBOY, REXONA, LIRIL, DOVE, PEARS, HAMAM, LESANCY, CAMAY, PALMOLIVE

2. TOOTH PASTE:

USE – NEEM, BABOOL, PROMISE, VICO VAJRADANTI, PRUDENT, DABUR PRODUCTS,MISWAK.

INSTEAD OF – COLGATE, CLOSE UP, PEPSODENT, CIBACA, FORHANS, MENTADENT .

3. TOOTH BRUSH:

USE – PRUDENT, AJANTA, PROMISE.

INSTEAD OF – COLGATE, CLOSE UP, PEPSODENT, FORHANS. , ORAL-B

4. SHAVING CREAM:

USE – GODREJ, EMANI.

INSTEAD OF – PALMOLIVE, OL! D SPIICE, GILLETE.

5. BLADE:

USE – SUPERMAX, TOPAZ, LAZER, ASHOKA.

INSTEAD OF – SEVEN-O -CLOCK, 365, GILLETTE.

6. TALCUM POWDER:

USE – SANTOOR, GOKUL, CINTHOL, WIPRO BABY POWDER, BOROPLUS

INSTEAD OF – PONDS, OLD SPICE, JOHNSON BABY POWDER, SHOWER TO SHOWER.

7. MILK POWDER:

USE – INDIANA , AMUL, AMULYA .

INSTEAD OF – ANIKSPRAY, MILKANA, EVERYDAY MILK,MILKMAID.

8. SHAMPOO:

USE – LAKME, NIRMA, VELVET

INSTEAD OF – HALO, ALL CLEAR, NYLE, SUNSILK.,HEAD AND SHOULDERS, PANTENE

9. MOBILE CONNECTIONS

USE – BSNL, AIRTEL

INSTEAD OF – HUTCH.

And above all, CLOTHES – STOP BUYING –ALAN PAINE, PETER ENGLAND, ARROW,LOUIS PHILLIPE, LEE, REEBOK,NIKE,VAN HUESEN,CALVIN KLIEN, RAID AND TAYLOR .
Do you know that the cotton is produced in the INDIAN villages, threads are produced in the INDIAN towns, dresses are stitched in INDIAN cities and clothes are purchased by INDIAN customers?

But it is BRANDED as MANUFACTURED BY A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY for which we
LOSE PRECIOUS FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

THE POINT TO NOTE: THE MONEY IS GOING TO SOME DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES . It is TRUE.

PLEASE go to the remote areas of cities AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE TRUTH .

Thousands of poor innocent INDIANS are working as tailors for stitching the

WORLD’S POPULAR READYMADE CLOTHES( ALAN PAINE, PETER ENGLAND ETC…..) ,. BUT THEY ARE PAID A POOR AMOUNT.

THIS IS HAPPENING BECUSE OF OUR IGNORANCE. INDIA IS ONE OF THE MAJOR TEXTILE EXPORTER IN THE WORLD .

OUR TAILORS ARE FAMOUS EVEN IN COUNTRIES LIKE US AND UK.

THEN WHY SHOULD WE BLINDLY GIVE IN TO THE ATTRACTION OF FOREIGN BRANDS?

PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT.

Every INDIAN product you buy makes a big difference. It saves INDIA .
Let us take a firm decision today.

BUY INDIAN TO BE INDIAN we are not against of foreign products.

WE ARE NOT ANTI-MULTINATIONAL.
WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE OUR NATION.
EVERY DAY IS A STRUGGLE FOR A REAL FREEDOM.

WE ACHIEVED OUR INDEPENDENCE AFTER LOSING MANY LIVES.
THEY DIED PAINFULLY TO ENSURE THAT WE LIVE PEACEFULLY . THE CURRENT TREND IS VERY THREATENING.

MULTINATIONALS CALL IT GLOBALISATION OF INDIAN ECONOMY. FOR INDIANS LIKE YOU AND ME IT IS RECOLONISATION OF INDIA.

THE COLONIST’S LEFT INDIA THEN. BUT THIS TIME THEY WILL MAKE SURE THEY DON’T MAKE ANY MISTAKES.

WHO WOULD LIKE TO LET A” GOOSE THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS” SLIP AWAY.

PLEASE REMEMBER : POLITICAL FREEDOM IS USELESS WITHOUT ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE.

RUSSIA , S.KOREA, MEXICO……..THE LIST IS VERY LONG!!
LET US LEARN FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE AND FROM OUR HISTORY.
LET US DO THE DUTY OF EVERY TRUE INDIAN.

FINALLY : IT’S OBVIOUS THAT U CAN’T GIVE UP ALL OF THE ITEMS MENTIONED ABOVE,

SO GIVE UP ATLEAST ONE ITEM TO FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY. LITTLE DROPS MAKE A GREAT OCEAN.

Now something that we have to think about it, what are we doing to improve the economy. There is nothing that we have to donate or lose. We can still be profitable and help the country too. think once, think twice. There is a point in the practical figures. Very surprising that we have never thought about this, but would be shameful if we do nothing after knowing the fact.