Twenty Twenty...

I read an SMS sent by my nephew a couple of days back on India winning the T20 World Cup. It read " Dr. Abdul Kalam's wish fullfilled. India is a super power in 2020". I really enjoyed this SMS for a while and then my thoughts started rolling.

My first thought:

To me, Abdul Kalam is a visionary man. He has created such a positive vibration in the minds of people and when I saw this SMS , first I also laughed at it as a good joke. But what is the reality? When no one talked about India becoming super power say a decade ago, have now started believing in India becoming a super power. I would strongly say Abdul Kalam has succeeded in his mission as he has injected his dream into every Indians and I received this SMS from my nephew who is an youth in his 20's. As long as the Indian youth starts beleiving in things and remembers what their forefathers or their role model has said , I am sure India will honour the dream of Dr. APJ.

My second thought:

Dhoni - He has created a name for himself and to me he has acheived some thing in his life and has not only made his parents proud and also has made the country feel proud of his acheivement. If you go through my article " Does poverty an hindrance for people to succeed in life?" , again the answer is " No". Dhoni coming from a village and not from a " well to do" family has come a long way in his life and carreer. Again I would say, it is Dhoni's will power and self confidence and more than anything else he is a self believer. If one starts beleiving himself no one can stop him in his road to success. Also people talked much about his leadership skills. This is a very important aspect and need of the hour. As a country we lack leadership skills on many front. Be it a corporate, be it a government, be it sprituality , if you don't have the right leadership then everything gets jeopardized and the system gets collapsed. Unfortunately in today's world we have very few leaders whom you can name or the numbers of the leaders can be counted. Leaders are those who lead by example , takes the team along with him and create the next generation leaders". Unfortunately in today's scenario , people only want to lead and not take ownership and are very selfish. Leader is a one who has to take failure and success in his stride and also need to be on his ground when he tastes the success and should not go into an huddle when he losses. What we see today is , if a team succeeds, the leader wants to take the credit and if the team losses , the blame is put on the team. I read an article about APJ's say on leadership. He shared one of his experience in that. When APJ was associated with ISRO , India has launched one satellite. It was APJ who was suppose to address the press conference immediately after the launch. Unfortunately the mission failed and APJ was wondering how to face the press. It was his boss at that time has told he will handle the press and took the entire onus on him for the failure. On the launch next time when the mission succeeded he has allowed APJ to address the press. So APJ writers, " A true leader is one who takes the failure on himself when the team fails and project the team when the team succeeds". Dhoni did the same thing when we won the cup. He is yet to face any failure as a leader and a true quality of him will speak when he tastes that ,but I wish he doesn't have to...

My third thought :

On the return of our heroes from South Africa , a newspaper writes that the synergy of the public they saw was much more than a victory on Kargil. When the people assembled on the road to greet their heroes, they never thought of who is who in the team. They never thought which religion or caste the players belongs to . They never thought which state has dominated the team. They all felt it is " Team India" and all the public who assembled on that day reciprocated that we are all " Indians".

My only wish is , India should win such major tournaments, be it hockey, tennis, cricket, foot ball, athletics as these heroes like Sania, Leander, Dhoni, Prabhat Tirkey,Butia , will only be able to keep us going us and build a strong integrated India , than our politicians or spritual leaders..

Please share your thoughts....

Ragu