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The Indian Revolution :Old Book new Cover

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“A Country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”-R ousseau   We were all feeling hopeless against this system, took corruption ,organized crime and scams as a part of the system. But since last year we became dreamers again, an old man made us believe that a ray of hope was still alive within each of us. we started to believe that maybe if we speakup we will bring about the change we desired. We saw for the first time in our lives that good people were around us,we started to notice the misery of countrymen to which we had become immune. But as days turned into weeks and weeks into months without any actual result in the form of action taken by the government, many young people started to loose heart. Feeling that maybe it was not their right to dream ,or dreams don’t really come true.I too had similar feelings and started to inquire a lot,asking the people who had taken up many andolan in their lives as to why we don’...

Andolan and Us

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My elders and my well wishers keep telling me that being a part of such an agitation is a complete waste of time, that I should rater focus on my research and try to get my Phd degree as soon as possible. They tell me that I will gain nothing out of it. But the truth as I see is very different. They might be telling me this because of their experience and they may be having my Interest at heart. But I have a very different experience, when I see myself in retrospect from the kind of person I was before I got involved in this and now, I feel that I have evolved. I was a happy go lucky kind of a person who loved to shop and watch movies. Most of the time I used to be at malls spending time, shopping, eating, and just having fun. I never had any real problems in life now that I think of it. I got whatever I wanted. I work for around two years, first as a banker then as a professor before resuming back to my studies. I always wanted to do something for the society when I was in coll...

Is India heading towards its very own French revolution?

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Many a time I wonder about the future of our country and the future of the various movements in our country .Its very hard to foresee and predict the future but I just can’t help wondering about the direction we are heading towards. The very people steering this movement are themselves not very sure of the end result. We just know that enough is enough and the time has come when we cannot afford to sit comfortably at our own cozy home and let these corrupt politicians do as they want to the masses of our country, we know that if we stay silent for any longer we will be a part to the crime. Party to the malnourishment deaths in our country, party to the mass farmer suicide, party to the crime against women, party to a lot of things we would never like to associate ourselves with. We are no more mute spectators; we know we want a change but still not very sure about the form in which we will see that change. If it will be in the fo...

My India Vs The government's India

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Yesterday I was outraged with the comment chitambaram made,he compared the price of icecream to the price of rice and wheat.How could he?I am no guru of economics but still I know the difference between luxury items and essential commodities. Ice cream is something the middle class has a privilege of buying for their kids and rice and wheat is something that feeds the poor of this country. I was puzzled, how come a person who has business degree from Harvard commit such blunder while speaking? He had been our finance minister for a long period of time and will again will be soon. But this is not the first time that ministers from so called government of ours have made such statements, not long ago our rural development minister Mr jai ram ramesh made a comment that woment want mobile phones more than they want toilets in India.Is he talking about the same India which I live in? Because in my country every day I read in the news papers about how the women who go in the fields t...