KOLKATA: Laying speculation to rest, RSS Sar-Sanghchalak Mohanrao Bhagwat said that his organization and Anna Hazare go back a long way. If Bhagwat is to be believed, it was the RSS that urged Anna to go in for a movement against corruption but the organization never took active part in it.
"If the RSS is asked by Anna to join the movement, we shall do so. But, no such request has come in as yet. However, we are not stopping RSS members from participating in Anna's movement. The links between Anna and the RSS go back a long way. It was the RSS that highlighted Anna's developmental programmes for villages. We even got Anna to help us in our village development programmes. It was during these interactions that the RSS suggested to him to go in for a movement against corruption. I was supposed to meet Anna in June but both of us got held up elsewhere," the RSS chief said during an informal interaction with journalists in Kolkata on Wednesday.
According to Bhagwat, the RSS also spoke to Baba Ramdev on starting a movement against corruption. "We can't force him to join hands with Anna but we did urge Baba Ramdev to be part of the movement. The RSS, as an organization, believes in creating better individuals who would lead corruption-free lives. This would finally give birth to a corruption-free nation. However, for the time being, any movement against corruption in the government is good," he said.
The RSS chief believes that India is on her way to becoming the 'country of his dreams' where there will be a clear divide between religion and politics. According to him, the internal security system - particularly the Maoists - will not pose any problem if the situation is handled properly.
"I am from the Maoist-affected Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. I know for sure that the Maoists have no mass base. They have simply spread a network of terror. No change can take place in this manner. It is the poor people whose lives are getting grinded between the Maoists and the security forces. The Maoist problem can be sorted out in 2-3 years. I believe that the 'India of my dreams' will become a reality in 30 years. After all, awareness has gone up significantly and the younger generation is looking up to core values," Bhagwat said.
Hailing the loss of the CPM in West Bengal as the return of 'freedom' for the people, Bhagwat refused to comment on the activities of the new government in the state. He claimed that he was in Kolkata for better networking. He did not sound too happy with the Centre's directions to a filmmaker, not to depict pro-Tibet posters and the Tibetan flag in his film, so as not to hurt Chinese sentiments.
"What is wrong if a few Indian films depict such scenes? After all, a Chinese politician can come to India and ask a journalist to 'shut up' when asked about the wrong depiction of territory on a map. India should certainly have friendly relations with neighbours but should not them to dictate terms," Bhagwat said.
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India needs to build 500 new cities
Nov 06, 2009 India needs to build 500 new cities: Prof Prahlad
India needs to build 500 new cities urgently to provide better quality life to its migrating people, global management guru Prof C K Prahalad said.
"India needs to build a minimum of 500 new cities urgently. However, it has to be done from scratch to accommodate people who are on the move and to provide them better quality life," he said.
"Otherwise every existing city will become a slum when India becomes 75 in 2022," he said speaking at the first annual United World Colleges lecture series -'The United Wheels of Change' on Thursday night.
It is the human conditions I worry about, not the slums, said Prahlad, named world's most influential business thinker by The Times.
According to author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, India must actively take part in shaping the emerging world order and not be just a passive recipient.
Image: Global management guru Prof C K Prahalad.
Photographs: Paresh Gandhi
mage: A scooterist stops in front of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai.
Photographs: Arko Datta/Reuters
"For this, India needs three pillars -- economic strength, technological vitality (not just innovation and science but contribution to fundamentally new ideas), and third and the most vital, having moral leadership to take part actively in shaping the emerging world order," Prahalad said.
Speaking on 'India at 75', Prahalad, Professor at the University of Michigan Business School in the United States said, by representing one sixth of world population, India can definitely shape world order 'but not without moral leadership'.
Prahlad said the need was to leverage India's strength -- its huge population base.
"We can create 200 million graduates and 500 million trained professionals in every field of human endeavour," he said.
Image: Devoteecongregate to take a holy bath in the waters of a sacred tank outside the Kumbakonam temple n
Photographs: Ananthakrishnan AH/Reuters
According to him, Indians working in any field needed to be trained to match global standards, be equipped with professional conduct and ethics, and compensated properly, so as to compete with anyone in the world.
"Very few countries in the world can aspire to be so. And if India succeeds, it can become the intellectual and knowledge hub of the world, and it will change the quality of life of every Indian," he said.
India at 75, according to Prahalad, will have 30 of its business companies listed in the 'Fortune' 100 firms of the world, and it can create 10 percent of world trade. Further, India will become a source of global innovations -- new businesses, new technologies and new business models.
The Bottom of the Pyramid, according to Prahalad, was a huge source of innovation, and not just a market or micro producer.
"I believe we have the opportunity to become the first country to provide world class education, healthcare, good energy and transportation, and do it in a sustainable way. There can be a great flowering of intellectual energy, art and literature," he said.
