Do we need ethics and morals?

Hindustan Times carried a lead editorial on 6.3.2008 with the caption "Courting Denigration".

The editorial says Shiv Sena has a worthy rival in Namita Panda, Orissa state Women's Commission chairperson.

She is disturbed by the fact that incidents of rape, unwed motherhood and trafficking of girls have increased in the state.

Ms Panda's antics bring to mind similar missions undertaken by in the past by a chairperson of the National Women's Commission (NCW). So worried was this repository of Indian samskara ...

Human relationships, unless they are abusive in nature, do not fall within the jurisdiction of women's commissions. They should stick to their role as the custodians of women's rights, not of women's morals.

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Comments

Do we need ethics and morals in the society? If they re needed who has to protect them and strengthen them?

Is Hindustan Times right in ridiculing Ms. Panda?

Fighting exploitation as an ideology

Communist movement has taken fighting exploitation as an ideology. Once in power, they did face problems in various countries. Even in India they are facing problem. No doubt communists need to develop better ways to run public sector organizations and also to make strong and wealthy people of society more humble and humane. They need incorporate ideas propounded by various religious saints and also Mahatma Gandhi who appealed to rich to consider themselves as trustees of public property.

But we want organizations committed to fight exploitation.

While answering a question about the primary education in India (education upto 10 year olds) in the upper house on Nov 26th , the Minister for Human Resource Development Dr.G.P.Pilania gave these facts.

1. National University of Education Planning and Administration has developed an index called Education Development Index which depends on access,infrastructure,teacher related indicators and elementary education outcome.

2. With this index the statewise (or union territory) figure are as follows

State / UT EDI Rank
Kerala 0.708 1
Delhi 0.707 2
Tamil Nadu 0.701 3
Pondicherry 0.7 4
Chandigarh 0.69 5
Karnataka 0.674 6
Himachal Pradesh 0.668 7
Andhra Pradesh 0.654 8
Mizoram 0.65 9
Lakshadweep 0.65 10
Sikkim 0.635 11
Maharashtra 0.635 12
Gujarat 0.63 13
Punjab 0.608 14
Uttaranchal 0.605 15
Jammu & Kashmir 0.597 16
Daman & Diu 0.592 17
Goa 0.586 18
Rajasthan 0.583 19
A & N Islands 0.566 20
Manipur 0.564 21
Chhattisgarh 0.559 22
Haryana 0.556 23
Dadra & Nagar Haveli 0.538 24
Tripura 0.535 25
Meghalaya 0.534 26
Nagaland 0.533 27
Orissa 0.512 28
Madhya Pradesh 0.512 29
Assam 0.49 30
Uttar Pradesh 0.482 31
West Bengal 0.467 32
Arunachal Pradesh 0.458 33
Jharkhand 0.435 34
Bihar 0.327 35

by Prabhanjan Gururaj on Nov 14, 2007 02:37 AM
INSPIRED by Shri Indresh Kumar, Sah-Sampark Pramukh of RSS, the Nationalist Muslim Movement and some other Muslim organisations in Delhi took the initiative and collected money during the month of Ramazan to help the terrorism-affected families in Kashmir. The organisations that collected money for this pious cause include My Hindustan, Rashtravadi Muslim Andolan, Bharatiya Muslim Parishad and others. This was for the first time that Muslim organisations collected money during the month of Ramazan for the families of terrorist victims in Kashmir. On December 14, 2004, Smt. Nafisa Hussain, Member, National Commission for Women, flagged off a truck loaded with 115 sewing machines and 250 blankets. Shri Arif Beg, former minister and president of Anjuman Aman Dost Insan Dost, led the team that visited Kashmir to distribute the relief material. The relief material was distributed to 90 women in two different programmes held at Srinagar and Baramulla.

In comment on rediff articles RE:RSS and patriotism
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/nov/12vicky.htm#mb

We need such more such cooperative efforts to develop harmony among diverse religions in India

Improvement projects - Society Development

Improvement projects all around will develop a society. In japanese companies progress was driven by improvement projects initiated by workers in millions. No doubt today they are unable to compete with more cheap sources of labour. But still they could beat USA in a number of industries because their quality was more and cost was less.

I keep urging various national organizations to motivate their local set ups to take up social improvement work. Organizations like RSS which have local sakhas, congress seva dal, trade unions etc. can take up some improvement projects at their local outfit level to bring improvement all around. We had NSS of students. We have to do and create success stories and leverage small successes into big successes.

My orkut post in

Is India Already Screwed Up? - discuss here
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=370&tid=2565167448030827225&na=2&nst=8

My another post in the topic

We do not have many things. What we do not have can be recorded in world development report. Before them we als know them. But how to improve them. How much improvement you are able to do around you before retiring tired. Each of us has to do something worthwhile around us and then during periods we are tired to do something on our own, encourage others to do something. We need millions of self improvement projects to improve our society. I hope this orkut discussion will be prove useful to create some.

RSS Vijaya Dasami Function

I attended the vijaya dasami function in our locality. As it was a street corner many people gathered around and watched the proceedings. I was also one of them.

But the speaker has not made an appeal to them to participate in RSS activities from that day. In the talk, the basic purpose of RSS was not adequately put forward. The basic purpose is to bring together people at various levels(from sakha to nation and even world) and involve them in planning and acting for development of the society.

There has to be social development activity at sakha level and in such public functions, activities at various levels have to be recounted. Straight away going to Kashmir problem or Ram setu problem ignoring local social problems like overcrowded railway platforms, deteriorated roads, may not attract many participants. Social development must include local problems.

> Yesterday, on 1-10-2007, I visited library of North Central College,
> Naperville, Illinois and was surprised to find a hall exhibiting
> posters of Gandhi and his various movements and ideas. One the
> posters says, Gandhi got the idea of civil disobedience or
> developed a firm conviction of it after reading an article titled
> "Civil disobedience" by Thoreau who refused to pay an American tax
> to fight a war in Mexico and went to jail.
>
> I also read a latest book on Sociology published in 2007, which mentions in the
> chapter on religion that Hindus in America number around 2 million
> and therefore this religion is a part of multireligious secular
> society of America.

I came across a very old issue of a local paper
that had a poem on friendships. The meaning of the poem is

If you lost a friend
due to a hasty word
Go immediately and make him friend once again
Don't stand for any pride
Friendship is more valuable
Than imagined issues