'Let Us Remain Optimistic'

Mon Aug 19 18:10:58 2002
Name:Ramesh Kumar
Email:rameshk80in@rediffmail.com
Your Views:The vision given by our honourable president should be our own vision and to achieve this vision, we need simply a revolution. A revolution, which needs to unite all our indians, whether they are in india or in abroad. The goal, which we refer as "first vision", was able to unite all the indians and we saw its result. So, ofcourse once again we will have to unite to achieve this "second vision". Achieving this second goal is not easy, because we will have to struggle with our brothers and sisters, who have forgot the "nationalist view" and national interests. We will have to convince them, that life is not just to live for oneself... Question is who will start this revolution ?? Anybody, else will not come for it. Every indian should be capable to bring this revolution !!!!

Mon Aug 19 19:48:59 2002
Name:venkat
Email:susrutha_v@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Mr Kalam, has always been a man a great vision. It was his vision in the Indian defence programme that has propped India to the reckoning in the international scenario. A man of such caliber to be our President is really great asset to the nation. This time he is in a different scenario where he shall he have to overcome lots of hurdles to fulfill hi vision. I am with him and shall do whatever is necessary to serve my motherland and i expect all the energetic youth also to have the same thought in them. If Mr.Kalam does fulfill his vision, then he shall be given a position in Indian History next to probably "The Father of the Nation", Mahatma Gandhi.

Mon Aug 19 20:01:07 2002
Name:Asimuddin
Email:asimuddin_a@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Our new President should take things in his hand leaving behind the old culture of the former presidents, so that he can do some thing in this regard.

Mon Aug 19 20:45:37 2002
Name:Sajid hussain
Email:sajid_h@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Pity to say, our President's dream will never become true until the issues like Ayodhya, Madhura stays to destroy the communal harmony in India. It will never become true until each & every muslim of India feels like Abdul kalam & will not try to support Pakistan at any cause. Yes, at the same time Hindu brothers should not go with BJP's views & should try to understand what really happening against Muslims. There is enough evidence against Bal Thackeray, Narendra Modi & Advani like leaders, but Indian law makers could not find any law to punish them. Mean while each & every muslim will be linked with ISI if he want to take revenge against the attrocities he faced. And in last Kashmir is there for these leaders to hide under it and accuse muslims again whenever they are in problems. justice srikrishna commission blames thackeray, mr. lyngdoh blames guj govt., everyone knows what modi had done, but still they are unpunished, now how could u hope for the criminals who are abroad, and living in karachi. first do it in home & then go out. sure u will succeed. unfortunately, they are our leaders, and with the contribution of these leaders how could our president dreams like this

Mon Aug 19 21:29:24 2002
Name:Tejraj Singh
Email:tejraj123@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Second always comes after first. Today our first vision of leaders such as Bose, Gandhi is in shambles. Our callous,self centred attitude coupled with dime a dozen politicians but no real statesmen has brought us to such a pass. If we accept our mistakes and move ahead with the spirit of co-operation ,tolerance, all our dreams can become real.

Mon Aug 19 22:17:16 2002
Name:STANLEY
Email:stancan@rediffmail.com
Your Views:this is the 3rd time i'm typing this message and if the line gets disconnected now i'm gonna quit. well, this is the prob with us indians .when we are not doing something for ourself we are ever ready to give up easily well,i just hope our prez does not do the same coz' the politicians have really screwed up the situation in our country. it is actually very reassuring that prez kalam atleast has a vision for india.otherwise our dear netas don't get time from giving explanations for their scams ,forget thinking about the welfare of the country. mr.president: don't take all the shit that is created by the dirty netas lying down.make yourself heard and don't be afraid to stick your head out.if u feel something is wrong somewhere go to the press and make statements. everyone has just given up on the situation and i personally think that you can wake everybody up. you have'nt played dirty politics and so you are still mr.clean.that is going to make a lot of difference all the best and mr.prez any probs u can mail me i'll help u that's an indians promise(a real one at that)

Tue Aug 20 13:58:51 2002
Name:siva
Email:massrk@yahoo.com
Your Views:Its a great gift that India has a president Sri Abul Kalam. The greatest quality that he possess is that he dares to dream and dream different. We all indians especially the youth should contribute to his thought of Nation building. Because he can formutate the best frame work but the youth should implement that. Youth also has the responsibility of implementing the frmework and proposing neccessary changes to that. This will make India a better place to live and also build a better world tomorrow

Tue Aug 20 14:11:41 2002
Name:Hanumanthappa A N
Email:skormb@rediffmail.com
Your Views:The greatness of India lies in her spiritual strength which has come low among the present citizens.This energy has to be revived so that the people, ie we start feeling good about ourselves as individuals.Once we start feeling good about ourselves we will have enough strength and commitment to join hands in building the nation. Its time for the government to recognise "proper" leaders and organisations in this stream and facilitate them in increasing the moral and ethical values in the society. Once this happens the nation's development will be a natural consequence - for people "are" the nation. In this regard it would be very much sensible to change the syllabus in the schools and colleges which should propel these kind of thoughts among the children and youth. This would be a tremendous display of the will of Bharath.May she rise back to her glory again!

