1st December, 2008
Lower TV room, Hostel-1, IIT Bombay
Swami Vivekananda said
“When you have men who are ready to sacrifice their everything for their country, sincere to the backbone. When such men arise, India will become great in every respect. It is the men that make the country!”
When we look back ourselves from the state of amoeba to the human being….on earlier days… our people/ancestors lived in the forests…in the caves…
By time they found fire by scratching the stones….
Prayed the natural elements…snakes, thunders as they afraid of these…
Slowly mankind developed and learned to cultivate the foods….
They lived in masses at places and shared their belongings with another group…
They found languages to communicate…
Civilized life with villages, towns, states, countries etc.,
India!
India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history. India was the richest country on earth until the time of the British in the early 17th century…
History of Time:
Vedic civilization
Indus and Saraswati civilizations
Raise of Jainism and Buddhism
Mauryan period
Golden age of Indian Arts and Sciences
Muslim Invasions
The Mughal Empire
Portuguese Invasions
The British East-India company
The British empire
India’s freedom struggle…
People from our country, irrespective of states, languages they united and fought for our Independence.
As an example, the freedom fighter Va. Voo. Chitambaram (fondly called as Va Voo C ) from TamilNadu collected funds from different people and planned to run ship against British. He came to Bombay. The ship building companies denied to give ship to him as they were ordered by British. Lokmanya Tilak, the king and best friend of Va. Voo. C, helped him. He bought ship and the first ship was run against British at Tuticorin.
Later Va. Voo. C and others were arrested and put into Jail. They were forced to break the large stones. Big stones were tied at their back and made to grind to produce oils. Some got leprosy in the jails.
Later with the leadership of Gandhiji…after prolonged struggle we got freedom on 15th August 1947.
We have world’s largest democracy and we achieved in IT, Space, biotechnology etc.,
All the time “Unity in Diversity” is the Indian culture.
With the knowledge, man created many things. Directly or indirectly it became challenge for his existence..
Where is Peace?
- World wars
- Kashmir problem
- LTTE problem in Srilanka
- Shot dead of Gandhiji, Indira Gandhi…
- Human bomb which lead to death of Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumpudhur
- Religious problem
- Serial bomb blast in trains
- Naxalites problem
- Orissa flood
- Gujarat Earth quake
- Bihar flood
- Tsunami
Etc.,
Our people who lived on early days at forests might lived with peace. Humans get ego and jealousy on others and ready to lose their own life to kill other human beings.
How peace will come….
Only Supernatural powers have to save us…
The things happened in the last week in Mumbai is inhuman and beyond the tolerance.
Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Havaldar Gajendra Singh and fourteen other brave hearts of the Mumbai police had shown us the true meaning of duty, professionalism, courage and adhering to principles.
And other innocent victims have carried their own annals of personal bravery to the grave with them…
Some they are injured and taking treatments in the hospitals…
Few words about Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan
Birthdate: March 15, 1977
Age: 31
- He wanted to join the army, even attending the school in a crew cut.
- According to his school Principal, He is remembered as an outstanding student.
- He was also a fantastic athlete. Most of his athletic records remained unbroken for many years.
- He also had a soft side to him. According to Browne (school Principal) he also sang in the school choir for many years.
Major Sandeep was leading a team and during the operations two of his colleagues sustained bullet injuries. In a bid to save them Sandeep turned back. The bullet fired by terrorists pierced him.
‘Don’t come up, I will handle them’
These were probly the last words which he told. He is the only son for his parents.
His father told to press persons “I lost my son in Mumbai on Friday (28.11.2008). Though I do not like to call him a martyr, I can proudly say that he has done something for this country”. His father told to his friend that his son, whose valor was witnessed by the entire country, did not belong to Kerala alone but to the entire Nation.
Let us salute our heroes…
Let us maintain silence for two minutes and pray the Almighty for giving peace in the world and to give peace to all the great souls separated during November 26, 27 and 28th November.
Ohm Shanthi! Ohm Shanthi! Ohm Shanthi!
It is not that just we watched live telecast of Taj/Nariman operations.. Conducting Silence meeting…
We the Indians, often blaming the politicians, forget that only we selected/elected those people.
Self evaluation: Once someone asked Kalamji, Are you a south Indian? He answered, I am Indian from south.
We need to build Unity among us and to keep up our culture. We need to help our country by all possible means. Say, by avoiding wastage of electricity by using natural lights in day time by remembering the facilities which we get are from taxes paid by our people.
In H-1, we hesitate to mingle with our people, we are not ready to participate in flag hoisting during Independence Day, Republic Day celebrations. We hesitate to sit with our fellow inmates to take food in the mess (as people sit in the mess based on groups.) We hesitate to titling us with national importance as like other IITs (as there was opposition for changing hostel name during last GBM), etc.,
An ounce of doing is worth than a ton of talking.
Do it!
At last I leave with Swami Vivekananda’s words
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every Nation great:
1. Conviction of the powers of goodness
2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion
3. Helping all who are trying to be good and do good.
Jai Hind!
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