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All the statements written below are mine, I take full responsibility for them, no one has instigated me make these.  

My Purpose Is Not and has Never Been to Disrespect and/or Scold and/or Belittle and/or Demean any person, any community, any country, and any religion and any sect.

What is my purpose:-  To bring forth issues that I feel are relevant and may seem trivial, but, in reality are very far reaching.

Acceptance of any problem or issue is the first step towards changing it, or correcting it.

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Isn't it incredible that people who are Frustrated, upset, annoyed in India start doing well and start feeling happy when they go to a westernised country!!!!!!!

Why is it that people who keep on cribbing in India actually start performing very well in the westernised world??!!?!?!
Why?!?!?!?!

I'll tell a real story which I just don't forget, " On 15 April 2012 there were municipal elections in Delhi, after giving the vote, I went to a market in my car for buying some household items and there, on a one-way road where it was written on more than 1 sign-board about this traffic-rule, there was one car with a man at the wheel, a woman and two kids in the backseat going the wrong way. This person did not follow the rule & kept on coming the wrong way, when I stopped him and said that its mentioned that this is a one-way road, you are blocking the traffic, the man's reaction was that, 'today is holiday it does not matter'."

Now this is a very trivial incident, but, just stay with me for 1 more minute, just think of the ramifications. I am assuming that it was family and the kids in the car were of that man. Now just think that if their father is unwilling to accept such a small rule and is very happily breaking it and is justifying it, the kids will also learn to break the rules and will become conditioned to ridicule the laws. And now that they have learnt that breaking such a small law is totally acceptable, they will find accepting laws very very difficult and will take and search for such shortcuts for convenience. 

In westernised nations, we Indians start following the rules, start abiding laws, start respecting the laws, we become patient, we say, "oh look everybody follows the laws, these are nice places", isn't it strange that we are ready to respect the laws & rules of other countries but never even blink while breaking laws in our own country and then we so eagerly criticize that this is how things are in India, and, "oh how does it matter", and 
"its its bad politics in this country, what is our fault", 
But In Reality, It Is Our Fault, It Is, if each one of us makes changes, small changes, we can change an entire country.  

A real life example is of honor killings, where entire villages/communities hate people who don't accept the existing ways of living, who question the rules, who become unconditioned. Slowly & slowly small things, small approvals, small disapprovals become the rules, become the norms, and, then we look at the achievements & advancements of other nations & very conveniently say,"this is how things are done here, this is not america, this is not australia, this is India."  

Please note that By only arguing that these are not problems, these are how things are done and just accept it unquestioningly, that this how it’s been & will remain, it was just luck, that’s what everyone does so why shouldn’t I/we, that issue/problem is not my creation so why should I bother, these are in reality excuses given so that one can run away from taking responsibility.

Please note that I am not saying to any reader(s) that all of a sudden he/she/they should become social activist or join politics or give up everything and become a soldier, but atleast think with a calm & cool mind and try and make small changes.

Rome was not built in a day, Brick By Brick my citizens  

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Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks

GKG's Blog: What is Right & What is Wrong

GKG's Blog: What is Right & What is Wrong: Is waving one's country's flag at sports tournaments, but not even accepting the fact that serious problems exist in one's co...

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi

"On unearthly Titan, two astronauts clink their whisky glasses and raise the toast to the future, on Earth a woman and a man try to find meaning in seemingly random incidents while the seemingly invincible organisation they work for, prepares to celebrate their superstar’s coronation, unaware of the radical undercurrent which threatens to rip apart their very foundations. A saga of love, power, betrayal & vengeance of astronomical proportions driven by the hate of one man, the unquestioning obedience of an organization, and the corruptness of an entire civilization."

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.......Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.

History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.

Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.

Give birth again
To the dream.
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Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.

Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.

Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me, the
Rock, the River, the Tree, your country.

No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.
Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply

With hope

Good morning. - Maya Angelou

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