A Better India A Better World

Reading The better India the better world and also trying to put the book thought in my words with few examples from my side. Its a good book and worth reading. This book is basically  is a collection of Mr Narayan murthy lectures at different places across the globe. It covers wide perspective form Politics to foreign trade to law and Of course technology

Few Good Points from the book

1.We have to recognize that public sector interest is not  public interest and interest of government is not the interest of the people

2.The biggest bane of our thousand year old enslavement is apathy.the main reason of our poverty is our unwillingness to take proactive action when solution is is standing right infront of us staring at our face

3.We have learned and mastered the skill of escaping from our responsibilities to solve our problem by blaming  our destiny

What to learn from west ?

4. Apathy in addressing the community matters has held us back from making progress which is otherwise within our reach. We do see and waste our time in analyzing the problems around us but never try to solve them .We behave as if the problem do not exist at all or as if they belong to some one else. In the West people  people approach societal problem proactively. reason??- we were ruled by foreigners for over a thousand years so we have always believed that public or societal issues belong to some foreign ruler and  we have no responsibility to solve them. We are so used to follow orders and hence a very very weak decision making capabilities.in Short in Aristotle words "We are what we repeatedly do" sounds so right.

eg:40 year old suggestion by irrigation expert to conquer the problem of drought and flood was to create a water grid consisting all the rivers from north and south.as of now no action being taken in that direction

5.Another important trait what we Indian can learn from west is accountability.In the west irrespective of your position you are held accountable for what you do where as in India the more important you are the less responsible you are

may be a little from their professionalism in dealing business

Corruption ?? is it really invincible

A positive example of how corruption can could be fought. Few years ago a minister of singaporean community was charged for corruption and was found guilty after primary investigation. He ran to PM asking if there was something what could be done to save his honor  but after getting a negative reply and understanding it very clearly that his career is actually over and he will be punished he came back and put a bullet in his head. Think how strong message was sent by this action?

This is where i end my first part will soon put the review for the other half of the book

The Village By The Sea

The Village by the sea
  Anita Desai :


In general all her are vivid and this is one more nice book in the series of
1.)Cry, The Peacock
2.)Fire On the Mountain
3.)Bye-Bye Black Bird
three  must read books
This Story mainly revolves around 
Hari 
His Father who is basically a drunkyard 
Her mother - who is anemic and growing weaker day by day 
her sister - Lila- who is very mature girl compare to her age  
and two more of hre younger sister 
and their beloved dog
There are few more characters which have positive role like Jaggu and Wrist watch maker uncle who gives Hari the best siksha that One must go on learning 
because any thing you learn will be useful here or there in a positive way 
This Story also explains in a very ballanced way the how poverty can impact the whole family life and how in small places even earning a small bread is so tough. there is another positive character b name "Biju" who is a little showoff guy 
but good at heart and so is D souza uncle family who help Hari family at bad time .. In short story is narrated in a very very positive sense and i loved the way she has very beautifully, through her story, given an apt solution for the problem. She makes us think that life is after all beautiful,and shouldn’t be wasted.
                                  i will put this book in  Kite runner and A thousand splendid Sun category and i really enjoyed my 3 hour read . Its  a slim book and out of print as of now.