I HAVE THREE VISIONS FOR INDIA
Published by uttishthata July 20th, 2007 in APJ Abdul Kalam“I HAVE THREE VISIONS FOR INDIA” - APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India
In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander on-wards the Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone.
We have not grabbed their land, their culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among the top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn’t this incorrect?
I HAVE A THIRD VISION
India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that, unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only STRENGTH respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economics power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of Space, Professor Sathish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr. Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.
I SEE FOUR MILESTONES IN MY CAREER:
Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be the Project Director for India’s first satellite launch vehicle, SLV-3. The one that launched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my life of Scientist.
After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part of India’s guided missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its mission requirements in 1994. The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The joy of participating with my team in these nuclear tests and proving to the world that India can make it, that we are no longer a developing nation but one of them, It makes me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have developed this new material. A very light material called carbon-carbon.
One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam Institute of Medical Science visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he took me to his hospital and showed me his patients.
There were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic calipers weighing over three Kg. each, dragging their feet around.
He said to me: Please remove the pain of my patients.
In three weeks, we made these Floor Reaction Orthosis 300 gram calipers and took them to the orthopedic center. The children didn’t believe their eyes. From dragging around a three kg. load on their legs, they could now move around!
Their parents had tears in the eyes. That was my fourth bliss!
I believe that even if 10% of the people of our country have the desire and determination as that of Dr. Kalam then one day we can definitely become The Super Power of the world not in terms of military and other forces but in terms of Growth, Progress and Prosperity….
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These are magic words and I believe these words will make India Successful.
We are really fortunate to get such dynamic President. He really has foresight to take
India on topmost position. It was earnest desire of every leaned and caring Citizen to get
Him for another term. But the political wish and will is different Leaned ones are always
put to suffer.
The three visions of kalam are already a reality. Only thing thats comming slow is accountability in people. we ought to take responsibility of our action our systems need to run more efficiently. law must be enforced otherwise ther is no point in having the law passed when the law makers dont follow and the common public goes round it.
we have freedom without resposibility. but that too will come its a question of time
we have been lucky to have as our president and the best too.Hope we get
more learned people with visions like you in our administration to carry
India forward.
Sir,
I respect your thoughts, but somehow i do not visualise any of that you do.
I remember Swami Vivekananda’s words-
“But mark you, if you give up that spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materialising civilisation of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.( CW3 REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT RAMNAD )
“In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life; and if any nation attempts to throw off its national vitality the direction which has become its own through the transmission of centuries that nation dies if it succeeds in the attempt. And, therefore, if you succeed in the attempt to throw off your religion and take up either politics, or society, or any other things as your centre, as the vitality of your national life, the result will be that you will become extinct. To prevent this you must make all and everything work through that vitality of your religion. Let all your nerves vibrate through the backbone of your religion.”
“You must go out to preach your religion, preach it to every nation under the sun, preach it to every people. This is the first thing to do. And after preaching spiritual knowledge, along with it will come that secular knowledge and every other knowledge that you want; but if you attempt to get the secular knowledge without religion, I tell you plainly, vain is your attempt in India, it will never have a hold on the people. Even the great Buddhistic movement was a failure, partially on account of that.”
“We must go out, we must conquer the world through our spirituality and philosophy. There is no other alternative, we must do it or die. The only condition of national life, of awakened and vigorous national life, is the conquest of the world by Indian thought. ”
“Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes, India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.”
In the above context, India has nowhere progressed but has deteriorated.
I can see that all the above qoutes are coming true today. The annihilation is there, and even in 10% grow after 10% in 10% growth and all other feel good factors, we have disparities rising, the actual poverty (not the govet fig based on 275rs/month calculations), 50% malnourished children, 70% dropout rate in education, thousands of farmers suicidng….. And these numbers havent come down, but are rising. Disparities and farmers suicidies are rising much faster than gdp and sensex, the malnourished children and dropout rates also.
India is dying as it was rightly predicted by one of our great leaders before. A nation where 23% people are poor i.e the number of people who earn less than 275 Rs/month (who sleep with stray dogs) and a nation where 50% people are malnourished, where the sucide rates of farmers is much more than the stock market performance and gdp..its difficult to survive as a human race. A nation cant survivie as a human race if it cant feed its majority people, and where only a group of people benefit from all the growth and progress.
Also, the words of Vivekananda are forgotten, and if the effects of that which are predicted in his thoughts are probable to be true, then we I can visualise something very different from what stock market anaylsts, economists and our government and people do.