Many undeserving people and people with connections are being awarded with National medals of honor. Those people exemplify the old adage - "those who can, do. Those who can't, manage". Montek Ahluwalia has been given a lot of credit for the Indian economic turnaround. He definitely was there at the right place at the right time. However, by the same token, he must shoulder a lot of the blame for the current mess that we find ourselves in. Ignoring the second aspect, this close friend of Manmohan Singh has been given the second highest honor.
On the other extreme, we have another man who has been sincerely doing his Karma and working tirelessly towards the progress and betterment of his state and its people. He does not even try to hog the national limelight. While his achievements are too many to mention, the one thing that stands out is his initiative in finding alternative sources of energy. He is not doing it because it is "cool" these days to talk about environment. Bhai Narendra Modi is walking the talk with a firm foot. After leading the way in Solar Power, Gujarat will be the first in Asia to harness the tidal power. This by no means a mean feat. He does not get any help from the Central Government. In fact if anything, they try to scuttle his efforts by various dodgy methods. And it is not just the UPA. When the new Deobandi Chief, Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi came out with a statement that "all communities" are prospering in Narendra Modi's Gujarat and that there was "no discrimination against the minorities in the state as far as development was concerned", the pseudo-secular politicians of all parties, were quick to rake up the Godhra riots as a black spot on Modi. Even the Muslims want to talk about achievements, prosperity and looking towards the future. While the demagogues of the secular kind are unwilling to let go of the only stick with which they can beat Bhai Narendra. This shows the sickness in their minds that does not accept that, time and genuine inclusive development have healed the past wounds. It's such a shame that a country which has been the original source of Hinduism, the only religion that extols excellence as divine (Gita Ch. 10,41) is encouraging and promoting mediocrity and victimhood to project itself as a vibrant democracy to the world.
India plans Asian tidal power first
The Indian state of Gujarat is planning to host Asia's first commercial-scale tidal power station. The company Atlantis Resources is to install a 50MW tidal farm in the Gulf of Kutch on India's west coast, with construction starting early in 2012. The facility could be expanded to deliver more than 200MW. The biggest operating tidal station in the world, La Rance in France, generates 240MW, while South Korea is planning several large facilities
Read the complete article at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12215065
On the other extreme, we have another man who has been sincerely doing his Karma and working tirelessly towards the progress and betterment of his state and its people. He does not even try to hog the national limelight. While his achievements are too many to mention, the one thing that stands out is his initiative in finding alternative sources of energy. He is not doing it because it is "cool" these days to talk about environment. Bhai Narendra Modi is walking the talk with a firm foot. After leading the way in Solar Power, Gujarat will be the first in Asia to harness the tidal power. This by no means a mean feat. He does not get any help from the Central Government. In fact if anything, they try to scuttle his efforts by various dodgy methods. And it is not just the UPA. When the new Deobandi Chief, Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi came out with a statement that "all communities" are prospering in Narendra Modi's Gujarat and that there was "no discrimination against the minorities in the state as far as development was concerned", the pseudo-secular politicians of all parties, were quick to rake up the Godhra riots as a black spot on Modi. Even the Muslims want to talk about achievements, prosperity and looking towards the future. While the demagogues of the secular kind are unwilling to let go of the only stick with which they can beat Bhai Narendra. This shows the sickness in their minds that does not accept that, time and genuine inclusive development have healed the past wounds. It's such a shame that a country which has been the original source of Hinduism, the only religion that extols excellence as divine (Gita Ch. 10,41) is encouraging and promoting mediocrity and victimhood to project itself as a vibrant democracy to the world.
India plans Asian tidal power first
The Indian state of Gujarat is planning to host Asia's first commercial-scale tidal power station. The company Atlantis Resources is to install a 50MW tidal farm in the Gulf of Kutch on India's west coast, with construction starting early in 2012. The facility could be expanded to deliver more than 200MW. The biggest operating tidal station in the world, La Rance in France, generates 240MW, while South Korea is planning several large facilities
Read the complete article at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12215065
Gujarat takes the lead among states in solar power
A few years ago, the Gujarat chief minister was at an international summit. When a session on energy crisis cast light on solar power , Modi thought of the Rann of Kutch in his home state, where the land was endless and the sun’s heat relentless. He wondered: could countries blessed with sunlight form a solar alliance, led by India, to mainstream this promising source of power?
He wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with a broad concept of such an entity. He called it ‘Sun-Son’ — offspring of the sun. The Prime Minister’s Office acknowledged the proposal, but left it at that. So, Modi turned inwards. He asked his trusted lieutenants, energy minister Saurabh Patel and principal secretary S Jagdeesan, for a plan to turn the state into a hub in solar power.
Read the complete article at:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/sunday-et/special-feature/gujarat-takes-the-lead-among-states-in-solar-power/articleshow/6855821.cms
A few years ago, the Gujarat chief minister was at an international summit. When a session on energy crisis cast light on solar power , Modi thought of the Rann of Kutch in his home state, where the land was endless and the sun’s heat relentless. He wondered: could countries blessed with sunlight form a solar alliance, led by India, to mainstream this promising source of power?
He wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with a broad concept of such an entity. He called it ‘Sun-Son’ — offspring of the sun. The Prime Minister’s Office acknowledged the proposal, but left it at that. So, Modi turned inwards. He asked his trusted lieutenants, energy minister Saurabh Patel and principal secretary S Jagdeesan, for a plan to turn the state into a hub in solar power.
Read the complete article at:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/sunday-et/special-feature/gujarat-takes-the-lead-among-states-in-solar-power/articleshow/6855821.cms
I know we would like to believe that muslims are changing their mindset, but I really don't see any evidence of this. I think Vast anvi's opinion is something that very few muslims will actually agree with, much less openly express. And even he had the typical muslim gleefulness when he said that "Guj govt ko pata hai ki musalmano ke bina apna nahin chalne wala".
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When the VC resigned, headlines today invited three muslims to ask them whether shutting out a progressive voice is a good thing. The guests were Sadia dehl vi, Ja wed Naq vi and a third guy whom I don't know. Dehl vi's bottom line was that the VC had said something wrong and therefore she did not see anything beyond this. Naq vi was asked where the so called liberal muslims are at a time like this. His reply was that in India the liberal muslims become handicapped when the government does things like "demolishing mosques for no rhyme or reason". The third guy was so incensed that someone actually said something good about Gujarat, that he could not stop talking about the oppression they faced.
The anchor tried his best to suggest that the resignation was a bad thing, but he was up against three muslims, and it was futile. They all found different ways of defending the right of muslims to remain backward and uncivilised. Either through lies, or obfuscation, or anger. All quite typical.
Only Naj ma Hept ullah praised the VC and said that he spoke the truth. But what percentage of muslims does she represent? A tiny one I think.