| Now let me talk about governance for the billion. | |
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| Governance for the billion | | I feel that the core-competence of our nation is the leadership to lead a multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural society of billion people in a democratic setup. In the last sixty three years we have demonstrated our strengths as the largest democracy in the world. Of course, we have several areas where we have to improve for achieving our goal of economically developed India by the year 2020. We are a country of diversity. We have some of the richest persons in the world; at the same time we have to uplift 300 million people who are living below poverty line. We have realized the Chandrayaan mission; at the same we have yet to make everyone literate in our country. We have outstanding women who have shown their capabilities in many fields; at the same time, it pains every right thinking citizen about the violence against women, which we come across sometimes. We have the best of aircraft ferrying across metropolitan cities; At the same time we have villages yet to be connected by roads. So the priority is, how to bring an inclusive growth and for realizing this, we have to strengthen the multiple organs of governance. Our legislature, our executive, our judiciary, our academic institutions and our media should be transformed for the billion. In my view, the fundamental building block is an enlightened human being, who is a citizen, who is a people¡¦s representative or an administrator or a judge or a media person or belonging to any other profession. Who is such an enlightened human being? Let me start with some recent experiences. | |
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| Traits of good human being | | Good governance is finally carried out by individuals and teams. The quality of governance leads to positive results of governance. In 2009, I participated in the 102nd Birthday celebrations of HH Dr. Sree Sree Sivakumara Mahaswamigalu at Siddaganga Math, Tumkur. At the end of the function, Mahaswamigal gave an extempore speech for 15 minutes. Based on his century of experience, he says, for developing a happy and peaceful society, each citizen of the nation has to be facilitated to develop two unique traits. One is intellect and the other is humaneness. This can be acquired through good parentage, good teachers, good books and being in the company of great people. If this is not done at the right age, human being can become a shaitan particularly if the intellect acts without humaneness. We as a nation, have to take this message and develop our youth with these traits. Thinking of a good human being, I am reminded of the story of Imam Ghazali. | |
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Ravikumar Kalaimani
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