So, here’s presenting your yet another monthly dosage of fun, frolic and funtooshgiri.
August has always been the month which is characterized by a certain vibe of patriotism which it leans to invoke in many of us. This time’s was no different. Only, the cause tended to be different. And, thereby, the effect even more so.
Clouding the news-circuit was The Anna-tomy of Ramlila Maidan. Where footfalls reached dizzying heights and heartfelt support-ism touched even a farther horizon. Since the J.P. movement and Anti- Mandal movement, veterans say, they haven’t witnessed anything so spontaneous turn into such a big force with which you just can’t but reckon with. Jan Lokpal Bill movement, if not anything (which we know it has), has achieved in giving a People’s republic a booster short in the arm of Morality and Righteousness –if, that is, everyone begins walking their talk. Also, the country would never be the same again, as this movement has ended up educating the masses about the functioning of all the four pillars of democracy like never before. The race to reach to what now remains to be achieved is not going to be a sprint but, instead, a Marathon. A Marathon – and this requires suitable stamina.
If the civil society, at large, was all up for making their voices heard, the GOVT wasn’t far behind in reaching out either. The Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan was adopted by the Planning Commission on Aug 20th. It was for the first time ever that when the making of the same was underway, they had opened online portals for the youth of the nation to come forth and get their pulse gauged. Around 950 civil society organizations have already placed in their inputs. A page on Facebook, managed by an organization called “India@75” is doing this very thing on that portal to get in touch with the classes and the masses to later send out these acquired bits feedback to around 150 working groups of experts who will, thereupon, lay down the Plan later.
We at Enlightenment, urge you to go and get your suggestions, whatever they maybe regarding, turned in through - http://12thplan.gov.in/ . Remember, information must always precede opinions. And to arrive at a scene of tangible “change” – viz, freedom from apathy, corruption, and unaccountable government - one must act and not merely complain. It would be doubly inspiring to see us L&T-ites surging ahead with a vision of a less corrupt and a more just society than merely a High-On-Consumption with a double digit GDP-growth-percentage one.
Phew, so that’s what an August does to you!
The month we see ahead of us, if not be as “Holiday-Friendly” as the one that just went by, is surely an equally Excitement-Promising one. With the completion of Volleyball tournament, LnT Dhanush will take us into Football thenceforth! CREST, emboldened by a successful launch and two-season run of Quizofire will surely go onto to find new ways to keep you all triply engaged.
It only deems fit, to congratulate the idea, the vision and the execution panache of LnT Dhanush’s Uplift India Movement – 2’s volunteers, who have successfully completed rendering 72 sessions of Basic Computer Knowledge to kids of SOS Children’s Village, Greenfield, Faridabad. Do expect more from this corner in coming times.
Moreover, L&T’s 66th Annual General Meeting was held on Aug 26th. Wherein, listening to our Chairman speak on Performance Overview and path to future Developmental Projects was just as welcoming as was to listen to him speak about strides taken in the direction of Corporate Social Responsibility and on our establishment’s unrelenting ways to adopt a path to Sustainable Development.
So, here’s bidding a temporary adieu only to sneak back up from your shoulder and shout a loud “Boo!” in your ears next month. Till then, breathe well, breathe deep. And forget not, to sustain that curve on your face. Always.
Take care.
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