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Twas a bullet that tore into the heart of the man, who spoke non-violence to the world!
It was same dastardly bullet that revealed, even as we Indians got freedom through his non-violent movement, that there were people in the country who wanted to remain shackled in violence!
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‘...When we share—that is poetry in the prose of life.....’
Sigmund Freud
Something terribly disgusting in our country is the glamour our political leaders portray through their ostentatious cars and homes they live in. The money they lavish on themselves so blatantly could easily feed a hundred families for a year or even more. And yet with no guilt or conscience they display their wealth to the world at large.
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And as our beautiful flag is unfurled this Republic Day, let your voice and mine, stilled through fear or indifference, flow free, understanding our absolute right to protest, given by a Constitution, whose making, we celebrate today!
“Use Your Voice!” “Use Your Voice!”
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A couple of months ago a school down the road asked me if I would address parents on how to bring up children!
For a moment I asked myself as to how I'd been selected for the job, and wondered whether it had anything to do with bringing up two daughters, who I have little doubt would have laughed if they'd known their dad thought he'd become proficient in a subject they still consider me a novice!
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For many years I worked as a salesman in my fathers company. There were times when I nearly made a sale but the customer would say that he would call me the next day and confirm the order. I would come back quite excited and tell dad I had nearly finalized an order.
“When will we know Bob?” he would ask.