25 अगस्त, 2011

Interesting Facts about Anna Hazare's Life History and Campaigns / Movements

After all this drama going on the lokpal and janlokpal by the government to befool the people of this country now they are trying to be a dictator who is by our mistake had been choosen by us not to represent the voice of the people of this country but to rule this country as a dictator, yes i agree it was our own mistake to choose such idiots who themselves dont know the constitution and asks team Anna for the provisions for the amendments, they dont even care for the dignity of the sansad themselves and expecting us to respect them, The law minister Mr salman Khurshid even during the pak time of ramzaan is telling lies and befooling the people n trying to show his ignorance, neglecting this national issue. 
Gandhi, after the freedom of india had said that we should dessolve the congress party for the benefit of this nation now, otherwise we wont be having the future of india as we want.
These leaders are so pathetic that they just for the sake of themselves and as they just dont want to loose the opportunity to eat this country are trying to avoid this law. the joint meeting of all the parties was just an eyewash otherwise they all the same, why should a man hit an axe on his own foot? the law has been amended so may times for the sake of big corporate houses, the bill to raise the saleries of the mp's was passed in seconds, but they have the objection on this bill. if the prime minister and the judiciery comes under the Income tax departments and the cbi then why not under lokpal? and if the lower administration will not be under lokpal then where would a common man go, as we as the mass society is hit by the corruption, they raised the questions about team Anna's qualifications, did any of them can compare to them, they put on alegations on Anna, did they know the facts about him? but everybody knows about them and what they want.
I'll tell you something about anna here...
From a tenacious soldier to a social reformer, and a right to information crusader, Anna Hazare’s journey of four decades has been unprecedented in terms of a non-violent yet effective campaign of resurrecting a barren village into an `ideal village model and empowering the faceless citizen through pioneering work on Right to Information. His efforts to empower grampanchayats, protect efficient government officers from frequent transfers and fight against the red tapism in government offices have also received accolades.
Anna Hazare started a new venture in 1991 called Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Aandolan (BVJA) or public movement against corruption. It was found that some 42 forest officers had duped the state government for crores of rupees through corruption in confederacy. Hazare submitted the evidences to the government but the latter was reluctant to take action against all these officers as one of the ministers of the ruling party was involved in the scam. A distressed Hazare returned the Padmashree Award to the President of India and also returned the Vriksha Mitra Award given by then prime minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. He further went on an indefinite hunger strike in Alandi on the same issue. Finally, the government woke up from deep slumber and took action against the culprits. Hazare’s sustained campaign on this issue had a great effect - six of the ministers were forced to resign and more than 400 officers from different government offices were sent back to home.Hazare realized that it was not enough to merely take action against fraudulent ministers or officers but to change the entire system that was studded with loopholes. Hence, he campaigned for the Right to Information Act. The state government turned a blind eye towards the pleas in this regard and so he first agitated in the historical Azad Maidan in Mumbai in the year 1997. To create mass public awareness about RTI amongst the youth, Hazare traveled extensively throughout the state. The government kept promising that RTI Act would be made but never raised this issue in the house or the state assembly. Hazare did not relent ?he agitated at least ten times.Finally, again he went on an indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan in the last week of July 2003. At last, the President of India signed the draft of the Right to Information Act after his 12-day-long hunger strike and ordered the state government to implement it with effect from 2002. The same draft was considered as the base document for the making of the National Right to Information Act-2005.
After the implementation of the RTI Act-2005, Hazare travelled for more than 12,000 Kms across the state creating awareness about the Act. In the second phase, he interacted with more than one lakh college students and also conducted mass public meetings across 24 districts of the state. The third phase included daily 2-3 public meetings in more than 155 tehsil places. In this massive campaign, posters, banners were displayed and more than one lakh booklets of the provisions of the Act were distributed at a nominal price.
This created enough of awareness and people were educated on the issue of rights of citizens.
Hazare deservedly won the coveted Padmashree and then Padmabhushan. Care International of the USA, Transparency International, Seoul (South Korea) also felicitated him. Apart from this, he received awards worth Rs 25 lakh and donated the entire amount for the Swami Vivekananda Kritadnyata Nidhi (social gratitude fund). Out of the two lakh rupees received from the above amount, mass marriages are carried of at least 25-30 poor couples every year.The state government promoted opening of cooperative societies, credit societies & urban banks. Believing in the principles of cooperative sector, the utmost lower class of the society invested their savings with such cooperative societies. However, the directors of such societies devoured the money and failed to pay back the basic amount to the members of the societies. This created havoc and people were duped for crores of rupees and did not have money for the marriages of their daughters or for medical treatment. Hazare agitated for over eight months. The result was that more than Rs 125 crore was recovered from defaulters and the members of such societies heaved a sigh of relief. Recovery of around Rs. 400 crores is in the pipeline.He once contemplated suicide and even wrote a two-page essay on why he wanted to end his life. Anna Hazare was not driven to such a pass by circumstances. He wanted to live no more because he was frustrated with life and wanted an answer to the purpose of human existence.The story goes that one day at the New Delhi Railway Station, he chanced upon a book on Swami Vivekananda. Drawn by Vivekananda's photograph, he is quoted as saying that he read the book and found his answer - that the motive of his life lay in service to his fellow humans.
Anna Hazare has has fought quite a number of battles, including some as a soldier for 15 years in Indian Army. He enlisted after the 1962 Indo-China war when the government exhorted young men to join the Army.In 1978, he took voluntary retirement from the 9th Maratha Battalion and returned home to Ralegaon Siddhi, a village in Maharashtra's drought-prone Ahmadnagar. He was 39 years old.
Maharashtra stalwarts like Sharad Pawar and Bal Thackeray have often called his style of agitation nothing short of "blackmail".In 1995-96, he forced the Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra to drop two corrupt Cabinet Ministers. In 2003, he forced the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) state government to set up an investigation against four ministers.
In April this year, four days of fasting brought thousands of people out in support of his crusade against corruption. They also made the government realise it could not be dismissive about Anna Hazare and his mass appeal.  The truce of April was short-lived. An exercise to set up a joint committee made up of equal numbers of government representatives and civil society activists, including Anna Hazare came to naught when the two sides failed to agree and drafted two different Lok Pal Bills. The government has brought its version in Parliament and Team Anna is livid. 
He fought from the front to have Right to Information (RTI) implemented. He is now fighting for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill, the anti-corruption bill drafted by his team of crusaders.
This year, more than 30 years after Anna Hazare started his crusade, as the 74-year-old plans a second hunger strike in Delhi against large-scale corruption at the national level. Nothing really has changed except the scale of his battle.
did anybody from Kapil sibbal, manish tiwari, salman khurshid, pranab mukharjee, sandep dixhit, chidambaram have the guts to do this for civil societies...
GOD SAVE THE NATION AND ANNA

