*Please read this article by giving 10 minutes from your busy life. Really good.... ** *
* The EX-President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .*
Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want f
RE:Read This
by kmukda on Jul 25, 2007 06:43 PM Permalink
good one. Our media is really posting -ve news first. u r right... it should learn to post optimism, good news which takes society towards brighter side.
RE:Read This
by Narad on Jul 25, 2007 06:23 PM Permalink
Yes Dr.Kalam said so, but when comes to Indian politicians there is an old saying "Bandar kya jane hira ki kimmat".
India always had such gem, but political bandars sidelined them, that is tragedy of India
