Towards Resurgent & Responsible India

I am blogging since last over 11 years. Blogging is a great way to communicate with the audience your point of view, opinion, ideas. It also provides the writer with an opportunity to get connected with his audience in a dialogue and discussion. It’s a two way magazine. The versatility of blog is due to its medium, the internet.   In my opinion, and I am sure most would agree, that Internet is one of the greatest invention after wheel which has changed the society in a revolutionary manner.   For the students, blog is an excellent tool, which can not only help them in refining their writing skills, but also being able to develop a thought into an article, it will help them consolidate the concept in a proper and presentable manner. Starting a blog is the easiest thing, the tough part is writing it on a regular basis, with unique topics, which would be of interest to the audience. Getting new ideas is a challenge. One can get help from many sites and pages suggesting ide...

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances. Responsibility is about action, about taking decision, decision of not sitting idly and waiting for miracles to happen, it’s about getting up, tying up the shoe strings, and start running. Responsibility is associated with ownership; ownership for your own decisions, feeling responsible for the decisions, for the words that one gives to oneself and others. Chuck Norris, the Hollywood actor, started his career at acting when he was 36, he also didn’t have any experience. He chose to compete with other may be sixteen thousand unemployed actors in Hollywood; he chose to compete with guys who had already been in movies or on TV. He could have ...

Every day we find people talking about their rights, asking their due from their boss, their organization, their leader, their government, their family, their peers, their friends. It’s nice to be aware about one’s right and also be conscious about what one rightfully deserves. The most common phrase that you might listen in day to day life is “I want”, “I deserve”, “I should get”, “They can’t deny”, “We must fight”, “Let’s agitate”.   It means we are a very conscious society about our rights; it’s good for a democracy, but as in any transaction if there is debit, there got to be credit somewhere, if someone is giving someone got to be receiving, there got to be contra entry for every transaction. So, for every right, there is a duty associated, for every demand there is a service associated, for every take away there is a contribution. Somehow in our race for our rights, we have ignored our duties, but it doesn’t mean we have forgotten the concept of duty altogether, its only we ...

Greatness is commonplace, one need to be a little more observant. Commonplace greatness was responsible for the success of our independence movement led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The success was not because of Gandhi, but because of millions of common people who sacrificed their jobs, their comfortable life, left the comfort of their homes, burnt clothes which they purchased from their hard earned money. Though the world always remembers and appreciates one individual who initiates or motivates, but no initiation would work if it is not continued, no motivation would work if one doesn’t get people who are motivated. No, it’s not true that a person can be motivated; motivation is an internal state, which can only be brought out, it cannot be created or manufactured in a person’s heart and mind. The intention to get motivated always stays there in dormant mode, in hibernation. The right environment only helps it blossom and come out. Independence movement happened around 70 years ...

Reading, more than any other activity, has the power to unlock your potential and, in the process, unleash the “ better angles of our nature ” was the favourite phrase of Abraham Lincoln, an avid reader who dramatically transformed himself from a poor boy from most disadvantaged sections of the society to perhaps one of the greatest president of the United States of America. You will be amazed to discover how black letters printed on a white piece of paper have the power to change the direction of your life, towards positivity, success and achievement. Daniel J. Boorstin, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian summed up the value of reading in one simple, yet profound, sentence: “ By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves .” This quote pretty much explains the awesome power of reading. More than any other mental activity, reading changes and improves us by forcing us to think… to imagine.. to examine… to grow… and in the process “to discover our world, our h...

With the expansion of electronic media, proliferation of e-content through various portals and website, the opportunities in the field of Journalism has proliferated manifold. This proliferation has opened up the floodgates of opportunities for young budding journalism aspirants. But with rising market and option the competition has also risen in equal proportion. The pace and speed of flux in the industry where 50 news in a minute, top 100 news in few minutes has become a fad being madly followed by electronic media. Where the need for breaking news has taken away the reliability and responsibility elements from the news, to a major extent. This waywardness has costed media its credibility. There was a time when a TV or Print news was considered as ultimate truth, when people used to refer the printed news with reverence and used to quote it saying “It has been published in the newspaper”. The same is not true. Today’s media in the rush for commercialism has bartered its credibility...

Helen Keller said – It is not so much a tragedy to be a person with no eyesight, but it’s a great tragedy to have no vision. There is a common way of thinking that has caused most people to live their lives on a lower level than they were created to live. Many people live and die never knowing who they really are. They never allow a better self-image to be created in their mind. They always consider themselves secondary, less capable, less competent, and less fortunate to do anything worthwhile and be a person of any consequence. The misconception that some people were born to be great and the others just showed up to fulfil a destiny of struggle and lack is a falsehood that must be corrected before abundance, success, blessings or freedom can be enjoyed. If we know our true personal identity, we will have the ability to use our mind, will, emotions and physical body as the tools that they were meant to be. If we don’t not know our true identity then we will most likely mistakenly...

If you begin your day each morning with a positive vibe it sets you up as the sort of person to whom stress and trouble and problems are but as water off a duck’s back. You thus get a reputation as being someone who is in control, smooth, relaxed, confident and very mature. Being cheerful puts you in positive frame of mind and vice versa. The positivity of being cheerful affects your surroundings positively and also influences the people. Be cheerful at all times.   Being cheerful helps your mind to see the possibilities in worst of situation, being cheerful makes other people in your company confident. Being cheerful is not being comical or fooling around. Being cheerful is a state of mind, being cheerful is part of our attitude. Being cheerful is a trait which can be acquired. Maintaining a cheerful and positive outlook is a trick. At first you don’t have to believe it, just do it. Act it. Pretend. But do it. After a little while you’ll find it is not an act, you are not...