Image: People wander around a shopping mall in New Delhi.
Photographs: Vijay Mathur/Reuters
Prof Prahalad explained that the greatest strength that India has is its secularism -- the multiple rituals, languages, and customs -- the diversity held together with a common idea.
India can leverage diversity and become the benchmark country in the world, as 90 percent of the conflicts of the worlds are due to inability to cope with diversity, he said.
He strongly advocated that Indians need not focus on best practices.
But look for new innovations and think differently and fundamentally change the way we think," he said.
In 2022, abject poverty will not be the issue of concern in India, lifestyle inequality, urbanisation and the emergence of universal aspirations, a dramatic change in price-performance relationships, and ecological crisis will be bigger monsters.
Image: A girl covers her head with her bag as it rains in New Delhi.
Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
"Incrementalism will not get us there and to become a leader in the world we must begin by creating a shared commitment to aspirations supported by creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship."
On entrepreneurship, he said, "You need to have an aspiration which is larger than your resource base. The problem is not resource but imagination, inventiveness, and shared aspirations."
Talking about corruption, he said, "Corrupt nations do not develop human capital and corrupt countries are not rich -- corruption is a way of managing shortages not about human character."
India needs to build 500 new cities urgently to provide better quality life to its migrating people, global management guru Prof C K Prahalad said.
"India needs to build a minimum of 500 new cities urgently. However, it has to be done from scratch to accommodate people who are on the move and to provide them better quality life," he said.
"Otherwise every existing city will become a slum when India becomes 75 in 2022," he said speaking at the first annual United World Colleges lecture series -'The United Wheels of Change' on Thursday night.
It is the human conditions I worry about, not the slums, said Prahlad, named world's most influential business thinker by The Times.
According to author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, India must actively take part in shaping the emerging world order and not be just a passive recipient.
Image: Global management guru Prof C K Prahalad.
Photographs: Paresh Gandhi
mage: A scooterist stops in front of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai.
Photographs: Arko Datta/Reuters
"For this, India needs three pillars -- economic strength, technological vitality (not just innovation and science but contribution to fundamentally new ideas), and third and the most vital, having moral leadership to take part actively in shaping the emerging world order," Prahalad said.
Speaking on 'India at 75', Prahalad, Professor at the University of Michigan Business School in the United States said, by representing one sixth of world population, India can definitely shape world order 'but not without moral leadership'.
Prahlad said the need was to leverage India's strength -- its huge population base.
"We can create 200 million graduates and 500 million trained professionals in every field of human endeavour," he said.
Image: Devoteecongregate to take a holy bath in the waters of a sacred tank outside the Kumbakonam temple n
Photographs: Ananthakrishnan AH/Reuters
According to him, Indians working in any field needed to be trained to match global standards, be equipped with professional conduct and ethics, and compensated properly, so as to compete with anyone in the world.
"Very few countries in the world can aspire to be so. And if India succeeds, it can become the intellectual and knowledge hub of the world, and it will change the quality of life of every Indian," he said.
India at 75, according to Prahalad, will have 30 of its business companies listed in the 'Fortune' 100 firms of the world, and it can create 10 percent of world trade. Further, India will become a source of global innovations -- new businesses, new technologies and new business models.
The Bottom of the Pyramid, according to Prahalad, was a huge source of innovation, and not just a market or micro producer.
"I believe we have the opportunity to become the first country to provide world class education, healthcare, good energy and transportation, and do it in a sustainable way. There can be a great flowering of intellectual energy, art and literature," he said.
Image: People wander around a shopping mall in New Delhi.
Photographs: Vijay Mathur/Reuters
Prof Prahalad explained that the greatest strength that India has is its secularism -- the multiple rituals, languages, and customs -- the diversity held together with a common idea.
India can leverage diversity and become the benchmark country in the world, as 90 percent of the conflicts of the worlds are due to inability to cope with diversity, he said.
He strongly advocated that Indians need not focus on best practices.
But look for new innovations and think differently and fundamentally change the way we think," he said.
In 2022, abject poverty will not be the issue of concern in India, lifestyle inequality, urbanisation and the emergence of universal aspirations, a dramatic change in price-performance relationships, and ecological crisis will be bigger monsters.
Image: A girl covers her head with her bag as it rains in New Delhi.
Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
"Incrementalism will not get us there and to become a leader in the world we must begin by creating a shared commitment to aspirations supported by creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship."
On entrepreneurship, he said, "You need to have an aspiration which is larger than your resource base. The problem is not resource but imagination, inventiveness, and shared aspirations."
Talking about corruption, he said, "Corrupt nations do not develop human capital and corrupt countries are not rich -- corruption is a way of managing shortages not about human character."