11 अगस्त, 2011

पैरों के निशाँ

एक आदमी ने एक बार एक सपना देखा की वो समुन्द्र के किनारे रेत पर चला जा रहा है और भगवान् उसके साथ चल रहे हैं, उसकी जिंदगी के अध्याय आसमान पर लिखे हुए हैं, हर अध्याय मैं उसने देखा की रेत पर दो पैरों के निशाँ बनते हैं एक उसके और दूसरे भगवान् के, जब आखिरी अध्याय पर पहुंचा तो पलट केर देखा की पीछे कभी कभी तो दो पैरों के निशाँ बनते हैं और कभी केवल एक हे होते हैं, उसने भगवान् से पुछा की प्रभु मैं जब भी जीवन में बुरा समय आया या सबसे मुश्किल वक़्त से गुज़रा, परेशान हुआ और अपना संयम खोया तब तब मैं अकेला था , लेकिन प्रभु आपने तो कहा था की तुम मेरा अनुसरण करो मैं हमेशा तुम्हारे साथ रहूँगा और जब भी मेरा बुरा वक़्त आया आपने साथ छोड़ दिया, जब मुझे आपकी सबसे जयादा ज़रुरत थी तब रेत पैर सिर्फ मेरे हे पैरों के निशाँ थे तब प्रभु ने कहा मेरे बच्चे मैं हमेशा हे तुम्हारे साथ था अच्छे वक़्त में भी और बुरे वक़्त में भी लेकिन जब जब तुम्हे मेरे पैरों के निशाँ नहीं मिले तब तब मैने तुम्हारा हाथ पकड़ा हुआ था पर में हमेशा तुम्हारे साथ ही था.....

08 अगस्त, 2011

A Very Good One


It was a sports stadium.  Eight Children were standing on the track to participate in the running   event.
*       Ready!
*       Steady!
*       Bang!!!
With the sound of Toy pistol, all eight girls started running.
Hardly have they covered ten to fifteen steps, one of the smaller girls   slipped and fell down, due to bruises
and pain she started crying.
When other seven girls heard this sound, stopped running, stood for a   while and turned back, they all ran back to the place where the girl fell down.
One among them bent, picked and kissed the girl gently and enquired .  'Now pain must have reduced'.
All seven girls lifted the fallen girl, pacified her, two of them held  the girl firmly and they all seven joined
hands together and walked  together and reached the winning post.

Officials were shocked.

Clapping of thousands of spectators filled the stadium.
Many eyes were filled with tears and perhaps it had reached the GOD even!
YES. This happened in Hyderabad, recently !
The sport was conducted by! National Institute of Mental Health. All  these special girls had come to participate in this event and they are  spastic children.

Yes, they were mentally retarded.
What did they teach this world?

Teamwork?

Humanity?

Equality among all?. . . . . . . . ????

Successful people help others who are slow in learning so that they are not felt far behind.  

04 अगस्त, 2011

A Heart Touching Story


A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow... He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by... the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree everyday.

One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. "Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I don't play around trees anymore."

The boy replied, "I want toys. I need money to buy them."

"Sorry, but I don't have money... but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money."

The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples.

The tree was sad.

One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. "Come and play with me" the tree said.

"I don't have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?"

"Sorry, but I don't have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house."

So the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said.

"I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?"

"Use my truck to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy." So the boy cut the tree truck to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. "Sorry, my boy. But I don't have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you... " the tree said.

"I don't have teeth to bite" the boy replied.

"No more truck for you to climb on"

"I am too old for that now" the boy said.

"I really can't give you anything ... the only thing left is my dying roots" the tree said with tears.

"I don't need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years." The boy replied.

"Good! Old tree roots is the best place to lean on and rest. Come, Come sit down with me and rest." The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears.......

This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. When we were  young, we loved to play with Mom and Dad...When we grow up, we leave them... only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy.

You may think the boy is cruel to the tree but that's how all of us are treating our parent.