Tue Aug 20 14:34:58 2002
Name:mukesh bhola
Email:mokubho@epatra.com
Your Views:the country is going through one of the worst phase, when even the women are not feeling safe, a country which is headed by a governmment which is only worried about precedents, and r too chicken to generate a feeling of security in the masses, if our mothers sisters, wives and friends are in some sort of trauma we are in trauma,let no one mistake this fact.if the government is so much worried about precedents then they should set one in showing that the country is a comfort zone for our women folk.I hope the president will be able to do something in this rgard

Tue Aug 20 14:44:00 2002
Name:kanishk chakravarty
Email:kanishk@agd2.dot.net.in
Your Views:lets hope for the best

Tue Aug 20 14:50:59 2002
Name:c.HanumanthuNaidu
Email:hanumanthu1966@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:Iam very happy to hear your speach I am proud to say that I am a Indian.I want to see our Nation in upper level,I hope that will be possible in your tenure .Because Indians are very happy to see as the president

Tue Aug 20 16:35:08 2002
Name:PREETI SHUKLA
Email:SHUKLARAJAN@REDIFFMAIL.COM
Your Views:This time we are priviliged to have an enthusiastic president with a difference.let"s hope for the best.it is but obvious that to materialise his dream we all must come forward and join hands with his views.each one of us have to put in our best with will and determination.

Tue Aug 20 17:33:42 2002
Name:Ranjeetsingh Raghuvanshi
Email:mr_ranjeetsingh@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:No. I think our people will integrate for a common purpose & for common goal. Because our national leader is inspiring people.

Tue Aug 20 17:46:44 2002
Name:Divine Comedian
Email:comedian@yahoo.com
Your Views:Sorry, no hope, APJK. The order of the day, as your fan-followed columnist Varsha Bhosle keeps howling, is Balkanization. This is sadly happening, if Varsha Bhosle, the fan-followed intellectual, is correct, because some spoilsport 'pinkos' and minority groups wickedly refuse to prostrate themselves before the divine order of Aryan supremacy, despite their obvious genetic inferiority (imagine, demanding human equality.. the nerve these rotten spoilsports have, saying that nothing can be worshipped except a commonly accepted and wholly consistent Truth'... how dare they?) So, poor APJK. The only unity possible now is that we must worship all these saffron draped entities that say we should not question them because they are born closer to god's purpose. If not, cast em in chains and whip em into submission. It's a new India to be built. A new dawn. Where we shall rule. Man will worship man (or man's own creations, preferably our creations). Truth? Who cares (chuck em all in jail, the evil spoilsports).

Wed Aug 21 14:47:46 2002
Name:Subodh R. Shetty
Email:subodh42@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Basically ,President of India means what, its just nothing.He is just putting the rubber stamp on anything whatsoever the government tells him to do because he is normally been proposed by the ruling government. He is not going to change nothing, except give a few speeches been given by his secretaries. Does he at all read newspapers or he just go for inaugurations or go to Gujarat to show his sympathies. In our country, people like Sanjay Dutt go scot free despite such good links with the underworld, and the government does nothing rather than blame each other. What is happening in our country? R.K. Sharmas wife becomes a T.V. Star overnight. I have lot of such good views but I don't want to waste my time on this because ultimately nothing is going to change.

Wed Aug 21 14:54:20 2002
Name:Kiron
Email:kiron_9@hotmail.com
Your Views:Dear Mr President, Nation Building is a sentiment left with a very few. With more companies taking take pride in bringing the remote services industry to india.... but forgetting and failing to foresee the long-term damage this industry is doing to our youth...(drugs; western culture influence; bad-mouthing; health hazards, like...stress;tumors;weak eye-sights migrains;cervicals...) are only a few to name..!! Stop this slavery of working during the nights to service the US economy in name of employment. Only then will my country become self reliant. There should be a policy in place to make these new breed of entrepreneurs responsible and accountable to each employees welfare and wel-being...growth and decent living. Can u as the head of the state promise me a decent job, on merit without references, and regular 8 hours work timings? If you can make this little change...happen, i'm sure India will grow...we have it in us to become self-sufficient professionals.

Wed Aug 21 15:57:04 2002
Name:pg gopinath
Email:gopinathpg35@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes it is going to remain a dream. As you correctly pointed out first "I", "me" "myself" aand then party & party people & the common man & people comes last. Can there be smoke without fire. So all these scams are true & it is high time people gets the might and right to call back their representative if they do not behave

Wed Aug 21 17:37:08 2002
Name:Karthi
Email:eiyan@hotmail.com
Your Views:For a country, used to having ex-presidents talk about "how corruption has eaten into the core of the society", at social gatherings, it is a welcome change to see a sitting President have a vision and a dream for the nation. This is the first step in progress. I guess it is in the hands, of us, the educated elite, to provide all the support to the President to realise His (our) dreams. At last we have a leader to whom we can look up to.

