Showing posts with label Social and Political leaders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social and Political leaders. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Become Driver of Your Community for at least a Day and Take it Forward - Community Service and Leadership



My appeal or request to everybody is to take up the responsibility of driving or taking forward your community forward at least on one day in a year. What do I mean by it?  Have you observed what is happening when you are travelling in car, bus, train or airplane. The driver is taking the responsibility to take you forward to your destination is a safe manner. You may be sleeping, relaxing or day dreaming. You may be talking to others on some or other issue. But the driver is concentrating on the road, traffic, direction and many other relevant things to take to in the direction of the destination as per schedule. 

In day to day working of a system or a community, a similar thing happens. All the people in the community are not active and vigilant. Some are tired, some are bored. Hence some people are sleeping. Some are escaping from the reality and day dreaming. Some others are engaged in fun activities. But some persons in the community have to be active and do things relevant for the community's physical and mental well being and upkeep. So if you compare the community to a vehicle, it requires a driver or many drivers every day to take it forward, Many are passengers who are sitting passively in the vehicle. Sometimes you can observe passengers making fun of drivers. They may be even quarreling with the driver. But still the driver is doing his job.

Communities require somebody or other to take up the job of driver. It can be by turns. Offer your service to the community when you can. A society which has to more volunteers will be more effective and efficient. If you are seeing some countries as more developed today it is because of large number of community leaders.

Read an interesting essay on community leadership at https://ctb.ku.edu   Kansas University

https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/leadership/leadership-functions/become-community-leader/main

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

BJP Party Videos on YouTube



Political party videos are now appearing on YouTube as quickly as possible.


25.9.2012
Live streaming of speech of BJP President Nitin Gadkari

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Channel

 http://www.youtube.com/user/BJP4India?feature=watch

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Achievement of Obama - An Individual Rising to the Level of Creator

Barrack Hussein Obama is 44th US President
 
This is the headline of a newspaper (6 November 2008, India).
 
"Your victory has shown that no person should not dare to dream wanting to change the world." Said Nelson Mandela.
 
"Aham Brahmaasmi," " I am the Brahma," "I am the Creator this universe." This is a statement from Hindu scriptures. In Hindu scriptures, there are stories or instances of people who created universes.
 
What happened in US now happened in various countries earlier. In India, there was a slave dyansty, a series of kings, all of them being slaves first in their life.
 
But something happening before our eyes gives us the real confidence and energy to try to create change.
 
Our appreciation to Obama for his effort. Our appreciation to US citizens for their decision.
 
India also has the opportunity of doing similar thing. In mythology or recorded history there were many instances of injustices. At various points of time, people realize it and try to make amends. In the society corrupting influences are there. There are also influences that increase moral acts. We have to appreciate the election of Barrack Obama as President as a moral act that may set in motion such events in various countries. The rise of underendowed persons against all handicaps. In this rise their efforts are now doubt there, but there is also the enabling social environment.
 
An appeal is made in one of the papers, to Indian leaders to emulate Obama and become inclusive leaders who talk of their capabilities in election speeches rather than that of their caste affiliation. Obama did not win because he is a black. Obama won because he is the right candidate.
 
Obama's win should inspire many underendowed persons all over the world. Dream and do the effort. You may achieve it. God in on the side of people who make efforts (Yajna is the word used for all noble undertakings in Vedas). Do Yajnas with noble goals. Make the world a happy place physically and mentally.
 

Personal Biography(1)

 
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham, a white student from Kansas, and Barack Obama Senior, a black student from Kenya.  Obama's parents divorced and he stayed with his mother in Hawaii until she remarried an Indonesian and the family relocated to Indonesia in 1967.  In 1971, Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents and pursue his education domestically.  He remained in Hawaii until he graduated high school in 1979.

Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in 1989 and they were married in 1992.  Their oldest daughter, Malia Ann, was born on July 4, 1998 while their younger daughter, Natasha (Sasha) was born in 2001.
 

References

 
 

Interesting to Read

 
What is the problem with apologizing for slavery and racism?
 
 

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Dr. Wangari Maathai - Professor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner - Environmentalist

Dr. Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her campaigns to save Kenyan forests and plant more trees in Kenya.
 
 
She was born on1 April 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya. She studied biology and did her doctorate in veterinary anatomy  at the University of Nairobi.
 
She passed away on 26 September 2011.
 
 
Obituaries
New York Times 
 
Mint, India
 
 
Related Knols
 
Migumo Tree


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Today and tomorrow (Sept 29 and 30) flags in Kenya are half mast. Wangari Maathai will be getting a state funeral, only the 3rd such since Kenya became an independent country almost 50 years ago. The other two were the first president, Kenyatta, and a vice president, Wamalwa.

Fran Gangloff
In a comment to the knol
Migumo Tree
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Muammar Gaddafi

20.10.2011

Muammar Gaddafi - Obituary
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