{"id":1630,"date":"2013-04-30T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T04:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:14:34","slug":"historic-speech-of-dr-abdul-kalaam-at-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Historic Speech of Dr. Abdul Kalaam at Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n
\n
\n
Dear Friends,
\nForward this message to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.
\nDR. APJ Abdul Kalaam’s speech in Hyderabad.
\n“I have three visions for India.
\nIn 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone.
\nWe have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
\nMy second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have beenMy second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been
\na
\ndeveloping nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation.<\/p>\n

We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP We have 10
\npercent
\ngrowth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our
\nachievements
\nare being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to
\nsee
\nourselves as a developed
\nnation, self- reliant and self-assured. Isn’t this incorrect?<\/p>\n

I have a THIRD vision.<\/p>\n

India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that, unless India
\nstands
\nup to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects
\nstrength. We
\nmust be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic
\npower.
\nBoth must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with
\nthree great
\nminds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish
\nDhawan, who
\nsucceeded him and Dr.Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was
\nlucky to
\nhave worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great
\nopportunity of my life.<\/p>\n

I see four milestones in my career:<\/p>\n

Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be the
\nproject
\ndirector for India’s first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one that
\nlaunched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my life of
\nScientist.<\/p>\n

After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part of
\nIndia’s
\nguided missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its
\nmission
\nrequirements in 1994.<\/p>\n

The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous partnership in<\/p><\/div>\n

the
\nrecent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The
\njoy of
\nparticipating with my team in these nuclear tests and proving to the
\nworld
\nthat India can make it, that we are no longer a developing nation but
\none of
\nthem. It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we have
\nnow
\ndeveloped for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have developed
\nthis new
\nmaterial. A Very light material called carbon-carbon.<\/p>\n

One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences
\nvisited
\nmy laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he
\ntook me to
\nhis hospital and showed me his patients. There were these little girls
\nand
\nboys with heavy metallic calipers weighing over three Kg. each,
\ndragging their
\nfeet around.<\/p>\n

He said to me: Please remove the pain of my patients.<\/p>\n

In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction Orthosis 300-gram calipers
\nand
\ntook them to the orthopedic center. The children didn’t believe their
\neyes.
\n>>From dragging around a three kg. load on their legs, they could now
\nmove
\naround!<\/p>\n

Their parents had tears in their eyes. That was my fourth bliss!<\/p>\n

Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed
\nto
\nrecognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great
\nnation. We
\nhave so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge<\/p><\/div>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

We are the first in milk production.
\nWe are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
\nWe are the second largest producer of wheat.
\nWe are the second largest producer of rice.
\nLook at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a
\nself-sustaining, self driving unit. There are millions of such
\nachievements
\nbut our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and
\ndisasters.<\/p>\n

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was
\nthe day
\nafter a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The
\nHamas
\nhad struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a
\nJewish
\ngentleman who in five years had transformed his desert land into an
\norchid and
\na granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The
\ngory
\ndetails of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the
\nnewspaper,
\nburied among other news.<\/p>\n

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are
\nwe so
\nNEGATIVE?<\/p>\n

Another question : Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign
\nthings?<\/p>\n

We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign
\ntechnology. Why
\nthis obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that
\nself-respect
\ncomes with self-reliance?<\/p>\n

I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked
\nme for
\nmy autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is.<\/p>\n

She replied: I want to live in a developed India.<\/p>\n

For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must
\nproclaim.<\/p><\/div>\n

India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed
\nnation.<\/p>\n

Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice
\nis
\nyours.<\/p>\n

YOU say that our government is inefficient.
\nYOU say that our laws are too old.
\nYOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
\nYOU say that the phones don’ t work, the railways are a joke, the
\nairline is
\nthe worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
\nYOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute
\npits.
\nYOU say, say and say.<\/p>\n

What do YOU do about it?
\nTake a person on his way to Singapore….. Give him a name – YOURS.
\nGive him a
\nface – YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your
\nInternational
\nbest. In Singapore you don’t throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat
\nin the
\nstores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You
\npay $5
\n(approx. Rs.60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim
\nCauseway or
\nPedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU comeback to the parking lot to
\npunch
\nyour parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a
\nshopping mall
\nirrespective of your status identity. In Singapore you don’t say
\nanything, DO
\nYOU? YOU wouldn’t dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai. YOU
\nwould
\nnot dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not
\ndare to
\nbuy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (
\nRs.650) a
\nmonth to, “see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone
\nelse.”
\nYOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km\/h) in Washington and<\/p><\/div>\n

say jaanta hai main kaun hun ?<\/div>\n
\nI
\nam?). I am so and so’s son. Take your two bucks and get lost.”<\/p>\n

YOU wouldn’t chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the
\ngarbage pail
\non the beaches in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Why don’t YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo?
\nWhy don’t YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in
\nBoston???
\nWe are still talking of the same YOU.
\nYOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries
\nbut
\ncannot in your own.
\nYou who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you
\ntouch
\nIndian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an
\nalien
\ncountry, why cannot you be the same here in India?<\/p>\n

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commis sioner of Bombay,
\nMr.Tinaikar, had a point to make. “Rich people’s dogs are walked on the
\nstreets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,” he said.
\n“And
\nthen the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities
\nfor
\ninefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to
\ndo? Go
\ndown with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his
\nbowels?<\/p>\n

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the
\njob.
\nSame in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here?” He’s right.<\/p>\n

We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all
\nresponsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the
\ngovernment
\nto do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We
\nexpect
\nthe government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking
\ngarbage all
\nover the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of
\npaper
\nand throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean<\/p><\/div>\n

\nwe are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.<\/p>\n

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and
\ntoiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least
\nopportunity.
\nThis applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service
\nto the
\npublic. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to
\nwomen,
\ndowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations
\nand
\ncontinue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? “It’s the whole system
\nwhich
\nhas to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons’ rights to
\na
\ndowry.” So who’s going to change the system?<\/p>\n

What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of
\nour
\nneighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the
\ngovernment. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually
\nmaking
\na positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our
\nfamilies into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far
\naway
\nand wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a
\nmajestic
\nsweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.<\/p>\n

Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in
\ntheir
\nglory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to
\nEngland. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight
\nout to
\nthe Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and
\nbrought
\nhome by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the
\ncountry.
\nNobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to
\nmoney.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a
\ngreat deal
\nof introspection and pricks one’s conscience too….I am echoing
\nJ.F.Kennedy’s
\nwords to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..<\/p>\n

“ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA
\nWHAT
\nAMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY”<\/p>\n

Lets do what India needs from us.<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Dr. Abdul Kalaam
\n(PRESIDENT OF INDIA)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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