Wed Aug 21 18:54:33 2002
Name:Puru
Email:vpuru@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I think APJ Abdul Kalam is a misfit in this nation of India. Because nobody seems to share his views. Nobody wants to work towards a strong and developed India (least of all the "leaders" of our country). You know something? India can never be a great country unless we realise what we want to be. We have always been politically and mentally weak. We have no guts to face any adversity straight on the face, and face it proactively. We are alwasy reactive and that too weakly reactive. And the history has shown that reactive people dont go too far. If we are to succeed as a developed nation, we have to believe in what we are doing and be honest in that belief. And we need to have a strong drive put forth the correct procedures which will make us better. Otherwise we will endup a second rate "developing country" which are 10 a penny at the moment.

Wed Aug 21 20:00:27 2002
Name:Krishna Padmanabhan
Email:krishnahema@rediffmail.com
Your Views:We should congratulate Dr Kalam and consider ourselves lucky that at last we have a leader who has a second vision such as this. All thinking citizens of this country should spare no effort in ensuring that Dr Kalam's second vision becomes a reality. I also hope that Dr Kalam is not frustrated by the gallery of rougues who constitute our ruling elite today. To actualize this second vision, there are a few fundamental things which need to be ensured: one, that justice is quick and is seen to be done; two, merit becomes the yardstick of reward - the current concept of social justice should be dumped; three, there must be a method by which experts in various fields are made empowered parts of the government so that progress can be achieved not because of the greed of a corrupt politician or the ignorance of a sleazy babu, but by deliberate planning and focussed knowledgeable action; four, honest and efficient officers in the IPS and IAS (the Kiran Bedis and the Bhatias) be pulled out of the sidelined postings that they have been pushed to by self serving politicians, given positions of authority and long guaranteed tenures at their postings. Can this President make a beginning?

Wed Aug 21 21:42:45 2002
Name:ragini kumari
Email:raginib16@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Not even a single politician is thinking for the betterment of the country.Here also I don't think so.

Wed Aug 21 23:15:16 2002
Name:ravi
Email:ravi169@rediffmail.co.in
Your Views:Every President is a rubber stamp of India . T N Seshan should be the President of India. He would show the post of president. Kalam visit to gujurat should that is foot is in the path of BJP. if he is real president be hitler. remove the corruption & the corrupt politicians & hang them . this is 1st priority & each indian will be with kalam.& we think that kalam will be the best president who have taken oath in the Asoka Hall.

Wed Aug 21 23:24:18 2002
Name:Nidhish Tawakley
Email:n_tawakley@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Undoubtedly, the honourable President of India, the dream of second vision appears to be a honest one,but will it come true is a big question? Going by the past historic trend there are sound reasons to believe that it will be a dream which will be fulfileed in dreams. It time we realised where we were, its is unfortuante that even after 55 years, we are facing problem like no electricity, no water, lack of education, no respect for law. In fact we have made major achievemnets in the field of science& technology, but has it been fruitful for an ordinary indian residing in a remote area, in fact had we invested in his uplifment , he would have been living in a different world, a world which would have some what been closer to the dream of ssecond vision Its time we really understiood the needs of our citizen ,rather than addressing issues, which are of little concern to an avg indian

Thu Aug 22 03:50:24 2002
Name:Chandran
Email:sxchand@hotmail.com
Your Views:Dr Kalam is a great visionary and I strongly belive that he will able to acheive it. I worked under his leadership for 7 years and I know how inspiring person he is. He will be the best President India ever produced. During his tenture as SA and Director there was a real reduction in regional and caste politics in DRDO. We could see some quality products from DRDO. Managing these illiterate and corrupted politicians may a daunting task.

Thu Aug 22 11:30:10 2002
Name:Raajesh
Email:araajesh@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Our Honourable President is indeed very positive in his approach and intentions. To realise this vision, we need politicians who are like minded as our president. This can be achieved only when our elected representatives shed their differences, and work unselfishly towards making this vision a reality. To an extent this can be achieved if each politician works for the betterment of his / her constituency. This would be a contributing factor as the nation would benefit from each such effort by all the politicians. Targets should be set with schedules and evaluated at the end of the schedule. If they fall short below a fixed watermark, for unjustifiable reasons, then such individuals should not be given a second chance. Also it is important for all the citizens to rise above their regional and caste mindset. Each indian regardless of the place or religion they belong to should learn to respect each other and make unselfish efforts to work for the nation.

Thu Aug 22 13:45:58 2002
Name:undisclosed
Email:undisclosed@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I think India will improve, because it has no choice. We cannot go down any lower. Only thing that can happen to us is improvement. So lets be optimistic.

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