It is TIME!!!

Here I am re-iterating some thoughts thrown at me by someone!

I personally think, it is TIME. Its TIME to say 'enough', its TIME to say 'no' - to injustice, to chalta hai attitude, to corruption. Its TIME to 'speak up'

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Winds of Change....

Forward this email to as many people on your contact list as you can; and in
turn ask each of them to do likewise.

In three days, most people in India will have this message.

This is one idea that really should be passed around.

*Reform Act of 2012*

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
Parliamentarians collect a salary while in office but should not
receive any pay when they're out of office.

2.  Parliamentarians should purchase their own retirement plans, just
as all Indians do.

3. Parliamentarians should no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Their pay should be linked to the CPI or 3%, whichever is lower.

4. Parliamentarians should lose their current health care system and
participate in the same health care system as the Indian people.

5. Parliamentarians should equally abide by all laws they impose on
the Indian people.

6. All contracts with past and present Parliamentarians should be void
with immediate effect.

The Indian people did not make this contract with them.
Parliamentarians made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Parliament is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only
take three days for most people in India to receive the message. Don't
you think it's time?

If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.

You are one of the 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks.
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When you know that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission
from men who produce nothing,
When you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but
in favours,
When you see that men get rich more easily by graft rather than by work,
and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them
against you......
you know that your society is doomed

~ AYN RAND in "Atlas Shrugged"
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if you feel its TIME, please forward!
Vande Matram!!!

Civic Sense / non-sense

Mumbai: 11 June 2009

Most of us travel daily - either between office & home or leisure travel with family but we travel & move outdoors. It will be a rare occurring that we do not notice people littering on road / footpaths / public places. These are bunch of people who truly believe in what we see at all public places - "This is your property, please keep it safe & clean". Since this is our property, we will do what we feel like AND why have the municipal corporations hired these cleanliness guys to keep the place clean? - I wonder!!!

And to my amazement, most of these are educated (at least the ones I encounter) bunch who I prefer to call - educated illiterates! Imagine a scene - you are driving with a swanky car in front of you. You admire the car & (may) curse your fate for the small car you can afford. Suddenly - tissue paper flies in front followed by empty bottle and occasional door opening to facilitate spitting & thud! you are out of your dream sequence.

ACT II Scene II
You are enjoying the serenity of the lush garden in your locality, colony or building & you come across a pile of garbage dumped by your friendly neighbourhood, after all they are cleanliness freak & don’t want their homes to be dirty.

Now, what do YOU do under the given situations?

a. Curse them & continue to do whatever you are doing.
b. Curse them & make sure you raise the issue of cleanliness in the next society meeting
c. Interrupt / encounter them & make them realise their fault

Am sure most of us will pick (a) while wish to pick (c). That’s the nucleus of the whole problem. We wish to do a lot for the society, building, and country but hesitate to take the action. Until sometime back - I would also fall under (a) category but now I & my wife have pledged to take (c). We make sure to do our bit by interrupting & making people realise their fault. If it’s a car owner, a NASTY LOOK is all it takes.

Trust me, I feel much better & proud to be able to help (although miniscule) keep the surrounding clean. It all starts with self and only possible when every one of us do our bit and NOT curse other for their inability.

If we have Civic Sense, raise the voice & stop the civic non-sense.

Be Safe!

Naveen Jalan

PS: This is my observation & pledge. Readers are welcome to share their experience / comments.