In Lecture

January 8, 2007
B. G. Deshmukh ,spoke “My Experiences as Chairman of AGNI”

Quote : “You do not get anything by asking, you need to strive for it”

            Creating awareness among the citizens about need for good governance was the reason for starting our NGO AGNI – Action for Governance Networking in India” The citizens have to know their rights as well as responsibilities. This is the meaning of good governance. Once AGNI was established it was found that institutions and mechanisms for good governance were needed. People needed to know where to go with their grievances. A common man has most of his work and related problems with the Municipal Corporation- in case of urban areas – and the Police Force. Secondly, they have problems with educational institutions and health related problems. Hence, AGNI thought of establishing grievance cells in each of the wards. A coordinator or a volunteer would be appointed by AGNI, who would in turn create a cell to address people’s grievances and make an honest effort to solve their problems.

January 9, 2007

Shri. K. Natwar Singh ,spoke "Indian Foreign Policy In Next Decade"

Today is the 9th Jan and on 9th Jan 1953, he appeared before the Union public service commission for his Interview for the Indian Foreign Service in the Indian Administrative service and he came first in India. How and why has Indian democracy survived?

One of the strongest points in India Governance, crises management is India’s strong point. Be a good, reconciling contradictions because we were not when our democracy won’t work and if we were not good in a crises management than you will have total chaos in all part of the country. He has also spoken on diplomacy and foreign policy. Foreign policy is what you do, diplomacy is how you do it. You can have perfectly good policy and perfectly useless diplomacy. Diplomacy is not a science it’s a craft. You are dealing with human beings were equally proficient in their profession.

The qualities of an ideal diplomat are truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty, loyalty, intelligence, knowledge, deraignment, prudence, charm, industry, courage and tact.

January 11, 2007
Shri. Shri. Ravishankar Ji "Blessing to MIT-SOG students" ,

The Politics means caring the people, things concern to the people. He has written an article on loyalty and choice. You should have loyalty towards nation, people than you are able to choose independently choice.  The first and fore most of the quality of a leader is to free your mind from the prejudice. The politics putting on you on the chair is not a position of power, it’s a position to serve and we cannot take pride to renouncing service. For youth you should have three qualifications Enthusiasm, innovative spirit, and respect others. If u have three things life will take u to the right direction.

January 13, 2007

Shri. Sanjay Kumar ,spoke : "Workshop on - Election Studies in India"

Quote : In India, religion, caste and region is used in a derogatory manner in politics.

            The sample size that was taken for our research study comprised of 27,000 Hindu people comprising of men and women, urban and rural, educated and illiterate, across all age groups as also the rich and the poor. The findings regarding religiosity threw up very surprising results. The popular notion that it is the rural, illiterate population, which is more religious, has been proved wrong. The study took into account – 1) whether they performed pooja daily, weekly, occasionally or never 2) visit to temple 3) observing fasts etc When the survey was through, it was found that women were more religious than men, older age groups were more inclined towards religion and that the urban populace was more religious than their rural counterparts. It was also found that the rich were more religious than the poor. Similarly, caste as a factor if used, one can see that the upper caste people were more religious. Then came the OBCs and lastly we find the SCs and STs, who are least religious.

January 16, 2007

Shri. Sharad Joshi :, spoke "Developing Leadership Qualities"

My new life began from 1980, when i started work of shetkari sangathana. The interest of the politician was to make agriculture a closed field; no body can go out because u can’t sell the land and no body can go in because if u will let go one man, who has the intellectual caliber and who has the financial power and the managerial ability than he will disclose the who nature of the governmental conspiracy against the farmer and that would be a dangerous field. In 1986, we had that chandaward women’s conference, which was attended by over 2 hundred thousand women and which became a kind of a miles stone in the history of women’s literature and also the womens moment and which skilled unheard of heights for getting the womens property rights an also getting the womens educational rights. He said that the no farm leader even born in a farmer’s family and who belong to their caste has ever succeeded in obtaining as much love and affection from the farmers in India as I have and I considered that as a major success. Leadership qualities or qualities of greatness is not necessary better mental intellectual of physical parameters.

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January 17, 2007

Shri. Karti Chidambaram :, spoke““Role of Youth in Politics”"" ”

Quote : “Any youngster, if he wants to create an impact in the development of his country, must take an active interest in the politics of his country”.
           
Usually, the educated middle class likes to blame the government for all the things that are going wrong in the country. There is tremendous cynicism among the urban educated youth about politics. They feel totally alienated from the processes of democracy. They don’t vote nor know about their elected representatives. This is a very depressing attitude. This results in election of a class of people that are only out there for selfish motives. During the freedom struggle the one common thing amongst all our leaders was that they were from this same educated middle class. They were committed, highly qualified and totally answerable to their countrymen. Today, this same middle class has forsaken its responsibility. For India to change, its middle class needs to take up this responsible role again. Only then will we get a responsible, accountable government. This role will have to be taken up by the young, educated middle class of our country. Take up any profession, but keep abreast of the politics of your country.

January 23, 2007

Shri. Swami Chaturvedi Ji,spoke on "Political Philosophy & Culture"

Pluralism of the country. “People who had discriminated by ethnic and religious and linguistics, they are unified by Global citizenship or global conscience, and the seed of this great philosophy is propagated by Vedic wisdom.  

