Dear All: I am reproducing two posts by my friend and FTI colleague Sanjeev below..I would recommend them as essential reading for anyone who is serious about tackling corruption. Do read and share – in particular with members who are active in the India Against Corruption movement. These points (related to cleaning the system) ought to be on the agenda of this movement – if we are serious about removing corruption.
*** Are you serious about removing corruption? by Sanjeev Sabhlok ***
Basically corruption can be attacked in one of two ways:
a) …

…a brazen attempt was underway to further divide India – one bit at a time…Read about this and the “twilight zone where inclusive turns into exclusive“, courtesy, this post from RealityCheck’s blog that is worth further dissemination, discussion and debate..Reproduced verbatim below:
*** Independence day adhoc benefit reminder by Reality Check***
Half page ad seen in major papers on the occasion of Independence Day.
Blogged for the record.

Special benefits platform to prevent free agents.
Some points are not clear in the image (trying to get a better quality picture) :

75+ Lakh scholarships awarded till …

Dear All: I am opening this thread (hurried post) to provide a space for discussing and debating the developments since last 2 days (and in particular, since today morning)…
The clumsy way in which Team Anna’s plans were sought to be derailed appears to have boomeranged on the government. While senior ministers are busy passing the buck, others are asking where is the “chosen one”?  What made me furious was this bit of news – if true, this is shameful and disgusting.  It appears that a citizen’s fundamental right to be …

This Independence Day weekend, do something different.. Narrate the story of at least one of our National Heroes to a young child in your family.
Better still, gift them this book: “Saluting Our Heroes: The Param Virs of Bharat” – and ask them to tell you one of its stories!

Have a restful, safe weekend – wherever you are.. and please spare a thought for the ones who gave their lives, and the ones who constantly put it at risk on our borders – day in, day out..Independence Day or not. I will …

Most of us brought up in an education system that does little to celebrate our national heroes can be forgiven for forgetting that today is the death anniversary of one of the most extraordinary characters in our freedom movement: Khudiram Bose.
Khudiram Bose’s story is all the more remarkable because of his age. When put to the gallows, he was barely an adult and was probably one of the youngest martyrs of the movement. His execution fired the youth in Bengal had repercussions throughout British India. Khudiram’s “crime” was his attempt …

Excerpts from an essay by Swami Chinmayananda on non-violence and righteous violence titled, DHARMA HIMSA TATHAIVA CA (emphasis added):

Personally, I am no advocate of violence. But violence, too, has its rightful place in life, life does not preclude death. The average Indian has been moulded into a particular national mentality of quixotic tolerance. His attitude is shaped into its distinct pattern by the ideologies and moralities preached in our national literature. And no single work in our classics has gained such a wide influence on our people as the Bhagawad …