Speech By Dr Arun Shourie at SIBM
14th July 2006 CIT Forum at SIBM Read more »
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09
Jul '06
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24
Jun '06
President Kalam on Indian attitudes
Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our
own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great
nation. We have so many amazing
success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them.
Why? Read more »
Thu
22
Jun '06
President Abdul Kalam’s address to the Nation on the eve of 55th Republic Day- 2004
Dear Citizens, on this important day on the eve of 55th Republic Day of India, I am indeed happy to greet all the billion citizens of our country including those living abroad. I also greet the members of the armed forces and paramilitary forces who guard our frontiers on the land, the sea and the air and also internal security forces. I would like to share some of my thoughts for evolution of a beautiful India, combining economic prosperity and value system drawn from our civilizational heritage.
Fri
19
May '06
Jockin Arputham , a slum-dweller and a Magsaysay awardee
This is an interesting fwd I received.
Posted by Shankar Iyer
http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/122/arputham.html
Jockin Arputham , a slum-dweller, is President of India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation – a people’s organization made up of pavement-dwellers and slum-dwellers from more than 30 towns and cities in India. He is a Magsaysay awardee 2000 for international understanding.
Jockin Arputham suggests how people living in slum environments can escape the cycle of poverty and disease. Read more »
Sun
14
May '06
The Quit India speech by Mahatma Gandhi -August 8th 1942
Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things, I want you to understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from which I am placing them before you. I ask you to consider it from my point of view, because if you approve of it, you will be enjoined to carry out all I say. It will be a great responsibility. There are people who ask me whether I am the same man that I was in 1920, or whether there has been any change in me. You are right in asking that question.
Let me, however, hasten to assure that I am the same Gandhi as I was in 1920. I have not changed in any fundamental respect.
I have a dream !!
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of
Go, kiss the world.
This is the Address by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting to the Class of 2006 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on defining success (July 2nd 2004).
“I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine. There was no electricity; no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of
Fri
12
May '06
Jawaharlal Nehru Speech On the eve of Indian Independence, August 14, 1947
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long supressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of Inida and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity. Read more »
Thu
11
May '06
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish - Steve Jobs
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
