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There is no doubt that India has been of invaluable use to our beloved International Minister of Cricket.

The writings of Karl Marx is unparalleled. It is interesting how he sums up deep philosophies in single phrases. One such phrase - “from each according to his ability” - deeply haunted me.

A country that can design, manufacture and launch Agni V, RISAT-1 and missile defense system certainly has the skills and potential to become a great manufacturing power.

If any country needs a new political formulation, it is India! People seem to have lost faith even in the existing electoral system. Well,  a democracy only becomes meaningful, when it offer voters meaningful choices.

Recently, A. R. Rahman's song 'Hosanna' made news.

If there is anything more humiliating than the way USA dictates its laws over the laws of other sovereign nations, it is the way India allows it to happen! First they sell us billions of dollars worth military equipment.

In the 1992 British general elections, Neil Kinnock led the British Labour Party, which eventually lost. With that he left politics and became a university president.

Recent film stars who joined politics have been a disgrace to the parliamentary system itself. Govinda was renowned for not attending any parliamentary session and being inaccessible by his people.

One thing that has changed for good at Indira Gandhi Institue of Child Health for the 130+ Thalassemia patients who come for treatment and care is that arranging for blood is no longer their problem while this ensures that they are not left to suffer making attempts to find a donor each month, paying for blood or getting blood from unsafe sources, there is another aspect. Now it is Team Sankalp which strives on behalf of these patients to ensue regular supply of blood.

Extract from news report published in Times Of India

The Union health ministry has finally turned its focus on genetic blood disorders like sickle cell anemia, thalassemia and haemophilia. India will soon roll out a national programme to prevent and manage hereditary blood disorders (HBDs).