Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

India slips to 100/119 in Global Hunger Index!


 
 

Insanity is defined doubling the speed in wrong direction

It is a matter of shame that our politicians tell us that our's is most powerful economy in the world where as the reality is we are in the club of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and North Korea with half of the population either hungry or malnourished. Let someone remind Modi that his primary job is here with poor & lower classes not with Ambani's & Adani's and we don't need bullet trains but we need safe & affordable trains and that we just need schools, nutrition, healthcare, drinking water, sanitation, transportation, jobs and livelihoods for decent living. Spectacular publicity, self aggrandizement and Mussolini type fascism leads us to nowhere. People trapped in poverty can't just work hard to come out of that. They need external helping hand. That is the primary responsibility of the Government. Anything else is next. Modi must understand this. Knowing his personality, I am sure he will not. The irony is that one half of India is grappling with obesity and diabetes spending crores of rupees for getting treatment in corporate hospitals for over eating while the other half is either under fed or malnourished.

Thursday, 27 April 2017

Leadership and War: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf


Norman Schwarzkopf, a four-star General in US Army commanded Operation Desert Storm, successfully driving out Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991. While he was known to many as "Stormin Normin", the men under his command simply called Schwarzkopf "The Bear".

Below are 10 quotes from Gen. Schwarzkopf that encapsulate his views on leadership and war.
  1. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.
  2. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar; and still there are things worth fighting for.
  3. The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in battle.
  4. When placed in command, take charge.
  5. It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
  6. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
  7. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
  8. War is a profane thing.
  9. You learn far more from negative leadership than positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it.
  10. Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.