A whooping 765 crore worth expressway is now operational between Silk Board Junction and Electronic city in Bangalore. Few years back this 10km stretch took motorists an hour and even more. Simply speaking, it was a nightmare.

When my father's friend became the president of a prestigious social club of my small hometown, he set himself the target of getting an ambulance for the town. It took quite a bit of an effort to make the people who were ready to spare tens of thousands of rupees for parties but only a few hundred rupees for a real cause to contribute the necessary amount of money. My father also contributed generously (and only I and his friend were aware of this fact). Finally ambulance came in - it was a Maruti Omni vehicle. There was much fanfare at the time of it's commissioning.

These lines are taken from an address given by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, India's former President. He uttered these words while interacting with students during the Silver Jubilee Celebration of EMEA College of Arts and Science, Malappuram. This was in February 2008. Nice set of lines, hence posted !

It doesn’t matter who I am,

I will work, work and work,

This is for those who spend sleepless times wondering why things dont change for our Nation.

I met someone today. The person is someone who is in a very competent position. Someone who I believe has the right position, level of influence and ability to be able to play a decisive role in several things relating to blood donation and the problems surrounding the same. The discussion with the person was cordial and warm. The person is genuine and service minded. However I found some strange resistance which led to this blog!
It is interesting why some problems don't get resolved. The main contributing factors as per my little understanding are:

• Corruption and Unwillingness to work: The interest of people in not solving the problem. This may be because of the additional effort which they may not be willing to invest or simply - gross corruption.
• Lack of Acknowledgement of Problem: Many time people are unwilling to...

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Somehow my neurons react very adversely when some good human being who has (or at least claims to have) helped someone starts talking loudly about it. My brain cells just don't seem to get back to the native state of bliss and I get very compelled to react! I dont! But, this fries my neurons!

Why are we scared of drinking water? Everytime, when we travel, why are we afraid to drink water from railway station filters? Why do we so often come across shouts of “Don’t drink that water!” ringing in our ears?

Why do Hindus put all their sins, filths, ashes and even the carcasses of his pets in the water of Ganga for getting easy salvation? Why was river Ganga given the divine power absolve sins of all humans? Well, the Gods must be crazy.

The ride to success of an illiterate youth from Bihar, who launched a radio station and promoted social messages on polio, AIDS and other issues but was arrested for illegally running it, has found place in school textbooks!

Ms Veenadhari from Mangalore was one of the first HIV victims to openly admit her disease. From a teacher, she turned into a well-known social worker and an ardent activist for the rights of HIV infected. She followed and advocated ayurveda and naturopathy approach to living with the disease .