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India: story of an Indifferent foreign queen and corrupt Nobels

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“A Country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”-Rousseau 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 speak up 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 a...

India :A tale of two counties

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When I was a kid Amitabh bacchan was my hero,I was really crazy about him.the way he bashed up all the bad guys,save the damsel in distress,a sort of messiah of anyone who was in distress.He was tall and handsome a perfect paramour ,a perfect brother ,a perfect son and a good citizen in his most famous flick “the Don”.All those roles he played were simply marvellous,there was no actor better than him.Even as I grew up since I hail from the sangam  city of Allahabad I herd how Amitabh bacchan was one of the best M.P.s this city ever had.His  best contribution were prayagraj  express  and blue line busses in Allahabad.We were always told he resigned from his seat and left politics when people associated him with Bofors Scam,everybody here knows Amitabh could never have been a part of something like that but we respected his audacity even more then. Somehow events of past few years dent my faith and respect for him.India is going through a very tough time ri...

By buying coke we became slaves ......

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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  “ - Martin Luther King, Jr. Recently I read a news item that in illinos (U.S.) riot police was called to take action on the protesters who were wall-mart employees  protesting in order to get better working conditions in their where houses .Wall –mart is the biggest retailer ,its turnover is more than the GDP of many developing countries. In fact walmart is the 30 th largest economic entity. When our Prime Minister Mr Mute Mohan Singh says that he is under no pressure from US to make this decision, he gives an affirmative signal to the country. This situation is leading us toward a dystopian society were a few powerful corporations are making policies and decisions for the whole country. These greedy ministers and politicians across the world are being bribed by these MNCs to make policies which are beneficial for them. Recently a case where wall mart had given bribe to o...

A Volunteer's letter to the leaders of this movement.

a letter that I wrote to arvindji dated 15/08/2012 a letter that I wrote to arvindji dated 15/08/2012 Dear arvindji I am writing you this letter because its not possible for me to come to delhi this time.I am a student and my husband is in turkey.But none the less I have a lot of questions. I stayed at jantar mantar for around eight days after the announcement for formation of political party was made, after most of the female anshankaris which I was in charge of left, barring those who had joined us on the same day after the announcement for the Anshan left.I had never felt so tired in my life, all the weary of the 10 days I was out of my house and the whole year since 16 aug 2011 all came back at once. I wore you an emotionally charged letter to you after that which, I regret and it was kind of you to reply to that. I thought I will come to terms with the decision as time passed, but I couldn’t .I tried to cool down but sorry this is my coolest, I was emotionally attached ...