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Posts Tagged ‘Gandhi’

Gandhiji Writes a Postcard contest

October 10th 2009

What do you do, when you’re the Department of Posts in India? Your profits are slipping, trust in your service is zero and the only people who use your services are the students who are forced to use the Speed Post to submit their application forms for various examinations. The competition postcards that you introduced [...]

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The “Bada Sahib” Farmaan

September 2nd 2009

So the Rajasthan Government has issued an Order under its authority postulating the requirements to be fulfilled by the government employees for offering proper respect to the MLAs and MPs. Now, what dya make of that?
There was a huge debate on Times Now, an open fight (I daresay) between Mr. Arnab Goswami, the host  who [...]

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Possibly…

August 14th 2009

62 years is a long time to get one’s act together. Enough even for a country. It’s been 62 years since India gained it’s independence. Today, India is apparently on the verge of ‘greatness’. ‘Greatness’ is an amorphous term. If America is a great country, then you’re talking about the cultural dominance, economic muscle, military [...]

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Domino effect…

August 6th 2009

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s true for Physics but humans are a different ball game . How do situations get out of hand ? It’s just action and reaction and before you know it there is chaos and mayhem. I’ve often experienced the same time and again. Conflicts all [...]

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A man and his people…

June 26th 2009

In my last post I mentioned Gandhi and non violence. Gandhi once mentioned that true non violence can be practiced by the strong, it isn’t for the weak. The strong chooses, the weak is forced. For me nothing epitomises the sentiment more so than the Khudai Khidmatgar movement.
Khudai Khidmatgar ( also known as Red Shirts [...]

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We are where we were…

June 26th 2009

Yesterday on Facebook I proposed civil disobedience in protest of the Punjab Government’s failure to provide power supply to the state. It was only meant to be a facetious rant but the responses made me realize a few things. I was ridiculed and derided, told that the moment the police came down on me [...]

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Talisman

June 15th 2009

Everybody who’s read the NCERT books will be able to recall a decorated page in the front named – Gandhi’s Talisman. Well, it went something like ‘when you’re in some kind of doubt about doing something or not, ask yourself how it’ll be able to help people around you..’. Since, this isn’t exactly the age [...]

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