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India's Space Programmes
Chennai, Oct 31 (IANS)
India does not look at other Asian countries like Japan and China as competitors in the space sector as its programmes are based on its needs, said
Madhavan Nair, who retired Saturday as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
'Our programmes are based on the practical needs of the people like remote sensing, health and education. India is not looking to compete with any other country in the space sector,' Nair told IANS from Thiruvananthapuram on phone.
Nair said: 'We have bagged two major orders for building heavy satellites for others. One has been delivered and the other will be shortly delivered.'
On the issue of reducing the rocket cost, he said ISRO is testing semi-cryogenic high thrust engines that will use highly-purified form of kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel.
'The engine will be tested by 2011,' he added.
Speaking about the human resource talent availability for ISRO, he said: 'The situation will ease with the setting up of our own institute in Kerala.'
He said the serious challenge before his successor K. Radhakrishnan is the operationalisation of the indigenous cryogenic stage, and the steps to be taken for the human space flight. 'We have to increase the number of launches to five next year.'
'Once we stabilise our own cryogenic stage then the payload of our geosynchronous launch vehicle (GSLV) can be increased to 2.5 tonnes. We can also launch two GSLVs in a year.'
Looking back at his tenure as the head of ISRO Nair said: 'The last six years were highly productive, accomplished several challenging missions including Chandrayaan that discovered water on the moon. The goals set were actualised. There is no unfinished agenda.'
As to his post retirement plans he said: 'I have not retired. I will continue to offer my services to the country. I am not starting any space consultancy firm.'
Queried about India dropping two ranks in the Space Competitive Index, according to a study by Futron Corporation, an American space consultancy company, Nair said: 'The US space agency's annual budget is $20 billion as against our budget of $1 billion. What we are getting out of that investment is considerable.'
He added: 'In the commercial space launch market, geo-political forces come into play. Nevertheless during the last two years ISRO has launched sizeable number of satellites for others.'
Futron's 2009 Space Competitive Index (SCI) has ranked India at seventh place with a score of 15.34 points, as against 17.51 points in 2008.
India is ranked below the US (SCI score 90.33 points), Europe (46.80), Russia (32.44), Japan (21.16), China (19.46) and Canada (18.13), and above South Korea (12.03), Israel (8.70) and Brazil (7.08).
Futron ranked the ten nations involved in the space industry on aspects like the government's support to space programmes, the human capital available and the contribution of the private sector to the country's space activities.
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India does not look at other Asian countries like Japan and China as competitors in the space sector as its programmes are based on its needs, said
Madhavan Nair, who retired Saturday as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
'Our programmes are based on the practical needs of the people like remote sensing, health and education. India is not looking to compete with any other country in the space sector,' Nair told IANS from Thiruvananthapuram on phone.
Nair said: 'We have bagged two major orders for building heavy satellites for others. One has been delivered and the other will be shortly delivered.'
On the issue of reducing the rocket cost, he said ISRO is testing semi-cryogenic high thrust engines that will use highly-purified form of kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel.
'The engine will be tested by 2011,' he added.
Speaking about the human resource talent availability for ISRO, he said: 'The situation will ease with the setting up of our own institute in Kerala.'
He said the serious challenge before his successor K. Radhakrishnan is the operationalisation of the indigenous cryogenic stage, and the steps to be taken for the human space flight. 'We have to increase the number of launches to five next year.'
'Once we stabilise our own cryogenic stage then the payload of our geosynchronous launch vehicle (GSLV) can be increased to 2.5 tonnes. We can also launch two GSLVs in a year.'
Looking back at his tenure as the head of ISRO Nair said: 'The last six years were highly productive, accomplished several challenging missions including Chandrayaan that discovered water on the moon. The goals set were actualised. There is no unfinished agenda.'
As to his post retirement plans he said: 'I have not retired. I will continue to offer my services to the country. I am not starting any space consultancy firm.'
Queried about India dropping two ranks in the Space Competitive Index, according to a study by Futron Corporation, an American space consultancy company, Nair said: 'The US space agency's annual budget is $20 billion as against our budget of $1 billion. What we are getting out of that investment is considerable.'
He added: 'In the commercial space launch market, geo-political forces come into play. Nevertheless during the last two years ISRO has launched sizeable number of satellites for others.'
Futron's 2009 Space Competitive Index (SCI) has ranked India at seventh place with a score of 15.34 points, as against 17.51 points in 2008.
India is ranked below the US (SCI score 90.33 points), Europe (46.80), Russia (32.44), Japan (21.16), China (19.46) and Canada (18.13), and above South Korea (12.03), Israel (8.70) and Brazil (7.08).
Futron ranked the ten nations involved in the space industry on aspects like the government's support to space programmes, the human capital available and the contribution of the private sector to the country's space activities.
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