“Just as a body in physical instinct, just as a family with an instinct of affinity and association, the whole society is controlled by a central nervous system, the people who explore the resource, who distribute the resources, who enhance the standards of the people and prevent them from the feeling of fear and insecurity, inadequacy and other consequential measure, that group is known as political system or polity”.

Just as a body has a central nervous system, just as the family has a head, the bindings of agreements of biological and fraternity instinct is known as Governance. 

“A team force or group that takes the responsibility of enhancement and elucidation of resources and resourceful in the society and surrounding contributes to the system and this system deals with policy”.

He mentioned various forms of political system such as monarchy,( including the difference between absolute monarchs and constituttional monarchs), intelligency or Geniocracy, Stratocracy and Democracy. 

“Governance is the process of taking care, which concerns with knowledge and disciple”.

He said philosophy is love towards knowledge and free from consequential blunders of human errata.  “Discipline means strictness and very much coherent towards regulation and stipulation of the order and making other people adhere to that order”.

“Discipline is spontaneous inbuilt morale inside a perfect mind or intellectual mechanism which drives the person and also his associates and dependants to go towards that pathways without being aberrant”.

The study of political knowledge is political philosophy and the study of political discipline is political culture. Only study is not enough, survival, sustainability and success is the key factors in politics.

A person with political culture that one without any compensation and compromise whose conviction is impregnably by any circumstantial coercion, the person who is not ready to be flexible, except to the flexibility to the agony of the people, the anguish of the innocent people of the society, who is not ready to be flexible to any sort of bribery or evil practises of the practical philosophical political system.

January 25, 2007

Shri. Chandan Mitra,spoke on“"Role of Media in Indian Elections"

I have found in the last three years that the Parliament is a complicated place. It takes time to understand that how the system works. So, its really takes a long time for the member to come to the integrities.
Media has played all through a very significant role in promoting clean, fair and participative elections. I would like to see an election commission that is open to ideas, suggestion and consultation. I sometimes feel that they keep themselves too cooked up. They should open themselves for much better interaction and dialogue not just for the eve of elections but for through out the year for the ongoing process and I think media people can guide them a lot.
There are some roles that are universal for the media worldwide. First thing we have to understand and appreciate is that without media you cannot have democracy at all. Media is the pillar of democracy and if you will remove the media it will collapse. There are 3 universal principal roles of media:

Feb 17 ,2006

Shri Jaswant Singh, Spoke on“"

Quote: The first Government is to govern yourself. If your own self is not government, you cannot govern anybody.

Brief: The first Government is to govern yourself. If your own self is not government, you cannot govern anybody. So, the first requirement is to know yourself and the second is true genuine humility.
So, Set your objectives, never ever give up your object. Pl remembers I never forget that you can reach the arisen. The country is the collective of all of us. It is not one individual or family and it cannot be, therefore you should learn about your country. You cannot govern India, unless you know India. If you don’t have the passion about Politics and Government than please don’t make it a source of livelihood because Government requires you to give, not to take.

February 27, 2007

Shri. G. V. Rao ,, Spoke on"UN and it's Specialized Agencies (UNESCO,ILO,WHO,FAO"

Quote : “War begins in the mind of men, it is in the minds of men that foundations of peace need to be constructed”

            UN has very many defects similar to the earlier League of Nations. These defects need to be resolved, but the biggest contributors to the UN do not want to resolve them. Hence, it is for the Member states to try and keep the spirit of the UN alive and resolve the defects peacefully.
            Tolerance towards cultural diversity must be taught at a very young age so that peaceful solutions to all conflicts can be achieved. It is always easy to start a war but very difficult to end it. UN and its agencies have to strive towards peaceful co-existence, international peace and security. Today the world is shrinking and becoming a global village. “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” – the entire world is like one family - is the new mantra which was taught to us by our ancient seers. This is the goal that has to be achieved by the UN and its agencies.

Health Care for all, is it possible? It is possible in the developed countries of the world. Health of its citizens is the true reflection of the wealth of any country. A healthy citizen can really contribute to the development of the country. The G8 Countries of the world spend 19% of its GDP towards healthcare. 4300 Dollars / person is the amount spent in USA on healthcare. In India it is dismal. We spend much more on our Defense. In India a National Health Policy had been launched in 1983 which aimed at “Health for all” by 2000. Did we achieve it? World Bank had financed this project. Health care included sanitation, nutrition, drinking water, pollution reduction and health education.

April 12, 2007

Shri. P. N. Siva, Spoke on"Role & Responsibility of Youth in Indian Politics"

Quote : “Young people of the developing countries are more optimistic despite facing great challenges than the youngsters of the developed world despite their material developments.”

      DMK initially was a socially reformative party, which later entered democratic electoral process. The period of Emergency was like a second war of independence. In the early days of the Emergency, till the DMK was the ruling party in Tamilnadu, the Congress under Smt. Gandhi was all praise for the democratic rule in Tamilnadu. It was only, when the DMK was told to justify the Emergency, which it denied forthright, that the DMK government was dismissed. Even today, the people of Tamilnadu respect the DMK for taking a stand in favor of democracy. DMK also has taken a consistent stand that no language, be it Hindi or any other language, must not be imposed on any State.
      Material growth is not the only criteria for any growth. India is bound to be a great force by 2020. But this growth must have a blend of traditions with science. Only then will there be real development.