November 9, 2009
LINES I LIKED...
§ Graveyards are usually about endings.
§ Young people think of the future not the past.
§ It’s a human quality to white wash the past.
§ The present is determined by our past actions and the future by the present.
§ Learning is not a spectator sport.
§ Every journey is a rewarding experience.
§ Each generation blames the previous generation for its problems.
§ Protégées out grow their mentors all the time.
§ It is neither pessimism not optimism but pragmatism that drives our actions.
§ Money is a stimulus rather than a motivator.
§ Politics is not a profession that needs a qualification.
§ The greatest enemy of man is ignorance.
§ If you want peace, prepare for war.
§ Violence respects no boarder.
§ Laughter is a practical and benign way of negotiating serious matters and harsh realities.
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November 8, 2009
VIEWPOINTS OF VIPs
- Brinda Karat (CPI-M Leader): Private sector hospitals are exploiting vulnerable sections of the society as the government has failed to provide good health services. Moreover, the government failed to formulate any regulatory mechanism or fix responsibility on erring hospitals and doctors. Strict monitoring of the private health sector is required to safeguard the interest of poor people. (Health)
- Bill Gates (Microsoft co-founder, U S A): india bears a massive burden of disease. But in the next five years (from 2009) it can make more progress on health than it has make in any other five-year-period in its history. The phenomenal progress in India is one of the main reasons for the optimism. (Health)
- Sonia Gandhi (Congress President): This is not the time to relax; instead it is time to work harder. We should exceed the expectations people have from us. We should inculcate the habit of diplomacy and decorum in expressing our anguish whenever required. Lately it has been seen that political leaders have become prone to using intemperate language while reaching to political situations. Mutual respect for political leaders and ideologies must never be lost. It is time politicians of all hues agree there is a need to establish a decorum that needs to be followed by one and all. (Politics)
- Y. C. Deveshwar (Chairman, ITC Limited, India): Markets, as they are constructed today, are attuned primarily to reward financial performance irrespective of its carbon efficiency or capability to create sustainable and inclusive growth. Markets on their own cannot be expected to deliver the imperatives of sustainable development. This obviously requires a completely new set of drivers and an enabling institutional framework. To my mind, it is no longer a matter of choice. No single organ of society be in the Government or Business, can meet the challenges on its own. These challenges can only be met by all sections of society joining hands to build a new paradigm of development. (Business)
- Vijay Nagaswami (Psychiatrist): ‘If I think negatively, I feel depressed’ is the mxim that constitutes the basis for Cognitive behaviors Therapy (CBT). The starting point of cognitive theory is that when an event takes place, the way we evaluate and think about it (cognition), determines how we feel about it. For instance, if we lose a job, we could evaluate it eithe as an inevitable consequence of these recessionary times or we could interpret it as a signal that the death knell of our career has been sounded. If we do the former, we will doubtless feel bad, we will still be in a position to rewrite our resume, get in touch with a head-hunter and so on. But if our thought process is along the latter lines, we sink in depression. (Mind)
November 7, 2009
