Entries from July 2008

July 31, 2008

GITANJALI

GITANJALI

“Song Offerings”

Rabindranath Tagore

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Mind Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason
has [...]

July 28, 2008

Famous Speech by John F. Kennedy on Urgent National Needs Delivered on May 25, 1961

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, my copartners in Government, gentlemen-and ladies:
The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to “from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times.
These are extraordinary [...]

July 25, 2008

India Needs Nuclear Energy and the Deal

By Vinay Gudagatti
I live in a village, a beautiful village and I am very proud of it.

India lives in villages, not one or two but in six lakh villages. Their collective conscience forms the soul of India. When these villages breathe India breathes, when they wilt India wilts. Each village has a life, a [...]

July 25, 2008

ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN INDIA: FLAWS AND REFORMS

By Mamatha Govianu

What for all the nations in the world were, are and will be striving for? It is for the Development and welfare of its people. And who are the one’s laying building blocks of development? It is our politicians- the representatives- the law makers and the people. And it is the Election Commission [...]

July 23, 2008

Dr.Manmohan Singh, Man of many feats

Born on: September 26, 1932
Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab)
Father: Gurmukh Singh
Mother: Amrit Kaur
Married on: September 14, 1958
Wife: Gursharan Kaur
Children: Three daughters
EDUCATION:

Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1952; stood first in MA (Economics), Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1954; Wright’s Prize for distinguished performance at St John’s College, Cambridge, 1955 and 1957; Wrenbury scholar, [...]

July 22, 2008

Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh’s Speech in the Parliament on 22nd July 2008

The Leader of Opposition, Shri L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued the office of PM. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. [...]

July 20, 2008

In Support of the Nuclear Deal and the Prime Minister of India

By Vinay
If, on 22nd July Mr.Manamohan Singh manages to win the vote of confidence, he will be remembered by the generations to come not because he staked his government for the deal but because he withstood the onslaught of naysayer and stuck to the conviction that the deal was good for India.
If on 22nd July [...]